RE:MAP TUTORIALS

Part 4: Planar

AE users, open REMAP_4_Planar.aep. The tutorial projects are made in AE 5.0 for maximum compatibility. These two tools work fine in 8 bit per channels.

For non AE users, there is a screen snapshot (UI snapshot link) for you to view the settings at each stage. Just retyped the same values as shown. The first two examples reference the same smallTestMovie.mov which you will find in the ExampleMoviesAndImages directory. The last tutorial example uses LondonBus.psd, also found in the movies directory.

This complements the documentation which describes in detail each controls. The Documentation PDF file is included in the installer. Below we have apply different settings to the same footage to walk you through all the controls.

| Project: Planar 1 - UI snapshot Things to try: (only in AE and Combustion) * Here we have created 3 key-frames for each of the 4 control points. Now In “Layer Resize” reset “Layer Grow X” and “Layer Grow Y” to 0 and 0. Now move on the timeline and see on some frames it cut outs part of the image. * What’s happening here, well we have a 360x240 layer in a 640x480 comp. In Combustion such is defined by Output size of Comp settings.
| Project: Planar 2 - UI snapshot Note this has only been set on frame 44. This is a bit more difficult to understand, but it is useful. First, turn off the second layer. Now you only see two thin white lines. * In the Effects Control. Turn off the second RE:Map Planar, now the lines are somewhere else. In the “Vector Paint” at the bottom in “Composite Paint” change the menu to “In Original”. * Turn off Vector Paint, and set the “Registration Mode” in RE:Map Planar to “Source”, looks familiar? * If you go off frame in doing so (and need to expand the layer), you might need to precompose to perform the second pass.
| Project: Planar 3 - UI snapshot Here the objective is to replace the “Eleven” by “Twelve” so we can pretend we took a vacation in London this year and not a while ago. First look at this: www.revisionfx.com/rmapgalplanar.htm Planar 3 PreComp: First we put our image LondonBus.psd and in RegistrationMode “Source” we simply set our four points so the sign can be unprojected and worked on in a non-perspective space.. Now switch the Registration mode on RE:Map in Planar 3 Precomp to “Unproject”. Note for seamless integration you are maybe better collecting in this case a small margin over the red painted bus surface. Then to replace the "Eleven" with "Twelve" turn on the Solid layer that has the "Twelve" text and a background that tries to match the background in the original image. Ok leave the “Show Guidelines” checkbox on. Now go to Planar 3 comp: * Turn off and on “London Bus” layer * Press Reset on RE:Map Planar, make sure you are in “Source” mode. * Grab the points and move them so they match the ones overlaid in the precomp. Set “Registration mode” to Project. Now the precomp is over the sign. * Look at the point values in precomp, and this comp, should be about the same. If possible, oftentimes you simply want to connect these two point sets via expressions. * One more thing, go back to precomp, and turn off “Composite On Original” in the text adjustment layer. Normally as much as possible you want to avoid unprojecting and reprojecting the texture data to come back to the original state.