Thursday, July 26, 2007
fx: speed ramp
As I write, the computer is rendering the speed ramp that occurs when the malevolent entity whishes past the spinner. This is the first time I used the AE 7.0 curves. They are SO much easier to use than the 6.5 curves. I'm also trying Pixel Motion for the first time. Pixel Motion is supposed to make slow motion look better than using the typical frame blending setting. I heard that it builds missing frames through a form of interpolation. I'm curious to see if it makes any difference. One thing it affects is rendering time. It's taking 35 minutes to render 6 seconds of footage! There are so many speed changes in my edit that I will probably use conventional frame blending for most of the master just to keep rendering times sane.
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i was thinking about frame blending recently because for a while i think i always used it no matter what in AE. then i stopped and i forget why. maybe i thought it looked less like film. but my VHS transfers of Super 8 brought it back into my thoughts because they have natural frame blending, i guess from interlace. it looks pretty cool on expressionistic camerawork, because two consecutive frames might contain wildly differing images, and the VHS will sometimes depict the frames blended, creating almost a double exposure look.
-david
now that i think about it, i wonder if the VHS effect is due to the higher frame rate of video?
hmmm.. that would be a whole new world of effects... 18 or 24 fps transfered to VHS then digitized.
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