[Thehardmenpath]

ok, let me see.

You want to track 4 moving points and place them into 4 static points…

Use that script:

https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=329

to rototrack the moving points. Draw a 4 point mask and turn their position to trackers.

Thenk you can use the reshape filter with that resulting mask and a new mask that covers the whole footage. When you do that, that tracked part will grow to take that other form. Then you’ll be able to use that for the corner pin with the static points you want.

Still, I am not sure if the reshape filter would do it properly.

[Thehardmenpath]

Oh, and Sandman, I like the concept. It somehow resembles what a plain would catch if it saw a HELP written on the sand just before crashing. Or at least that’s what it is for me.

[Thehardmenpath]

I believe it’s DOF for one reason: It smells like bad quality DOF. If you have a chance to analyze it slowly, check out shortly before the S touches the bottom. A horizontal line starts going up fast showing totally sharp letters, as if at one exact distance the DOF suddenly went from, say, 5, to 0.

Here in Spain, like with some select shows like Numb3rs, they remake the intro or ad subtitles to some words, etc. With Lost they made a “PERDIDOS” (lit. trans) 2d logo zooming in. Everyone who knows about the original version complains about that, I always say “maybe 2d, maybe technically easier to make or less impressive, but you don’t get the flaws when you see it.

[Thehardmenpath]

Little off topic here:

Don’t you think the lost logo is technically horrible?

I don’t like the movement, I don’t like the depth of field effect where blured black eats part of the logo, and I specially hate the point where the logo is sharp and polygons look separated from each other within the same letter.

I love the show in general, I love the logo idea, but hate the execution.

[Thehardmenpath]

What a nice and fresh tutorial! I am eager to find a place to apply some of its lessons!

Thanks!

[Thehardmenpath]

What a nice and fresh tutorial! I am eager to find a place to apply some of its lessons!

Thanks!

[Thehardmenpath]

Perhaps you could key out in the original footage and put a solid green in the background. Wouldn’t that turn into a plain single color polygon in Illustrator? Then you could force that color into alpha when interpreting the footage or just key it out again, right?

[Thehardmenpath]

Create an adjustment layer for glowing. Put different values for intensity and radius on every frame.

I would do the effect of the lighting with two layers, one with a bit of choke matte effect, and blur. With the right ammounts of orange and white balance, and perhaps the 32 bit feature, (but I can’t tell you much about it cause I only have seen it, not used it) you can make it look like a glowing bulb.

Some bits of the 24 logo effect are made by putting a bit of directional blur also for only one frame.

There’s a kind of graphic bed for only a few frames, a red glow on the whole screen. And don’t forget to make four or five frames of the logo a lot bigger and with insane ammounts of glow, just before we see the final 24.

[Thehardmenpath]

Create an adjustment layer for glowing. Put different values for intensity and radius on every frame.

I would do the effect of the lighting with two layers, one with a bit of choke matte effect, and blur. With the right ammounts of orange and white balance, and perhaps the 32 bit feature, (but I can’t tell you much about it cause I only have seen it, not used it) you can make it look like a glowing bulb.

Some bits of the 24 logo effect are made by putting a bit of directional blur also for only one frame.

There’s a kind of graphic bed for only a few frames, a red glow on the whole screen. And don’t forget to make four or five frames of the logo a lot bigger and with insane ammounts of glow, just before we see the final 24.

[Thehardmenpath]

Absolutely impressive, Aharon. Great great work.