Tudor "ted" jelescu
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Make the video layers 3d layers
Based on how many videos you want to have on the carousel calculate the distance to the center of the circle and move all video layers in z space.
set null at original point – duplicate to match the number of videos + 1 (master null)
parent one video to one null
offset nulls angle on y axis incrementally to create circle (figure out angle based on number of videos)
Parent all nulls to a master null. This controls your carousel.
I am sure that there are faster ways of doing this, maybe using expressions but if you just need a quick fix this should work.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
From the looks of it I would say that’s exactly how they did it. Vector art, for resolution, would allow for a decent size composition (2k or less) where you would animate the elements according to your timing. Then change the comp size to whatever you need, add a camera and animate.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Usually a quick search in the Cow tutorials will get you the answer…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Weather_3/video-tutorial.phpTudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
There could be a number of things- could you be more specific on the details – post a screen grab of your project, that would help.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
One thing that comes to mind it’s to check the frame rate of your clip. You may need to interpret the footage and give it the right frame rate.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Make sure you have enough RAM- if you do not have 2GB per processing core then you’ll probably get better times without multiprocessing.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Magic Bullet – great plug-in for color grading and film look.
There’s a few others.
good tutorial:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/q/old%20film/Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
I would ad something to the previous post:
Colorista / Magic Bullet / Color Finesse – all great plug-ins for color grading in After Effects. Color Finesse uses 32 bit, so you have loads of color info to work with. That being said, the tools are great, all you need is the “magic eye” of a colorist- unfortunately no plug-in for that 😉Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
If you need the 2D planes to always face the camera in 3D then:
right-click on the 3D layer you want to behave this way, choose “Transform”, then “Auto-Orient”. Select “Orient towards camera”.
If you need to just position them in 3D space then you have to do it by moving the plane in 3D until it’s in the right place – I do not think there’s a quick way of doing it… or maybe there is- I just thought of this- if you bring a new camera in AE, parent the layer to it, and then copy and paste the imported camera data to the new camera layer, this should keep the 2d plane in front of the second camera; un parent and delete the second camera. You have now the 2d layer set in 3D space in front of the initial camera and you can move it wherever you need.
Lens Flare- this is not going to work in 3D space. The Lens Flare plugin works on 2d – even if you make the layer 3D you still have a 2d plane with a lens flare on it that’s moving in 3D space and not a 3D lens flare effect. So you just need a 2d adjustment layer to animate a lens flare over the image.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Regarding codecs and compression Dave LaRonde has some great basic tips in this forum. Check them out.
Regarding tga/tiff for fx/key: since most compressed footage does not use all the info in each frame(thus the compression) it is best to render out full uncompressed frames that will give AE the whole info yo work with for fx/keying/color grading. Also it is best to have progressive frames and not interlaced.
Settings: use in Premier whatever settings match your source footage. So if you got AVCHD then use a AVCHD setting, and so on.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro