Vince Becquiot
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Export with the Cinepack codec 😉
Did something like that a while back, apply some noise/grain, scale up, take down the white level, and for B/W take out the saturation, and hire a robber 😉
Vince
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I’ll do a very basic step by step:
Key out blue screen 😉
Put your background layer below foreground.
Apply motion tracking to foreground.
Move the tracker cursor on the object you are tracking.
That should open a new video comp window (Tracker window) Your background won’t show up there. Hit play in the analyse area to make sure your tracker doesn’t jump.
When satisfied, click apply and select your background layer with the ‘Edit Target’ button.
Close the video tracker window to see your original comp video . The background should move with the foreground.
Let me know if that doesn’t work.
Vince
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well, what I meant was go to the end of the timeline, select the layer and hit Alt + ]
Vince
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‘Alt + ]’ with a timeline layer selected will extend it to the current frame (Given that the layer can be extended)
Vince
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Is the audio in wav format ?
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After effects is a still mostly a 2D ‘Layer’ application, as far as ‘thickness of a layer’ goes.
You can rotate layers in 3D, but in most cases can’ t add thickness or ‘bend them’. Although, more advanced artists can often fake it (with time and patience).
There are a few plugins that can help you recreate ‘thickness’ (if you a willing to spend a minimal amount of money)
3d invigorator, 3D layer, etc., but again, these are all basic as far as 3D goes, and creating a warp that looks good in a 3D world will likely require the use of an actual 3D app. Maybe somone alse can throw some ideas…Good luck,
Vince
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I am running AE on a dual display, one side off my integrated display card, the second screen off an ATI radeon card.
I actually use one screen for the timeline, one for tools, and a third smaller tv monitor off a firewire card and a canopus firewire to video converter for video preview. In fact I think, it is more important to have a tv monitor as a second screen than a computer display. You could get the firewire card and the canopus converter for about $120.00 and run it to a tv to see color issues right away.
Of course all of this will be absolete soon 😉
Vince
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Well I partly figured it out. Somehow I was using the sphere effect value instead of the layer transform value.
Although only the z value can be used there, since the other values affect the shape of the sphere.
But by playing with both x and y values on the sphere and the z transform value I was able to move things the way I wanted to, while keeping the rotation on the same axis.
Vince
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Well I partly figured it out. Somehow I was using the sphere effect value instead of the layer transform value.
Although only the z value can be used there, since the other values affect the shape of the sphere.
But by playing with both x and y values on the sphere and the z transform value I was able to move things the way I wanted to, while keeping the rotation on the same axis.
Vince
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Actually, it is pretty hard to see with the size of the video, but it looks a lot like what you would achieve with the Magnify effect…
Vince