Ty Audronis
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True there are several ways to do it in aftereffects, but don’t you have any actual 3D software? Any 3D software’s fluid dynamics should do it.
Sorry, I know you’re posting in aftereffects and want to know it in aftereffects, but I just couldn’t help it…
*slaps own hand…
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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Wow, you have yourself quite a little catch .22 there…
Ok, I’m not sure what to tell you here. You’re better off letting your editing software convert the footage for you to 25 fps (they always have better algorithms) than you are doing everything in 29.97 and letting your DVD authoring set it to PAL frame rates for you. What are you using?
Another option…
The best one (if time allows) is to do it in your compositing software (i.e. Aftereffects), and try some frame blending techniques, etc. Unfortunately though, in the end, you’re not going to be able to use that 29.97 frame rate for PAL, and I’m not sure what the previous poster means by universal, maybe he knows something I don’t. However, if you’re going to PAL, you’re gonna have to hit 25fps sooner or later, and better to do it at the beginning of your production than at the end with your cheapest software (the authoring software).
Good Luck!
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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Damn, beat me to it!
Yep. Zax is the key.
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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First, are your assets high resolution?
Second, I know it sounds bass ackwards, but you should set your RAM cache down to about 20%. Also, make sure you turn on disk caching! I know, you’re thinking “I’m running out of memory, and he wants me to turn it down?!” Yes. Bass ackward, but it works. We do a lot of 5k here, and it’s a major frustration, but this is the only way we can get AFX to render at all…
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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No worries… enjoy!
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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I whipped this together for you. Make your mask a bit more complex, and you can make it look a good deal better. But, you get the idea…
Overlap your a and b video
Just make a black layer, and animate the claw marks into it using the mask tool, and animate the mask (NOT THE POSITION, BUT THE MASK!!!)
Then, apply the black solid as an inverted alpha track matte to the A clip.
then use roughen edges to make it not so clean
boom, you got yourself a claw wipe.
For added fun, you can snap off a picture, (or download) of a tiger or whatever claw, mask it off and animate that over it…
If you want your video to “shred” instead of a single claw mark, just add more masks to the black layer tearing it apart…
have fun…
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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Simon, I sooo feel your frustration.
There just aren’t a lot of color settings on the MPG4 output. Also, the codec by design tries to compress the color information. The workaround I came up with at my last job was after the project was done to create an adjustment layer with a brightness/contrast and HSV on it. I spent half a day messing with the settings to make it darker and get the saturation up. It looks like dogcrap in preview (hence why you wait until your done before you try it), but then add the adjustment layer to render.
Tip: DON’T FORGET TO SAVE THE PLUGINS YOU USE AS A FAVORITE (that way you only have to do this once for all your MPEG4s… just add the favorite to an adjustment in the future.
Good luck!
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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I’m not sure it’s an aftereffects issue. It might be something else going on. Can you put a short 422 24p clip up on an FTP for me to download and I’ll try it on our machines here? Maybe even take that short clip and try it on your machine and also give me the project file.
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium