compositing Software

[Macpod]

Hi all

 

I was wondering if either combustion or after effects have the ability to composite video and motion graphics into a walk through imported from 3dmax or acad2008.

 

I want to animate walls and objects with video or graphics and be able to see it during the walk through. Ideally the perspective would change according to the distance, ie, the video on the wall would get bigger as i walk towards it but would be playing the whole time.

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

 

Yihang

[Nils Norgren]

This can be done in either package, although the pipeline from Max to Combustion is much stronger. I am not a combustion user but I know that it is possible to do it 2 ways in combustion. First you would animate in max and put planes in where you wanted content in combustion, you then render a UV pass to bring in, and use that as mapping coordinates in the 2d space in combustion, (this I have seen demo'd but have never done this process). You should also be able to export the 3d camera information directly to a 3d camera in Combustion, and make your layers 3d and move them into place and have them move appropriately.

 

We here at neoscape are more of an AE and Shake place, we have written our own exporter for camera data and point cloud information into AE from Max. Before we used a tool called Max2AE that worked well for that exact purpose. You can get the 3d camera and some context nodes into AE and then make layers 3d and rotate and move them into place so that they match the moving background. There is also the RPF method, you render to RPF files with Coverage and Zdepth embedded, bring the sequence into AE and do "RPF Camera" process in AE (can't remember where to get at this). This in my opinion is the most difficult because it can be very difficult to move and position objects with an RPF camera as you have no context points to guide you where things are.

 

Hope this helps

 

-Nils Norgren

[Macpod]

Great information. thanks. I suppose it would be difficult to export max into AE without the plugin then.

 

If thats the case i might have to stick with combustion.