[Andrew Kramer]

Thank you thank you,
I received a couple of emails about, animating paths with this effects and yeah, just attach the light to a 3d null object or just animate the path, if you want to make it write something or wrap around something, just create a mask in the shape of text and copy the mask shape parameter and paste it the the light’s position. Then set the particles to emit longer. Also when going from one letter to another letter turn the particles per second to zero, and have a one frame change from say 2000 to 0 and then 0 to 2000 this will shut the emitting off whil the light gets into position to write the next charachter.

I mentioned this briefly in the originally recorded tutorial but I cut it out to keep it short (somewhat) I also had to cut out some pretty funny jokes too.
I took the easy way like as Mylenium pointed out and used an expression to make motion rather that linkin the light to tracking data from live action sources. But You can just as easily link and object in 3d space to the lights position, like perhaps a bottle of coke and someone nice enough can explain how to set an expression so the coke bottle “faces” the camera on it’s travels.

The bottom line is because it’s emitting from the light, you can do anything you want with animating the position and linking it to paths or nulls for doing graphics etc.

Thanks,
Andrew Kramer

[Andrew Kramer]

Thank you thank you,
I received a couple of emails about, animating paths with this effects and yeah, just attach the light to a 3d null object or just animate the path, if you want to make it write something or wrap around something, just create a mask in the shape of text and copy the mask shape parameter and paste it the the light’s position. Then set the particles to emit longer. Also when going from one letter to another letter turn the particles per second to zero, and have a one frame change from say 2000 to 0 and then 0 to 2000 this will shut the emitting off whil the light gets into position to write the next charachter.

I mentioned this briefly in the originally recorded tutorial but I cut it out to keep it short (somewhat) I also had to cut out some pretty funny jokes too.
I took the easy way like as Mylenium pointed out and used an expression to make motion rather that linkin the light to tracking data from live action sources. But You can just as easily link and object in 3d space to the lights position, like perhaps a bottle of coke and someone nice enough can explain how to set an expression so the coke bottle “faces” the camera on it’s travels.

The bottom line is because it’s emitting from the light, you can do anything you want with animating the position and linking it to paths or nulls for doing graphics etc.

Thanks,
Andrew Kramer

[Andrew Kramer]

Use a track mask. Take the video you want to “show through” and place it just beneath the radio waves, and then in the switches for track mask set to “alpha matte”, assuming the radio waves render onto transparent. Other wise make the radio waves white on a black layer and set the track matte to “luma Matte”

Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

Thanks guys, Yeah true Mylenium… Anytime you’re doing random artistic stuff, it’s really hard to have a definite sequence of steps because everything changes. It’s all about tweaking this and moving that, til you can get it just right. It’s kinda like having a client sitting over your shoulder while trying to design a logo or something, it’s hard to be inspired.

Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

Thanks guys, Yeah true Mylenium… Anytime you’re doing random artistic stuff, it’s really hard to have a definite sequence of steps because everything changes. It’s all about tweaking this and moving that, til you can get it just right. It’s kinda like having a client sitting over your shoulder while trying to design a logo or something, it’s hard to be inspired.

Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

I would use the widescreen preset for NTSC. If you’re going to DVD then it’s the only way. It’s 720×480 with a Pixel Aspect Ratio of 1.2

Cheer,
Aner

[Andrew Kramer]

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=889168

[Andrew Kramer]

a percent or two or noise and maybe 10 on the scatter, do what looks good. Increase it until the banding goes away…

Best

[Andrew Kramer]

Add some noise. or increase the ramp scatter a little bit. Also be sure to be rendering in 16bpc.

Cheers,
Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

That’s actually a fine way to do it. Just work with a good uncompressed codec like QuickTime PNG. If you don’t have enough for 5 minutes of a music video uncompressed go but a 500GB external drive…

Now if you’re doing HD, charge more and buy a 10 TB Dual Channel Fiber storage!