Steve Roberts
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Nope, can’t do it. PP can’t read AE.
Think of AE as being way more complicated than PP. All those effects, expressions, keyframes …
SR
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Nope, can’t do it. PP can’t read AE.
Think of AE as being way more complicated than PP. All those effects, expressions, keyframes …
SR
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The Paint Effects plugin for AE is as dead as vaudeville. Yep, you need to get Maya for that effect.
Steve
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u hav 2 read t help filz:
“animating layers>understanding keyframes”
Stv
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Indeed.
I recently removed a boom shadow on a moving subject by copying a shadowless frame and masking around the relevant area, then using the liquify effect to warp it to the shape of the shadowed part of the subject. Luckily, the other shadows were the same for both. If you had a frame where the subject were twenty years younger, this technique would have worked. 🙂
I tend to shy away from frame-by-frame retouching because yes, it’s tedious, but it also can result in a jittery look that can be next to impossible to remove. AE isn’t yet set up for that sort of thing. Ideally, you’d be able to run a RAM preview, and retouch while it’s running so you can see the effect of your changes on a moving image. Currently, attempting to do the fix stops the RAM preview.
I would try a feathered masked solid that follows the desired motion. Make the solid the colour of the forehead. It won’t be perfect, because it needs to show the shading/modelling of the forehead without showing the wrinkles. As a result, it might just reduce the wrinkles slightly. Maybe a masked adjustment layer with blur might help.
There was a thread on removing pimples a little while back, and it did involve tracking. Searching for “pimple” might work.
Hope that helps,
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If the butterfly is small, you might be able to get away with just a few images of wings open/closed/inbetween. Make a movie and loop on re-import.
As for the path, try using write-on to draw the squiggly path, or animate the position smoothly, then apply a wiggle expression to make the butterfly wiggle about.
Steve
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If the butterfly is small, you might be able to get away with just a few images of wings open/closed/inbetween. Make a movie and loop on re-import.
As for the path, try using write-on to draw the squiggly path, or animate the position smoothly, then apply a wiggle expression to make the butterfly wiggle about.
Steve
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Search the help on “proxy” or “proxies”.
Alternately, if you’ll never be zooming in on the images, there’s no need to scan them to that size.
(thinking NTSC here)
DPI is only a number that translates inches into pixels when scanning. If your video frame is 720×540 (use square pixels when thinking about scanning) and you will never be zooming tight into your images, then scan them at whatever dpi will result in a 720×540 image or slightly bigger:
A 10″ wide image should be scanned at 72 dpi. (10×72=720)
A 5″ wide image should be scanned at 150 dpi. (5×150=750)Use width or height depending on your needs. If it’s a tall portrait, shown full height on TV with space on either side, the scanned height should end up at 540 pixels or a little more. If you’re zooming in on the image to cut off the top and bottom, then the scanned width should end up at 720 pixels or a little more.
If you’re scanning a panorama and you expect to pan across it in your program, make sure the image height ends up at 540 pixels or more:
If it’s 5″ high, try 100-120 dpi. (5×120=600)If you’re zooming in, calculate the size of the smallest area of the shot into which you will be zooming. If that area is an inch high, then you need to scan at about 600 dpi so that area becomes 600 pixels high (540+) onscreen.
My point is: scanning at a high dpi doesn’t give you better quality images per se, it gives you more pixels in the image. And if you need them, great. If you don’t, then pick the right dpi for your needs. Or else you’ll slow down your workflow to a crawl.
Steve
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You should try the Broadcast Design or Business forums, Eric. Try searching on “rates” or “hour”
Steve 🙂
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The answer lies within your question, grasshopper. You need to buy a plugin made by a company called Trapcode.
Or shoot it in a smoke-filled room. 🙂
Steve