I'm a rapidly aging 50-something with a one-person animation shop doing mostly technical animation (engineering, pharma), visual FX, and motion graphics, with the occassional ActionScript(Flash) programming job. | | | | Member Since: August 23rd 2001 Location: Philadelphia, PA (US) | | | | |
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| | | |  | Compositing actor to 3D virtual setby Evan Robinson 9 months agoHi, I am having a hard time compositing a 3d actor in a 3d virtual set. I tracked the shot using AE's built in 3d tracker.(I am trying to motion track a actor into a 3d virtual set that has camera mov | Re: Compositing actor to 3D virtual set
by Jeff Brown 9 months ago
One thing you could clear up, Evan (can't tell from your wording): You are tracking the actor footage, which has the moving camera Or you are tracking the virtual set footage 2 big things to prevent s
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| | | |  | green screen artifactsby Kelly Schaefer 10 months agoI am having some trouble with artifacts in my subjects on my green screen footage. I had a little trouble shooting as I couldn't get my 4 ft kino to work and light up the backdrop. I used two 2 foot k | Re: green screen artifacts
by Jeff Brown 10 months ago
If you can post a still here, that would help. From your description, my guess is you are over-correcting spill, and that is producing artifacts (do they look grey or pink ) in your subject. The warm
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| | | |  | Bottleneck of my sys?by Roger Maus 10 months agoHi! Just wondering... how could I improve my system I know not state of the art at all, but I am getting along quite (only just *quite*) well: - CPU: QuadCore Intel Core i5-2500K, 4333 MHz - Board: As | | | | |
| | | | | Windows 7 sounds to go through my Kona 3Gby Sanrj Patil 10 months agoHow can i Windows 7 sounds to go through my Kona 3G I use Avid Symphony and it works but if i go to desktop and play wav file or go to youtube, sound not coming out from kona 3g breakout cable | | | | |
| | | |  | Prerender/render solutions plox!by Rahim Kanji 11 months agoHello creative ones, I could use a bit of help as I'm nearing the end of what I know or what accessible tutorials can teach me. In advance, I apologise for my lack of terminology. Here's the outline; | Re: Prerender/render solutions plox!
by Jeff Brown 11 months ago
YT tut about making text animations. The theory ofcourse is to start large then shrink, ------- That may have been good advice in 1990. These days, software and programmers know how to anti-alias text
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| | | |  | size of 3D TVby Grzegorz Kwiatkowski 11 months agoI am buying a TV for editing 3D. One thing I am not sure is the size. Is it necessary to use 47 inch monitor for 3D postproduction Can I use a smaller one (When editing 2d footage, I use 32 inch monit | Re: size of 3D TV
by Jeff Brown 11 months ago
Take into consideration where the monitor will be placed: you don't want a 47" if you have to put it 24" from your eyes. Eye-to-eye separation is a combination of image size AND distance from viewer.
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| | | | | How can i do this? (time question)by Alican Rusen 11 months agoI have a video footage, in composition i want to freeze and after a while i want it to contunie how can i do that here is a scheme: http: g1206.hizliresim.com y 4 7fwct.jpg untitled-1.jpg | | | | |
| | | |  | Converting 24 fps material to 23.976by Michael Whelan 12 months agoHello, I'm in a situation I am sure many others have dealt with at one point or another, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around a solution. I recently shot a multicam event where 3 of the camera | Re: Converting 24 fps material to 23.976
by Jeff Brown 12 months ago
Can you just "interpret" the footage as 23.976 on import Premiere and AE will let you do this, at least. It provides a frame-to-frame match, i.e. changes the speed but does not drop or interpolate fra
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| | | |  | Correcting color stripes in AEby Chase Carnahan 1 year agoHey all, I'm having some serious trouble with some footage I shot a week ago. (This seems to happen on most of my footage in bright settings, too). Canon 7D Canon 10-22mm 3.5 1920x1080p 29.97fps squar | Re: Correcting color stripes in AE
by Jeff Brown 1 year ago
I believe chromatic aberration would not be exhibited in that way. What you have looks more like moire artifacts from compression, i.e., I don't think a new lens would help. -Jeff
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| | | |  | Kona 3 and After Effects CS5.5by Jef Huey 1 year agoWe just installed the AJA 10.1 drivers and the CS 5.5.3 plugins on a Win 7 64 bit system. It also runs MC 6.0.1 and the Kona card is happy with that software. The manual is pretty thin in regards to A | | | | |
| | | | | Interlacing woesby Alex Rinquest 1 year agoCurrently working with 3 formats, CS5 on PC. Footage is Mpeg from Nikon DSLR, M2T from Sony HDcam and MP4 from Gopro. Delivery format SD Workflow is import M2T and Mpeg directly into HDV timeline 1080 | | | | |
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| | | | | convergence point behind screen?by Hans Castrop 1 year agoI'm trying to get something clear about the basics here; the convergence point isn't always on the screen, right But how can it be behind the screen (or in front), because to be behind the screen it s | Re: convergence point behind screen?
by Jeff Brown 1 year ago
My understanding: If you have a visible screen frame (as on a monitor or monitor window), that will have zero convergence, because your left and right eyes are seeing the same thing. This will force y
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| | | |  | MOV vs AVIby Harvey Goldberg 1 year agoI am using Adobe Premiere CS5.5 on a PC...Windows 7. When I export a timeline to an MOV using the same parameters that I use for an AVI, the color on the MOV is quite diminished. The format is Quickti | Re: MOV vs AVI
by Jeff Brown 1 year ago
To clarify: The "gamma" problem (as I understand it) only affects desktop display. The actual data in the file is OK. So, QuickTime within Premiere is fine, even the same file that looks washed out on
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| | | |  | Need blacker than blackby Cliff Stephenson 1 year agoHey, so I'm delivering a clip and have been told that the black portions between my clips need to be at least -15mV (right now they were delivered at 0mV). I'm using the a black video clip generated i | Re: Need blacker than black
by Jeff Brown 1 year ago
Ah, tape! Then it makes sense. Glad it worked out OK. My guess is like yours: the superblack is used for alpha-channel-like needs. -jeff
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| | | |  | PANASONIC BT-LH1700 HD Monitorby Chris Cottrell 1 year ago** IF THIS POST NEEDS TO BE REDIRECTED I UNDERSTAND, HOWEVER I COULD NOT FIND A FORUM FOR MONITORS** Lately here at the shop we have been encountering DOZENS of the Panasonic 17'' monitors with issues | | | | |
| | | | | ntsc / non-ntscby Sam Behrens 1 year agoDon't know if anybody is still monitoring this forum, but just in case . . . I'm working in the DeInterlace node in Composite with 1080i footage. There is a setting, "NTSC NON-NTSC". I'm a little conf | Re: ntsc / non-ntsc
by Jeff Brown 1 year ago
It looks like that refers to Field Dominance (Field Order). From the somewhat hidden Composite Toxic Help Doc (PDF): ------ Determining Field Dominance The field dominance is whether the top field com
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| | | | | recommendations for Video playback softwareby Anhtu Vu 1 year agoI'm looking to built a machine for Cinema Broadcast projection. I found something on the Mac from Softron, On the Air Video Express. Is there something similar on the PC that would support the Aja car | | | | |
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| | | | | AJA kona 3 analog in rgbby Eibe van de Velde 2 years agoThis may be newbie. Has the aja kona 3 no video input for RGB. And does the 3g have them. I just got the cables for my kona 3. But they seem to have no normal RGB input. I want to convert super vhs vi | Re: AJA kona 3 analog in rgb
by Jeff Brown 2 years ago
S-VHS is a 2-signal format: Luma + Chroma, or Y + Y C (if I remember correctly). Not RGB. I'm not sure if your Kona board has any analog inputs, you may need to find a device that converts S-video to
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| | | | | Cloningby Danny Davis 2 years agoHi all, It's been a while since i've used Combustion! I've got some cloning work coming up soon and I was wondering if C is still the tool to use or should I be looking for something else now that is | Re: Cloning
by Jeff Brown 2 years ago
Well, Combustion still works. Even works under Win7, though seems a little more buggy. Although being a 32-bit app, the 3 GB memory limit is there. I'd say it depends on your current system, budget, a
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| | | |  | Same as Combustion?by Vincent Strader 2 years agoCurrently, are there any programs that combustion users feel are equivalent to Combustion After Effects is the only one I would think. SHAKE I'm about to get my own set up, finally, and looking for so | Re: Same as Combustion?
by Jeff Brown 2 years ago
Dean-- that's a fair point. I also have some trepidation about getting too attached to Toxik Comp. There are certainly assurances from people on the (Adsk) Area that it won't be orphaned. But we've he
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| | | |  | Autodesk Combustion 2008 keeps crashingby Jenny Lorenzo 2 years agoHey all! I'm having a major problem with Autodesk Combustion 2008. I've been working on a project using the program for about a week and all has been fine until today. I have a brand new iMac and it h | Re: Autodesk Combustion 2008 keeps crashing
by Jeff Brown 2 years ago
That sounds like trouble with a graphics driver. Are there any Mac utilities to do a "system check & heal " If the pink goes away after a reboot, I would just try to ignore it. And... your professor i
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| | | | | Combustion footage handling issueby Naren Navale 3 years agoHey friends! I am bit old user of combustion and having little problem with it always... It may be a very small stupid thing.... but hell I couldn't catch it out. You see in the problem.jpg, Actual fo | Re: Combustion footage handling issue
by Jeff Brown 3 years ago
Combustion is working properly: You are seeing interlaced footage. It is visible in the 2nd picture also, just not as much, because the camera and or hand was not moving as much. How was it shot And w
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| | | |  | neeed stereoscopic problemby rex monga 3 years agohi guy i m trying to create a stereoscopic scene but i m facing one problem that i hv achieved the z depth in scene but i m not able to project image like thing nearer to the cam is coming out of it b | Re: neeed stereoscopic problem
by Jeff Brown 3 years ago
You may find it helpful to learn how stereo vision works: http: www.binocularity.org http: www.stereoscopy.com isu start.html -jeff Jeff Brown Fire Mist Media www.firemist.com Workstation: Boxx 8700 d
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| | | | | HDR with a 3D Rigby john conner 3 years agoWe tried out shooting some HDR with our 3D rig with the IO set to zero using 2 Red's with Ruby lenses. The result was pretty good, maybe 16 stops of DR. Check it out. http: vimeo.com 11774969 | Re: HDR with a 3D Rig
by Jeff Brown 3 years ago
John, I'll agree that 3D might be here for good. The contemporary stuff is a vast improvement over past technology. For me, it just doesn't add much to a story. I could be in the minority here (smiley
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| | | | | How to set up a Univ. 3D course?by John Phillips 3 years agoHello Learned Ones I'm a video artist teaching at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. I have been interested in stereo vision for quite a while now and decided to apply for a faculty grant in | Re: How to set up a Univ. 3D course?
by Jeff Brown 3 years ago
Hi John, I run a small graphics animation shop near Philly, and have done a couple stereo animation projects, though I'm by no means an expert. I'd be happy to tell you about the little I do know if y
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