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Check the Array script on aescripts.com website. It duplicates your layer in desired numbers and has more control for offsetting the properties like position, scale, rotation as well as time. It is really easy to use and has many great built in functions for creating really good looking and creative motion graphics. Especially for your case, playing around ...
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A lot of commercials involving electronic devices, like Apple advertisements, usually have simulated screens. This is usually done in After Effects or 3D software like 3ds Max or Cinema 4D.
You can do this animation and screen replacement yourself if you have the software and knowledge required. If you are an After Effects or 3D beginner, there are ...
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The following steps work for me for an arbitrary camera.
Create the desired composition.
Create a camera by going to Layer -> New -> Camera. For now just accept the default settings..
Position the camera as you desire by changing the Transform parameters or by dragging it to the desired position. Here below an image of the Transform parameters:
Make ...
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to accomplish this, we need to cheat something. I assume you are trying to do something like this in the following image:
First, create a camera in your comp (i see you already have one)
Then create a text layer and make it 3D (you have this as well)
Select your layer and select Ellipse tool (Q) but do not apply
anything.
While your text layer selected, ...
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There are a lot of screen recording software, for example:
CamStudio (free)
Screenpresso (free/paid versions)
Movavi Screen Capture Studio ($49.95)
Camtasia Studio ($299.00)
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They haven't used a preset or plugin. They have animated it.
Achieving this effect in After Effects is done by enabling 3D on the layer, positioning the anchor point and then animating the rotation.
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What you need to do is to use a regular blur effect. You also have to apply the effect to an adjustment layer. I'll explain why later on. Why don't I just make a recipe for you to follow first, and then I'll explain what's going on! :)
Make your text layer and fill it with text.
Make an Adjustment Layer. (Layer -> New -> Adjustment Layer)
Make ...
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Try to convert your video into ProRes422. I guess the video codec of your source material is using some sort of compression, that After Effects is having problems with and is loosing sync.
On OSX ProRes422 comes with Quicktime or can be downloaded as a free Update for Quicktime. But if you only have a Win7 computer to work with, you can use FFMPEG: it ...
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As 50ndr33 says, you need to shoot/capture at as high an FPS as possible. The more FPS the better the slow motion effect afterwards.
Kronos is also a great plugin, but as he also states - it has some problems when footage isn't linear. If that's the case, you should have look at Twixtor. It's a bit more advanced (and more expensive) but it's better at ...
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As @Oliver-G said above, your final use of the footage will dictate your render settings. But I'm going to explain HOW rendering works, because it's essential knowledge.
Rendering is the process of taking your After Effects comp - a series of instructions of how to process files - and writing every pixel's value to a file (See footnote 1).
The way AE does ...
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For the rolling shutter issue, you can check AE CS6 built in tool, Effect > Distort > Rolling Shutter Repair, if you haven't already. This basic tool is useful in some of the shuts but in more action packed footage (this is the case i think), you can try The Foundry's ROLLINGSHUTTER plug-in, which is more powerful. And there is a Virtualdub plugin, ...
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Depending on how much you are looking to slow down. Interpret as 50fps, and then once in your timeline, say it is a 25fps timeline. Then you can stretch the footage using time remapping, then you can turn on frame blending to the solid line...this will be good in most instances up to about 25% speed of original...
Less than that the same, 25fps timeline, ...
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At the moment parenting a mask or its vertices to another object like a null is not possible by default. Although it is one of the most wanted features, probably there is no official solution for this. But in the same link you can find a link to a forum post where scripting master Dan Ebberts offers a solution. This solution has some limitations though, yet ...
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Targa (TGA in the format options menu in AE) is a lossless codec that works with video (most people who know it know it from early days of image compression). It has better file compression ratios than Animation, but retains alpha support (32b/p). Its main advantage is that it's faster than animation.
PNG (as used in pictures on the internet) also supports ...
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My guess would be that AfterEffects is assuming something about the audio format which Quicktime is handling correctly but AE is not. Check your format settings; you might need to specify a different byte ordering (also called "byte swapping") or tell it to be explicitly 16-bit instead of, say, 24-bit. In Quicktime you can see what the audio format is via ...
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Okay, now that you have updated your question I think we may be able to answer your questions better...
But keep in mind this could have been done 100 ways and we are simply hypothesizing on how it could have been done.
The individual letters coming in like this could be done 100 different ways, it could be done via an effect in aftereffects, a preset in ...
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Blender does have compositing capability, and can be used to do some of the stuff that AE does. It's free, but you have to learn how to use it, so how highly you value your time counts in the final equation.
If you want to see Blender in action as a compositor you can see the "Tears of Steel" short film made with Blender last year.
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This will probably require a technique called rotoscoping, which involves painting a mask on each frame. You would need to have two layers of video, one which is desaturated (to make the image black and white) and one which is full color. You would then need to make a mask (a layer which effectively makes a hole in the black and white layer so that the ...
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Set an adjustment layer, mask it to cover what you want, use the Hue/Saturation color effect, and set the saturation to zero...then on your layer push the e key, and then select the stop watch next to the saturation of the effect. go to where you want it in color, and set the saturation amount. Done
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Industry level audio usually heavily compressed as a last step of production. I would guess this is what you are after. This is of course given your initial sound track is of decent quality already. There are plenty of software compressors available on the market and can be used with Logic. I'm not recommending or advertising but just for example.
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Changing the pattern of the paper will be too difficult, because you would have to map the pattern around the roll, too. But you can change the color with some Hue/Saturation/Value effect.
So, what are the black/white alpha-matte sections for? The author had to append them at the end, because in the process chain at Shutterstock the video could be ...
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HitFilmFX integrates nicely with Sony Vegas Pro 12. It is much cheaper than AE.
Take a look at Sony Vegas Pro 12 Suite. There is also Boris RED and Boris Continuum Complete for Sony Vegas, GenArts products, NewBlueFX...
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After Effects is an extremely powerful tool, not just because of the out of box abilities but also its integration with 3rd party plugins...In some degrees I could say it can compete with Nuke which is like 4k, and even more for Nuke X
In terms of Pro-sumer/ boarder-line Professional Software these two are in a league of their own, being both MAC and PC ...
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The old school way is stop-motion animation. You basically take snapshots of the paper at regularly timed intervals, where you remove you hand and take the snapshot, then compile a video from the stills. You can use interpolation to smooth out the framerate.
Another idea to remove your hand and pencil is to chroma-key your hand and drawing implement ...
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I have tried the following steps with 4 layers, and it seemed to work.
Name the file with the state 1 set, your-filename-1.ai and the file with the state 2 set your-filename-2.ai. Make sure they are in the same folder
Open After Effects, click File -> Import -> File... and click your-filename-1.ai. Make sure the checkmark is checked as shown below:
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I had the same problem!
So let me explain the answer :
After effects imports your video at the wrong frame rate, so to fix it follow these steps :
Open the Project panel (by default on the left of your screen)
Right click on your footage and go to Interpret Footage -> Main... as shown below.
In the screen that opens up input the desired framerate ...
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Ut Video is an editor friendly lossless video codec and is a good choice for in house production as an intermediary. It is fast, open source, actively developed, supports RGB(A)/ULRA (for your alpha channel requirement) and YUV colorspaces, and is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. You can install it on Windows and it will show up in Adobe Media ...
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Well the best method quality wise is using The Foundrys "Kronos" ( http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/kronos/ ).
Its a similar tool like twixtor but delivers the better results (in my opinion).
If you dont want to use that/spend money then use twixtor OR the built-in time remapping functions, you get the best results by letting either one of them do its ...
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You will have to do it with expressions, unfortunantly it is the only outside of possibly finding a 3rd Party plugin...
This is a good start, http://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/up-down-clock.html
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When you render in 3D Max make sure pre-multiplying is turned off.
Given the situation you want to render an object to be used for post-production within Photoshop, then…
Be sure you set the background to complete black: Rendering > Environment > Background > Colour (click on the colour field and set
red, green and blue to 0)
Set the ...
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