Corbin Gross
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COW Coins
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Does Grow Bounds work on text layers?
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Sounds like a good idea. I’ll start there.
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That’s just what I wanted to know. I’ll have a look around over in the expressions forum. Thanks.
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If you’re using AE there’s three bad TV presets in there. Just type TV into that search bar in the effects panel.
You might be able to do the blocky distortion by duplicating what ever needs to be distorted and adding a mosaic, some sort of blotchy luminance map (fractal noise or something) and some noise and extra contrast and stuff. Then the time remap would really sell it so the blotchy, blocky layer would be out of sync a little bit.
Garage Band has some cool promo stingers that sound like somebody looking for a radio station. Those work great for things like the Cloverfield distortion. -
I was in the exact same boat.
I’ve been a product photographer for about 10 years. One day my boss says, “Can you make a video?” I was like, “Well, I don’t see why not.” I didn’t know an After Effects comp from an animated .gif from a hole the ground.
I’ve been really into three free resources for figuring out stuff:
Digital Juice (digitaljuice.com), they have a ton of videos talking about all kinds of stuff. Not all motions graphics though.
Video Copilot (videocopilot.net), this guy, Andrew Kramer has all these free tutorials. Some of them are pretty advanced or you have to have other plugins and stuff but they’re all screen captures so you can learn your way around the interface. Plus you can download the whole project usually so you can take it apart to see how it works. Start at the beginning and watch all that you have time for. Totally worth it.
And then here on the Cow there’s a an After Effects podcast. At the top of the website there’s a podcast button and it’s the first one there. There’s like 60 episodes and some of them are really basic, and they’re all pretty awesome and applicable.
It will take forever to watch everything all the way through so for a while I just did one or two a day and tried to follow through until I had the hang of things. Now I just pop on to see what’s new when I’m waiting for a render or something.
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I barely know what I’m doing but Flip4Mac is awesome.
I do a lot of videos ranging from 5min to 1hr that need to stream from a Windows server. I just use whatever preset looks about right at the time and it usually does the trick lickety split. I have to export a QT from AE or PPro, then use QT Pro (Flip4Mac and QT Pro makes it an even $200, like you said) to export a WMV. It works fast and looks good in my opinion. -
You know, I’m not sure if it’s what you’re looking for but there’s a tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz that has a water drop and a splash. But it’s super basic and very not 3D. If whatever your making can have something of a vectory, screen printy feel it might be just what your looking for.
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I’m an in-house corporate video guy at a wholesaler. I use Sonicfire Pro and I have a couple dozen of there Strata series disks. A lot of the music sounds like bad porn but there’s a bunch of pretty good stuff in there. You can grab just the drum & base tracks if you like or make a loop or very easily customize a whole song or selected tracks to any duration.
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So how do I incorporate this into my project.
I’m having trouble understanding this part. I’m not that good at this stuff yet. So, where do I plug in these expressions. Or, can I just take that final project and replace the color block layers with the images I’d like to show.
I need to show about two dozen images and I thought the iTunesy scroll deal would make it more interesting than just throwing them on the screen.
Pretty cool expressions there at the end of the thread by the way. I opened up that project where you can adjust all the parameters. I played with all the sliders but can’t figure out how to scroll the darn thing.
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HolyFreakin’Crap!
So I’m thinking echo but probably not the one that comes in the box, right? On some of the really long, swirly tricks toward the end you can see apparent masking on the water under his shadow but choppy water is very forgiving. There is mostly clever camera work to make these shots possible.
On the rotation ones it seems to be two shots warped together. Remember when they were turning cars into tigers and whatnot all the time? I think it’s the same thing. I think the effects guys find to shots they can blend together with a similar trick in them then they take the first half of the trick and warp it into the second half. With a bunch of blurry water and a little motion blur on the back ground your gold.
That slow motion thing is scaring the crap out of me though.