[Dario]

Thanks guys,
Total Training it is.

[Dario]

How about Pixel Corp?

[Dario]

https://www.buena.com/dissolvefactory.shtml

Buena Software’s Dissolve Factory?

[Dario]

It’s just position data.

So, would AE’s own time remapping ability be enough?

[Dario]

Wow, a ‘font’ of information. 🙂

Thanks again and I’ll look for their tape.

[Dario]

Too bad everything couldn’t have been standardized from the beginning :), like PAR between TV and computers.

[Dario]

Thanks again Steve.
I have the first Meyers book (3rd edition), as well as the Visual Quick Pro (or is it VQ Start?) one. LOTS to sort through and it’s hard to know where to begin. I’m more of a ‘look at that effect, now let’s dissect it and figure out how to recreate it’ kind of learner. Of couse I miss stuff that way 🙂

I’m learning this at night on my own at the same time I’m trying to put a proposal together with what I’m learning so I’m not always sure what applies to each situaton. The proposal is unrelated to motion graphics, otherwise I’d go to school or take Pixel Corps classes.

The text animation was done in Motion (could have used AE I guess). Once I imported it into AE I figured out how to create a ‘cube’ rotation with a null.

It seems to me that both the ‘interpret fields’ and what I do when rendering should match up (IE- be the same)?

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll be posting more questions on the boards. Thank you so much for your help and explanations. Even though I’m not looking for a motion graphics career (yet?) I am intensely interested in learning this stuff and in the ‘whys’ of how it works.

[Dario]

After messing with it for awhile I selected ‘Interpret Footage’ under ‘File’ and found that it was separating fields for that imported clip. When I selected None the text cleared up. Funny in that I thought the choice given when you render would override that. I suppose though that my thinking is a bit backwards.

So, what’s better, leaving it that way (lower field) and ignoring the jaggy text on the monitor knowing that through the NTSC DVD/TV it will be OK?

I’ll probably be outputting this to both the web and a DVD.

If I selected none instead, would it still be smooth through a TV?

[Dario]

Hi Steve,
I rendered with Best Settings, Res Full and Field Rendering Off.

BTW, when I create text directly in AE using the same font and font size, it looks fine.

[Dario]

I’m no expert but that’s exactly what I wanted to do as well.

After posting the same question here and elsewhere, the main answer I get is no.

Some have suggested using Synthetik Studio Artist (Mac only) as I think you can adapt a brush stroke much easier and more ‘lifelike’ in it than AE.

Others suggested doing the ‘painting’ in Photoshop or Painter and then animating a mask in AE. Seems like more work than necessary though.