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From: "Stephen van Vuuren" <stephen@sv2studios.com>
To: "'Steve Oakley'" <steveo@practicali.com>,
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Subject: RE: [AE] Tracking point suggestions for CRTs
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:10:25 -0400
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Good point Steve - thanks.

stephen van vuuren
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Oakley [mailto:steveo@practicali.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 7:35 PM
To: After Effects Mail List; stephen@sv2studios.com
Subject: Re: [AE] Tracking point suggestions for CRTs

you can rig the power lights on ... LED + 9V battery + about a 550ohm
resistor if I recall :)

S

On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> 
> stephen van vuuren
> 336.202.4777
> 
> http://www.insaturnsrings.com/
> http://www.sv2dcp.com/
> http://www.sv2studios.com/
> 
> A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It 
> should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's 
> behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
> -Stanley Kubrick
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Meyer
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 7:15 PM
> To: After Effects Mail List
> 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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