Jun 14

render problems please help

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
Hey all,
I’m having a couple of problems getting some demo reel clips ready for my website. I’m using After Effects and I’m having diffuculty with a few things.
1) First, I rendered out my clips out of Maya as a targa sequence. When I bring the image sequence into After Effects, along with the audio wav. file that I animated to, the animation and the audio are completely out of sync. I tried rendering out of Maya at both 24 and 30 frames per second. I also noticed that the audio and video file are not the same lenth in the timeline. How do I get them both in sync?
2)Second, I’m looking for compression settings to be able to put my demo reel on a webpage. I rendered out with a DivX codec, and got a reasonable file size (15 Mb) for a 1 minute clip, but when I play it, only the audio plays and not the video.
3) Third, I tried to render out the reel as a Quicktime mov., but for a 1 minute clip I get about 60 Mb. How do I get a smaller file size for a mov. clip?
Basically I’m looking for settings for both avi. and mov. files in After Effects for the smallest file size possible with best quality. Any help is appreciated.
Thanx
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Jun 03

white edges on night green screen key

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
Hey all,

Not sure what is going on. Shoot on F35 DIT is baking a look into footage on set, so we’re getting linear SR footage. I’ve been on set monitoring scopes and the Green Screen’s been coming in around 50 IRE.

We’re getting weird white chummy artifacting around edges of black hair that goes over a black background.

I haven’t had this problem with other shoots on F23, red, genesis.

Any one come across this before?

Someone mentioned switching to blue screen, but I’ve had some real bad noise issues with that in the past.

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Jun 03

After Effects Training

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
After Effects Induction
Course date: Monday 21st June10.30am – 4.30pm

The introduction to After Effects course covers the basics of the user interface of Adobe’s leading effects application for animation, motion graphics and visual effects for film, video and motion picture post production.
The course looks in detail at importing and using video clips, working with layers, transitions and key frames, creating and animating text along Bezier motion paths, filters and effects, and using markers for synchronising. The course will also look at Pre-composing by nesting compositions to create complex animations and rendering the final output for video playback.

After Effects Intermediate
Course date: Monday 28th June 10.30am – 4.30pm

This intermediate course to Adobe’s leading motion graphics application is ideal for those that have already completed our own Introduction course (or similar), and would like to take their compositing skills further.
Students will learn incredible ways to control keyframes, use parenting and time remapping, understand and use powerful masking and blending modes, create mattes, and use adjustment layers to add complex, yet simple, impact to your animations. The course will cover the basics of working in 3D using 3D camera and Lighting layers as well as looking at Expressions, After Effects built-in scripting language.

General:
Each student has their own workstation for the practical parts of the course and can discuss any specific areas of interest they may have towards the end of the day with the tutor.


Cost and payment:
£100 per course. To secure your place we require payment in advance by cheque (by post) credit / debit card (over the phone) or cash (in person). Please call 020 8525 4330 to book your place or visit our website for more information and full course listings http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/All_C…Items/Courses/

SPACE, 129 -131 Mare St, Hackney,London E8 3RH
T: 020 8525 4330
e: training@spacestudios.org.uk

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May 26

motor > AE

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
how to import rotoscope I made from motor to AE CS4 to a mask in AE ?
or any possible to create roto from Mocha ??
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May 25

80’s lightning effects

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
Hey there, I’m fairly new at all this and I’m not even sure If I’m posting in the correct place but I was wondering If there was anyone here knowledgeable in 80s lighting special effects as seen in films like Ghostbusters and Big Trouble in Little China
I understand the effects are 2d animated and rendered onto RT video but I was wondering if there were any special tools to help replicate these kinds of effects today? Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks
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May 23

file errors

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
:bomb:i was wrkin on a awesome comp in AE an the power went seconds after i saved it but wen i open the project after its says 33….54 error missing file.I freaked out cus i wrk soooooo hard on that anyone know if its possible to get it back.
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May 18

JavaScript Help

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
Hello guys

i am in the proses of trying to write a plug in
just for fun i guess

my question is i am trying to write a script that will
make a shape layer and then add parameters to it like fill stroke
and modifiers

since i have absoulty no idea what i am doing
i am using the adobe scripting guide as a basis for every thing
so by sayinng : app.project.item(1).layers.addShape()

that makes an empty shape layer

but i have no idea how to add parameters to it

the script guide says

var myShape = new Shape() ;
myShape.vertices = [[300,50],[200,150],[300,250],[400,150]];
myShape.inTangents = [[55.23,0],[0,-55.23],[-55.23,0],[0,55.23]];
myShape.outTangents = [[-55.23,0],[0,55.23],[55.23,0],[0,-55.23]];
myShape.closed = true;

to make a oval but that dose not seem to work

any help ?

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May 09

3dsmax camera info in AE Lensblur

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
Hi,

If I’m using the Zdepth pass from 3dsmax I use it in AE in combination the Lens blur effect. But how can I match the blur information with the camera lens en fov from 3dsmax? I’m not really into lenses and cameras and not fammiliar with the lens blur settings.

How do you guys do this?

Thanks,
Maarten

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May 08

Queuing OS X render droplets for AE, Maya, and Nuke. . .

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
Updated my OS X render droplet apps to queue up into terminal, so you can easily fire off AE, Maya, and Nuke renders into one terminal window and have them properly queue up one after the other.

Render Q droplets

Demo video on my site. Enjoy!

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May 05

RED Log workflow for CS4?

Posted in: Adobe After Effects
Hi there,

We’re gearing up for a comping project. The job was shot on the Red camera. We’ve been supplied with 10-bit Log DPX files and asked to deliver our comps as the same. I’ve got a few questions about how we should set up our projects and interpret the plates:

-I’m assuming it would be best to work in linear 32-bit space. Is there a workspace preset that works best with linearised Red Log files?

-Does the workspace have any impact on the comps, other than being 32-bit? Does it matter which workspace we use, or should we just go with the one that looks best?

-With the footage we’d be applying a Cineon log to lin effect to our incoming material and a lin to log conversion to our output comps. Can these settings vary with the Red? Or is there a standard here?

-What is the difference between applying the Cineon log to lin and applying the Cineon settings in the interpret footage dialog?

I think that’s it. But I’d welcome advice from anyone who’s actually done this. There doesn’t seem to be loads of info online.

Cheers,

W

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