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flower

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Single-shot. Start looking through the open sliding glass door of a balcony where a young Rieko plays scales on the piano inside. She notices a flower on the balcony and runs over to pick it. As she attempts the place the flower behind her ear, she accidentally bumps it into the side of her head and drops it. Her aghast face pans out of view as the camera follows the flower’s fall several stories down toward the ground.

The music starts with the impact, the flower bouncing a bit and losing a few petals before it settles on the soil. Time speeds into a time-lapse and the flower withers and decays. The summer grass and plants wilt and the season changes to autumn. Snow covers the ground, piling up on the heads of a stone statue of frogs sitting on a log. The snow melts and the plants become vibrant again. With the swell into the chorus, the soil where Rieko’s picked flower decayed pops out a sprout grown from its seed.
The vine snakes up the side of the building while the seasons change several more times. As the music winds down to solo piano, the vine eventually reaches the balcony to bloom into a flower. A current-day version of Kotringo sits at the piano, playing the song’s final notes. Her playing trails off without resolving when she notices a bird land on the balcony and pick the flower. Flapping over to her shoulder, the bird places the flower behind Kotringo’s ear and hops up on top of her head. With a smile, Kotringo lifts her hands and drops them toward the keyboard. Cut to black on the final chord.
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03_04_stem.psd – 3:41:22
04364 first frame of 2.5 PROJECT render

Accidentally started at 4264, so stem comes in on 04383, 119 of PNG sequence.
27:24, 834 song starts After Effects
“The Photoshop Library operation failed because the device has no free space.”

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Unsure of exactly what causes this. Related to

– PSDs with a timeline and bunch of layers

– Too many of such PSDs added to the After Effects project
The error requires force quitting and can happen on PSD import or opening the project. Importing a PSD can work, but upon closing and reopening the project, it can fall and perpetually lock you out of opening.
Fixes:

– Break large PSDs into multiple smaller files, reopen the project, and add the newly created subfiles.

– Delete everything inside the recently added PSDs, reopen the project, and delete the recently added PSDs.

– Multiple After Effects projects each with only a few files
Two-tile background scrolling control

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For some reason, the below background scrolling solution renders out of After Effects with gaps between the tiles, even though the previews in After Effects have no gaps. The gap gets bigger with scroll speed. Rendering with Adobe Media Encoder correctly tiles without gaps.
AME exports PNGs that are more washed out than AE PNG renders. Compensate with contrast adjustment layer in AE on final render.
AME renders all PNG sequences starting at frame 0 instead of using the composition frame number from After Effects.
WALL_CONTROL.tile_height

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thisComp.layer(“tile_1”).height
tile_1

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//max_position is (tile_height * 2) because the scrolling is achieved using instances

//of a vertically seamless image.

//The scroll cycles every scroll_period units of current_scroll.

max_position = thisComp.layer(“WALL_CONTROL”).effect(“tile_height”)(1) * 2;

scroll_period = thisComp.layer(“WALL_CONTROL”).effect(“scroll_period”)(1);
//Prevent division by zero.

scroll_period = (scroll_period <= 0) ? 1 : scroll_period;

//current_scroll is normalized to a range of [0, scroll_period),
//so it needs to be scaled to the range of [0, max_position).
new_y = (thisComp.layer("WALL_CONTROL").effect("current_scroll")(1) / scroll_period) * max_position;
new_y %= max_position;

[transform.position[0], new_y]

tile_2
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//The -1 here fixes a thin gap between the tiles.
tile_height = thisComp.layer("WALL_CONTROL").effect("tile_height")(1) - 1;

//Offset this tile to fill in the area that is not covered by tile_1.
new_y = thisComp.layer("tile_1").transform.position[1];
new_y += (new_y > tile_height) ? – tile_height : tile_height;
[transform.position[0], new_y]
– Export small foley videos

– Draw bottom of pan down face

– Increase saturation a bit on final export.

– Animation gets more and more behind as the song goes on. Drop frame issue? Fix manually.
– Bypass second guitar compressor on guitar instrumental bounce
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「あい」のことを知ったのは

きみが教えてくれたから

あのうたを紡いで

繋げる昨日と今日
このままふたりで恋におちてしまうよ
今ある　このつよさも出会いも

さよならと涙が生んだもの

同じよろこび　ずっとつづくとか思わない
覚えてる? ひとつ前の冬の

はじまりと　交わした言葉たち

いつからか　心の隅で　きらめいて　気づいたの

今はもうすこし一緒にいたいんだ　ああ
このままふたりで明日を迎えてしまうよ
確かなもの　どこにもないのに

小さな約束を重ねてく

抱えきれない気持ちは今すぐ

伝えてしまいたいの　ここで

きみの感じたままを教えて
このまま
きみとただ　ここで抱き合って

重なった　鼓動の音を聞こう

約束は　何もいらないよ

欲しいのは　きみの今
覚えてる? ひとつ前の冬の

はじまりと　交わした言葉は

いつまでも　心をつつむ　だから今　思ってる

ただもうすこし一緒にいたいんだ　ああ
Ai no koto o shitta no wa

Kimi ga oshiete kureta kara

Ano uta o tsumu-i-de

Tsunageru kinou to kyo-u
Kono mama futari de

Ko-i ni ochite shima-u yo
Ima aru kono tsuyosa mo de ai mo

Sayounara to namida ga u-n-da mono

Onaji yorokobi zutto tsuzuku toka

Omowanai
Obo-e teru? Hitotsu ma-e no fuyu no

Hajimari to kawashita kotobatachi

Itsukara ka kokoro no sumi de

Kirame-i-te kizu-i-ta no

Ima wa mou sukoshi issho ni ita-in da a a
Kono mama futari de

Ashita wo mukaete shimau yo
Tashikana mono doko ni mo nainoni

Chi-isana yakusoku wo kasanete ku

Kaka-e kirenai kimochi wa ima sugu

Tsuta-e-te shima-i-ta-i no koko de

Kimi no ka-n-jita mama wo oshi-e-te

Kono mama
Kimi to tada koko de daki-a-(a)-tte

Kasana-(a)-tta kodo-o no oto wo kikou