[Craig Wall]

Steve, I do keep my work in chunks because yes, complete renders get crazy.

I am going to have to explore…I wish you could bring in entire AE projects in FCP in the same way you can bring in Motion or LiveType projects.

I crave something more seamless.

I sure wish AE was better at transferring RAM caches into saved render chunks.

[Craig Wall]

Nico, I’ll try that out.

Years ago I used Premiere a lot but then I had about a 5 year hiatus from using any video editor. (I was doing a lot of Flash work).

Now I realize that to work more efficiently in AE I MUST couple it with renewed skills with a video editing app.

I am just tying to sort out…do I build placeholders in FCP and use that as my final authoring environment…do I make AE my finishing app after I’ve taken everything as far as I can in FCP?

My work is very compositing-centric. Sometimes I have zero video footage. Still the time-hit of constantly re-rendering gets crazy.

[Craig Wall]

Sounds to me like Brainstorm 2.0 in AE 9?

I am 97.239 sure it’s not accessible yet. Maybe down the road…

[Craig Wall]

An .flv must be embedded in a web page.

Ultimately these are the files that must be posted:
-An html page that holds the .swf file
-A .swf file that holds the .flv
-The .flv video file itself
-A small java file that needs to go in the same directory (this is automatically created when you invoke the publish command in Flash.

If you have Flash then you set your publish options to include an HTML page. Ultimately this will produce an .html page.

It’s very late and I’m brain-dead. I hope that helps.

[Craig Wall]

Thanks Steve! Just a reminder: You rock!

[Craig Wall]

I get the impression this user isn’t looking for a 3d corkscrew but a motion path shaped like a corkscrew.

If I am correct I believe Illustrator has a built-in corkscrew shape somewhere. If you snagged that path and pasted it in as your motion path—then animated the scale of the object over time and perhaps embellished with auto-orient along path…

….would that work for you?

[Craig Wall]

Tornike

There are a million possibilities when you start to play around with all the options in AE’s text engine–esp. now with Per character 3d.

Yes you will get lost with all the twirl downs.

Don’t think you are going to find a single effect that will fill the contour of a body with text. I’m sure the creator built lots of interesting type paths to complete that commercial you reference.

To make you aware of one additional resource for animating type:
Company: Digital Anarchy
Product: : Text Anarchy.

[Craig Wall]

I think you could do that with

-lots of time
-great path and mask generation
-AE’s awesome per-character text animation

[Craig Wall]

By the way….I would be curious what app people use to do story-boarding.

I am using Curio right now by Zengobi but know it lacks specific features for that purpose.

[Craig Wall]

Rob since you asked…. This is a beef of mine, so excuse the rant.

I’m sure the feature has its uses, but I think we all need to do more of our OWN brain-storming and ask the software to do less.

Too often we try to find some canned plug-in or effect and we get lazy. It happens to all of us at one point or another. We throw settings and keyframes into a big pot of soup–stir it up and hope it “looks cool.”

I like the idea of really thinking through a STORY, a human narrative. By a “story” I don’t necessarily mean anything more than a scene or two but something that compels or teaches or provokes.

So am I against BrainStorm? Of course not. I’m sure it can provide interesting stimulus sometimes–or even land you some useful eye candy. Do I think I’ll really use the feature everyday? No, not at all.