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Review By Jeff McIntosh
Digieffects Camera Mapper
Product Overview
Camera Mapper, a plugin for Adobe After Effects, allows you to simulate a 3D scene from 2D footage. It allows you to isolate one or several objects in your footage, project these objects on a separate layer and pull that layer out of the background, creating the visual illusion of the object floating in front of the original footage.
Camera Mapper was developed in close collaboration with Mark Christiansen, author of "The After Effects Studio Techniques" books, and industry veteran who has worked on several feature films including The Day After Tomorrow, Pirates 3, All About Evil and Avatar.
According to Robert Sharp, President of Digieffects, "Mark has added a tremendous amount of value to the Camera Mapper development cycle. He brings a true 'users' perspective and the end result is an After Effects plugin that is highly valuable and usable."
Robert also states that "camera mapping is a key part of compositing applications such as Nuke, and while you could do this natively in After Effects, it would be only at the expense of some complicated work arounds that cost time and lack important capabilities."
Product Features
- Realistically create the illusion that a still image is fully dimensional moving footage.
- Subtly change the perspective of a shot, or animate it over time.
- Can be combined with 3D tracking to add or alter elements in a scene.
- Now you can step back in time and get another chance to move the camera.
- Allows you to stay in After Effects when working with fully dimensional models,rather than jumping into an expensive and complex 3D application.
Camera Mapper includes:
- 2 tutorials directed by Mark Christiansen
- Video samples created by Matt Silverman of Bonfire Labs
- Works with dozens of useful scripts to help you make shapes and objects at www.nabscripts.com
Product Requirements
- Host Applications :
- Adobe After Effects
- Operating Systems :
- Mac
- Windows
- System Requirements :
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The plugin is compatible with Adobe After Effects 7, CS3 and CS4 and runs on Mac PPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP and Windows Vista operating
systems.
