[Tom Ma]

yes, this is an issue. As I mentioned, my clip is very long, shy of 30 minutes… and in HD 2997 (LOTS of frames)

I am a little confused on how this is processed and workflow…
Over the course of the clip, I “painted” a few “keyframes” which created spans. Do I need to “propogate” these frames or internally process them before I can send this thing to the render que for my matte?

The mattes look great on the keyframes I set, I just need to render the sucker out and get my matte.

I did send off a render, but I have had a spinning ball now (system processing) for over 12 hours! Nothing listed in the AE info panel.
I would have forced quit, but OSX is telling me the app is indeed responsive, and not crashed. Perhaps processing??

Basically, now that I have my keyframes set, how do I get a render out?

[Tom Ma]

Thanks Todd.
This is a really nice feature and quite impressive.

[Tom Ma]

thanks to all.. The AVO really is perfect, an the SOT scary, so it seems like this time the client needs to learn a lesson on proper shoot setup.. or better yet, have it done professionally.
Unfortunately, thats not what they wanna hear.

[Tom Ma]

yup, it seems that FCP wants a standard frame size, even if it is LARGER than what I am needing.
Thanks, this seems to be working.

[Tom Ma]

very helpful, thx.
I just find the standard time re-mapping very intuitive, and now with motion estimation built in (as of CS3 I think) it is super handy.

[Tom Ma]

Dave: didn’t I say I was rendering CG passes? That is FOOTAGE, which makes total sense to re-time.
And apparently from Kevin’s reply, it is very possible. I tested it, works great.

(If ya don’t know, it might be best not to answer. Just sayin’)

[Tom Ma]

worked great, thanks!

[Tom Ma]

I am just a little cautious, because I hear there are different versions of the i5 chip, for mobile, desktop and iMac.

[Tom Ma]

Synthetica Aperture Color Finesse. Comes with AE CS5. Can do all this and more, and is intuitive.

[Tom Ma]

hi Rowby.

Make this simple.
1. Track your clean back plate to the background of your clip. Preferably using mocha (comes with AE)
2. Mask in your foreground characters and comp over.

walla, done!

This is a short shot, and these are super easy mattes, just roto (mask) in your foreground people.
Remember, you only need to have a tight, refined matte where your unwanted character intersects your foreground people. Don’t waste time on area’s of your foreground that are “clean” anyway.

Rotobrush, and all the bells and whistles are nice, but you can nail this in no time with simple masking.