Tom Scott
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Although it may not get used a lot, it might be worth having a “Community Alerts” forum for posts like this. It’s good to see individual members looking out for the rest of the herd. Although I’m not on a Mac, and not quite ready to upgrade to CS4, I certainly appreciate the heads-up. Well done!!
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I’m confused…it sounded to me like you want 2 seconds of footage to run for 8 seconds, but not play in slow motion. Maybe it’s just because I’m tired. LOL.
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Pre-compose, then use the puppet tool to animate your figure.
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Maybe you could use some of the techniques used in this tutorial.
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[Jon Iverson] “However, when I use the dropper to click on the black background, nothing appears to be happening. “Status” shows all white with nothing keyed out.”
Are you sure the black is actually black, and not an alpha channel? Have you tried toggling the switch for the transparency checker-box pattern?
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I find it hard to comprehend why somebody would ask “What is motion tracking?”, then follow that up with “Can you motion track a DOF mask?”. If you don’t know what it is/does, why would you want to know if it can be used this way?
As Stuart said, it appears you’ve done very little research into motion tracking. If you had, you’d have found tons of tutorials dealing with motion tracking, some of which are right here at “The Cow”.
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Yes, it seems that, human nature being what it is, there is no simple answer and my suggestion would have had little, if any advantage. I’m glad you pointed out that side of human nature that I’d overlooked. I guess, sometimes I put too much faith in people to do what’s expected.
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[Ron Lindeboom] “Do you know anything about human nature or do you just jump to conclusions based on your lack of evidence?”
Actually, human nature also makes people less inclined to look for an appropriate button, when they are already in an obviously well frequented forum. There are many facets to “human nature”, and while I didn’t account for the one you’ve pointed out, you didn’t account for the one I’ve mentioned here. I don’t think anyone can factor in every individual aspect of “human nature”, so please don’t feel that I’m being critical.
As for a “lack of evidence”, I was merely offering a suggestion/opinion (evidence is usually only required to support a statement that’s declared to be fact). Keep in mind that I don’t run this site, therefore I don’t have all the “evidence” at my fingertips. I can only formulate my opinions based on what I can see.
I will admit, however that I didn’t word my final sentence (in my other post) very well. “Blame” was an inappropriate label to use. The current layout of the forums is adequately functional, and as you’ve pointed out, “human nature” would negate any benefits to be gained by making changes.
In hindsight, had I possessed the vision to account for the full spectrum of “human nature”, I probably would’ve opted out of commenting in this thread. After all, “human nature” being what it is, this particular problem is going to be hard to solve. Not that I find the “noob” posts to be that much of a hindrance to the forum.
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[Stuart Elith] “I don’t visit the basics forum, so i don’t know if it is well supported…”
The basics forum is well supported by a number of the regulars to this forum (and others, also).
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The current situation is that the After Effects default forum is this one. If the default were the “Basics” forum, with a separate link to the “Advanced” forum, we’d see a lot less people posting “noob” questions here. I don’t blame the “noobs”, I blame the current layout of the After Effects forums (or, more precisely, the links configuration).