Tony Kloiber
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The simplest way to make a comp to work in would be to drag a clip from the project window down to the make comp icon at the bottom of the project window (this assume AE interpreted your footage properly). Find out from your client what delivery format they want, so you to know what to render it out as.
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[mrshow555] “(via export>quicktime movie and it’s self contained at full quality)”
Don’t use self contained if you are on the same machine as the footage from FC. You are adding unnecessary time, disc space and re-encoding artifacts to a clip the can just be referenced to the original.
Use the other’s suggestions on importing and comp setup. I always render to DV from AE if I don’t need an alpha channel, saves time, disc space and re-encoding artifacts.
If you move the footage up or down in the AE comp you want to move even pixel amounts (2,4,20) so you don’t reverse the field order.
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Copy the anchor point keyframe (which is the stabilize info)
Precomp your cleaned plate
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Ok yes its mostly right but you need to re-track and then apply to null. This would get you close, but you must be able reuse the info from stabilize so that it would be exact. Obviously you want to track the same spot you used from stabilize.
Because stabilize is using the anchor point and tracking is using the position the two don’t cancel out.
Stabilize
Clean elements
Make null
Paste tracking info (from new track) to null
Parent clean elements to null.TonyTony
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Off the top of my head…
Stabilize
Clean elements
Make null
Paste tracking info (from stabilize) to null
Parent clean bkg to null.If your cleaning elements are on another layer you could just turn off stabilize on the original layer apply tracking info to null and parent cleaning elements to null.
And also I think that if you using the paint tools these are relative to the layer so they would move with the layer if you turn off the stabilize.
Now that I thinking about it I guess I’ll have to try it out.
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Try it out for yourself and find out what you think. What matters more is what you can do. Just about anything can be done in most mograph/compositing apps. For somethings you need an outside source, somethings are easier in one app. then the other. What it comes down to is what you do a lot of and what can you do. If you rely on a type animation preset from AE and can’t be bothered to layup text in a program like AI or AP and bring it into Shake then you know which program to use more. If you can’t stand not being able to apply tracking info to a mask and have per knot feathering then use Shake or get a roto plugin for AE.
Tools help, they don’t create.
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Well random and accurately are opposing ideas. Also it wouldn’t be so much about the compositing, but instead it would be the shooting of the smaller shots in a way that will allow you to line them up to create the larger shot that would be important.
If your looking for software then > https://stitcher.realviz.com/
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[Roger BURTON] “customers premises”
Would that be a production house or a corporate office. The first would have most of what you need (unless it’s all tied up with other users), the second is another matter. Would you need a deck to get stuff in/out? If the end product is destine for somewhere other then the boardroom or conference center you’ll want a good monitor (this could be an LCD) and WFM. If you use an LCD watch out for possible interlacing problems that you will not see (till its to late).
If you got the money a lot of this can be built into a case with wheels. Then you just have to hope for an elevator.
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How long is one cycle of the animation? Can you adjust the bpm to something divisible by 24?
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Welcome to the hardest part of motion design/ visual effects, making money. The latest issue of the COW magazine has a focus on this very subject.
To me you should never charge less because you think it might be easy. First it well never stay easy. Second if you only charge X for this then your client will always want to get work done for X easy or hard. Time is Time. The place you might make a concession is say you thought it would take four hours and it really only took four hours (remember to count the time you talk to the client about the project as well) then if you feel like you were able to multitask while doing the four hours and you got some other work done, as well as your sure that this client is a good one then discount the time. Not the price per hour.
It’s always tough to get going, but it’s even tougher to make money if you give away the work.
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