[David Bogie]

> Ive mastered keyframes with lightning, < Maybe. But now you need to become a student of motion tracking. You need much more experience. You need more time to read the manual. You need to be investing your time trying the advice you have received in the other times you have posted this same question instead of posting it again. You needed to be carefully planning for your post-production BEFORE you shot your scene of yourself. bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Careful and experienced planning that deliberately incorporates competent design decisions made with full comprehension of the limitations of your available hardware.

Or a render farm.

People have been using AE to create 2k and 4k material for many years. Nothing new about “HD.”

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

“Choppy” doesn’t help us much, it’s completely subjective. Do you mean your playback engine can’t keep up with your drive or your moves are rendered as steps and you’re expecting them to be smoothly incorporated?

If you have keyframed extreme position changes, there must be enough frames between the keyframes to create and display the tweens. Otherwise all you’re doing is using what AE interprets as hold keyframes.
Motion blur might help but I do not know what you’re actually hoping to achieve.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

There are dozens of approaches, here’s one of the originals from Trish Meyer, AE2.5 or so:
1. Create your text in Illustrator as narrow, tall comp.
2. Make each text line a separate item and space them exactly 100 pixels apart.
3. Import AI file into AE.
4. Set hold keyframes to move this layer 100 pixels vertically a the rate you wish them to change, Copy and paste them in batches till you have all of the lines of text moved through the comp.
5. If you need to change the rate of change, select all of the keyframes and option-drag one of them.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

“Easily” done with CC Cylinder (or Boris) and careful planning and execution of precomps within the main layer to which the Cylinder filter is applied.
The smooth moves, composite modes, metal effects, and the blue frames around the images all add to the elegance of the visual package but there’s nothing unusual about the effects in use that I can see.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Greg Ball] “They don’t have FCP, so why would I send them a sequence? I’m not understanding the rest of your advice. All I need to do is drop a Quicktime file on their FTP site. “

I should have thought it obvious but you will eventually get the hang of this. You can’t export and send them a “sequence” at all. You’re going to send them a movie of the sequence in the codec and wrapper specified by them. You could send them the project from FCP but even if they have the software it’s worthless without the media.

The fact that they will do the conversion to PAL on their end is convenient but it doesn’t let you off the hook till you know what precisely what file their transcoder requires.

You’ve apparently never done an upload based on file transfer protocols the old fashioned way so my advice won’t mean anything to you till you discover their web site won’t accept your file as a drag and drop operation. Then you’ll need an FTP client. FTP, by its very definition, is painfully slow.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

“One minute” still has interesting implications about file size. But I’d send them an exact copy of the sequence, exported in the code in which it was built.

Have you ever done FTP? Find yourself an FTP upload client (versiontracker.com) or determine if their site will accept files from a Web interface. Give yourself plenty of time to accomplish the upload and for them to test it and then tell you it didn’t work.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Sherry Sakamoto] “I’m trying to export a 4 second clip as a Windows media file using Quicktime conversion. It crashed. Discovered I had the freebie Flip4Mac so upgraded to Studio Pro version. “

The freebie will export up to 30 seconds. “Crash” is impossible to understand from where I sit but it’s likely something wrong with your media, not the encoding process.

[Sherry Sakamoto] “Thought that would do the trick but when I try to export it, FCP still crashes. I am using OS 10.4.11, FCP 4.5, Quicktime 7.5 on a G5. Do I need Quicktime Pro? Thanks for any help. “

You already have QT Pro. The Final Cut Studio is based on QTPro.

You have not said what the original file is or what your sequence settings are. Those may not make any difference but it’s helpful to know in debugging a failed export.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Here’s what I’d do:
1. Export your sequence as a self contained movie.
2. Bring it back into a sequence that is set properly for your output dimensions.
3. Render.
4. Add all of your graphics.

Your workflow procedures will not stabilize until you have many hundreds of hours on the application and by then you’ll look back on this project and wonder how you could possibly have been so,,,new.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Caton Clark] “Does anyone know how to recreate this effect? Should I possibly be trying this in soundtrack? “

Absolutely.

If you’ve never opened it up, learning how to use STP’s effects is going to take you a few days.

I’m a video guy with decades of analog audio experience using tape. I hate Soundtrack Pro because everything is so weirdly different form FCP: the interface paradigm and all terminology is from the digital audio world.

bogiesan