Tudor "ted" jelescu
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Usually the JPGs are numbered files- that will allow you to import them as a sequence by checking that option in the import window.
If you have your JPGs in several folders, import them as separate sequences, put them together in the proper order and nest them in a comp, then apply what I previously suggested.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
1. Slow the footage to 25 fr / sec in premiere
Do not do conversion in premiere- finish in 29.97 and convert the end result in AE. Here’s a helpfull post on how to do that:
https://forums.creativecow.net/archivepost/2/189026I would suggest a different workflow:
1. Finish the cut in Premiere
2. Open the Premiere project in AE, do the key and fx- render out tga/tiff
3. Convert final sequence in AE from NTSC to PALTudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
regarding XP64 here’s an official post:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/03/64-bit-kernels-and-after-effec.html
Any new Mac will do, as long as you have plenty of RAM- enough to give 2Gb/processing core
For PC I have a Dell XPS H2C station and I’m happy with it- a bit cheaper than the Mac (I have one of those as well).Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Particle Illusion could provide some really cool smoke/dust
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Import sequence
Enable time remapping
Enable frame blending
Move keyframes to desired lengthTudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Not seeing the shot it’s hard to evaluate- this one is more “art” than recipe- but here’s my 2 cents:
This may not work in your case, but sometimes it’s actually easier to replace a bigger part of the image, like the whole floor. Start with the floor in focus, create clean plate, apply track and apply some sort of blur (with gradient mask for perspective intensity) to match the focus shift. This way, even if the focus shift it’s not dead on, it will not be noticeable because you have that on a bigger surface and not just a patch.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
If your clips from the games are encoded you may not actually get all the info in your frames (due to compression), thus there’s no way for you to get the 16/32 bit info.
Dave LaRonde gives some great advice related to compression issues in Dave’s Stock Answer #1 on this forum.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Ok- here it is:
https://www.red.com/support
get REDCINE
ask for RED native files- you can open, preview, select, trim, color correct and export from REDCINE in whatever format you want.
I have done several projects shot on RED with AE. The first I used CS3 and I exported TARGA files.
Now I use CS4 with the REDCODE plugin.
Cheers,Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Good advice from Bret. I would add one more thing- since the legs on a bug don’t move all exactly the same I would render a loop-able animation of a leg with alpha, bring in that and loop it in the prefs for a high number of times so that the length of your loop exceeds the length of your comp, and then offset pairs of legs in such a way that will make the movement look natural. You can also play with time remapping to slow down or speed up your bugs movement.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
While it is true that vanishing point will give you a 3d space, I do not think that it is what you need for your scene, plus the table with legs would be hard to do with that plug-in… so I think you’re left with drawing the pieces and building a real 3d room in AE. That’s how I did this animated music video:
https://reels.creativecow.net/film/rubber-girlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro