Steve Roberts
Forum Replies Created
-
That’s normal: you’re giving the “lens” a really wide angle of view.
Try changing the camera’s position and pull out rather than zoom out.
Steve
-
A mask is drawn on a layer using the pen tool or the rectangle/ellipse tool. One mask drawn on a layer can cut out a hole from that layer or cut out the area around the mask. You can also draw more than one mask on a layer to make multiple shapes or different combinations of shapes and holes.
Expressions are lines of text applied to an animatable property of a layer such as scale, opacity, position, etc. Basically, the expression acts like programming code, detyermining the value of that property. Expressions are useful when you want to make a lot of layers behave the same way, or create animations that are difficult to create using keyframes. Here is an expressions site, but it may be too advanced for you: https://www.motionscript.com/ .
Trackers are visible markers added to a scene which is to be filmed or videotaped. The markers could be tape, balls, circles, squares or triangles. When the scene is shot and imported into After Effects, the computer can use motion tracking to follow the markers and apply the position of those markers to a new computer-generated object such as a photograph.
For more information, please check the After Effects manual or the online After Effects help.
Steve
-
A mask is drawn on a layer using the pen tool or the rectangle/ellipse tool. One mask drawn on a layer can cut out a hole from that layer or cut out the area around the mask. You can also draw more than one mask on a layer to make multiple shapes or different combinations of shapes and holes.
Expressions are lines of text applied to an animatable property of a layer such as scale, opacity, position, etc. Basically, the expression acts like programming code, detyermining the value of that property. Expressions are useful when you want to make a lot of layers behave the same way, or create animations that are difficult to create using keyframes. Here is an expressions site, but it may be too advanced for you: https://www.motionscript.com/ .
Trackers are visible markers added to a scene which is to be filmed or videotaped. The markers could be tape, balls, circles, squares or triangles. When the scene is shot and imported into After Effects, the computer can use motion tracking to follow the markers and apply the position of those markers to a new computer-generated object such as a photograph.
For more information, please check the After Effects manual or the online After Effects help.
Steve
-
It sounds as if you don’t have the divX codec on your system.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful, since I never use DivX.
Steve
-
The codec for DVD is MPEG-2, and it’s not perfect.
Are your titles bright red? If so, you should desaturate them before rendering by choosing a desaturated red for the text. Most codecs seem to degrade bright, saturated graphics.
Steve
-
Click the little triangle at the top right of the info palette to set the units.
Steve
-
Create another output module (composition>add output module) that only renders the alpha. Instead of RGB or RGB+alpha, just choose “alpha”.
Steve
-
Google “after effects” and “hidden gems”. You should find a few older shortcuts there … unless someone knows of a newer list.
Steve
-
You mean aside from those listed in the Help file?
-
Start by rotoing a rough shape around the person, keyframing the shape every now and then. If that doesn’t work, you have to roto right at the edge of the person. Bad news.