Hello all, so I have an idea and would love someone to tell me if its even possible, and if it is, where should I look for some reading or research.
I would like to take an image or video in after effects, and cut and slice it up with masks etc… and somehow write an AE script that would take those slices and their locations and export a map video layer, that I can then use as the map input on a displace top and move / slices of a video layer in 2d around. The key is that I would like to design the slices and the animation thereof in a design environment vs by hand in Touch.
Is this even correct thinking of how displace works? is this even possible? Am I better off figuring out how to do this with SOPS?
these are some ridiculous examples, but its what I can find now:
vimeo.com/100265333 (slice it up plugin AE)
videohive.net/item/sliced-opener … ?s_rank=20
I also want to add, that unlike those examples, Im interested in a more capable system that is not just slices, I would want to animate complex shapes etc.
So Ive done some tests, and Im thinking this method wont work as well as I had thought because of color depth and resolution… here are some screenshots of a test I did:
I guess its best to stay away from raster based processing for this kind of thing.
Any ideas are welcome.
I think you just need to get a 32bit texture in there rather than 8 bit. Does the animation codec support that?
animation does not… and I cant find a codec that allows for “floating point” color depth in the AE render dialog, except for Quicktime TIFF sequence, but those files read as 8 bit when I put them in a moviefilein TOP.
This may not be a dragon worth chasing either, because even if I do get it working, these map video files are going to be very expensive at 32bit HD
What about an EXR sequence? You could load it into a cache top maybe?
I think what Im discovering is that the only 32bit texture file in possible with touch is an HDR image file
So working with HDR files rendered directly out of photoshop, and going for a basic single color technique the displace works well (even in 8bit video files), however there is always that fringe issue with aliasing.:
We support EXR files also, with 32-bit precision.
