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| Good point Steve - thanks. 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: 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 >>> >>> >>> +---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> |
