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| I use Re:Flex and many of those other fine products from Re:Vision but if I was stuck to try and figure out how to do a morph without those tools, here's what I would try and I'll be it would work. I don't know if you are familiar with how Re:Flex or other morphing applications work, but you need to help the software out with correspondence points and the merging of those points. To make it simple, you want the eyes of subject A to line up with the eyes of subject B and the mouth of subject A to line up with the mouth of subject B. To do this you would line the two photos up as close as you can to begin with. Then for any components of the photo that do not match, use some sort of morphing tool to move A to meet with B and a dissolve from one image to the other combined with the morph. What tools do you already have in AE that you could use for this, well how about CC Smear, for instance. You can designate an area to move, adjust the radius of the control point, in this case the size of an eye and move it from point A to point B over time. If a round control point doesn't work for repositioning the mouth or let's say the hairline, then what about mesh warp set to a very fine grid or Freeform? It might take you a little more work to manipulate these areas but it can be done. Give this a try. I'm sure you'll have decent results. Jack Tunnicliffe Java Post Production www.javapost.ca On Aug 31, 2012, at 7:59 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 >>>>> >>>>> +---End of message---+ >>>>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >>>>> >>>> >>>> +---End of message---+ >>>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >>> +---End of message---+ >>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >>> >> >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >> >> > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
