Steve Roberts
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Not if the camera is directly in the center of the sphere, if you think about it geometrically and optically.
However, if you want some distortion around the edges of your camera’s frame, consider one of the lens/optical distortion effects in AE, such as bulge, or optics compensation.
I also think this was covered in a thread a couple of weeks ago.
Steve
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There are many Quicktime codecs — which one did he mention?
At any rate, it wouldn’t come with AE, it would come with Quicktime. If you don’t have the latest Quicktime, go to Apple’s site and install version 6.5 or so. I’d avoid 7 for now, since it seems to create some issues.
Steve
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Ouch. Do you purge image caches regularly? Sorry, other than that, I have no suggestion, except possibly to upgrade AE to 6.5.1.
Hope that helps,
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It’s better to apply effect>distort>transform, and adjust the horiz scale to -100 there. That way you can still shift-scale it the regular way if you need to.
Steve
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Apply effect>perspective>CC sphere to the sky. It’s one of the Cycore effects that installs from the AE 6.5 CD.
Steve
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Can you see it when you click on it in the project window?
Is it black, and so is your background color?
Can you see it in the comp window when the background color is different?
Did you ever see the files in AE?
Can you drag the AI file into a new comp and see it?Steve
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“What we all have heah, is” … never mind.
DVD-R (DVD-data) is just a data format. Like a big CD. Won’t play on set-top players. It would just be a disc to hold a Quicktime move … like a big CD. All you need to make one of those is a Quicktime movie that will play on a computer (photo-JPEG codec, for example) or a WMV movie, and DVD-burning software that came with your burner. You’d make one of these if the movie was rather large and you expected the client to want to edit it.
However, a DVD (not -R, not +R) that will play in a DVD player is a completely different animal. Sure, the content could be contained on a DVD-R or DVD+R disc, but it needs to be authored. That means that a high-quality (animation codec) QT movie or AVI rendered in AE needs to be recompressed to MPEG-2 (by necessity) in Compressor or Encore or Squeeze (probably) then the DVD needs to be authored in DVD Studio Pro, Encore or the like, with play commands and menus if necessary. Stringent DVD standards are necessary to allow playback on many devices. It’s difficult to edit these, though not impossible. MPEG-2 is quite compressed: a final delivery codec, not an intermediate codec.
It sounds as if you want the DVD, MPEG-2 and all … for that you need the other apps I mentioned. You should also talk to the client and find out how they want your piece: as a standalone thing or edited into a sequence.
For more info, you might want to check out the COW DVD forum.
Hope that helps,
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Have you tried Time Remapping?
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If you do run out of RAM during the render, access the “Secret” prefs and therein, purge every 5 frames (suggested) during Make Movie.
To get there, hold down shift when accessing the prefs from the menu, and hold down the shift key until the prefs dialog shows up.
Steve
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It is a layer that you cannot render.
It is often used as an invisible parent of another layer, or the source layer for an expression.
For example, if you want more control over a camera’s x,y,z position, you can use an expression to tie those parameters to those of three separate nulls. That way you have access to the position motion graphs of each separate parameter. This technique has been described in the COW before. Search under “null” and “camera”.
I also use a null as the “holder” for various expression controls that affect a bunch of layers.
Basically, you could have probably done these things with solids, but you have to hide solids, and there’s always the risk that you might inadvertently make it visible.
If you want to see how they can be used, just search the COW on … “null”. 🙂
Steve