Compositing Tutorials please

[synist]

hi everyone.
could any of you point me in the direction of some good compositing tutorials.

i would like to learn how to set up and render out different passes for compositing and controlling with photoshop and after effects.

many thanks in anticipation.

[munky]

Go here http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12339

there is a link that you will find useful also if you are going to do any image sequences make sure you have after fx 6 as it is the only version to import .psd files as image sequences. Also buy "digital lighting and rendering" by Jeremy Birn published by new riders ISBN 1-56205-954-8 you won't regret it and it has a whole chapter on compositing also if I can find it I'll edit in a link to 3dworld mags bill flemming compositing tutorial


hope this helps

regards

paul

http://www.3dworldmag.com/application/compositing/

there we are

[synist]

thanks for the links, i found them very useful.
the quicktime movie called 'Multipass Rendering Using the .PSD Format' did the trick.
here is the link for others.
http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/videos/dfx-fusion.html

it is essential to know about switching the diffuse layer with the raw layer and then changing its mode from screen to multiply.

[synist]

although i know how to set up the export to photoshop layers, i can't get it to work.

i keep getting an error message at the end of the render (some 12+ hours) that there is not enough memory for image filters. this is very annoying, i have 1.12GB of ram.

is there any way of speeding things up by rendering each pass seperately.

[munky]

It should work fine. Perhaps you should try just a few frames and a simple scene to get the swing of it.
You should also try nanogators sliders method
http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12007

regards

paul

[hunter]

Look in the image processing for Buffer export. You can add as many as needed and it will render a sequence for each.