Steve Roberts
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Then, no. 🙂
Learning how to do masking is crucial to your education as a compositor and motion graphics artist. Can’t get out of it.
Steve
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But it’s TV! It’s crap for stills! It’s not print! It’s not 1920×1200, it’s 720×480! Ecch!
Anyway, if your stills will be no bigger than full frame of the TV, then they need be no bigger than 720×540. Any extra size and detail will be lost — turned into a finite, inviolate number of pixels: 720×480 on the TV.
(your stills can also be other sizes like 648×486: search the COW for Rick Gerard’s Dr. Strangepixel article to be enlightened)Do a test with different techniques rendered and authored to DVD and test it on various displays, Joey. If it’s as important as you say, you shouldn’t be going into it blind.
You know the programmer’s motto: “test early, test often”.
Steve
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What exactly do you want to see? It sounds as if you want a volumetric lighting effect. If you don’t want to spring for a 3D app for that, you’d probably have to buy Trapcode’s Lux plugin. Trapcode’s Shine plugin can fake it, but it might not be good enough for you.
Steve
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There is a solution to that error, but I can’t remember it. Search the COW — that’s where I saw it.
Unless I’m going mad …
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Like what?
If you’re talking about growing plants, you have to buy a seat of Maya to use its Paint Effects. PE used to be a plugin for AE, but it lived a short life and fell on its corporate sword. Pretty much. It’s long dead.
Steve
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If the photo has thin horizontal lines, you’ll very likely get a flicker on TV. The thin horizontal lines will be rendered partially by one scanline and partially by another. Since the scanlines display alternately, you’ll get a flicker.
I recommend you keep the blur, but make it 1 pixel vertical only.
But to be sure, I’d also say that you should hook up a DV camcorder to your computer through Firewire, then a TV to that. Preview your animations out the Firewire on the TV (if your version of AE allows – check the manual) and see, otherwise you’re totally unprepared for professional motion graphics on TV.
I also recommend you make the first keyframe a hold keyframe. If you don’t, there can be some interpolation between the two if you render fields.
Steve
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If I recall … you select the segment of the mask between two points, then click on layer>mask>closed up there in the menu bar. That should remove the segment you just clicked.
The switch goes either way: to open or close a mask.
Steve
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Apply a small amount of blur: usually directional blur, vertical, 1 pixel or so. The best way to test is with a broadcast monitor: add just enough to stop the jitter on a still frame.
Sorry, don’t know about the DV issue — probably your comp is not the proper frame size/rate for DV? I use the comp size presets to create common comp sizes.
Steve
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Ahh, just messin’ with ya.
S. 🙂
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Just select the top one first — oh, never mind.
You cross-poster, you. 😉
Steve