Tony Kloiber
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Steve makes a good point. Connections between scenes is perhaps inherent in the scenes themselves. Perhaps the most we can do is reconcile them and not get in the way of them with forced stylings.
All that being said. You might look into developing some luma mattes of various relevant content (e.g. stream, boiling liquid) shoot or synthesize a black and white clip that starts all black then changes to white (over visa versa). These can be used to make transitions from one scene to the next.
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First I’ll give you my opinion.
You should export by reference from the 720 24p timeline in FCP the clip you want to work with in AE. Import them into AE. AE should interpret them just fine. Drag the clip down to the bottom of the project window, and over the make comp icon. AE will make a comp with the settings of the clip. Do your effects and render out the clip. Set you render settings to match the comp settings. Import this into FCP and place on a new Video track over the original video you exported.Then downsize for SD. You probably want a 16X9 anamorphic format unless your local station won’t take that.
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1) How do I interpret the footage in AE
AE should have this set already.[joseph wilkins] “2) What size and PAR should my comp be”
Drag clip as described above to make a comp with the correct settings.[joseph wilkins] “3) What file format/codec/physical size should the outputted QT mov be to get the best possible image and aspect ratio?”
This depends on how you plan on delivering it to you local station. -
Ok Joe I have it done. You have an email address you want me to sent it to?
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I have experience something similar. For me it only happens about three times a day so I count myself lucky. I have also seen where the tablet appear to be getting repeated pen touches even when I’m not near the tablet. I have unplug the tablet and re-plugged it and this clears things up.
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[BRussell] “Re: Performance… really? That’s good to know, and contrary to what the vender said. He said many programs don’t run faster on the Intel, but After Effects is one that DID run faster…”
There is no AE program that runs natively on an Intel chip under mac os. AE for mac on a Mac with a intel processor will run, but it will use rosetta (an emulator).
What do you mean by [BRussell] ” actual HD video, on an HDTV monitor” the HD clips you use in AE and the content you create in AE and then render out is actual HD. HD monitors can be LCD and plasma monitors. Are you talking about interlacing? Keep in mind that few viewers have an interlaced HD display device.
[BRussell] “Well, a DVI connection would mean the plasma is just another computer monitor, and thus there would be no full screen display”
Well my computer monitor is set to 1920X1200, so HD720 does not fill the screen but I see every pixel, and HD1080 is 1920X1080 so it fills my screen left to right but not quite top to bottom. Most available consumer “HDTV’s” are 1366 x 768 (or there abouts).
If there is any doubt get the decklink card and you should be more than covered.
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Yes I suppose, give me a day to work up something. In the mean time search the user guide (under the help menu) for Tracking, Mattes and the leave color effect description.
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Well there is so much not said that I’m not sure how to help but.
Most LCD/plasma screens come with a DVI connector and can be driven by the DVI output of the computer.
Mac Pro (Intel) will run AE with Rosetta (until Adobe releases a Universal Binary, someday, sometime, we won’t say when)
so it will run slower than it could.
The cards jimmybee mentioned would work (check if component is available if no HDSDI on monitor).
How did you get the HD into AE in the first place? Deck? Monitor out through the deck.TonyTony
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Well you can’t apply tracking data directly to a mask 🙁
but you can track the rose movement, apply to a solid, copy the mask from the rose, paste onto the solid, use the solid as a matte for the rose. If the mask around the rose changes shape over time then you have more of a task a head of you. You will need to roto the rose (animate the mask with keyframes) mask. If you roto then you don’t need the solid. A possibility is that you track, apply track to a solid, garbage mask the rose (a loose mask shape) and then use the leave color effect to get just the rose shape.However you get there once you have the rose isolated the you can put a copy of the clip below it (in the timeline) and add any color effect you want to that.
It’s all work but it beats painting houses.
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yikesmikes is right on here. Make a new comp, add a solid, add lightning effect and tweak until your happy with the shape at a given frame, export that frame and bring it back into you project. Viola, you have a crack matte.
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Nuke – $5000
Fusion – $5000 (and windows)
Toxik – $5000
And these prices don’t include maintenance fees.
Outdated doesn’t necessarily mean useless. Shake is certainly not as outdate as Windows itself.I expect that elements from Shake will be rolled into Motion and be apart of the FCP studio package.
Apple’s next stand alone compositing software maybe in that same 5K price range as well and so it won’t be for me but if Shake/Motion run with the power available on the ProMac and Adobe doesn’t keep pace I don’t want to just wait on them getting around to it in their next development cycle.
Try this thought exercise on for fun:
1) Adobe releases new product updates in spring ’07.
2) Microsoft release Vistas in spring ’07.
3) Adobe keeps to their 18 to 24 month development cycle.
The result = you wouldn’t be able to use Vista and the new hardware that is build to utilize it until spring of 2009.btw, discussion is never pointless.
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