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Re: Tracking markers for flight scenes

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Hi Rick,

 

Thank you for the info. I am going to go next door to take some stills to post, but the run down is as follows:

 

We have several rigs, and several ships that we want to attach engine glows to. The rigs either rotate on one axis, or are completely free moving (as said, aIll get some descriptive stills in a bit). Each ship has several points to attach to the rigs, depending on what shot we want.

 

My biggest hope, was that I could use the markers to track the engine that would be "out of shot".

 

On the camera side, we either place the camera on a tripod and move the ship, or we sometimes place the camera on a dolly and move past the ship. To make it even more fun, sometimes we place both the ship and the camera on a dolly to get some large nice movement.

 

I did not think the tracking markers through properly on the first attempt, and ignored the physics, so as the engine moved away from the camera, the marker came closer! what a mess!

 

Anyway, I will go get the pictures now and post them in a bit. I will try to get as many of our different set ups as possible, just for some advice. I am also busy transcoding some footage from yesterday to test the 3D camera while I am away.

 

Thank you

 

Pierre


Re: How to 'randomize text constantly'?

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There's a text animation preset called Decider Fade In. Search for that and give it a try. It may be all you need. If you want to modify it press UU to reveal all properties and do some experimenting. You might want to try setting the opacity to 100% and animating the character offset.

 

I saved a quick test as an animation preset for you. I just added keyframes to the character offset, turned randomize order to on, and set the opacity to 100%.  You can find it here. Just save the preset to your user presets library or desktop, create a new text layer, then go to Animation>Apply Animation Preset, browse to the preset and apply.

 

Try changing the randomize order to off. Try changing the offset value. Try different fonts. Have fun.

Re: Can’t import any .psd files into after effects.

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Hi Rick,

 

The PC is a month old, here are the specs.

 

32gb Ram

Intel (r) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40ghz

64 bit os, x64 processor

C Drive 100gig

D Drive 2TB

Graphics: GeForce GT 630

 

I can get things to work in AE provided I do 'Crtl-Alt-Shift' everytime I open it up.

 

Maybe it is the system???

Avid DNxHD file hangs AE CC

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I have AE CS6 on my laptop and desktop machine. I also have AE CC on both. When I try to import an AvidDNxHD clip into After Effects CC I get a beach ball. There must be something wrong with the Avid codec, since it works with AE CS6 perfectly. What might be the problem.

Re: Tracking markers for flight scenes

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Hi,

 

Before I post the stills - Dave,

 

Thank you so much for the suggestion! I tracked 3D camera and where as it migfht not be 100%, it is 99% perfect! - there are one or two spotsw where it drifts a bit, but otherwise it is really really great.

 

I have the footage, I am going to pull some still now and post them, then do some further tests with the poles and the 3D camera - this is great stuff!

 

Pierre

Coloring moving objects

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Hello guys,

 

I'm currently working on ae cs4.

I'm editing a movie wich is very dark and basicly in black and white colors.

What I want to do is add some color to moving object. there is a fire wich i want to give the color yellow and there are some men wich i want to give some color too.

 

I tried diffrent effects of color corrections but I just can't find the right one to color up 2 seperate moving objects.

 

plz help

 

Kevin

Re: Coloring moving objects

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There is no such thing. You will have to duplicate the layers and isolate the objects with masking and other rotoscoping techniques, then color them.

 

Mylenium

Re: After Effects error : Unable to load FlashExporter.aex

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Seems to be a bug. Other users have reported similar issues. Unfortunately that's all I can say...

 

Mylenium


Re: Preview isn't realtime even with no filters applied?

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Pardon me, but this is typical RTFM stuff. Your journey starts here:

 

Getting started with After Effects

 

AE requires RAM previews, it doesn't do realtime in most departments. It's not an editing program!

 

Mylenium

Re: Can’t import any .psd files into after effects.

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Sounds highly unusal, but I have no clue what else to try. The only thing I can think of is that you may need to update some system library like an MSVC runtime or a specific driver in your system like the SATA driver. Could be that this is some weird version conflict between different versions of a library having been used on compile or a processor-specific optimuization not working properly...

 

Mylenium

Re: Coloring moving objects

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but you are saying that i have to do it frame by frame?

and i am using cs4 at the moment so i can't rotoscope so I have to mask with pen tool.

Re: After Effects error : Unable to load FlashExporter.aex

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Thank you for your answer.
Do you know what I have to do ? Reinstall After Effects ?

Re: After Effects error : Unable to load FlashExporter.aex

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As I said, it's a bug. You will have to wait for the upcoming 12.1 update to provide a fix.

 

Mylenium

Re: After Effects error : Unable to load FlashExporter.aex

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Oh. I'll be waiting so...
Thank you,


Dimitri

Re: Coloring moving objects

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Masking is rotoscoping as is painting with teh brush. You need to straighten out your terminology. Just because there is no Rotobrush doesn't mean you can't do rotoscoping. And yes, it could mean you'll face days of tedious manual work just like they did this on movies for decades... Perhaps there arte otehr ways, but without seeing your footage noone can tell.

 

Mylenium


Re: Nvidia 3D Vision Support with After Effects

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Hi Jacky,

I have purchased your plugin time ago.

 

It was working perfect with 5.5 and 6.0 suite.

Is it compatible with CC version?

 

thank you in advance

Re: Tracking markers for flight scenes

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Hi,

 

Here are some really low res stills for the rig I am currently testing. It only moves/rotates on one axis. The ship is mounted by one of two points, and the camera is attached to a tripod on the ground. No dolly movements in these specific shots:

 

Rig at ease - ship from the front:

 

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Ship starting a roll:

 

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Ship continuing roll:

 

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Rig at ease from the side:

 

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Ship starting roll:

 

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Ship continuing roll:

 

06.JPG

 

Obviously I have not lit the screens for keying, I am only interested in tracking for now.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Pierre

Re: Tracking markers for flight scenes

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I am going to run this footage through the 3D camera and Mocha, and probably AE point tracker as well to see what works best.

 

Then Ill probably have to do these tests for each scenario and rig.

 

Cheers

 

Pierre

Re: How can I playback comp from the playhead position with audio?

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Yeah, AE's got its own fun way of working. The getting started link I gave you should help you with that.

Re: Tracking markers for flight scenes

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Hi,

 

After several tests, I am trying again at a slightly faster shutter speed (to reduce blur) and better lighting!

 

I see that the tracking markers I have had designed will not work at all. The physics just dont match up.

 

The second three shots above - from the side - the markers have to be exactly in line with where the engines are, or the tracking will travel badly - I guess it is easier than a manual track, but there are quite a few keyframe changes.

 

The first three, well, they have the same issue I had yesterday - the turning circle on the markers is much larger than the turning circle of the engines they are attached to - so the null doesnt work very well at all. I am currently re testing Dave's 3D camera tracker on the new footage. It worked well on my original footage, then rather badly on the footage that the stills above were taken off. I have re-shot, and will advise once done.

 

Pierre

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