[Wim Roegels]

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Unfortunatly my experiences with the stand alone version of the WMV encoder are not very good – the results get worse.

It looks like the contrast is gone and black is not black anymore … the AE internal Encoder Results seem to be better, but not perfect.

I used all settings at max – like in the RAR but still got ‘banding’ (?) problems.

Any further suggestions? Should I post the .WME file?

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wim

[Wim Roegels]

Seems more like an Andrew-Fan-Site … 😉 … but nothing tastes like the original …

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wim

[Wim Roegels]

the comp with the second animation was not the same length as the comp I placed it in.

So I extended the lenght, applied the expression ‘loop_out(“cycle”,0)’ and now it works.

Thanks.

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wim

[Wim Roegels]

Sorry to bother, but I have to ask again – unfortunatly the loop does not work.

What I have done …

o Precomp the mask animation (duration 1sec)
o placed the mask ani comp in my main clock comp
o Enabled time remapping
o Added two keyframes: 1st at 00:00 with value 00:00 and 2nd at 01:00 with value 01:00
o Added expression “loopout(“cylce”,0)”

Where is my mistake?

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wim

[Wim Roegels]

thanks kevin.

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[Wim Roegels]

you mean with using time remapping keyframes and a loop expression, right?

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[Wim Roegels]

Thanks!

I am right now playing around with the demos … would be an double investment ($200 each) but the look gets really (!) much better (as far as I can tell, with the demo beautifull demo marks) … anyway.

As you mentioned in terms of workflow its not the best, but if you do the depth tweaking at last, I guess its quite ok.

But as playing around I have a problem and I am not shure whether I am thinking the right way for solution …

I have a 3D TEXT with some arranged text layers in depth and placed it in my MAIN COMP (colapsed, to get the right 3D pos) to do the flytroughs and add some other elements … and if I try to get the ‘Depth Comp’, the Text Comp is ignored and only the position of the layer in the MAIN COMP is used. And as result the gryscale value does not change according the the camera movement.

BTW: The source text of the textlayer it self is created by an expression.

Do I have to a ‘tripple nesting’ and combine the layers manually?
1. TEXT COMPn (comps with each text element)
2. TEXT 3D COM (all TEXT COMPs positioned in space)
3. MAIN COMP (TEXT 3D COMP as collapsed layer)

And to get the DOF Info …
1. in MAIN COMP do a ‘Precomse Depth’
2. in TEXT 3D COMP do a ‘Precomse Depth’
3. Combine these in another comp an use a proper layer blending mode
4. Finally use this COMP as 3D info for lenscare

… bzzz …
I am just writing about it without doing it, because the project is quite complex and it would take a lot of time to just ‘test it’ … maybe you can understnd, what I am talking about and say: yes sir, we can boogie.

😉

What do you think?

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wim

[Wim Roegels]

Thanks for the reply!

Did I get you right: with ‘Buena Depth Cue’ I get the grayscale depth of field information to feed into lenscare?

Sounds good …

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wim

[Wim Roegels]

OK, I DL the demo installed (1.4) it and now I am wondering how to use it.

I have a 3D comp and made a effect layer (german ‘Einstellungsebene’) and applied lenscare to it.

Unfortunatly without a effect.

How do I get a propper grayscale layer for z depth of the comp to put it in lenscare?

Or is the a easier way?

Hope some can help … $199 … better to figure out before investing … thanks!

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wim

[Wim Roegels]

Hi wim,

How are you?

Just try a so called ‘search engine’ – you just put in some words and voila.

I think I, I mean you were thinking about LENSCARE from FRISCHLUFT.

https://www.frischluft.com/lenscare/lenscare.php

See you soon.

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wim