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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/24/05 12:37am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Yeah, you could do it that way. -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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HTS_HetH Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 8/24/05 12:51am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Great thanks for the quick reply. I really like the new method and already prefer it about the old one. Works much faster for me. -----signature----- Regards HetH Star Wars - Invasion II Now In Post-Production http://invasion2.hethfilms.de
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MasterZap Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/24/05 3:36am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Okay here is the NEW version, in QuickTime phormat. Not half as funny, tho "Zaps Tips on Efficient Saber Rotoing" Thingamabob Thingajig Thingamathing /Z -----signature----- mental ray Tips blog - http://www.mentalraytips.com ZapTroNic Visuals - http://www.ZapTroNic.com Oldschool Homepage - http://www.Master-Zap.com FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER - http://twitter.com/masterzap
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-Spiff- Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 8/24/05 5:31am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Gee Zap, if you want an explicit computation to show the exact coefficients required to get expontential falloff, then let me know. But... like you said: no one is doing gamma corrections, so the colour-rendition is not linear, and fast blurs aren't gaussian blurs. -Spiff -----signature----- Eclipse SE now available: http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films/b10015/28647876/p1/?26 Spiff(x, \|x-Phi\|<small) = twitterpated FREE THE QUARKS!!!
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morpher-2005 Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 8/24/05 6:03am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects - Date Edited: 8/24/05 6:36am (1 edits total) Edited By: morpher-2005
	These lightsabers look better, but I'm having a problem making them: At the begining, i make my black and white solid layers and put them underneath. I have the white layer selected, and when I try to mask the core, it wont let me. It doesn't make a mask at all. Is this because i'm using an old version (4.1)? Also, i don't have the repeat edge pixels. Does this mean all my lightsabers will fade out near the edge of the frame, or is there any other way of preventing this? -----signature----- Read my autobiography, it's quite good. I die in the end.
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beafet Title: Webmaster Ja cksonville, NC FanForce Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 8/24/05 6:08am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Spiff- we don't want any trouble here. not in any language. -----signature-----
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-Spiff- Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 8/24/05 6:33am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Who me? Rory: Some effects do not support 16bpc... but that's not the point. The point is to avoid colour banding when the lot of 8bpc images are mixed together and adjusted in colour. So long as this operation is done in 16bpc, you'll have no problems. If you look at the saber glow falloff in this picture around Phi's face: http://s94963366.onlinehome.us/Eclipse/SvJpics/shot09.jpg you'll see the stepping we're trying to avoid. This was originally rendered out in AE 6.0 Std., which didn't have 16bpc support, and frustrated me to no end. It was a great relief to see it disappear when I upgraded to 6.5 Pro and switched to 16bpc. -Spiff -----signature----- Eclipse SE now available: http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films/b10015/28647876/p1/?26 Spiff(x, \|x-Phi\|<small) = twitterpated FREE THE QUARKS!!!
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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/24/05 2:22pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Pretty good little tutorial Zap. I'll be recommending to TFN that when they host my tutorial, that yours be on the same page, or not far. It's very useful for those who want to roto via that method, and good for people just getting started and need to see how masking works. Pretty amusing too. -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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IndyDreams Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 8/24/05 3:19pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Zap, you are awesome. -----signature----- Alex Formerly Lightsaber_Style8675. http://alexjeffery.net/wizardblog "What would Yoda do? Your ass, kick it he would!"
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FigChrystie Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/24/05 3:22pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Waves a bloody little bloody Zap flag -----signature----- Defunct.
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MasterZap Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/24/05 11:19pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Hey thanks guys, glad you liked it. It irks me that I forgot to show one cool thing which is often useful in fanning situations: You can select only one END of the saber, double click one of those points, and still get that cool "transform box" for the points, so you can take your quite normal rounded saber end and turn it into a "big fanning saber end" in just a couple of clickeroo-drag-pull-smile moves. /Z -----signature----- mental ray Tips blog - http://www.mentalraytips.com ZapTroNic Visuals - http://www.ZapTroNic.com Oldschool Homepage - http://www.Master-Zap.com FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER - http://twitter.com/masterzap
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Dako Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 8/24/05 11:32pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	I think you could easily combine Zap's and Ryan's methods together. Create the lightsaber core by rotoscoping directly onto the footage, and make the glow layers using the adjustments. Just a suggestion, although I am actually taking serious consideration on combining these methods for my rotoscoping. -----signature----- Working on rotoscoping my LCC4 Entry 3. A couple more fight scenes to do, then the closeups and wide shots. Lightsaber Sound FX Uber Addict!
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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/24/05 11:54pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Yeah... that's what I've been saying frequently throughout this thread. -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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Jophis Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 8/25/05 12:08am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	I think umm.... umm.. I uhh... I uhh... anyways I liked the new method. course i never used the old one..... but anyways. -----signature----- Currently driving around the country on someone else's dime in a really nice car. Gotta love life. My Films: The Fan Film Project : Tech Support Special FX: Duel of the Fakes SE Working On: Broken Dreams : The Awakening : The Operatives http://www.jophis.
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MasterZap Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/25/05 12:19am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Ryan_W posted: Yeah... that's what I've been saying frequently throughout this thread. And you know what else? You could actually combine both methods. At the same time. Imagine, huh? A m a z i n g, innit? I mean, who would have thunk that one method (which is only about actually rotoscoping masks) and another method (which is only about using rotoscoped masks to create glows) would ever go together, huh? Who would have thunk? I mean, some day someone will even come up with other things that go together like... like... bacon and... and... and.... eggs.... or.... girls and... and... and... no wait. Forget that. /Z -----signature----- mental ray Tips blog - http://www.mentalraytips.com ZapTroNic Visuals - http://www.ZapTroNic.com Oldschool Homepage - http://www.Master-Zap.com FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER - http://twitter.com/masterzap
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