Steve Roberts
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[Leor Brenman] “Finally, have you considered recreating your presentation totally in AE using AE text tool, etc…?”
I like that idea. See if you can sell the client on the value added by creating the thing in AE, and charge accordingly.
Steve
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You need to make some sort of video clip. High quality (low-compression) is best, since highly-compressed low-quality videos may not work well in AE.
That said, search the COW on “powerpoint”, or go to a Powerpoint forum and find out how to export a video clip from PP.
Ideally, you should make JPEGs of your stills or elements, import them into AE, then reproduce your transitions there.
Steve
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It was shot 24p (sort of — frame mode), but then pulldown was added in the camera to make it 29.97, lower field first.
You need to remove pulldown in the interpretation dialog, and your resulting rate should be 23.976. This is correct.
You have to do this for every clip shot that way, but to speed things up, you can do it once, then choose file>interpret footage>remember interpretation. Next, import the rest of the files normally, select them in the project window, then select file>interpret footage>apply interpretation. Then drag them into a 23.976 fps comp.
Steve
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Hm … I’ve never seen a claim like that. Maybe they mean that after you make a RAM preview, it plays at the proper frame rate …? It sounds misleading to me, but I never believe any “real-time” claims anymore. 🙂
Yep, they mean the signal is sent to a monitor and/or deck. They also mean that with an NLE such as FCP, certain effects or transitions are processed without rendering because they’re encoded to the card’s codec through hardware on the card. However, because AE is so flexible with almost infinite layers and effect combinations, nobody can make that real-time claim with AE unless they write their own effects for AE, and if the AE comp only uses those specific effects. That’s what ICE did, but they’re gone, as you know.
Yep, I meant the ICE cards.
Sorry I couldn’t solve your problem,
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My thought is that 3D stroke, like all effects in AE, produce a “movie” of a 3D effect on a flat layer, which acts as the “movie screen”.
To extend the metaphor, when you start parenting, you’re actually parenting the flat “movie screen”, not the “object within the movie”. Parenting doesn’t respect the settings of the 3D effect, in other words.
Can you try using an expression to tie the rotation of the stroke (within its effect parameters) to the rotation of the other object?
Steve
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My thought is that 3D stroke, like all effects in AE, produce a “movie” of a 3D effect on a flat layer, which acts as the “movie screen”.
To extend the metaphor, when you start parenting, you’re actually parenting the flat “movie screen”, not the “object within the movie”. Parenting doesn’t respect the settings of the 3D effect, in other words.
Can you try using an expression to tie the rotation of the stroke (within its effect parameters) to the rotation of the other object?
Steve
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You can make the emitter really big (or a layer, if I recall) so the particles appear to come from, like, everywhere. 🙂
Steve
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Search the COW for “ink”, “paint” or “blood”. This question is coming up a lot.
Steve
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Blackmagic and AJA are not accelerator cards: they are input/output cards that allow you to get stuff into and out of your computer to/from tape.
There are no accelerator cards for AE on the market. There was a product line a number of years ago, but they became obsolete when CPU speeds became faster than the accelerators.
So … you’re stuck. Try using lo-res proxies until it’s time to render.
Steve
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This is a known color space issue: AE processes in RGB, while FCP processes in YUV.
Until these two kids process in the same color space, we need to tweak the colors manually. Search the COW for “RGB” and “YUV” and you should find more info on the matter.
Yep, it’s annoying.
Steve