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Hi Greg,
If all you need to do is morph the images and are on a limited budget, you might want to consider the BCC Morph Unit, which is basically a package of 3 of the warp filters from the full Boris Continuum Complete product - the product retails for $199. The Morph Unit includes BCC Warp, BCC Morph and BCC Video Morph. Each of these filters performs the image warp or morph using the built-in spline mask tools in After Effects. The filters are OGL hardware accelerated and perform really well. You can download the software here:
http://www.borisfx.com/units/Morph.php
If at a later stage you decided that you wanted to upgrade the Unit to the full product, the purchase price of the Unit is discounted from the price of the full product.
I hope this helps,
Peter.
From: Teddy Gage [mailto:teddygage@gmail.com]
To: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv]
Sent: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:26:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [AE] Morphing without paid 3rd party plugins?
Your instincts are pretty correct greg. While possible to use free form pro or distort -> reshape, your results are probably not going to be great even with many hours of effort. I'd stay away from pixel motion frame blending... in my experience it's pretty crap for something as complicated as a facial morph. If the client can't afford it, maybe suggest an alternative effect. Otherwise you may be banging your head against the wall
On Aug 31, 2012 10:00 AM, "Greg Balint" < greg@delrazor.com> wrote:
Hey everyone.
A client of mine has asked if I can do morphing.. mostly interfacial and possible other situations.
I've looked around, and although RE:Flex seems to be the best option, the client's budget won't really lend itself to purchasing a $600 plugin for this project.
I've looked around, and the only 2 other options I've found, is to exploit the Pixel Motion Frame Blending between a timestretched sequence of images to get it to blend together, or to use Distort > Reshape, but I think that will only work if my from and to frames are more like profile images, not head-on images.
So I'm wondering if anyone has been able to achieve classic morphing between 2 front-looking faces within AE's native plugins at all.
Thanks in advance,
///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/
On 8/31/2012 9:16 AM, Chris Zwar wrote:
AFAIK it's an OS limitation. It's the same on Macs and Windows. It's a pretty rare problem to run into - I can think of 3 times in about 15 years that it's happened to me, so even if it's something that Adobe can fix then it's probably pretty low on their priorities.
On 31/08/2012, at 9:02 PM, Peter Mock wrote:
Thank you Chris,
This is a really ennoying error in AE,
Aren't they able to fix this?
Peter
On 31 Aug 2012, at 11:54, Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com> wrote:
Hi,
This happens when the total number of characters in the file path exceeds 255 characters. It usually happens when you have lots of folders nested inside each other, but can also happen if your directories and files have very long names. The solution is to either re-name the offending file with a shorter name, or if it happens a lot, then reduce the number of folders that are nested inside each other.
-Chris
On 31/08/2012, at 5:34 PM, Peter Mock wrote:
Good Morning everyone,
..... at least it is morning here in London :-)
I am dealing with a fast project that has grown like a fungus in all directions
during the last months and i am in the process of backing it up and i have to
do it very well since it is 130 GB big including all surplus assets which i dont
need anymore!
After reducing the project to its bare essentials I initiated 'collect files' and
received the following erroe message in AE CS5, AE CS5.5 and AE CS6:
After Effects error: File path "2min_Retail_J01_1-5.psd" is too long"
I used a lot of multilayered psd compositions ....
What does that mean and how can I resolve that ??..... I have thousands of files
that need backing up and need to separate them from the ones which are not
used in the project.
For any advice me and my client would be very grateful
Thanks and have a wonderful day
Peter
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