Cory Petkovsek
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This tutorial should show you everything you need. You’ll obviously need to figure out a way to blend/crop your comps so they fit aspect ratio, but it shouldn’t be too difficult.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/
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You need to divide and conquer. You have too many variables. Develop a test that eliminates half of them. Then another test that eliminates half of those until you have the offending cause.
Does it happen when you aren’t using the system, just with the programs open?
What specific actions cause the memory to continually rise? You mentioned opening. How about editing/moving clips/layers around? How about previewing?
Is it caused by AE or Premiere? Leave only one open and see if it occurs, or if it requires the combination.
You say the system crashes, but it is highly unlikely the program is crashing windows. What specifically crashes and how does it crash? Does a window pop up saying premiere has stop working and it closes? Or does windows get a blue screen or what specifically?
You talk about a comp with some specific footage. Does the memory leak occur with other footage, or in the case of AE, no footage, just shapes, and solids and effects?
Narrow it down and be specific or you’ll never solve it.
Cory
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That stuff is a flag for the moderators.
If your question is something you should know but don’t (like alpha channels), it should be asked in the basics forum. If it’s something that requires AE mastery/trickery to do, this forum is better. Most likely a question about card dance will be a basics question, in it’s own thread.
In fact most likely your question has already been answered, so make sure to search first. >50% of the questions asked could be answered by searching or self struggle. I know this because I don’t think I’ve ever asked a question on CC; I can usually find the answer with search or figure it out on my own.
Cory
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You mean stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZdQVxUNjo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJex2KLMhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQdgJA-e_1EBroadcast design, or motion graphics transitions. Search for tutorials with those key words.
Video copilot, greyscalegorilla, and tutsplus all have many such tutorials for AE and 3d programs. Tutsplus has a whole motion graphics category, did you look there?
A lot of these examples are evolved stuff. You need to take the small pieces you learn in tutorials and apply them to real client projects in order to grow your ability and portfolio.
Also improving your graphic design, photography, and fine art skills will help your motion graphics tremendously.
Cory
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As a work for hire, they get the copyright, as long as it is stated it’s a work for hire in your contract.
Copyright is independent from a producer and/or director credit.
I would work out a communication where you credit yourself, the ad agency and the client so everyone feels included, because they have been. You say you did all the production and the creative, but is that true? Who came up with the seed concept? Who paid for it? Who wrote it?
The person with the money gets an EP credit. The person who came up with the story only gets a “Story by” credit. If they wrote at least a treatment, I’d give them a writer credit. The ad agency is your upline, so treat them well and give them credit. Even if all they did was connect you, they are still a producer.
I would present something like this:
Executive Producer …. Client
Producer …. Ad Agency
Director … You
Cast …
Crew …If your role really involved a lot of producing I would bump you up to a director and producer and have the Ad agency be either an EP or a producer/co-producer. However it doesn’t sound like this is the case; it sounds like you were a one or two man team. In that case I’d keep you at director and give producer to the ad agency.
I’d wrap all of that up on a credit roll. I’d send it in an email saying something like, I’m creating a credit roll which I’ll apply to the video for your submission. I want to make sure I have everyone’s names spelled correctly.” Then send it having given them titles, and asking them for spelling rather than asking them for titles.
Cory
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If you want it to look real you’ll need to do create the tentacle with a 3D program and then composite it. If you want it to look cartoony you could make it in illustrator or with the shape tools in AE. You’ll need to hand animate it. A combination of AE/illustrator paths plus 3D stroke from red giant software might make this easier.
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After importing the footage in vegas, rightclick the event and hit properties. Tell vegas the footage has a premultiplied alpha channel. Also make sure within the quicktime/animation properties that the millions of colors+ is set there as well.
This is a vegas question, rather than an AE question.
Incedentially, I usually use straight matte instead of premultiplied so it has a cleaner alpha channel. Vegas will do either.
Cory
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Looks nice, sounds nice. The text is on screen for too little time to comfortably read it. If I blink, the words are gone, and I have a sharp eye.
I suggest you leave it on screen for as long as you would voice the words being said, plus a little buffer on either side. For the last one it should hang out for 3-5 seconds. Watch 30 second commercial spots on youtube and look at where they place things in the timeline, and how long their logos hang out.
I don’t like how the N appears before “We got you covered”. It is distracting. That should be a separate scene. “We got you covered” -> N -> GARMI
The white text would look better in a wider font where the O is more of a circle. Maybe the same font but bold and horizontally stretched.
I would bring Need and Directions closer together. The eye has to travel far from one to the other in such a short time frame. It’s difficult at 360p. In 1080p it will has way too far to travel. Also from a design perspective, it will look better if they are no further than vertical thirds, or at least within hdtv safe zones (just for spacing).
The thing dropping down on the N is cool. But I only saw it after several playings. Let it linger longer, and emphasize the animation more. It should squeeze the N more, then bounce, then let the camera linger on the logo. Also use a sound effect to call attention to it.
I would start the first downbeat of the music with the first arrow going across the screen. That will tie it together better.
The whole thing should expand to about 10 seconds.
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I agree, it looks fine. Looking frame by frame or during animation I see no artifacts or anything that looks weird.
Vertical edges are clean during movement. Horizontal edges are slightly blurred during lateral movement. It all moves as it should.
Cory
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If becoming a videographer is a goal, you need a portfolio. Might as well get paid to make it.
Cory
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