[David Bogie]

Digital distortion cannot be corrected. you can mask it by applying more noise but, sadly, it’s rather like trying to recover image pixels from a terribly overexposed scene. There just isn’t data in your file, it’s all been crushed.

Umm, that’s what I think I know. Hopefully someone will come by with a creative solution of which I am ignorant.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Caption data can pass through FCP as long as you do not do anything to the clip that forces new media to be created from it. then the data is gone.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Mike, cool link, thanks for your contribution. I should have known Andy would have something like that.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

xgrid always looked like a geeks wet dream but of no use to us mortals, remember “the rest of us?”

Curiosity piqued, I ran search inquiries and came up with nothing more current than about 2005 but some useless information came up from an earlier era:

https://www.macresearch.org/the_xgrid_tutorials

#! /usr/bin/perl

# profiler values are in the form: ‘ __key__: _____value____’ (one per line)
my $memory = `/usr/sbin/system_profiler system_profiler SPHardwareDataType SPSoftwareDataType grep Memory`;
my $regex = ‘^s*Memory: (d*) (.*)$’;
my ( $value, $unit ) = ( $memory =~ /$regex/m );

# print RAM value in megabytes
if ( $unit eq ‘MB’) { print $value }
if ( $unit eq ‘GB’) { print $value * 1024 }

Hope someone has something encouraging to offer over the next few days.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

I get “embedding disabled” on that clip.

Try posting the URL instead.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Yar, easy to create new viewers. The trick is learning how they get “locked” and how to attach them within the panes so you don’t keep burying the open windows. Helps to have at least two displays.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Dangerously fraught with gotchas and unpredictable results that will clandestine and esoteric errors.

Umm, that won’t tranlsate well. I shall rephrase:

Do not try to convert the smaller project to a larger project.
Experiment in the smaller size to learn how to create your effects. Use this as your skethboard, your draft editor, your roughcut assembly.
figure out what you can do to streamline and simplify such as render certain layers as complete movies.

But produce only in the larger size.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

“Tiling” in AE-speak is a motion effect. You seem to be asking about how to construct a wall that looks like tiles. That’s a Photoshop question AFAICT. I have no idea what text on tiles at a train station looks like in your head. You mea a reader board or enamel paint or glazing?

The Mosaic filter will convert a gradient into adjustable flat pixel blacks that can be placed under a grid to simulate the grout lines, bevel alpha next.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Search the cow’s AE tutorial for DEAN VELEZ.

Or visit
https://motiongraphicslab.com/

The coolest thing Dean Velez has ever done, IMNSHO, is debunk the myth that realistic or highly stylized pyro effects require expensive plugins or even more than pushing a few buttons. All of his pyro and flame effects are insanely simple blurs, often starting as text items.

Dean has taken most of his free tutorials offline but for a couple of bucks you can download great pyro effects. Simply go to his After Effects Projects tab and enter FLAME or SIRE. You will find about 25 preset projects that either free or $2.00. Fabulous stuff.

Also visit
https://www.tutorialfinder.com/articles/listarticle.jsp?type=AfterEffects

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You will need to create your own video overlay as a an effect or a still frame.

What do you think you need this for?

bogiesan