Red Giant Plane Space Quick Start

www.redgiantsoftware.com Quickstart for PlaneSpace Get quickly started with an easy introduction to 5 of the 16 tools in this powerful keyframing package. Cubic Distribution quickstart Box Creator quickstart Cubic Distribution quickstart Cylinder Creator quickstart Cylinder Distribution quickstart Formerly the 3D Assistants from Digital Anarchy. Red Giant PlaneSpace : Quickstart guide Step-by-Step with Asssistants This Quickstart covers five of the ten ‘Pro’ 3D Assistants. Since all of the tools operate in a similar way, going through these five mini-tutorials should give you a good understanding of how all of the 3D Assistants work. Turn on Advanced 3D render Is the “Advanced 3D” error the only one you are running into? Hit Ctrl+K when in your project to bring up your composition settings. When there, click on the Advanced tab and make sure that the Rendering Plug-In is set to “Advanced 3D.” With this error you are running into, it is probably set to the wrong rendering plug-in. Use a square pixel comp In non-square pixel comps, 3D layers donʼt line up correctly due to the adjustment for the aspect ratio. In ALL the example below, use a square pixel composition. You can then drop the square pixel comp into a non-square pixel comp and the edges of your cube, cylinder, or whatever will remain aligned. Activate the Assistants The 3D Assistants are keyframing tools, not plugins. Therefore, you will find them listed in After Effectʼs ʻWindowʼ menu, not under the ʻEffectsʼ menu. The first time you use an Assistant, the tool may appear to be ʻgrayed outʼ, or not selectable in the Window menu. To activate the 3D Assistants, you will need to do these simple steps. (1) Select the layers in your Timeline. (2) Turn on the 3D switch for those layers. (3) Go to your Window menu to select the 3D Assistant. Table of Contents Matrix Creator Quickstart 3 Cubic Distribution Quickstart 6 Cylinder Distribution Quickstart 9 Box Creator Quickstart 12 Cylinder Creator Quickstart 15 2 © 2008, Red Giant Software | Red Giant PlaneSpace : Arrange & Animate 3D Layers. Red Giant PlaneSpace : Quickstart guide Matrix Creator Quickstart This tutorial explains how to create a 4 x 4 video wall using the Matrix Creator Assistant. For this project, you will want to open the Matrix_Creator_QS.aep. step 01 Create four 320x240 solid layers with different colors Select the ʻ3Dʼ switch for each of them in the Timeline. [ figure 1 ] step 02 [ figure 2 ] Create a new Camera (Layer>New>Camera). From the Tool Palette, select the Orbit Came…