I forgot to check the "ground reflections" check box before I rendered my turn table animation. So I thought I had come up with a clever work around. My solution was to use "region rendering". This time I checked the reflections box and I drew a box mostly around just my reflections. This way I could re-render the reflection and then composite these renders back on top of my previous renders in After Effects. I wanted to keep my background separate from my renders for added control so I selected to 32 bit tiff as my output. To my dismay the renders did not include the reflection. Kinda lame. :'(
Zander -
You may want to try using your original render (no reflections) and create the floor reflections in After Effects.
See these video tutorials for three different techniques:
http://vimeo.com/6834286
The Red Giant Warp plug-in technique is described in the 2nd half of this tutorial:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/01_RG_Reflection/video-tutorial
There is a free After Effects reflection plug-in that I use and it works very well.
Tutorial:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/reflection_plug-in/
Download:
http://www.videocopilot.net/presets/reflection_plug-in/
These techniques add some steps, but unlike the KeyShot floor reflections, you have control over the strength of the reflections (opacity), gamma, brightness, fall-off, blur and more.
So in the end, you may get a better match with your background and overall better result.
Ed
You are the man Ed!!!!!! ;D
Thank you!