Transparency and color falloff with depth effect?

Videocopilot's 3D Falloff effect isn't compatible beyond CS4. How would I create this effect in CS5 or above?
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_falloff/

It's an easy expression involving distance calculation with length(point A, point B) and then feeding the result into a linear() on whatever property you need it, in this case obviously camera distance tied to a DOF filter or whatever... So in this case it would look like
camPos=thisComp.layeer("Camera").transform.position;
layPos=thisComp.layeer("XYZ").transform.position;
camDist=length(camPos,layPos);
linear(camDist(minDist,maxDist,minBlur,maxBlur)
Just fill in values for the min/max stuff...
Mylenium

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Problem with adjusting both transparency and color of an object

I am writing a program where when an object is picked, both it's transparency and color will be altered (the object will become opaque, and its color will turn to a predefined "selected" color), while the previously selected object will return to its original transparency and color. I am able to get this to work, except that objects that were picked two or more picks ago will remain in the selected color, albeit in their original transparency. This problem only seems to occur when transparency is factored in. The picking/color & transparency altering code is as follows.
public class PickingListener extends MouseAdapter {
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     private TextDisplay overlay;
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     private Primitive lastP;
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          pickCanvas = pickCanvasArg;
          overlay = overlayArg;
     public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
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               System.out.println("Nothing picked");
          } else {
               p = (Primitive) result.getNode(PickResult.PRIMITIVE);
               if (p != null) {
                    setSelectedColor();
                    overlay.setPickedBarInfo((BarInformation) p.getUserData());
               else
                    System.out.println("null");
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          TransparencyAttributes barTransp = new TransparencyAttributes(TransparencyAttributes.NICEST, 0.0f);
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               lastP.getAppearance().setColoringAttributes(origColor);
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          origColor = p.getAppearance().getColoringAttributes();
          origTransparency = p.getAppearance().getTransparencyAttributes();
          p.getAppearance().setColoringAttributes(barCA);
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          lastP = p;
}Capabilities to alter the primitive's color and transparency are all set.
     barAppearance.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_COLORING_ATTRIBUTES_READ);
          barAppearance.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_COLORING_ATTRIBUTES_WRITE);
          barAppearance.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_TRANSPARENCY_ATTRIBUTES_WRITE);          barAppearance.setCapability(Appearance.ALLOW_TRANSPARENCY_ATTRIBUTES_READ);
ColoringAttributes barCA = new ColoringAttributes();
barCA.setCapability(ColoringAttributes.ALLOW_COLOR_WRITE);
barCA.setCapability(ColoringAttributes.ALLOW_COLOR_READ);)
Any insight as to why this would occur would be greatly appreciated.
-Adrian Benton

A Behavior is the preferred way to make changes in a scenegraph. Here is an example from a previous post that changes the appearance of a shape when it collides with another shape.
The javadoc for javax.media.j3d.Behavior appears to refer to the issue you have.
Transparencies are confusing, different display adapters deal with them differently. Suggest you search the forum at
http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=70
for more detailed information.
regards
class CollisionDetector extends Behavior {
private static final Color3f highlightColor = new Color3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
private static final ColoringAttributes highlight = new ColoringAttributes(
      highlightColor, ColoringAttributes.SHADE_GOURAUD);
private boolean inCollision = false;
private Shape3D shape;
private ColoringAttributes shapeColoring;
private Appearance shapeAppearance;
private WakeupOnCollisionEntry wEnter;
private WakeupOnCollisionExit wExit;
public CollisionDetector(Shape3D s) {
    shape = s;
    shapeAppearance = shape.getAppearance();
    shapeColoring = shapeAppearance.getColoringAttributes();
    inCollision = false;
public void initialize() {
    wEnter = new WakeupOnCollisionEntry(shape);
    wExit = new WakeupOnCollisionExit(shape);
    wakeupOn(wEnter);
public void processStimulus(Enumeration criteria) {
    inCollision = !inCollision;
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      shapeAppearance.setColoringAttributes(highlight);
      wakeupOn(wExit);
    } else {
      shapeAppearance.setColoringAttributes(shapeColoring);
      wakeupOn(wEnter);
}

Transparency and color blend space: fail!

Hi there. I keep trying to export my pdf, to no avail.
I get an error that pops up that says there is an error with my transparency and color blend space.
HOWEVER, all my images are set to CMYK (it says so in the links panel) and my transparency blend space is also set to CMYK. I have no errors in my preflight panel. When I ignore the message and continue to export, the image looks completely different and not the way I want it to show up.
Please let me know how I can fix this error! Thanks so much!

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Version update and now "replace with after effects composition" is greyed out.

Hi, I've been working on a project for a while now (using Premiere Pro cc and After Effects cc).
Then CC 2014 came out. I installed those new Versions. To make sure that everything still works I've continued working with cc versions. Now if I want to "Replace with After Effects Composition" (in the premiere pro project opend in Version cc) it doesn't work since it's greyed out.
Can somebody help me?

Ok guys...I got it...
Its not a *mov that it missplaced, its another dynamic link to AE...so dynamic link to dynamic link seems not to work? I accidently linked that clip and worked on it in AE in the old aep from yesterday..but still wondern why AE get confused loading it...the "old aep comp" is full with others comp...could that be the reason...?

Need help with transparency and color quality in the forground

I need to make an image that is comprised of a collage in the back with a clear visible logo on top. I'm not sure if I'll need to change the hue's of the background collage images to create the image or if theres a way to make the image somewhat see through but keep true to the colors of the forground?

I agree with Trevor. I think you are over thinking the issue. Just place a logo in the same document, scale it, adjust its opacity if necessary and your done. As for the background of the logo, that can depend on how it was created. Preferable in photoshop so that you have a transparent background. But if the background happens to be pure white or black, you can use blend modes to remove the background.
But I am getting ahead of my self. Lets see how you do, post your results, if necessary a screen capture of photoshop with the layers panel open.

Problem: Kinect Configuration (verify depth and color stream with kinect connected)

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What is your USB3 Chipset, this sounds like an issue I was having with Texas Instruments USB3 Host controller. You may need to purchase a PCIx expansion card: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bb379e8b-4258-40d6-92e4-56dd95d7b0bb/confirmed-list-of-usb-30-pcie-cardslaptopsconfigurations-which-work-for-kinect-v2-during?forum=kinectv2sdk
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I'm working on a desktop AIR project using the 2.5 SDK (ADT) to create an application that combines html and flash content. My application is using systemChrome none and transparent true. I have an swf element in my html file that I have set to wmode transparent. Instead of the swf rendering with a transparent background and showing the desktop like the html content does, I'm seeing a black box that fills the area where the Flash element is embedded.
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I had mentioned earlier that this didn't work, but actually it did work I was just having an error. In my flash file I had a reference error because I was referencing stage.stageWidth in actionscript. This produces a typeError in the AIR runtime when I add this to the root display list. I was able to finally see this error by add the -nodebug command to my adl testing script (adl app.xml -nodebug). For whatever reason my AIR 2.5 adl would not produce air.trace calls to the cmd console without that -nodebug command, which is extremely ironic. So adding in the -nodebug command actually gave me my debug traces! Welcome to the world we live in folks... I also found out that my traces in the swf also trace out to the console when you add this command in there.
In addition, the reason I was not able to get the Loader class to work from javascript was because I was not using the correct addEventListener call. If you are familiar with Actionscript 3.0 (which luckily I am) you will recall that you have to add the event listener to the "contentLoaderInfo" object of the Loader variable you instanciate.
Here's a snippet of how I was able to do this as well as another link that is buried in the documentation that's useful:
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loader = new air.Loader();
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loader.load( new air.URLRequest(file.url) );
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This is a very useful article on creating nativeWindows and other things, such as creating Flash based display objects and adding them to the stage:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/html/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7e0a.html
Woohoo!

FileFormat: Reading transparency and color data separatley

I have a problem reading data via my file format plugin.
I can read the different layers in the format in Lab color mode (8-Bit).
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Currently I tried 2 approaches:
1.
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-> advanceState gives error (-30500)
2.
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-> advanceState ok but image ks not correct in PS
I think there must be another, better way to apply this transparency mask.
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Problem solved.
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Premiere CS5 and dynamic link with Affect effects doesn't "sync"

Hi guys, having issues with Pr and Ae CS5 using the dynamic link. I haven't got massive experience using aftereffects, i mainly edit. I doing VFX for a short film ( i know right, deep end..) Its a hand held combat scene.
I'm using action essentials 2 for muzzle flash and explosions. And i'm noticing that when a do tracking (manually, "track motion" doesn't work, due to the shaky camera movement) in After effects, the muzzle flashes are in place and looks great
but when i go back to Premiere to view the clip, its not hitting the same marks in every frame. I export the clip out of Premiere and still the same issue.
example of me manually tracking or adding keyframes for position in after effects.
After effects still. Premiere still. See how the flashes are in the sky.
Look for the two muzzle flashes up the top right, on the ridge line.
The footage is AVCHD .MTS files for a Panasonic GH2 PAL
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http://vimeo.com/32722285
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My computer specs
Cheers Aaron

Glitchdog wrote:
We are just shifing to PP from another editor and have only used PP to AE for color correction tests w/Color Finesse (a plugin in AE). My only experinece with dynamic link is in this way. Personally I find it very cumbersome. So take this with a grain of salt, but if we do other work in AE (we have an intern working on a 1.5 min AE animation) I will render it out in AE to ProRes HQ or 4444 if I need an alpha channel (or similar codec) and drag it into my project folder in PP.
You should do yourself a favor (Not meant with disrespect) and take a few hours and REALLY get down and dirty with Dynamic Link between PP and AE.
I use it all the time and it litterally saves me 10+ hours of work on EACH project which is typical between 70 and 300 clips.
In fact, I dont know how I'd do withouth DL.
At first it seems cumbersome, yes. But that is only until you get to know it...
I will cut the whole project in PP. Then save it.
Then in AE, I'll choose "Import PP Project " --- That will open my whole PP project in AE on SEPERATE layers (One layer per Clip).. Ready to CC.
I dont have to render a thing from PP.
If I need to, I'll use the AE Script "Pre Compose" to make an individual composition of each layer.
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W520 FHD LED TFT 95% Gamut Display and Color Sensor with Pantone Calibration - Review

Last week I have received my (first) new Lenovo W520 Thinkpad, which I decided to buy after lots of research on the internet. I am excited about its computing power and feature richness. Its biggest flaw though is the 1920x1080 LED TFT FHD display, which offers the worst color calibration I have seen in a high-end laptop in the last 10 years.
Its color rendering is highly disappointing as it shows unnatural, oversaturated colors that make the monitor useless for professional photo and video editing purposes. Primary tones glare neon-like in a highly disturbing manner. A red stop sign appears pink and flags in the google image search are displayed in a ridiculous way.
I have tried the following approaches to improve the color rendering.
The built-in color sensor in conjunction with the Pantone calibration software lead to the worst outcome. The white background of Windows Explorer becomes yellowish-greenish.
A better outcome canbe achieved using Windows 7 color management for display calibration, which doesn't avoid the neon colors, but at least white is rendered white.
Using the Nvidia graphic card tools and setting back gamma to 0.76 also helps to a very little degree.
Another solution is a free gamma correction tool called QuickMonitorProfile. This brings back the reds to normal tones with the side effect, that all mid-tones are rendered very pale.
I didn't have a possibility to try high-class external calibration hardware. For me the only solution remains to use a decent external monitor.
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http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/How-do-I-lower-the-saturation-on-my-W520-the-r...
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W510-W520-FHD-color-profile-supplied-by-Lenovo...
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Very-happy-with-my-W520/m-p/508841#M18189
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Color sensor is bad joke, it's totally useless. Display gives better results without calibration than calibration with color sensor.
I tested calibration with best possible tools, using Eye One with i1Profiler and results are much better but still it's no way near acceptable for serious photography work. Delta variation is 15-20% (meaning colors are 15-20% off from the correct one, compared to Eizo Coloredge monitors where delta variation is around 2%).
Color sensor is just marketing gimmic for Lenovo. As I have stated on another post, Lenovo needs to get on grip on various BIG problems with their top of the Thinkpad laptops.

Render problems and fed up with after effects

Hi all,
I'm I the middle of trying to do a very simple pan and scan corporate video, the crux being its in stereoscopic 3D. First I've tried using cineform plug ins and have had numerous problems and basically don't think highly of their product. Since after effects has plug ins for stereoscopic I've moved to try and use them. All seems to be going alright for most of the footage. But I'm have some issues with a very import pant part of one video.
My set up
Mac 2x2.4 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
12GB of ram
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ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB
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630GB free on 1TB boot drive
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Layer 1- animation with alpha clip. Opacity is keyframed to do a 'dissolve' at the beginning and end of the clip. TC in 53:11, out 1:05:01
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Layer 3- animation with alpha clip. Opactiy keyframed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp. TC in 1:25:09, out 1:45:10.
Layer 4- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 1:03:2,' out 1:16:10.
Layer 5- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 31:12, out 48:11.
Layer 6- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 6:06, out 21:14.
Layer 7- animation codec clip. 1:46:00 duration.
Now when I attempt to render this out to a ProRes 422 file so that I can join it up with the other footage in Primeire Pro, I basically sit around for 2 hours and then I get a nice little dialog box stating "an output module failed. The file may be damaged or corrupted. (-1610153464).
This is maddening to say the least.
Other issues
After Effects basically is Pathetically slow in rendering out a ProRes or Animation or any type of mov file. A simple 30sec clip takes 1 hour 47 minutes. All the clip contains is a tiff left eye and right eye and the 3D glasses plug in. That's it. I know my system isn't the biggest out there (I bought what I could afford). But these render times are ludicrous. If I turn of the multiprocessing it doesn't help. I have the openGL turned on. That doesn't seems to do anything. I have it set up to use 10Gb of ram, yet the system says I'm only using 37% of my ram, none of my processors and I have no idea about the graphics card. Am I totally missing something about how after effects actually does rendering? I'm from the old school of Jaleo and Shake and Nuke. However I set out on my own as a freelancer and I can't really afford Nuke (besides I don't like that it doesn't have a timeline). So I purchased Adobe production premium thinking it can do the job I want, however it seems to act like a spoilt brat software. Yes im ranting had really having thoughts of buyers remorse.
If anyone out there has any advice or thoughts on how to get this to work I'd be more than grateful to hear from you.
Cheers
James

That doesn't seems to do anything. I have it set up to use 10Gb of ram, yet the system says I'm only using 37% of my ram,
AE only takes what it needs, as do any programs with dynamically managed memory. It's not cramming everything into RAM when it doesn't have to.
none of my processors
Secondary processors/ cores will only be used, if you enable the sad excuse that is the "Render multiple Frames simultanuously" feature. As Todd suggested, read that article on "optimum" settings. Just keep in mind that what works well for one project may not work at all for the next one when the balance of footage I/O vs. pixel processing vs. memory consumption changes. You're gonna learn to really hate this...
I have no idea about the graphics card
AE doesn't use it for the most part. Even if you enable all of the hardware acceleration features, AE may turn them off behind your back, one such condition being the use of MP rendering. Can't have both. Conversely, MP rendering might be turned off just the same, if specific effects or features are used. That's also expleianed in teh help. Your only chance of halfway benefiting from hardware acceleration is buying some third-party plug-ins that have their own implementations of OpenGL and CUDA. Still, since you use two different cards i nyour system, that may also be problematic...
Mylenium

PDF Background Transparency and Color

I have several PDF pages that are vector black line-drawings that have been placed into a document as a gallery, which works great.
However, when you click on the PDF to view it in isolation, the background turns black and the drawing is hardly visable.
I am able to convert the PDF's to a raster format, but would like to know if there is a way to change the background color when viewing an image in isolation.
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Color correction in after effects

I was wondering how you put a color correction pack into after effects once you download it. all help is appreciated.

> Color Finesse may not be in the AE tryout version.
There is no difference between the trial version and the non-trial version. See this page for details:
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/04/improved-trial-version-for-after-effects-cs5-5 .html
See this page for information about color grading with After Effects:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WSB48B246A-E34D-4d3f-A0A4-B932FD3F12E6a. html#WSB1713828-3801-4025-B9E6-E87E487AD828a
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'replace with after effects composition'

hey guys, so when editing this one video in pr, I decided to color correct a couple clips in AE so I just right clicked them and chose replace with after effects composition, so it would nicely replace in the pr timeline with the corrected footage.
except when I finished the third one I looked back and realized the first two clips were replaced with the thrird clip! so that clip appeared 3 times in my video! I was trying to import the ae comps separately and everything but it kept thinking that they were the same clip, the ae projects were all named clip 1, clip 2 and clip 3, I could open them up in ae and they were fine, just not when bringing them to ae.
why is this? thats not supposed to be right? I should be able to 'replace with after effects comp' for multiple clips if I want right?

Grant, I did figure it out (and felt rather silly when I did). You have to select all your files from the Project portion of AE and drag them into the Render segment - bottom left corner of your AfterEffects screen - in order for them to play. I guess I should have come back to the forum and reported once I got it working, so everyone would know that there's nothing wrong with Adobe. Once you do that, there are all sorts of super-cool things you can do with a slide show for video presentation. I did decide to put it into Windows Media Play and convert to MPEG before uploading to the internet, however, because it reduced the size to roughly 15% of AVI. I preserved AVI for DVD because of quality, which is far better.
There's an awesome video tutorial - thank you, Andrew Kramer!! - on creating slideshows at: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/slideshows/video-tutorial.php - now that you (hopefully) know what you're doing wrong in AE.
Pam

"replace with after effect comp" problem

I started my project in Prelude where I mad subclips. I then imported those subclips to premiere to edit my story. Some of those subclips I would like to key or do other effects with in after effects, but I when I click on those clips and choose replace with after effects composition the clip that is opened in after effects does not have the same in and out points as the one in the premiere timeline. it is from the same clip and is the same duration but it just always starts at the beginning of the master clip. Is there something I am doing wrong or is there a better way to go about this?

Sorry, but something is definitely wrong with your workflow but not with the above.
When you select a clip or a group of clips in PrPro timeline and then choose 'Replace With After Effects Composition', AE creates and automatically opens a brand new composition, in which number of layers and their In and Out points correspond to a number of clips replaced with AE composition and their In and Out points in the PrPro Timeline accordingly (i.e. layers in that AE composition are appropriately trimmed and distributed in time).
See another one image, if you didn't notice that in the previous one the layer was trimmed:
So, the question is, what do you do to achieve what you see in AE, since you shouldn't do any extra steps to get correct result, 'cos AE opens that newly created composition automatically? Do you jump back to AE Project pan in an attempt to create a composition out of imported assets once again?

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