ayrshire.creativecow.net— In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Andrew Kramer demonstrates how to create light streaks as seen in the new Nano iPod commercial.
Oct 20, 2006View in Crawl 4
If 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; <a class="user" href="http://www.ssontech.com/">http://www.ssontech.com/</a> 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
I 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.
3D 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.
92% 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.
I 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!
lefratOct 21, 2006
Anyone else having trouble viewing the video on Linux+Firefox?YouTube link?
justin6512Oct 21, 2006
this is awesome I've wanted to know how to replicated that effect since it aired for the first time at the keynote session.
mattfezzOct 21, 2006
If 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; <a class="user" href="http://www.ssontech.com/">http://www.ssontech.com/</a> 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
arter2Oct 21, 2006
try buju motion tracking it does a pretty good job at tracking in 3d space
shrimpcrackersOct 21, 2006
I 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.
mrmidgetmanOct 21, 2006
or they could of hd the person move to follow the light.
anonym41414Oct 22, 2006
3D 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.
redividerOct 23, 2006
92% 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.
ryancu7Nov 23, 2006
I think this technique is more likely how it was done:<a class="user" href="http://www.digitalair.com/techniques/light_painting.html">http://www.digitalair.com/techniques/light_painting.html</a>
ortizlgndMar 11, 2008
I 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!