cs4

[Chris Wright]

prayers pre-answered, time-machined and free.

https://compression.ru/video/cartoonizer/index_en.html

[Chris Ruckert]

moccha and the PS 3D layer import is pretty nice.

[Brendan Coots]

I love it when software companies bundle useful third party effects/applications as value-added freebies. When Apple added Color to Final Cut Studio for free, that saved a lot of people $25,000. While Mocha is only $150 or so, that’s still a nice little addition, just like Keylight was.

Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com

[Martti Ekstrand]

I don’t need no fancy texture mapping, reflections or shiny bevels – just a ‘Extrude Text’ radio button, a Z dimension slider and front and side colour settings in the text layer paired either with a simple built-in side shadow and/or affected by layer lights. Just to give texts a bit of dimension. How hard can it be? Seriously.

The axis break-up of position keyframes is a very welcome function. Gonna remove my current crazy null layer set-ups.

[Will Salley]

I wonder if it’s a sluggish as CS3?

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Mac Pro 2×3.2 Quadcore – 10.5.4 – QT 7.5 – 6MBram – nvidia8800GT – SATA internal & external storage – Blackmagic Multibridge Pro (v6.7)- Open GL 1.5.6 – Wacom Intous2 tablet

[Chris Ruckert]

moccha is a nice addition.
Impressive tracking, I had them demo it on footage I provided (tough track) at NAB.
Nice people also.

[Matthew Woods]

It sounds like you might be able to do this in Photoshop, save as a 3d layer then bring into After Effects. When talking about its 3d functions, Photoshop CS4 claims to be able to “add depth” to layers and text. I assume/hope that means an extrude function but haven’t seen a demo of it.

[Christina Crawley]

I’ve been doing Extruded text thanks to this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yimdi6QOSAc

I apply Shatter on everything to make it 3D – really does add a nice touch.

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[Martti Ekstrand]

I know and have utilized all the tricks around to do text extrusion in AE but all are pretty cumbersome when dealing with lots of texts, hence my frustration …

Actually way back when Boris had a simple text extrusion tool in the Continuum plug-in set which was very handy when dealing with many text layers that sit-in clients want to re-write in an instant. Unfortunately it doesn’t work in OSX or I’d be still using it.