What’s my choice?

HI every master,

I’m going to be a undergraduate in Sep , and I want to be a compositor in future but there is no compositing course in my college.So could anyone give me some advice about majoring?

Here’s the course descriptions:
Interactive Media
http://www.belfastmet.ac.uk/courses/…p?course_id=69
Graphic Design:
http://www.belfastmet.ac.uk/courses/…?course_id=194
Media (Moving Image):
http://www.belfastmet.ac.uk/courses/…?course_id=192
Fine Arts:
http://www.belfastmet.ac.uk/courses/…course_id=2422
Computing (General) :
http://www.belfastmet.ac.uk/courses/…p?course_id=78

Which one I choose as my major is better for a compositor?
I appreciate for any advices!:thanks:

Combustion Plugin crash ?

Hi friends,

Am using Autodesk Combustion 2008. But in this version RE Flex Morph is crashing AE plugins every time. But in Combustion 4 i didnt get any kind of problems like this.

Resent Film

Hi guys,

Is any body know, which is the resent film did by combustion ?

RAIN-HELP

can any one say how to create a rain effect on a video or is there any particles available for rain effect

Thank in advance

Painting out the alpha???

For a while ive hear these sentences "paint out the alpha"..Im a noob..i know the basic stuff like using Reveal and clone in paint, and basic rotoscoping… But where will this paint out the alpha thing be used…Will it be used in both roto and wire removal..If so how and why??

thanks in advance…

Rotosplines..

Now i was just doing my roto for the dreseden dolls shot from siliconimaging.com and while rotoshaping whenever i moved the point outside the character’s border the spline looked something like this…

1.jpg is the one i talked abt right now..

when i moved the spline inside or on the border of the character it looked black..the spline color looked black..is it something like a warning of jitters or boils??

or what is it…??

Now apart from this i’ve been posting quite a lot of questions now…some may have been really silly like this one…but please bear with me coz i am interested in visual effects….:D:confused:

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IS IT A COMBUSTION THING??

Is it just a Combustion thing..I was just roto-ing in combustion and i was doing in times of 10-as in every ten frames i was animating the rotoshape..The shot had not much of a movement.

http://www.siliconimaging.com/Digita…y_footage.html

its the footage – dresden dolls-shores of california..

even though there was not much of a movement, i am moving the points almost every frame…is there any key strategy while roto-ing??
also lot of people outside of vfxtalk have been confusing me by saying that if we move the points individually there will be lots of boils and chatters..is this true??

also where should we fix our rotospline–i mean exactly on the character’s border, or can we leave a pixel of space…and give feather and adjust that??

am i missing something basic about rotoshaping…surprisingly i love roto and wire removal a lot..

my rate of doing roto is like for a particular shape(like hand or fore-arm) i can do 40-50 frames in an hour…is it bad..will i suck with this speed when i enter the industry??

combustion finally dead???

seems autodesk removed combustion from their site…

mirror fx I need some help asap

Hi All

I have a project that I have to do for a client which consists of a person coming out of a mirror and grabbing some one and pulling the back into to the mirror

I have no idea how I am going to do this can some one help

I’m using combustion 2008 and 3d studio max 2008 any help would be great.

Combustion 2.1.1 question (for real)

Okay, I’ve search the forums here. I have an issue. When trying to add a text layer to a composition, I can’t get the background (solid) to be transparent and the text to be opaque. What am I doing wrong? I’ve opened up a tutorial with text layers and tried adding a new text layer and the same thing. If the source of the footage is set to solid, my text is gone. If the source is set to something else, my text shows up.

Am I missing something? I want to be able to do more than just move the text left to right up and down. I want to be able to use the 3D space.

Thanks for any and all possibilies with this. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn’t do a darn thing.

Thanks!
Chris