Lexus[cadillac] commercial, What effect are they using?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b99j…feature=relmfu

at 00:11 seconds you can see this awesome streak they’re using in this commercial, they use it through out the entire commercial.

I dont think its anything like a magic bullet effect or a motion blur on highlights because you can see those streaks break up and change with distance *hard to explain*

anyone know how they’re doing that or what they may be using? really appreciate any info on this as that effect looks amazing.

Possible in After effects? adding boxes?

I have a short film Im working on, and I have a scene that we have to film where our male lead walks through a open apartment and we really need the apartment to have moving boxes lining the walls.

We went over to uhaul today to pick some up because we had a ton of people that are apart of the production going to stores to pick them up, however most every store wouldnt give us any, or they would only give us a handful anyhow.

These moving boxes are like 12 a piece here in NYC 🙁

Someone suggest we just shoot the scene and then add the boxes in post…..

Does anyone have any ideas on best idea in achieving this? I am a fairly competent editor fcp or avid, and know keyframe/roto/basic composition and used to know a lil after effects during college (10 or so years ago, since then Ive always farmed it out to you professionals) lol. Im sure tons have changed, so basically trying to get a feel for if its possible and how?

Green screen it? My dp knows a good deal on green screen. My personal machine has photoshop/afx/shake/fcp…so Id prefer to try to use a program I have.

So any ideas, if so….how so? and ideas?

Thank you so much in advance

Roto’d my subject, now I want to turn him into smoke…

I have some good 2k smoke vids, lots of them. I’m trying to figure out how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. I have read/watched every tutorial I can find. I don’t think I know what to search for.

Add faux reflection/specular

I fairly new to After effects and I am working on a little project that invloves adding video footage to some green coloured postcards.

I’ve been using mocha to planar track which has been pretty successful and also been colour correcting the composited videos.
But as there are no reflections/specular on them they look pretty rubbish.

I was just wondering if anyone could think of a way to get some sort of reflections/specular on top of the footage. I dont think it needs to be completely realistic but just add a a bit of depth to the scene.

What are some books on color correcting in after effects?

Specifically, I am looking for a book that teaches a person to color correction easily without someone being completely baffled. In addition, this book must teach the topic step by step. I am currently reading the“Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques” . There are some instructions on how to match colors, however I feel that the book is vague and I at times do not know what I am doing.

need help with my twixtor plugin pls

HELP!!!! See the video below…

http://www.vimeo.com/20059848

I just don’t understand why this weird stuttery effect on that’s guy’s jacket happen, and if u notice, the hands’ movement are also abit jerky… I tried deinterlacing the avchd already using fieldskit deinterlacer, set to 1frame per frame to no avail… HELP PLEASE!!! Please give me a step-by-step as to how i can do it…

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Mocha After Effects Plugin Error

Hi all,

i need a Solution for My Problem:confused:. Im working in an Studio as Quality Controller:D. We doing 2D to 3D Conversion work:cool:. from Mocha we Exporting the Shapes as Copy to Clipboard to After Effects.

My Problem is :google::

When Rendering More than 200 frames its showing an Plugin Error and i cant close the AE too:eek:.

May be lots of Splines its giving Problem i think so. And Not a LICENSED VERSION too:eek:. i dont know bcz of this its showing the Error:google:.

If anyone knows the Solution pls Share it with ME:D.

Thanks,

Sriram.R:rollbaby:

Play or convert .dmi files

Hi,
I need to edit quite a few surveillance camera videos and all are in .dmi format is there any way to get them into after effects for premier to edit or to convert them into playable video format like (avi,mp4…..etc).

I need help(Urgent!!!).

Thanks.

How to make my own color preset?

Hallo there ,

can you tell me how to export my own color preset from After Effects?