help, need to create a disco fever and miami theme

[Brian Berneker]

those digital juice clips are great. Are they already pre-done, or do they give you the dancers separately? You can do TONS with that if they do… Also, the disco ball would be a great element to use.

I like your quick one-off of the logo treatment. Could be tweaked a bit, perhaps with some decorative embellishments and maybe some stripes or wavy lines etc. Maybe play with the timing/position/movement of the starglows… but still a nice job for a quick start. Also, maybe have the logo move as well as the camera… something like they do here?

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/larsen_carl/cube_world2.php

I both love and hate the font though. It looks really cool, but some of the letters are hard to make out. I’d look for something still cool but easier to read. People aren’t going to try too hard to read it if they can’t make it out easily with only a glance.

What are you using for the background? Do you still want to do a Miami street exterior, or just go abstract on black per the digital juice samples? Maybe you could play with a pano and do the cube world trick? If you get your dancers seperately, try doing some pre-comps and “discoing up” some of the characters… (i.e. hard hat and vest, feathers – village people cliche but it works – maybe some bell bottoms and a fro here and there)

[Marlon Diaz]

Brian i love the cubic world tutorial. it be nice if you are able to convert or stretch a standard photo to a panoramic size. I guess using a Miami pano pic will do the trick to introduce the artist and then cut to some digital juice elements, DJ sells the dancers and other elements separately on a kit called “juice drops”. The DJ products I have also provides some swipes which i can use in-between the cuts so it wont be to straight forward, I’ll definitely play with it in 3d with some camera/null moves.

How would I go about adding a drop zone in AE CS3 using the cubic world tutorial? so when the actual animation is about to come to a stop a drop zone right above, or to the side of the text pops up or flys in to display a image of the artist.

its about a total of 5 artist(Musique, GQ, Lime, Tavares, and France Joli) that I need to introduce. Maybe in one cubic world I could introduce two artist.

Thank you Brian you have gave me ideas to work with, I really appreciate your help.

Miami, FL

[Brian Berneker]

I’m not 100% sure I know what you mean by “drop zones” but if you mean places where the text can hide until it’s time to appear, it’s really just a matter of keyframes and positioning.

If you need to hide some of the titles in positions that will be inconvenient during the display of another title, you can simply move the start and end handles on the timeline so that the objects don’t exist until their cue is ready.

Here’s a nice tutorial with some fancy schmancy camera techniques that does more or less the same thing with text. You can skip past the cool texture object if you want but it’s also pretty interesting too..

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/advanced_camera_tips/

Andrew Kramer is Da Man!

By the way, since this is for a DVD, you can easily incorporate it into your DVD menus if you plan it out properly. I did a really cool 2.5D menu for someone with objects flying in and out of screen depending on what item they clicked… I’ll see if I can’t post it for you..

Brian

P.S. Really looking forward to seeing this when its done…

[Marlon Diaz]

i know what u mean by drop zones. what im referring to and you can see them in DVDSP or in Apple Motion. Here is a link it might help understand: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/advanced_drop_zones.html

but basically i would want to introduce the artist with a text and photo (the photo being inside a drop zone).

let me know if u are able to post the menu.

Miami, FL

[Brian Berneker]

I was wondering if that was what you meant. I don’t think AE has drop zones the way Final Cut Studio does, but if all the clips you want to replace are the same size, then you can always do it like this:

Position the “drop zone” item, perhaps even label the item “DROP ZONE 1,” “DROP ZONE 2” etc. in the project tab.
Then, do your render for the first one.
Right click on the clip in the project tab and choose “replace footage > file” and pick the second item. It will replace the other one and stay in place.
Lather, rinse, repeat until done.

The other way, would be to simply have the replacement clip ready in the project tab, hold dowb option (alt in Windows) and drop the clip onto the “drop zone” one. It will replace the clip, while retaining position and effects etc.

Hope I explained this well enough…

Brian

[Brian Berneker]

Here’s the DVD menu I was talking about… nothing too fancy, but you get the idea. I just cut it into the appropriate pieces and used them as transition clips in DVD Studio Pro.

https://vimeo.com/2303329

Brian

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