Tudor "ted" jelescu
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The example you posted is time lapse footage.
It can be done with a still camera even. The path of the camera needs to be well planned ahead.
To achieve this in AE and shooting in DV you need to speed up the fotage. The problems will appear though with camera moves.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Design an interface and work with your actor to help him/her visualize where the items will be on the virtual screen.
It would help if you can add some light interaction: when you plan to have the screen come up have a light fade up from somewhere low – this way you can get the actors face lit up just a bit. A colored filter should help (cyan/blue). If you can make the light flicker a bit it will be even better.
No need for tracking at this stage if you plan a static shot.
Of course if you want camera moves you will need 3d tracking software and to work in AE in 3d space.
Here’s a project I did a while ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WcSPl76VdgTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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This tutorial will give you the basics for what you need:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Mocha_Tut_1/video-tutorialTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Maybe if you had two layers in the precomp (one mouth open the other mouth closed)and link the opacity of the top layer to the keyframes.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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“There are only 2 3D layers in this comp, but they are at least 100 z-pixels behind everything else.”
If there are only 2 3D layers, then how can they be 100 z-pixels behind 2d layers? Maybe you meant to say that there’s 100 pixels between the 2 3d layers… or are there any other 3d layers?
Anyway, make sure that there’s no 2d layers in between the 3d layers in the layer stack- that tends to mess things up.
Also, layer styles on 3d layers have a tendency to mess things up (Overlay and Linear dodge are transfer modes).
Are the 2 3D layers in the same position in z space? If so make sure that they’re a few pixels apart.
Can’t think of anything else right now. If the above do not help, post a screen shot of your timeline.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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This is an After Effects forum- your questions should be posted in the Sony Vegas forum:
https://forums.creativecow.net/sonyvegasbasicsTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Maybe if you search different keywords… stabilize footage will give you tons of results:
https://forums.creativecow.net/search.php?q=stabilize+footage&f%5B%5D=2Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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One way to do this is to create a camera in your text precomp (the exact focal length) and link it with the camera in the main comp with expressions.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Just follow the tips in the first post and you should be fine- the adjustment layer with the blur and feathered mask is most likely the best solution- it will give you that nice transition from 0 blur to 100% blur and better control on how wide that transition is than a gradient.
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Glad it was useful – the link did not work because the content is classified as “private” so I’m not able to see it.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist