Aharon Rabinowitz
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Try the vegas effect (Effect > Generate > Vegas) instead of the stroke effect. That allows you to control the opacity at the start and end.
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To not lose any quality, you need to convert them to uncompressed video, or to format using a lossless compression codec.
Some examples of lossless compression are:
– Quicktime with Animation Compression
– Windows AVI with HuffYUV codec
– Windows AVI with Camtasia’s video capture codecThere are a lot more – and they each serve a different purpose, and do better compression in different scenarios.
You will need lots of drive space, so expect that.
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If you click on my head at the top of the forum, you’ll find a lot of tutorials – 3 of them are devoted to displacement maps, and 3 are devoted to fractal noise. That should give you the knowledge needed to do this effect.
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You can make a layer follow it’s path by selecting it and choosing Layer > Transform > Auto Orient > Orient towards path.
Sometimes what you and AE consider the front of a layer are 2 very different things. so…
Play with the layer’s transform rotation (or orientation if it’s 3D) to rotate it so the front matches up with the path.
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there is a Win64 version, but it is special order:
contact: support(AT)wondertouch(DOT)com
Have not heard anything about linux.
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Have you considered taking a continuing education class? You know, not part of a program, but just a class here and there. It might be an option to consider. Check with your local art/animation schools to see what they offer for non-credit classes.
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Hey man, we all deserve a freebie now and then. I certainly need them all the time 😉
I appreciate you response, and I hope I didn’t offend you.
And you are right as far as things go with the typing and the spelling and what not. No matter how good you are at anything – ANYTHING – if you can’t present yourself in a professional manner, you are very unlikely to succeed.
Punctuation, using capital letters at the beginning of sentences, not using TXT speak – all very important. Especially given that what many of us do is work with text.
So the fact is, what you had to say was good advice, and if I made light of that, please forgive me. It’s very true.
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“Perhaps learning punctuation might be a good first step towards some sort of professionalism.”
A looooong time ago, long before I was in animation, in fact, when I was still in college… someone put me in touch with a TV Producer via email. I wrote to him to ask for advice about getting into TV, and he responded:
“Learn to spell.”
I must have spelled something wrong, and I realize that it was unprofessional, but to this day, it’s stayed with me. Looking back at it today I realize 2 things:
1) I should have been more careful in writing the email.
2) The guy was a complete a-hole. Nothing good would ever have come from my dealing with him. He didn;t want to help me, he just needed a good excuse not to.Whenever I meet anyone like that, I don’t work with them. You can pay me twice my rate – still won’t happen.
WowfactorX – you’re first line was funny. I laughed. Hard.
The second line was just rude, and in my opinion (FWIW) unprofessional. People come to this forum for help, and they’re not always good communicators. You have the right to say what you want, but comments like that reflect on you a lot more than any spelling or grammatical error.
Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re a knowledgeable person, and a great contributor to this forum – and often hilarious to boot – I don’t mean to offend, but I thought I’d put some things in perspective.
Aharon Rabinowitz
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I just taught this to my class 2 weeks ago.
Masks are not considered part of the footage, so when you add an effect to the footage, the mask doesn’t get the effect – meaning that the mask will continue to move at the comps current frame rate.
One solution (that doesn’t use posterize time) is to pre-comp the video with it’s mask, and then set the frame rate for the comp – set it to whatever your poterized frame rate was.. Then go into the comp settings under advanced, and turn on Preserve frame rate when nested in comp. This keeps the nested comp from adopting the main comps frame rate. This should work.
This technique is also very useful if you have different frame rates – maybe you drop a 24 FPS video that you need to mask into a 30 FPS comp, the mask will continue to move even on repeated frames.
Aharon Rabinowitz
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is your compressor changing the pixel aspect ratio? If so, that can really mess things up. If you are working at a non-square PAR, check your compression settings – often they default to square pixel resolutions such as 640×480 instead of 720×486.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
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Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web