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From: "Stephen van Vuuren" <stephen@sv2studios.com>
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Subject: RE: [AE] Tracking point suggestions for CRTs
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:29:28 -0400
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Thanks to all for the excellent feedback. I was leaning to going no tracker
monitors and leaving the screens off, and I think unless the monitor has
obvious other lighting effects in power/status that I don't want to fool
with, will we do that.

>Assuming the screen, when off, is a nice deep black instead of green or
some other color.

I've confirmed with Art that all are deep black, so we should be good.

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From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of
Chris Meyer
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 7:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] Tracking point suggestions for CRTs

Assuming the screen, when off, is a nice deep black instead of green or some
other color. 

On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Brian Maffitt wrote:

> Brendon's 100% percent right that you should use "Add" for a reflection--a
true reflection will only make the screen lighter, not darker. Add is your
best bet for this, or maybe screen, but in either case you'll want to add a
levels effect to the layer to control the reflection strength and contrast.
> 
> Brian
> 
>> On Oct 22, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Chris Meyer wrote:
>> 
>>> And if you want to get good screen reflections and shows, if possible
place a flat 50% graphic on the monitors during the shoot, then use a mode
such as Overlay or Hard Light to composite your new screen over the monitor
face.
>> 
>> 
>> In linear color space, the reflections on the screen should be a pure Add
operation.  I'd just leave the screen off and then Add the new material on
top.
>> 
>> Of course, that would be pure realism, which is probably more reflection
than you want.  Use Levels on the reflections to dial them in, but I'd still
stick with Adding in linear space.  You can use the color profile converter
to do this on just the Add operation if you don't want to set your entire
project to linear.
>> 
>> 
>> Brendan
>> 
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