http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/ After Effects, Shake and everything else. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:31:54 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/ http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467719-how-set-out-point-render.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:48:41 GMT Hola chicos,
as u know i'm starting to use Ae since 5 days...So sorry if i come uo with theese silly questions....
EASY EASY ONE: how can i choose in timelinne the OUT point of the preview-render?
I don't know how to take the final blue thing on the timeline....Please help cause i'm going out of mind!

I ve ordered the book you suggested me....So i won't bother u with theese stupid things!
Thx ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Marcus Martell http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467719-how-set-out-point-render.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467680-after-effects-psd-cameras.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:50:04 GMT When you bring a PSD into AE and want to get some depth between the layers, it's my understanding that you have to move the position for each layer so that they are further or closer in 3D space. So if you move your background layer further away, it gets smaller in the frame. Bringing the scale up can compensate for this but seems like a waste of time. I have the image set the way I want it and I don't understand why I have to move things in 3D space, THEN adjust the scale of the layer just to get the image back to normal.
Seems like there should be a hot key or something so that when you drag the layer away from you, the image size does not change within the frame. We should be able to move the layers and After Effects should adjust the scale automatically to compensate. Does such a thing exist? Am I right that everyone using a camera with PSDs has to move the position AND the scale for every single layer? ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Aric Mannion http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467680-after-effects-psd-cameras.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467613-special-effects-shot-coming-up-need-suggestions-please.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:35:42 GMT Can someone give me some suggestions on how to go about using After Effects to change the colors of the leaves on a tree from green (real color) to brown, dying? The shot I have to do in December is of a magical boy can make trees or anything else turn old and die by his thoughts. He looks up... Can someone give me some suggestions on how to go about using After Effects to change the colors of the leaves on a tree from green (real color) to brown, dying?

The shot I have to do in December is of a magical boy can make trees or anything else turn old and die by his thoughts. He looks up at the tree and it starts to wither and die before his eyes.

Magicboy looks up into the tree, the camera booms and pans up following his head movement. The tree at first looks normal, but as he's doing his "magic" on it, within 3-4 seconds the tree changes from lush green, to yellow/brown and leaves start to blow off with the wind.

Any suggestions for setting up the actual shot, and then After Effecting workflow the color transitions? ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Lloyd Ubshura http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467613-special-effects-shot-coming-up-need-suggestions-please.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467542-skywriting-afx.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:54:50 GMT Hi to all, Does anyone have a way to make realistic skywriting with an alpha channel to be layered on an existing video clip? Having trouble getting the wispy, half blown away look. thanks in advance for any help. Hi to all,
Does anyone have a way to make realistic skywriting with an alpha channel to be layered on an existing video clip?
Having trouble getting the wispy, half blown away look.
thanks in advance for any help. ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Gerald Webb http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467542-skywriting-afx.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467448-stand-alone-cso-package.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:35:59 GMT Hello everyone,

I'm not entirely happy with the FCP chroma key filter - could do with something a little more pro.

Does anyone have a good stand alone plugin for green/blue screen chroma key? If so, who makes it and why would you advise me to buy it?

Thanks,

Stu ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Stuart McAlister http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467448-stand-alone-cso-package.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467442-bad-after-effects-crash.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:08:58 GMT I'm on a new mac pro trying to continue work on a project. Whenever I open it AE crashes giving me this error:
"error: crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in CC Particle World"
I click "OK" and it's followed by another error: levels, glow, exposure, etc... -every effect I used in the project!
This AE CS3 on Snow Leopard, but I have seen this error before on a non-snow leopard mac pro too! I can't proceed, this is a bad one. ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Aric Mannion http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467442-bad-after-effects-crash.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467381-3d-photo-effect-historychannel-style.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:33:45 GMT Hi guys,
first i gotta tell you i'm a total newbie in AE (for this reason i was aking you wich books to buy)....
Second: i'm totally obsessed on the fantastic world of the 3d picture effect.I tryed today for the first time(thx Andrew Kramer) to achieve that effect but (cause i'm a rooky) i have a few questions.I m able to move in the space those objects in the different layers but...
1: how can i add the blur effect to achieve a swallow depth of field on the different objects?
2:to have a preview i go to the play botton but i see that the footage is pretty slow....
Am i missing anything (my pc has an nvidia quadro and 4gb of ram)
any help for your spanish friend?
3: i'd like to export in hdv 1080 PALformat, could you drive me?

muchas gracias hermanos de dvinfo ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Marcus Martell http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467381-3d-photo-effect-historychannel-style.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467348-light-streaks-hands-how-done.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:29:00 GMT How is this effect done, the light streaks from the hands... it streaks out from the fingers, then slowly disappear:
YouTube - Anastasia Volochkova - Adiemus ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Jack Walker http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467348-light-streaks-hands-how-done.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467229-after-effects-slow-export.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:10:54 GMT I am at a client's place right now working on a basic corporate animation. the animation is about 3 minutes long, and merely requires a series of objects to appear and have a connectivity animation move between them along a motion path. Pretty simple stuff.

This animation is nested in another timeline which I simply zoom in and out of where it is needed. Think of it as a 2d camera cheat.

On my PC at home, something like this would export very quickly, but on my macbook its dragging. I have tried bouncing to flv, quicktime, uncompressed, etc. Now, animation seems to work better than h264 in quicktime, but I am now trying flv, which is a little bit faster.

This is last season's white macbook. Now, I know CPU and RAM are huge issues, but I have rendered similar stuff out of motion with motion blur and lighting and not had a problem (half hour to hour render time at 2minutes of footage). In After Effects, my render times have gone from six up to now 13 hours. Any thoughts on how I could improve this workflow? What might be slowing my machine down? ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects William Holland http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467229-after-effects-slow-export.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467184-after-effects-flash-cs4-issues.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:56:08 GMT I am having issues in getting a nice, sharp video animation from After Effects into Flash. I have tried exporting it as a .flv and it produces embarrassing results. The elements in the video are hugely pixelated and just flat-out unacceptable. I have also tried the new .XFL export that... I am having issues in getting a nice, sharp video animation from After Effects into Flash.

I have tried exporting it as a .flv and it produces embarrassing results. The elements in the video are hugely pixelated and just flat-out unacceptable.

I have also tried the new .XFL export that takes the AE comp and converts it to be opened in Flash. And yet when I do this, it says that my comp is "too large" to be opened in Flash. Sure enough, it crashes Flash.

Does anyone know of a good workaround to transfer projects between these applications without a huge quality loss? Please help! ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Ryan Postel http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467184-after-effects-flash-cs4-issues.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467129-mac-export-wmv-after-effects.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:42:13 GMT There's no export for wmv from After Effects on a mac. (Well not export: "make movie") Even with flip 4 mac. Is there anything that can be done about this? ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Aric Mannion http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/467129-mac-export-wmv-after-effects.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466989-green-screen-issues.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:45:12 GMT Hello, I have a green screen and the few times I have used it, I noticed some of the green reflects back on to the person. This obviously creates issues when using chroma key in Premiere Pro (or any other program). The people are standing on part of the green screen so maybe I should have... Hello,

I have a green screen and the few times I have used it, I noticed some of the green reflects back on to the person. This obviously creates issues when using chroma key in Premiere Pro (or any other program).

The people are standing on part of the green screen so maybe I should have the green screen only in the background? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Simon ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Simon Zimmer http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466989-green-screen-issues.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466876-best-books-dvd-buy-4-ae.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:53:54 GMT Which are the best dvd-books for AE?I remember somebody suggesting Christiensen book..... what about you guys? thx Which are the best dvd-books for AE?I remember somebody suggesting Christiensen book.....
what about you guys?

thx ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Marcus Martell http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466876-best-books-dvd-buy-4-ae.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466747-flickering-text-effect-ae.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:01:36 GMT Hi All IM interested to know how i could achieve this effect in After Effects.. I know how to get the slow movement happening (thats easy).. But id like to know how to get the random flicker vibe and also the random zoom out at the end.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q3E-Wwl-TQ Im... Hi All

IM interested to know how i could achieve this effect in After Effects.. I know how to get the slow movement happening (thats easy).. But id like to know how to get the random flicker vibe and also the random zoom out at the end..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q3E-Wwl-TQ

Im thinking maybe it has something to do with the wiggler function ? I tried the wiggler on the opacity and it didnt work ?

WOuld appreciate any help. ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Randy Sanchez http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466747-flickering-text-effect-ae.html http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466629-video-transparency-webpage-how.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:52:53 GMT Presently on this site, JVC Introduces GY-HM700 ProHD Camcorder when you first log on, a guy wanders in bottom right and chats for a while. The webpage remains visible behind him as he does so!

Any thoughts on how this is achieved?

(By the way, I'm not sure if he reappears on multiple visits to that url ...) ]]> Digital Compositing and Effects Graham Hickling http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-compositing-effects/466629-video-transparency-webpage-how.html