[Aaron Stella]

I am having the same issue. Any progress on figuring this one out?

[Aaron Stella]

I had considered it, but I will be producing dailies, and time is of the essence, so the more power the better.

[Aaron Stella]

Thanks for the info! I feel like it’s very close now, but for some reason the plane isn’t tracking right on the sweep nurbs. It is slightly ahead. Is there any way of adjusting this?

[Aaron Stella]

Did you find a solution to this?

I notice that if I add metadata during log and transfer/capture, it stays with the Quicktime mov file, but if I want to change that data, I can’t. Did you figure this out w/o having to re-ingest?

[Aaron Stella]

I had not noticed the “export” limit box. I had never used it before. It must have gotten reset when I upgraded to Final Cut Studio 3.

Thank you.

~ Aaron

[Aaron Stella]

Thanks for all the opinions guys! I appreciate your opinions.

~ Aaron

[Aaron Stella]

I was just using the tint as an example. It happens with any effect applied to the pre-comp.

I tried turning off openGL and cleaning the cashes, but that did not work.

[Aaron Stella]

I would say AE is the best for anything you want control over everything in. AE is the professional standard in animation and special effects. It can do anything that Flash can do (i.e. Vector-based animation), with the exception of interactivity, but with much more control.

I would say if it is just non-interactive video you are doing, go with After Effects, if you need to have the ability to have your clients interact with the video, then go Flash.

[Aaron Stella]

Thanks for your reply. I know keyframing the y-scale would work, but I want to remain flexible. It would work now, because it’s just a solid color for the 3D bar, but in case my clients want to add graphics or textures to the bars – I don’t want them to be stretched.

Do you have any other ideas?

[Aaron Stella]

I have tried that, but it only works if I don’t move the comp camera. The track matte is only cutting a 2D hole, so it looks weird if I do a camera move.

Here is a copy of my .mov file. I tried moving the anchor point, but it didn’t help with the masking. Right now it is just a positional move up on the y-axis to make the bars grow. They are a 3D pre-comp.

I would like to not have to keyframe scale if possible, as all of my other calculations are done based on y position.