Brian Charles
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Try using Card Wipe to have one layer rotate and reveal another like flipping a card. Set the Rows and Columns to 1 and set the Card Back to the layer you want revealed.
As for Z-Scale Ahron has a great tutorial and podcast about its curious uses.
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Have you tried pre-composing the beam?
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Are you selecting the word “position” for the layer. This works for me.
I’m using Illustrator CS2 and the File Handling Prefs are set to AICB (Adobe Illustrator Clip Board).
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Estimating and quoting on work becomes easier with experience. You say the work may only take an hour — really?
Do you have to capture / encode the video, export to a specific format, deliver on any specific media?
In addition to competitive rates and your skill level, these are all costs and times that need to be considered when estimating a job.
Your time on the computer is only one element of the job process. Will there be client approval meetings? Will you upload the files to a server? All these take time — yours. That an your skill is what you are selling.
I tend to quote by the job and avoid quoting an hourly rate.
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What compression did you use? Try another one. I
generally output to QuickTime rather than avi.
The Animation codec will produce the largest file size since it is uncompressed. The compression scheme you select depends on the destination for your file.
If you want a small file size and high fidelity H264 is your best choice. Be aware that any compression can introduce artifacts and color shifts.
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Jimmybee is incorrect when he says that Photoshop bevels are not imported into After Effects.
Try this. Make some beveled and drop shadowed text in Photoshop. Import the file as a Composition cropped layers.
You’ll see several layers that replicate the bevel and drop shadow. Convert all of these to text in After Effects.
Note the bevel layer has a Photoshop Bevel and Emboss effect on it that you can animate.
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You can zoom the comp view without losing the body of the camera. Use the track Z too in the top view and drag down. You’ll still be able to grab the camera body.
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Just read the post following mine. Problem solved.
Thanks Dan.
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Effects > Perspective > Basic 3D
Where it’s always been.
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Apply the effect to an adjustment layer using a mask on the adjustment layer to determine the selection.
Feather the mask and you’re all set.