[David Bogie]

clock thing, milliseconds?

Do you mean the timecode reader?

No provision for milliseconds in any filters I know of. Using a monospaced font is probably what you want to do to stop the variable width characters from undulating left to right.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

That was collection of Plumbicon/Vidicon simulation and artificial reception errors artifacts in addition to 50ish framing and acting styles. No plugins for those things. Some gate weave and vertical frame wandering (film effects) shows up in the film logo at the end but the designers made a mistake, real TV-video should not have any of those. Unless, of course, it was kinescoped, and that’s a whole ‘nuther can o’ worms.

Not terribly difficult to get such visual sytlization by experimenting and tweaking and having fun with the built-in FCP filters. Pull out the chroma or just isolate the green channel. Levels to blow out the subtle grays to whites (vidicion only had about 12 effective shades of gray). A bit of glow to help simulate overdrive. Bit of sharpening to make it more artificial.

Warning: A little of these effects goes a long way. Resist the temptation to overuse or apply them in excess.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Best? No.
However, you have AE and know AE, so, yes, it’s the better of a long list of tools you indicated you don’t have. so AE is what you’re going to use by default.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

These are usually a simple matter of changing the anchor point of the child layer.

but I cannot reproduce your problem here. Suggest you study the manual on Parenting very carefully. Establishing a parent/child is time-dependent.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

also suggest you stop by the Cycore site and download the Particle World tutorials. Very difficult to get your head around this stuff and I can’t really tell from the post what you’re after.

PW has tons of hidden properties and settings. For instance, you can get to a floor property that is accessible form the OPTIONS. You can set it to be sticky, bouncy, or to behave like ice.
And, known to but a few, you can set z-space positions for the emitter to make it go behind the layer to which you are applying the effect/ That is, if you have a logo on an alpha, you can apply PW to it and have the emitter trace a spiral in front of and behind the layer. Aitn’ easy nor direct but it can be done.

Anyway, using the Ice or Glue Floor options you can have a spray of particles come toward the camera and stay put.

Gotcha: You cannot apply PW twice to the same layer. Only one will show up.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Oh, funny, I read a completely different question.
Nice catch, LaRonde

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[David Bogie]

[Mark Dowd] “I figured it out. I have zoom blur on it when it comes into frame. When I hide the zoom blur the garble goes away. How could I fix that?”

That’s a tough one since I’m not watching over your shoulder. And your results do not sound correct, Motion should be able to handle it.

Most direct solution for most issues like this is to precompose the layer into its own group (nest it) or prerender the layer to a self contained movie and then import the movie.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Card Dance and Shatter can automate the collapse of the images but that may not be what you want. A web address is a long string of characters with weights that will depend upon the typeface. You can build this many ways but you’ve still got tons of itty bitty photos making up 55 of the screen and white is the other 95%. That’s a big project. You’re going to want to study the “infinite zoom” types of tutorials and most of them depend upon a trick to hide a transition, something like a cloud or plane obscuring the lens.

Give us a bit more to go on, what’s the address? What’s the typeface?

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

[Mark Dowd] “The purple and blackish garble is not suppose to be there it is suppose to be a bow (as in archery). “

I see nothing unusual in the image. I see the bow and stylized text on a grungey gray background with safe area activated. if the image you have posted is now clean, did the problem go away?

“Garble” is not a reasonable descriptor and there’s not much we can do without knowing what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. Codec issues come up in rendering but you have not even said if this is an output or composition issue. Processing garbage often arises from trying to use images or movies that have corrupt file structures or format incompatibilities.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

System Preferences.

> Open Quicktime preferences…(system presences)
Click on the Advance tab…
Show legacy encoders…
Restart Quicktime< bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”