Chris Evans
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If you’re not animating the whole paragraph of text as one group, split it into individual lines or words. It’s never gonna work to animate part of a text block as separate parts.
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The split it makes is transparent. I just tried it. Do you have another layer behind it? did you turn on the transparency grid to look for transparency?
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Draw some shapes, throw Turbulent Displace on it, increase the amount to around 1000, play with settings.
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Use the text tool, highlight the word you want to change and change what you want in the Character panel. That’s it.
Is that not working for you?
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You could look into something like compsfromspreadsheets on AE Scripts.
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It looks to me like they created a large comp that basically had a constantly shifting diamond pattern filling it, kinda like fractal noise, but with diamond. It was likely manually created, though I don’t know how, I’d have to play around for a while to achieve something like that. It even looks like it was 3d with different layers farther back to give it some depth.
Then they used that comp as a texture or overlay on top of a colored texture to achieve what you see there. You can use a comp as a texture by setting it in the textures panel in Element 3D and then choosing that as the texture inside the Element 3D UI.
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I mainly edit on a PC, but I’ll give you my thoughts . I’d go with a Macbook Pro. Go all out, get the best one you can and it should be able to handle almost anything you throw at it, they are pretty beastly computers. A MacPro is obviously more powerful and may give you less dropped frames in some situations and faster rendering, but if you’re moving around, the ability to sit down at a desk and be working in less than a minute or two is invaluable.
Unless you never work at a place very long, always sitting down and not having to move your computer for a whole day at least, then I think a laptop will be much easier to use. And if you’re just doing HD video editing and not heavily editing hour long pieces in one place often, then I don’t think the power of the MacPro will really help speed up your work enough to justify the other times you’ve got to move it around.
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It depends on how big it is and what’s behind it. Can we get a screenshot or two?
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I assume you contacted Adobe Support? Did they say anything?
It sounds to me like a bug in Premiere or a hardware problem. You might try reinstalling Premiere, besides that and replacing your parts, I don’t have any ideas.
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At normal viewing distance, you might have a hard time seeing 4k at 17 inches, but it will give you some more room to work as I believe elements of the UI will be smaller (could be wrong there, I’ve never used more than HD monitors).
If you’re fine spending up to almost $4k for this laptop, you should be able to easily afford all of those upgrades. I’d say the biggest thing is you hard drive setup. I’d reccomend getting the second HD on any of those and make sure it’s the 7200rpm one not the 5400rpm one, even though it’s smaller and put your footage and projects on there, offloading it to an external when you’re done with the project, leaving your programs and operating system on the SSD.
I don’t know how much of a help the CPU upgrade would help honestly, it doesn’t seem like it would be because the turbo of the i7 goes up to 3.5Ghz and the Xeon is 3.7, but the i7 only gets there with turbo and I’m honestly not sure what difference that makes. If it were me, I wouldn’t make the upgrade, I think the i7 will get you where you need.
The GPU upgrade is nice, but from my understanding, the GPU doesn’t do a ton for the actual rendering of video in Premiere, but since your having problems with your current setup, the upgrade might be worth it, you might even consider the 4000 or the 5000.
Again, if you’re fine spending up to $4k on this, go all the way. Pricing the P70 on their website with the 4k screen (which comes with the color sensor for accurate color), 32GB ECC RAM, Quadro 5000, default 256GB SSD and 500GB 7200rpm HDD, and the Xeon processor takes it just below $4000 with the current 10% off promotion their having. Save $500 and a few weeks by going with the Quadro 4000 instead.