Tudor "ted" jelescu
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Well, that’s why you need an experienced artist to work with and this is the place to look for one. Depending on the time frame and budget you may find a few options. I wouldn’t mind taking a look at the project.
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When asking a question like yours it is ALWAYS good to mention the system you’re working on, the software version and to post some screen grabs of your comp. This way we can get a better idea of what is going on. Unless some of us have experienced the exact same problem on a project exactly like yours (not impossible but highly improbable), all we can say is … weird!?!
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Well, the first thing that comes to mind – why don’t you hire someone to do it for you? Templates can be useful, but nothing compares to a custom made product. Even with that you need to have an idea of what you’re after. Write a brief and post a job here on the Cow- you’ll get plenty of folks willing to put their creativity to use.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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I would try to shoot paint dripping on glass in front of chroma. Get as many shots as you can, then key them out and morph your image in these.
Here’s a quick way of morphing in AE with no extra plugins:
Use Mesh Warp.
Set 2 layers in a AE comp- the “morph from” layer on top of the “morph to” layer.
Start on the layer you want to morph from- apply Mesh Warp and set keyframe. Move 8 to 15 frames (or as many as you need your morph to be) and change transparency to 50% so that you can see the layer under. Use the mesh warp to distort the features of the top layer to match those of the bottom layer.
Apply Mesh Warp to bottom layer and set keyframe at the end of the transition. Go back to the beginning of the transition and use the Mesh Warp to distort the bottom layer to match the top one’s features.
Set transparency keyframes to animate the top layers opacity from 100% to 0 for the length of the morph.
That’s basically it.
Hope it helps.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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As far as AE goes, any of the cards that are good for Premiere Pro will do. Get more RAM though – 8-12 processing cores and a minimum of 2GB per processing core will do.
Get one of the cards that provides CUDA acceleration features:
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Get the latest CS3 upgrade and/or reboot.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Yep!
Do what Dave suggested though- check out the requirements on the webpage.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Render lossless from AE and use Adobe Media Encoder to compress to .flv or .f4v. You can also open the AE project in Media Encoder and render directly. It will take some time depending on your machine but the result is really good.
AE is not really meant to compress files.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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You can choose to create categories and subcategories in your metadata or just archive to different folders. Adobe Bridge is a standalone app- it will give you the option to open files with… but that is for the Adobe products. However, I think (never tested that in Motion and the like) that you can just drag and drop your selection from Bridge to another app.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist