Chris Smith
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I only linked to that site because it came up top in a google search. I don’t know what they are offering them for.
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Assuming this is OSX/MAC. Let Bonjour do the work and it will auto detect your other computers on the network. Then just drag to a folder you created on the desktop computer.
If you just want to use the desktop as simply a storage device, you could use target disk mode like the previous post mentioned, but I’d just get a nice LaCie FW drive to store your stuff on instead.
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As far as the ribbons, I’ve seen them talked about in many different ways:
1. Use Invigerator or Forge Freeform in AE to create a curved 3D surface. Then map growing lines onto the surface of them.
2. For the rounded end look and not flat ribbons, you always have 3D stroke.
3. In Many 3D programs you create a long, thin flat plane and make it flow along a curve in true 3D space.
and my favorite (And what I think is the easiest):
4. In C4D, use a sweep nurbs. Create a path spline and a very thin rectangle as the swept shape. Then just animate the ‘grow’ parameter. Then like magic you have a growing ribbon. If you want it to twist then animate that parameter as well.
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“Super Rack Focus” in the Image Lounge plugs. Give it a matte and it it will change the amount of “out of focus”. You can also animate the focal plane so it “Rack focuses”.
Not to be confused with AE’s compound blur which is only a regular gaussian blur with a matte to decide how it’s mixed in to the image.
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Man, Ted. That is a gorgeous piece. The music, the mood, the execution. Just beautiful.
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You don’t HAVE to use Particular. I’ve used CC Particle world to do the exact same thing (cept mine were steam like trails).
Set the particles to be soft spheres and set them pretty dense and to not have a lot of speed so they generally come out of the emitter and stay where they were born. However it said on the trapcode sight he set the physics to sync to the camera move. Which is certainly simple enough to do, just gotta tweak a bit.
In this case, he motiontracked the LED keychains they used when shooting. Then applied that tracking data to the emitter. You can do this with CC Particle world with just copy and paste or pickwhip. Then add a glow to the partical layer and set the color to blues.
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Don’t know the direct answer to your question, but I think the simplest approach to the ribbon/growing geometry thing is using a sweep nurbs and animating the growth parameter.
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Geez, man, I gotta ask: Why not do this in a 3D app? Are you testing your patience with AE 🙂
Chris Smith
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