[Bobby Walker ii]

You might want to look at this tutorial by Rick Gerard on morphing type in Adobe Illustrator, it works quite well. Here’s the link:

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=1&page=/articles/gerard_rick/morph/index.html

hth-

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

Hey bill,

for future reference hitting F12 should allow you to see all open windows and let you move any window you wish.

hth

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

Thank you for the heads up Matt, This really is too good a deal to turn down.

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

Pixel Corps is good, but is more of a broad overview as far as After Effects is concerned (and yes I’m a member). If you want to REALLY learn AE, then Total Training is the way to go…I can’t recommend that series of DVD’s highly enough.

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

You won’t be able to use any of the gear your purchasing without some kind of card to interface the new gear with the computer. Once you have the card you’ll need XLR cables, co-axial cable with BNC connectors…you get the drift. Since I avoid PC’s to maintain what little sanity I have left (please no flames…its a personal preference) I can’t help you with a card.

Personally I think your best bet is to by the gear you’re looking for through a reputable VAR and have them help you decide what you need.

Sorry if this is of liitle help

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

First, I’d delete DVMattePro and see if the problem persists. It it does I’d then trash the AE preferences and go from there. I must say, however, that I’ve been using DVMatte Pro since it came out and have never had a problem with it. Of course, I’m on a Mac and you didn’t say what platform your using and your profile just shows that your a US citizen.

hth–

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

Are you playing it from the CD or copying the movie to the HD first? It should play fine on your HD (if not pump up the RAM). If its from the CD I’d check to see if the CD player is up to scratch, i.e. does it playback at only 8x?

hth-

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

Your doing nothing wrong, it’s just that FCP doesn’t recognize layer styles. The only way to get them into FCP is to right click on the style button to the left of the name of the layer and select “create as layers”. This will rasterize the effects, however and keep them from being edited.

Usually I’ll create my original graphic and then duplicate it and use the duplicate to create the rasterized layers and use that comp in FCP

hth-

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

Hey Owain,

The plug in set Text Anarchy from Digital Anarchy does this. The particular plug in is Text Hacker.

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/text/text_hacker.html

hth

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD

[Bobby Walker ii]

Hey Owain,

The plug in set Text Anarchy from Digital Anarchy does this. The particular plug in is Text Hacker.

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/text/text_hacker.html

hth

bobby walker ii
broadcast video COW

G5 2.5GHZ DP,2.5 RAM, AJA IO LA, Medea G-Raid,FCP HD