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How was this done?
I've been watching the new show "Fringe" and really like something they are doing. Whenever they are in a new town or location, they place 3D text into the scene. The text isn't photorealistic and actually doesn't look that great, but they do track it with the scene, so it looks like it belongs.
If you watch the first few minutes of any episode on Hulu (Hulu - Fringe), you will see what I'm talking about. I need to know how difficult this is and what I would need to do it with. Any thoughts? |
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If you are on a Mac platform, and have access to Final Cut Studio 2 "Live Type," it should be up for the job.
For details, go to Apple's site or their retail outlet for a demo. Good Luck, John |
PFhoe?
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Check out PFHoue (PFHoe - A Pixel Farm Product) and an illustration of it in use: http://www.pfhoe.com/images/PFHoe_Pro.mov You end up with a Motion 3d project. Time consuming, but cool and surprisingly cheap! |
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As for AE, I'll come clean and admit that having started with After Effects at 3.0 many eons ago, I've since abandoned it in favour of Motion. It's taken 18 months to wean myself off and have now delete After Effects from my system. AE is for Motion Graphics, and that is a profession in and of its self. AE is now too big and scary for me, an editor, to handle. Motion is frustrating, too keen to use presets, fiddly and generally not to an AE person's taste, but I found AE unfathomable, then horrible when I started. Then it became awesome. Motion is, I know, awesome. Yet I have so far lacked the project that forces me to totally start from scratch and produce something better than what I could have done in AE six years ago. But it must be said that I've done plenty of journeyman stuff in Motion that became a joy that would have been tedium in After Effects. On the basis I am an editor, not a Motion Graphics designer. |
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Curious about where PFhoe fits in i.e. could I use it to stretch Motion combined with FCP further?...and it is a 'liter' version of AE? I guess it depending on where the final content is headed - 3D motion in short film/film can look ridiculous if even there's a sniff of non genuine looking graphics at play. I'll second your views on Motion in as much as there is a tendency, initially, to use all those presets. But I'm quite fond of the SW now - I trust the upgrade to 3 is even more 'fun'? Cheers. |
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Feed it your single shot scene. Walk it through the process of what goes on in that shot. It tracks, works out the angle of the lens, the position in 3d (the maths involved is mind bending), you help it ignore stuff, concentrate on others, help it work out where the ground is. Once you're done, it spits out a Motion 3d camera or file or something. In motion, you can position objects, models or graphics in the 3d space it provides using your original movie as a backdrop. The Motion camera tracks around inside this space to match what's happening in the movie behind. Can you imagine the maths to work all this stuff out? I started to think about it and needed a little lie down in a darkened room. You then need to animate garbage mattes to help your faux objects move behind real stuff in the background. General 'things that go bump in the scene' stuff. And in the end you render it out, and bingo! Big floaty PowerPoint slides hover 4 feet in the air as your presenter walks into a modernist plaza and the camera swings round to frame a nice wide. Quote:
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Aye...keyframes make me happy and I quite like the 'record' function in Motion for keying. The green screening worked pretty well for me too. Now fumbling with the matting/shape/bezier tool over the weekend...hopefully it will be in my head by sunday :) cheers. |
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dvGarage Product - dvmattep3 It combines Chromakey with extracting detail from luminance and other tricks, then uses your GPU for super-fast previews and renders. You'll rave about it too when you've tried it. |
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AE can do this with ease. 3D space and motion tracking is how it's done
Best thing to do is goolge After effects tutorials montion tracking you will find your answer. |
Great... I click on the link and get stuck watching something interesting! This wouldn't have happened of X-Files were still around.
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The guy who actually is working on the show and is responsible for the effect is Andrew Kramer. He also works over at video copilot.net, and right when i was watching the show i was like, "i can do that!" Nice little AE tutorial: VideoCopilot.net Video Tutorials & Post Production
looks like its that one, but i could be wrong, its somewhere on videocopilot. |
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