[Benjamin Tubb]

I would just do the precomping, then in your big comp, make sure the collapse transformations/continously rasterize switch is enabled. While we’re at it, would someone mind telling me what that switch is called? Is it Collapse transformations? Or Continously rasterize?

Ben Tubb

[Benjamin Tubb]

I could be wrong, but I think that what he’s going for is for just the part of the text that has effects at the time to show… I would just precomp the whole thing, then just animate a mask on that. I’m sure there’s a better way, but that’s the best I can give you.

[Benjamin Tubb]

I could be wrong, but I think that what he’s going for is for just the part of the text that has effects at the time to show… I would just precomp the whole thing, then just animate a mask on that. I’m sure there’s a better way, but that’s the best I can give you.

[Benjamin Tubb]

I could be wrong, but I think that what he’s going for is for just the part of the text that has effects at the time to show… I would just precomp the whole thing, then just animate a mask on that. I’m sure there’s a better way, but that’s the best I can give you.

[Benjamin Tubb]

I could be wrong, but I think that what he’s going for is for just the part of the text that has effects at the time to show… I would just precomp the whole thing, then just animate a mask on that. I’m sure there’s a better way, but that’s the best I can give you.

[Benjamin Tubb]

Nevermind, I just figured it out. I composited the waveform onto the original black solid, used paint bucked on one of the sides of the waveform and made it green, and keyed that green out. Although, if anyone has any alternative means to do this, I would still like to know…

Thanks,

Ben

[Benjamin Tubb]

I could be reading it wrong, but it sounds like you are just adding a gray solid with no effects or anything added onto it… When used in a displacement map, perfect 50% gray is read as ‘Do nothing’ or ‘No Displacement’. In order for the displacement map to have any effect at all, then it has to have varying grayscale values. The farther from 50% gray the values go, the more displacement will take place in that spot. Check out Aharon Rabinowitz’s Tutorials on displacement mapping for more details.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement1/index.html

[Benjamin Tubb]

Thanks Erik… Somehow, the idea of buying a cheap MiniDV camera simply for caturing never occured to me. And there’s no chance in hell I’m gonna spend the money to fix my current camera, so that seems like a a great option. Thanks a lot.