[Tony Kloiber]

I obviously have some spare time right now so…

Maybe if you showed us what you have and tried to tell us what is wrong with it and then what you would like it to look like we could offer more help. I know the picture is suppose to be worth a thousand words – but if your seeing some part of it that we’re not paying attention to we might not lead you down the correct path.

The other thing is if you kept the same thread going it might get clearer what you wanted.

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[Tony Kloiber]

Hint1: Transfer modes and Transparency
Hint2: The color of the objects you place the small images over and the color of the small images.

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[Tony Kloiber]

In the first space animate the camera through to the point where the handshake is the entire frame (or larger). Create a new comp for your second space. In the second space animate you camera in that comp. In a third comp bring the two comps in and use the end of the first comp as a matte for the second.

Make a comp for each space, animate a camera in that comp and combine them in a master comp. This will help to keep things clear and manageable.

I’m sure there is a way to do it all in one comp if you wanted to.

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[Tony Kloiber]

If you going the still frame exported from a motion file export route. Do the export from the mpeg encoded file then the levels should match. If you export a still from say the AE comp that is your motion file (transition) then you add an adjustment layer with a levels effects and reduce the white out a little bit (I think that’s the way it goes, the still is brighter than the motion file) for the still export and then turn that layer off when you render the motion file.

[Tony Kloiber]

Yes, I will test that I just think that it might seem as if he is at the wrong scale.

Thanks.

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[Tony Kloiber]

Yes probably locked off. Not sure about how you envision the duplicated section of wall. Some of how the effect happens will depend on the camera angle to the wall and how wide the shot is – don’t know that yet.
I’m guessing that if you pasted a section of bkg over the forgnd, that the scale would be off (i.e. he/she would be bigger than they should be at the point they pass through the wall) because they physically have to be some distance from the wall in the shooting process.

There is the green screen and matting/roto route but I was looking for a way where I didn’t need to do that for each time the effect happens.

Thanks for your input.

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