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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/22/05 5:23pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Uh, yeah, that sucks. Gaussian Blur does not appear to be capable of repeating edge pixels in AE. -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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PixelMagic Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 8/22/05 5:43pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Very nice tutorial, Ryan. -----signature----- http://danielbroadway.blogspot.com "A wise man tastes good, but a dumb man is easier to catch" -Codepoet
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batkins182 Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/22/05 5:51pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects - Date Edited: 8/22/05 7:04pm (1 edits total) Edited By: batkins182
	Never Mind
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IndyDreams Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 8/22/05 5:57pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Sweet tutorial. I am converting. -----signature----- Alex Formerly Lightsaber_Style8675. http://alexjeffery.net/wizardblog "What would Yoda do? Your ass, kick it he would!"
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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/22/05 6:56pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	batkins182 posted: what version of After Effect were you using Ryan? I have Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professiol. 6.5, but (as far as I'm aware) everything except Guide Layers can be done in earlier versions. -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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Kij421 Registered: Feb '05	Date Posted: 8/22/05 7:32pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	I very much liked this. I'm a big fan, now. Reinspired me to keep rotoscoping, instead of giving up. Thank you, Ryan. -----signature----- [Insert signature here]
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Thrice3 Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 8/22/05 8:16pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Good work bud, my favorite was having fully rendered sabers and you can still move the mask with the glow and you dont have to worry about moving the other five layers. I was wondering when this was going to happen. I know I will be using this in the near future or a variation of it for rotoing sabers. Thrice -----signature----- I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. John Cage (1912-1992)
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J-P- Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 8/22/05 9:45pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Other than the gaussian blur thing, AWESOME tutorial!
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Dark-Vador1138 Registered: Oct '04	Date Posted: 8/22/05 9:53pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Did anybody watch my test? -----signature----- Member of the Official Darth Vader Fan Club
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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/22/05 10:01pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	J-P- posted: Other than the gaussian blur thing, AWESOME tutorial! Well, the gaussian blur thing doesn't really have anything to do with the tutorial method. We were just talking about the features of fast/gaussian. -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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HTS_HetH Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 8/22/05 11:59pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Hey Ryan, thanks for sharing your new method with the rest of us. I really like the new flexibility that this method offers. It´s always great to get immediate results without having to change half of the effect again. Also being able to save a template with the effect is a great thing, a great time saver. I most likely use this new method for our current project. But I gotta say, I was really shocked to hear that you only recently discovered what for adjustment layers are. I really thought you figured AE out as much as one could say you almost invented the program Oh and the ILM reference was hilarious, had me laughing for almost the rest of the tutorial. Btw, I think about making the exact the same tutorial for our German film forum (of course referencing you / your website) so those who don´t speak English can also profit from this new method. Just checking with you if that´s okay. -----signature----- Regards HetH Star Wars - Invasion II Now In Post-Production http://invasion2.hethfilms.de
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Jophis Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 8/23/05 12:11am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	*Jophis bows and serves the mighty forum master Dorkman, and posts this here* Well Ryan made it into the nightly funnies... again. Quicktime Version - 1.4MB http://www.jophis.com/films/nightly-funnies/08-23-05-tut05.mov Windows Media Version - 1.6MB http://www.jophis.com/films/nightly-funnies/08-23-05-tut05.wmv visit the Nightly Funnies site at http://www.nightlyfunny.info -----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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DMPjedi Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 8/23/05 12:15am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Haha! -----signature----- Nate Caauwe - VFX Supervisor, Movie Spoof 2 & 3 http://PixelCorps.com DMPjedi is not here right now, please leave a message with NateCaauwe after the beep. Beep.
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saber_holder Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 8/23/05 12:30am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	-----signature----- I play with pixels. www.kevincouture.com
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MasterZap Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/23/05 12:39am Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	fireresq7 posted: Even though it's faster in the sense of fixing a roto mistake(just changing one layer instead of fixing and re-duplicated all 3 and adding blur again and etc.) Well you've always been able to do that, since you can just pre-comp the layer with your actual mask on it, and reference that pre-comp in the other layers. I think you can use expressions as another way to acheive the same. (Never tried that, tho) fire posted: I feel there's just more inbetween steps...but hey I'm an old dog. I will try this out when I finish filming again next week. Actually the coolest bit is that each new blur builds on the former, rather than just blurring the core, which is actually desirable for a ton of reasons. fire posted: Zap, I saw your tutorial and it was very entertaining. You sure have a funny personality. One tries, one tries. Did anyone else watch it, or should I delete it off the server? fire posted: But I was hoping to see the end result of your version of the tutorial. It wasn't about end results, only about actual rotoing itself. fire posted: Do you copy the mask to a white layer? Do you just increase the brightness till it's white? Neither, add the Render->Fill filter and fill to white. I actually did do a "version II" of the tutorial with more in depth talk, but it became 145 megabytes somehow (dont ask ) and I will try to compress that to QT decently somehow. It actually mentions that, plus talks keyboard shortcuts. /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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