Tudor "ted" jelescu
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To animate a camera in 3D space in AE it is best to create a camera rig using Nulls.
There are a few ways of doing that, but here’s an excellent tutorial:
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/simple-camera-rig/Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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You could use a good actual hurricane sattelite image to create a displacement map for the same image and slightly rotate that.Use the techniques described in the tutorials below https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1
Also, use some of the techniques in this tutorial to create some movement in the clouds:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/animating_a_still/Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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One way that may work ( can’t test that where I am at the moment) is to resize the PSD to a manageable working size in Photoshop and import that in AE – link all layers to a null and enlarge to the final size by using null controls. Once you are done with layer positioning in 3D space fx and camera, reduce back the size and replace the psd proxy with the original. Let me know if it works.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Adobe Media Encoder will provide mpeg2 compression for DVD. Just open teh AE project you want to render in it and render out using one of he DVD presets.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Channel Blur
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7baba.htmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Do not adjust the rotation controls of the layer- link the layer to a series of Nulls (one for each adjustment you have to make) and adjust rotation this way.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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First- it seems that you are rotating the camera around the square layer. If that is the case and you are using the camera controls, you will get that kind of movement. If you just want to rotate the square layer, just use the rotation controls of the layer itself, you do not need an animated camera for that.
Second- if you want to rotate the camera around an object/layer in AE 180 and keep the object in the center of the image at the same distance, all you need to do is to create a 3d Null, position it at the center of the object/layer and link the camera to it. Then animate the rotation on the Y axis and you are set.
Search the Cow for camera rigs in AE or look up Maltaannon- he has some great tutorials on this matter.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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When posting questions related to system processing -like rendering- make sure to include the specs of the machine (os, processors, RAM…etc) and the version of AE you’re running.
5GB of RAM for AE is not a lot. As a reference- 2GB RAM per processing core.
If you’re using Open GL, turn that off.
Best to render compressed files opening AE projects in Adobe Media Encoder.
For YouTube .f4v or .flv should give you a small size file with good resolution.
Make sure you search this forum for threads about rendering in AE- there’s plenty out there- you will probably get a lot of answers just by reading them, you know, do a bit of homework before launching a question that may already have answers.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If I understand correctly what you did, it should just be a matter of using the mask on your light layer on the text layer. You can use track matte or just copy and paste the mask with all keyframes.
A better way to do this is to have 3D layers- make text 3d, ad a light (spotlight) and apply Trapcode Lux on top. This will give you a 3d light cone with nice falloff and nice shadows. It will be just a matter of adjusting the angle of the cone for the spotlight in such a way that you will get the effect you’re after.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Duplicate text layer once you are done with all animation, use the top layer as a track matte for any footage you want to appear within the text (place that layer in between the two text layers).
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist