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I posted these three questions over at the Area as well...
I'm creating a 3 min. product video that will be played back on a flat panel at a trade show. I don't know if it will be powered by a laptop or blueray at this point. Also, it will be on YouTube most likely.
1) 1080p, 30 fps is always preferred of course, but in looking for ways to speed up the process, would the old stop motion trick of producing 15 fps on two's be acceptable? (each 15 fps is doubled to make 30 fps). Also, would 720p be sufficient for the flat-panel output?
2) Most all of my still renders have a extra pass in them such as Ambient Occlusion which in post, is set to Multiply and about 25% opacity. What is the preferred way to handle extra passes? I plan to put the sequences together in AE. So maybe my options are:
a) Use psd-manager to output single .psd frames where I could then set up a PS action to modify the AO layer in each frame and then save back out as a flattened tif. I would then import them into AE as a sequence.
b) Output all render passes to individual exr files. I'm unsure how to manage that volume of separate files for each Render Element or if there's any advantage to do it that way?
Lastly,
3) How is depth of field handled? Is it best done in camera, or better to do it as a VrayZDepth pass and somehow get that into AE?
As you can tell, I'm new to the animation stuff and would deeply appreciate any pointers or best practices or resources.
Thanks!
I'm creating a 3 min. product video that will be played back on a flat panel at a trade show. I don't know if it will be powered by a laptop or blueray at this point. Also, it will be on YouTube most likely.
1) 1080p, 30 fps is always preferred of course, but in looking for ways to speed up the process, would the old stop motion trick of producing 15 fps on two's be acceptable? (each 15 fps is doubled to make 30 fps). Also, would 720p be sufficient for the flat-panel output?
2) Most all of my still renders have a extra pass in them such as Ambient Occlusion which in post, is set to Multiply and about 25% opacity. What is the preferred way to handle extra passes? I plan to put the sequences together in AE. So maybe my options are:
a) Use psd-manager to output single .psd frames where I could then set up a PS action to modify the AO layer in each frame and then save back out as a flattened tif. I would then import them into AE as a sequence.
b) Output all render passes to individual exr files. I'm unsure how to manage that volume of separate files for each Render Element or if there's any advantage to do it that way?
Lastly,
3) How is depth of field handled? Is it best done in camera, or better to do it as a VrayZDepth pass and somehow get that into AE?
As you can tell, I'm new to the animation stuff and would deeply appreciate any pointers or best practices or resources.
Thanks!
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