Steve Roberts
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If you want to deform in three dimensions, the Forge Freeform plugin used to be the only way within AE, but Forge seems to be asleep these days. I don’t know if the plug has been updated lately. Maybe you could check out 3D layer .
AE actually wasn’t designed to deform in three dimensions. Most 3D apps can do that pretty easily.
Anybody else?
Steve -
Turning off 3D for a layer deletes any Z-position or X/Y rotation values. When you switch 3D back on for that layer, those values come in at 0.
Have you studied the manual on this?
Steve
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I don’t know if this is your problem, but … the layer order in the timeline has no bearing on front/back positioning for 3D layers. Z-position determines that.
Do your conflicting layers have the same Z-position?
Steve
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The key search term would be “anaglyph”. Possibly with “adapter” and “stereo”.
Googling led to:
https://www.3dstereo.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=sca-lar
https://www.stereophotoworld.com/nuview.asp
https://www.holonet.khm.de/visual_alchemy/3d_video-1.htmlSorry, I have no first-hand experience in the matter.
Hope that helps,
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Maybe with the render>CC Light Burst effect applied to an adjustment layer? Make the Fractal Noise layer 3D.
It’s a kludge, but what the heck.
Steve
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Yep! DV Expo! Beautiful Downtown Long Beach!
Cheers,
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Same here, John — welcome aboard!
Steve
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A good AE plugin for this sort of thing is RE:Flex.
There are other ways to do it in AE, though. Search the COW posts (include the archives) using “morph” as a search term.
From what I’ve read, Elastic Reality is out of production.
Steve
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AE tracks the points in the frame and calculates their X/Y positions. However, it does not have the capability of solving for the position of those markers in 3-D space.
If you wanted to do that, you’d need a mocap studio. I can’t see a matchmoving app’s being able to solve multiple moving tracking points without the multiple sensors of a mocap studio.
my 2 cents,
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Maybe.
Try viewing your comp at 1/2 res, 50% magnification, previewing every other frame.
If that doesn’t work, try 1/4 res, 25% magnification.Select edit>purge>image caches between RAM previews.
For more information, search the help under “RAM preview”.
Steve