Stuart Elith
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In fact, you don’t even need to do a double render if you don’t want to…
Drop the main comp (the one you render from that contains everything else) into a new SD comp (which will only have this one layer) and then scale it to fit. Saves you a render step and means that even when you make changes you can just rerender this comp and it all stays up to date.
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I have the Twitch plugin and it is called Twitch.plugin, i don’t know about the aex extension… maybe a mac/pc thing, or perhaps it needs to be extracted or something…?
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Well, your concept is sound – PSD files DO have inherent alpha if it is part of the file. This can then be used with alpha trk. When you say you can’t use Alpha, do you mean that when you select it, it doesn’t work as you expected?
You may have done something a bit wrong when you imported the psd file. Check it in AE with the transparent background in your comp viewer, to confirm that the alpha is indeed working correctly with the PSD.
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Hey Vitor, the answer you seek is right on that site… Andrew Kramer does a whole tutorial on the disintegration effect which he has used on that title… he even mentions in the blog post that he has used it – i hope you’re not just being lazy! 🙂
watch the tutorial and follow along closely, and you’ll get that effect.
https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2009/04/epic-title/
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The expression you can use on the keyframes is loopOut or loopIn (i can’t remember which, i think loopOut). The help menu will explain the syntax and how it works for you.
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Yeah i would agree – if you are going to have to do ANY tracking at all, i think the best option is to have something very track-friendly.
Am i right in thinking that you have a wall and don’t actually have the TV screen, so you are wanting to know if you should put up something else that looks kind of similar? If you’re going to be replacing it fully anyway, don’t worry about it looking similar to a screen, make something that you can track well.
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Also, a bit of compositing work will help it to sit in the scene a lot better… make sure it’s got the right amount of focus (i can’t see if it should be more blurry from the little video, but it does seem very sharp).
When it crosses the moon, there should be some kind of light wrap or glow spilling across, i think. Although that may not be true when i actually think about WHY it would or wouldn’t happen.. not sure. Even so, it may help sell the shot.
The other thing I’m thinking is that while the color correction and grading seem to fit the scene, I think the plane should probably be lighter – since it’s up in the sky and quite far away, the shadows wouldn’t be as deep as the very close shrubbery, all the atmosphere and such would make it more washed out, i believe.
As for the actual motion, i think you’re right that there wouldn’t be any dramatic movement. Perhaps if you rotate it a little as a 3d layer it would help too, because it seems that maybe we’re seeing too much of the bottom of it, feels to me like it should be rotated a bit more.
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Also, the Twitch plugin made by Video Copilot does all this stuff without hassle, and has different modifiers you can customise, like blur, light, color tearing and such. I reckon quite a few people nowadays are just using this. Only costs $50US as well. We just got it at my work.
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Well, you seem to have HUGE comps for NTSC stuff… doesn’t seem to make much sense to me.
Also, AE doesn’t handle very large files so well, the 4k PSD you have isn’t going to be doing you any favours. Some people suggest that with large images it’s better to split them into a series of smaller ones and tile them together in a comp, apparently that helps performance quite a bit.
Keep an eye on this other thread which was just created too and is asking the same question, really. I mentioned BG renderer there, which you should look into.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/955776
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Sounds like a long time to me…
One thing you can look into is BG renderer – it’s a script written by some genius, and allows you to take advantage of multiprocessing and all that jazz. So if your computer is really current it can do a lot – cuts some of my render times by 75%… i just did a test for something which took 12mins from the normal render queue, and 3mins in the BG renderer.