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  1. PsiPhi

    Cinematic Look

    Chances are, you are outputting uncompresed video from Magic Bullet. Don't know if it can output to the DV Codec, but all you have to do to fix this is re-import the clip into AE and re-render to DV.
  2. PsiPhi

    Dual Processing

    Not as far as I know anyway... can't recall having to set anything up in AE. I run Windows 2000 Pro, so I normally use the Performance section of the TaskManager to watch both processors blast through those renders. Do you run Windows XP Pro or Windows 2000 Pro? I don't know if XP Pro has the...
  3. PsiPhi

    Output to TV from AE

    Erm... well, that computer has given me a lot of headaches with regards to weird little things going wrong and ceasing to function (like my USB ports, for instance - no Wacom tablet anymore - boo!hoo!). My Firewire card is a bit sporadic too (to say the least!) even though it is a really good...
  4. PsiPhi

    Can I create smoke effect in After Effects?

    If you have the ProBundle version of AE, you can use the Particle generator to emit lots of small white particles. Adding a Gaussian blur on top of these gives quite a convincing smoke simulation. PsiPhi
  5. PsiPhi

    Cinematic Look

    Hi Kyle, There's loads of ways of going about this and also loads of considerations, such as frame rate, de-interlacing, 3:2 pull-down (still not sure about this one - some thing to do with film to video transfers methinks). It's always a biq question when it comes to DV. Some of the most...
  6. PsiPhi

    quality problem

    Firstly, if you're rendering from a 3d app, try rendering the bike with an alpha channel mask instead of a green backround - it may not make a huge difference, but then again, it might. Secondly, if the image size of the Jpeg backround is smaller than the composition, or if a too-high ratio of...
  7. PsiPhi

    cutout look

    The first thing I would suggest would be to copy the Cutout filter from the Photoshop filters folder and place it into the AE plug-ins folder. This will cause the filter to show up in AE. There's a certain voodoo element as to whether or not this will werk (lighting black candles and sacrificing...
  8. PsiPhi

    Rotoscoping Film-Strips

    Hi Matt, Thanks a million for taking the time and effort to help out with this. I guess copying and pasting would be a good work-around, but doesn't using the screen mode need layers and don't layers screw up the Filmstrip format? Ahh... you're talking about light-sabers, aren't you. It's not...
  9. PsiPhi

    Output to TV from AE

    Okay, I know that this is from a while ago but I hit a bit of a brick wall. The problem is that on the 'video output' option there is nothing else in the list except for the desktop. I have a really good Firewire card and Premiere werks fine with it but it's not showing up in AE. I'm running...
  10. PsiPhi

    rendering problem

    Sorry... I used to have 256mb which gave me about 10 seconds at PAL resolution, so I assumed that was the problem. Can't think of anything else offhand I'm afraid.
  11. PsiPhi

    rendering problem

    You simply ran out of RAM. You could change the resolution to half which should give you much more rendering time or else buy some more. 1/2 a gigabyte is dirt cheap these days and you really do notice the difference in your overall system performance.
  12. PsiPhi

    animated clouds effect ?

    Ahhhh... lovely clouds. When it comes to this type of thing, there's no plug-in that will really do it justice. Your 2 options are to... (a) Use a camera with a built in time-lapse function. This is cool because you only end up with a few seconds of footage, even after filming for quite a...
  13. PsiPhi

    Need some help with Masks =\

    I'm not very hot on masking at all, but from what I can remember you create a new mask, use the pen tool to add extra points to it and then use the bezier handles to adjust the curves as desired.
  14. PsiPhi

    problem with lightsabers

    Everybody was waiting to see if you were going to answer this yourself... The most obvious thing I would ask is (and many apologies if you're not a novice) did you remember to activate the keyframes for the position controls of the lightning effect? This would explain why it wasn't following...
  15. PsiPhi

    3d fog after effects

    I just remembered amout depth mattes, though. I'm using Bryce a bit at the moment and you can render a scene as a Distance Mask. This essentially renders out a black & white version of your scene where Black = near and White = far away. When you import your original footage and distance mask...
  16. PsiPhi

    3d fog after effects

    Nope. A tiff file is an uncompressed image file format but is 2d, hence doesn't contain any z-axis information.
  17. PsiPhi

    3d fog after effects

    Another variation of this is to use a Fractal Noise filter on a new solid or adjustment layer to impart a gently swirling effect. Add a touch of Gaussian blur to soften it up a bit and it's pretty convincing. You should also mess around with different transfer modes (although I find that Screen...
  18. PsiPhi

    Output to TV from AE

    Yay!!!! I don't remember ever coming across this option and I won't be home until Tuesday to check it out (I'll be busy hurtling a dune buggy over the biggest sand dunes in Europe) but it's great to know it is possible. Thanks a million. Now... if I can just get that second 21inch monitor...
  19. PsiPhi

    3d fog after effects

    Try as much as you want... it won't werk for you. This stumped and frustrated me for ages until I bought that AE5.5 Magic book. The reason for this filter (and all the 3D Channel filters) is to help you composite 3D layers rendered from Maya, 3D Max etc. that contain z-axis information to...
  20. PsiPhi

    Output to TV from AE

    I spend most of my computer time in AE messing with ideas so I don't always want to spend time rendering stuff out before I can see what it really looks like on my television. I'm total tweak addict and even though the computer displays at a much higher resolution, you don't really get a true...

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