Re: Time Stretching and Precomps

[Ryan Hill] "Suppose I had a stop-motion sequence I wanted to composite into some video footage, and I spent a bunch of time masking out the feet for a clean key before realizing I had let it interpret the stop-motion as 30fps when the video is 24fps?"

Start over. No fooling. We all make Homer Simpson-style "Doh!" mistakes, and the more painful they are, the less freauently we make them.



[Ryan Hill] "Suppose I had a Super 8 transfer that was pretty shaky, so I stabilized it based on the sprocket hole, only to realize one piece of footage in the middle had been spliced in backwards, so it's upside-down and time-reversed?"

Render the footage losslessly. Import into AE. Put into a comp. Find the first fame of bad footage and use the Split Layer function. Find the first frame of good footage after it and split the layer. You now have the bad footage isolated. Time Stretch or Time Remap it to run backwards, and turn it upside down any number of ways. The bad video now runs properly.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA