Tudor "ted" jelescu
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My advice- since you’ll never be able to perfectly match the two sources, the difference being quite “heavy”, make the difference more obvious even by adding grain and heavy color grading to the lesser quality shots.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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I second all that Dave said, and ad one more question: do you want the scene to look like it receives light from the lightning and you plan on shooting that after you get some answers, or you have footage that you need to make it look like it’s lit by ligtning?
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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It’s actually not that complicated. Precompose the texture layer you want to use to create the globe. Work inside that comp on simple 2d layers to animate the countries coming on and off, timing it to your animation. In AE you can set markers while listening to the audio track. Once that animation is done, go into the comp with the globe and time the rotation and camera moves to match the moments when the countries are highlighted.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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A better description of your problem may lead to better answers, but yes, you can crop video in AE. One way to do it is to simply draw a mask, but I’m not sure that’s what you need. Are you trying to do a 4:3 crop from a 16:9, or 16:9 from 4:3? What format, aspect ratio, resolution? What is the final result of what you’re trying to achieve?
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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You can use Free Form to create a 3d displacement that will appear quite nice under a light. Here’s an example of how that can look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Pc1YWK0t4
The problem with your piece is that you need it to look stylized and that means animating shapes over the 3d displacement to get that clean look.
Here’s a tutorial that deals with 3d displacement techniques using Free Form.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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[Allen Esmail] “How would I do this in final cut for # 1 (the “echoing “)”
You mean do this effect in Final Cut Pro (as in the software) or in your final cut using AE?
In After Effects it’s the plug-in called Echo. You find it under “Time” in the Effects menu. The color correction can be done in Color Finesse.
If you’re asking about how to do this in FCP (software) I suggest to ask in the FCP forum.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Took me a bit of guessing to see your links but I got to see the videos- your way of posting them did not make them point to the right pages though.
First video- there’s a bunch of stuff happening in the interval you point at, but I presume you refer to the shot of the singer walking through the room as camera follows and the shot is from below looking up…then there’s some trails of him left behind (best way I could describe it). Camera is rigged to his body so the background moves while the singer keeps the position in the frame. There’s heavy color grading and Effect/Time/Echo applied.Second: The couple is shot at the tarting position of the camera move. Then they move to the second position and the camera move starts. In post the move is tracked and the static shot is composited on top of the one where the camera starts moving (just the left third of the image where the actors are- it’s important that the camera does not move at all in between the two shots).
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Best would be to use a particle system in Maya to create the sand and the hourglass. Animate the camera also in Maya and export camera data to AE. Render the hourglass with the sand and then composite and ad effects in AE.
This thread may give insight in how to do something using only AE:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/993851Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist