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- danakin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2473% of all internet statistics are made up on the spot.
- drake89, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26wanna see light streaks? try a tryptamine! (LSD, psilocybin, DMT, LSA...etc..)
- Anoobis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18heh i like this video very much, "oh i've stopped on a pink colour.. lets stop on blue instead"
clear picture, clear voice, a listenable voice - not annoying!!
does this guy have anymore videos? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16You're right. DMT is a trip.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Useless for a video? :S
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"Gosh I wish I had something to say to end these tutorials....
how about this? ........
............ Ah shoot." ;-) - ryanbutterworth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Link to source files:
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano/nano.zip
Link to movie:
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano/light.mov - PrimoTurbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11About 39% use it.
- Zarxrax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10How many digg users actually use After Effects? I do... but I honestly never expected to find this sort of thing on the front page of digg.
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9hes got HEAPS!!
subscribe to the podcast, i have been for ages. Its really professional.
Wow didnt that sound like an adBot! - HondaWang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wow, yeah, a "dual Pentium 2" sounds really fast and hardcore. Jokes aside, it's a pretty cool tutorial for After Effects.
- Mattfezz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Andrew's other tutorials can be found at his website -
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html
He is my favorite AE tutorial person. - ga7sh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6duggmirror comes up blank.. .except for the ad
- t0ny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nope I installed Flash 9 :) Works great!
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4dont even bother with youTube, the drop in quality would be to much, you wouldnt be able to see what he's doin.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3after effects has a very powerful motion tracking feature. i'm not sure how you could make it track in the Z direction but i'm sure you could fake it. just shoot your subject on a green screen, track what's in their hands, mask everything into black, tweak the lighting on the dancers/talent, tweak the space in fore and background of colored light, hit render and go home.
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah not the same effect.
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i dont think many do, but honestly im very happy the folks at creative cow are getting this exposure, they're very good at what they do.
- swifty12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does anyone know how to make the "swirlies" follow a certain point, like in the commercial? That would be sweet.
- mrmidgetman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I caught that too. I was also wondering why it took these comments so long to make fun of that."
i suspect that most people didnt wath the movie for that long - TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeh, i suppose they (apple) would have enough money to shoot it all on an actual motion tracking studio set. but for us small video guys we have to use the poor man's method and it all works out in the end if done right; just takes a little bit longer!
- CanOfMDAmp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I caught that too. I was also wondering why it took these comments so long to make fun of that.
I can do that rendering stuff on my 286. - PrimoTurbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My guess is that istead of using the random generator command he used you can drag the point around how you want.
- DAC1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree. He is great at making easy and understandable video tutorials for AE.
I just hope we don't see a crapload of fanmade apple look-a-like commercials now, just like the old colorfull iPod ones. Those are everywhere. - turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3right click save as works much better, thanks.
- TinFoil209, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is a great tutorial and most of it can be used in AF Mac/Win, also Motion. I think Apple used an internal Motion that can use a flared ends shape (composition for AE). Flared shapes hold the best info for duration. Motion can then use each to set a retention point for the time of life. So now u get x^2.
Creative cow got the shape DEAD ON! Looking at any frame of what Apple did, you can't get any better. Great job! Watched every minute. - Safe97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1awesome
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ive been waiting for a good tutorial on Trapcode Particular for a long time, thanks heaps CC
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's times like this when I'm glad I don't know wth people are talking about. TV ads? I remember them from the '90s. I did get smacked up with "Head On! Apply directly to forehead!" by accident once.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the shape that apple used is the light from the screen and the directional buttons on the wheel mouse; it looks nothing like what creative cow used. HOWEVER...the tutorial is a great starting point (as most tutorials are intended to be).
- mrmidgetman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or they could of hd the person move to follow the light.
- arter2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1try buju motion tracking it does a pretty good job at tracking in 3d space
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is awesome I've wanted to know how to replicated that effect since it aired for the first time at the keynote session.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2here's the link to the flv file:
http://forums.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano/video/tutorial.flv - Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yup, not the same effect. Far different. As a special effects artist, i can attest to that. haha. Andy's been a great help at CC, along with Aaron Rabinowitz. For upcoming special effects artists out there, this is the place guys.
~Dot - mjacks43, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1More power to him, my job depends on the fact that a large majority of creative types have no idea how a computer really functions.
- ortizlgnd, on 03/11/2008, -0/+0I am trying to do something similar to the Mary J. Blige video called "Just Fine" with the light beams from her fingers. I stumbled across this tutorial and was so happy........That IS until I noticed that it was done in After Effects ( I currently only have Photoshop CS2). No biggie right? So I went to Adobe to purchase After Effects and THEN I REALLy got sad............$999.99! MAN!, So, my question is this: is there any way that I can replicate the flowing light beam animation over video using CS2? please, somebody tell me there is!
- Mattfezz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you want to make it track using pure AE it would be pretty hard to get a perfect one. you would need to do a 2D motion track of the subject and track the backgound with rotation for a camera lock, you would then have to manually track the emitter in Z space. I've never done any 3D tracking but this program; http://www.ssontech.com/ can do it, which would make it alot easier.
I tried it out, and i found it to be a pretty cool effect if you parent the camera poi to the emitter then use a null to rotate around it, gives a totally different look to the 'nano' ad - TinFoil209, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1In commerical motion picture they use a color point. A color so contrast to what is used in green/blue screen its aparent at every frame. There is some software in the $10Ks to follow the bouncing ball for 1080p and cinema use.
- ryancu7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think this technique is more likely how it was done:
http://www.digitalair.com/techniques/light_painting.html - SuperJason, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I did this a while ago with my photo camera (Canon S2 IS):
http://superjason.fotki.com/miscellaneous/camera_tricks/flashlight_slo-mo/
Basically, I just set the shutter to open for 15 seconds, and then waved an LED flashlight around. I also turned all the lights off, except for one in a different room. It's interesting that it looks like the lights are on. If you look close, you can see me. - cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For my level of expertise, I can't justify the cost of After Effects, and I don't infringe on copyright law.
I'm hoping for After Effects Elements, but I'm not holding my breath. - lepton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For poor person's depth tracking, you can just vary the speed of the path. The more it is changing in the depth direction, the slower you make the path at that point. -Mike from myallo.com.
- redivider, on 10/12/2007, -2/+292% of all internet statistics will be followed by the statement "X% of all internet statistics are made up on the spot."
This is about 3% funny and currently in decline. It is expected to be in the negative sometime next week, at which time it was start to cause actual, physical pain due to it's unfunniness. - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wonder why no one associates these commercials to raves/glowsticks? Anyway yeah its a pretty decent effect.
I was kinda surprised this was done on a PC. I was led to the impression that video editing was impossible on a Pentium class computer, thanks to Steve Jobs in 2003. - anonym41414, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's Boujou, for you googlers out there.
- anonym41414, on 10/12/2007, -0/+03D tracking is nothing new. Flame had it about ... um ... five years ago maybe? I forget exactly. But it is very computationally intensive, and it requires your shoot to be set up just right. For something like this, I'm guessing they used a blue or green backdrop with tracking markers on it so they could track the foreground element (the iPod) and the background separately. Apply the motion of the foreground element to the particle emitter and the background element to the camera.
Or I guess they could have used a camera with motion control, but that seems like overkill for something like this. - anonym41414, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0First of all, it's not editing. This is graphics, which is an entirely different beast. Editing is disk-I/O constrained. You have to be able to get gigabytes of data from the disks to the display every second to be able to edit in real time.
Second, if you'll notice this guy sets up his composition to be 720 by 480 pixels. That's standard definition, a REALLY low resolution. In actual production, you'd use 1920x1080, or 2048x1536 or 2048x1152 or something. (He also uses square pixels, which is kinda weird. For 720x480 you use non-square pixels; if you want square pixels, use 640x480.)
So while this tutorial really demonstrates the concept well, it doesn't approach what an actual production workflow would be like. It wasn't meant to. It's just a tutorial. - TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1i use AE all the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siXbIwmFG8Q
it's my favorite program in the world (right after photoshop). - lefrat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Anyone else having trouble viewing the video on Linux+Firefox?
YouTube link? -
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