[David Bogie]

Trapcode is a complete waste of money on this simple project.
Just copy the Illustrator paths and paste them into your AE comp as masks.
You will want to study up on how to setup AI to export the paths properly and how to use paths as masks in AE. It’s all in the manual and on Todd’s community help search system.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You can purchase the full blown versions of Cycore’s effects. Very cool stuff.

CycoreFX HD advantages. Upgrade to HD and you get all this!

Comparison between CycoreFX HD and the bundled CycoreFX version.
General:

• 12 additional plug-ins
– Cross Blur, Color Neutralizer, Kernel, Threads, Environment, Rainfall, Snowfall, Block Load, Plastic, Line Sweep, WarpoMatic, Overbrights.

• 16 bpc support in all plug-ins

• 32 bpc (float) support (more coming)
– Cross Blur, Color Neutralizer, Kernel, Toner, Power Pin, Threads, Environment, Rainfall, Snowfall, Block Load, Threshold, Threshold RGB, Jaws, Line Sweep, Overbrights.

• AE lights support
– Blobbylize, Drizzle, Glass, Glue Gun, Mr. Mercury, Plastic.

• Native motion blur
– Environment, Kaleida, Light Rays, Line Sweep, PowerPin, Rainfall, Snowfall, Wide Time.

Plug-in specific:

Particle World
– Added option to align textured discs to motionpath.

Page Turn
– New UI options for turning page.
– Resizes layer to always fit.

Sphere
– Improved seam sampling.

Power Pin
– Additional UI controls in Comp window

Toner
– Added options for duotone and pentone mappings.

Radial Blur
– Added Rotate Fading option.

https://www.cycorefx.com

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

removing compressor is a bad idea unless you’re trying to solve another issue.
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bogiesan

[David Bogie]

CatDV
Canto Cumulus.
There are others including frontends for most popular db apps such as FileMaker.

You can search the forum for the topic, comes up once a month or so. You can google digital asset management for a few hours of uncomfortable reading.

Be great if you came back in a few months and told which product you ended up and how things are working for you.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Reviewing piff’s history of iquiries on apple.com, I suggest you all stick to your deeply held, totally unreasonable personal convictions and to avoid attempting to use objective criteria in your answers.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Just hit youtube and look for “kinetic typography.”

I gotta say, though, if this is what you’re looking for (and not “text animation” which is all clearly explained in the manual and there are tons of examples available in Bridge, kinetic type has seen its day, it is passé.

If your client must have this style, they run a severe risk of being seen as retro, like someone who still puts two spaces after a period.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You might also look for the tutorial called “Circle of Cows” for a delightfully elegant way of laying out many objects along a form.

There was once a free plugin for AE called something like 3D Assistant Lite that would distribute objects along a path. I don’t supose it still exists.

I need to ask another question: Is it absolutely necessary that all 100 still images be on screen? If not, your task can be simplified by creating a cycling composition into which you just drop new images as they are required using a script.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Blake Porter] “FCP with XDCAM footage – Create an uncompressed Quicktime with prores – Quicktime then to Compressor to resize to web player dimensions, in Prores – then to On2 Flix Pro for encoding flv. “

You’re wasting a lot of time and disk space. If your target is known to be Flash, there’s no reason to edit in high def. Bring it in using a codec closer to your delivery specs. You can always go back and create/recapture for higher rez.

But I have no patience for such inquiries. When I was a kid, AE v1 and v2 needed a weekend to render 10 seconds of one effect on one layer.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Great contribution to the discourse, Matt.
Im glad I don’t have a Canon but our next Nikons will probably shoot video. I’m not looking forward to that.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

See the manual for loading keyboard layouts and button bar layouts. There are some specifically for mutliclipping. They are remarkably cool and efficient.

The differences between cutting and switching are subtle and insufficiently explained in the manual. It’s a lame non-feature unless you really understand the differences and why they’re helpful. I do not.

bogiesan