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Walter Baker

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  1. I have uploaded the same clip 3 times this past month but they do not appear with my other clips or on the site.

    It has original sound from the video clip with it, could this be the problem for it not showing up?

    Just wondering why it's not there.

  2. Well thanks to all the help and suggestions I figured out that it has to do with the lights.

    When you open the tracked project there are no lights like the regular Chor.

    So I had to place all the lights and settings. As I moved them to different locations and settings I was able to get the results better.

    I still see some distortion on the background but will deal with that later.

    Snapz_Pro_XScreenSnapz003.jpg

    Snapz_Pro_XScreenSnapz004.jpg

  3. Did you bring them ALL into the images folder? You only need to import the first one of the sequence, everything next will be there.

    In the Chor. the camera New Rotoscope and the imported image should show, select it and all the other frames should be there as well.

  4. This is a video (tga sequence) as rotoscope

    here are 2 shots one is unrendered the other is rendered,

    notice the one has transparent ground with a shadow from the rabbit, this is my objective.

     

    My settings are as follows:

     

    In Object folder: Ground: Options:

    FPT off

    FS off

    CR On

    CS off

    RS On

    SOnly off

    CO On

     

    In the Chor: Ground: Options

    FPT On

    FS On

    CR On

    CS Off

    RS On

    SOnly off

    CO On

     

    Been piddling with it and think I have hit on something, it has to do with the lights......Will post later when I get it figured out.

    Thanks to you all for the help.

    Snapz_Pro_XScreenSnapz001.jpg

    Snapz_Pro_XScreenSnapz002.jpg

  5. Rob to answer your question, yes. They are regular chors. with a tga. sequence as a rotoscope.

    4x4 grid under model, transparent, and still shows shadow.

     

    The new project is tracked with PFHoe and opened, has a ground with it. Tried all the settings I could think of and even duplicated them from other projects but still

    does not become transparent or show the shadows. Then deleted the ground and used a grid primitive and still does not work like the other projects.

     

    Rodney I have used these settings, In my last attempt I got close but had different settings in the OBJECTS, model settings...than I did in the chor., settings.

     

    Attached is the Embeded prj. file which I hope I did right and you can open and have a look at.

    Dance_Corrected5_mov.prj

  6. Just got PFHoe and have tracked a clip.

    It opened fine in A:M and have been trying to get models and (shall I say) a floor into the chor.

    I finally have the model, but the ground that was created into the project does not respond the way it should. (transparent but will show shadows of the model)

    I have done other chors. where I put a grid under a model to create shadows, but with this new stuff I am having a hell of a time and wasting way to much time trying to figure it out.

    I just upgraded to LION on my Mac and am wondering if that could be the problem.

    I know some of you folks have used PFHoe before and hope you could point me to a tutorial or some other stuff on the importing into A:M.

    Would appreciate some suggestions.

  7. Is it possible to copy the settings from one of my older projects into a new project

     

    Have a new project where that was tracked in PFHoe and, I could not get the ground to have shadows on it.

    I imported a 4x4 grid that I used many times before but still can not get shadows.

    So I found one older proj. that does work, Thus my question.

    Can the Grid settings from the old Proj., or Chor., be imported to the new grid?

  8. I have done a few of these and 'detbear' has what I do QT Pro, save as tga. image seq.

    When you import your image sequence just click the first in the sequence and all the rest will go with it.

    then in your Chor. on the camera ....Import, Rotoscope and choose the file

    BAM

    There it is.

     

    At least that how it works for me.

    As for sound , I have no clue...never tried that yet!

  9. Boy can I relate to the same Will, start working at 16, just to have a job so ya can have a car to chase girls.....next thing your 55 working the same stuff, and dealing with people that have brown nosed their way into positions and only kiss butt to keep their jobs.

     

    Having finally found the things you really want and enjoy doing but not connecting the dot's enough to be able to make a living with it.

     

    Gotta just keep learning and trying maybe one day the dots will make a spline. LOL

     

    I bet most of the folks here feel or have felt the same.

  10. Several years back, (when I drove a chariot to work) I worked in the art dept. of a rotary screen engraving company. The hardest thing for me to grip in my head was masking, the positive and negative of things. With my limited capacity to absorb things, I think -alpha channels- are like that, so I don't really understand that business yet.

    I have seen in Adobe After Effects that cutting or cropping out items is possible but I just started messing with FC so I will be on the look out for it.

     

    I remember that Rob did a chromakey thing a while back with his dog but couldn't figure out how he did it.

    (hope one day he might do a tut on that....hint....hint....hint

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