Steve Roberts
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In the Ouput Module, under Options, did you set the TGA to 32-bit?
Steve
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Or …
… you may be in trouble. There are some shots that just won’t look smooth on film or video. Have you heard that you shouldn’t pan along a picket fence, for example? I’ve found that sliding still images across the screen look stuttery or juddery when player back progressive, under the following conditions:
– the stills are all rectangular in shape
– the motion is linear (not curvy and organic) and constant
– there’s nothing else to distract the eyeBascially, I believe that the mind figures out the motion very quickly, and can actually see the still frames as a result. Just as the persistence of vision falls apart at lower frame rates, when this type of motion is used, the P of V falls apart at our frame rate of 24, 30, or 29.97. This is why going 60i worked: you effectively increased the frame rate to allow persistence of vision.
How to fix? If you can’t use fields, you’ll have to change your design:
– change the speed of the motion (try faster)
– make the pictures move at different speeds
– make the motion paths curved, organic lines (might work)
– distract the eye somewhere else with sparkly stuff, a river of flowing text or something
– make the images fade on/off at varying intervals so the eye doesn’t grow accustomed to the regular motion
(note: adding motion blur probably won’t work)… but that’s my opinion. I hope somebody else has a better solution. 🙂
Steve
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Nope. Modern CPUs are faster, and the ICE products became obsolete years ago.
Nope. Probably nobody wants to risk becoming obsolete quickly. 🙂Steve
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The entire page should be a composition, so you might need to precompose the layers containing the pictures. 3D not necessary.
Drag that comp into your main comp, then apply the CC Page Turn transition effect to that layer.
There should also be a Page Turn tutorial on the COW.
Steve
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You may be recompressing at a higher data rate than the original, making a bigger file as a result.
Try reducing the quality of the compression in the Options dialog, and inputting a number into the keyframes box. Try 15, 30 maybe. It’s a bit of an art.
Steve
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They might have used proprietary software, but Twixtor might do it if you have enough frames to start with. Since the object is changing shape as it rotates, not just passing across the frame, it’s a bit tougher.
More bullet-time can be found at Wikipedia.
By the way, it’s a dated effect, possibly a lot of work just to elecit groans from an audience. 🙂
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They might have used proprietary software, but Twixtor might do it if you have enough frames to start with. Since the object is changing shape as it rotates, not just passing across the frame, it’s a bit tougher.
More bullet-time can be found at Wikipedia.
By the way, it’s a dated effect, possibly a lot of work just to elecit groans from an audience. 🙂
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All I really need to know I learned from the COW. 😉
Steve