[David Johnson]

More specifics will get you more/better replies. A muzzle flash? A bullet flying through the air? A bullet impacting something…if so, what? All of the above?

[David Johnson]

Personally, I almost always start with all audio (music, sfx & V/O) for mograph work. I rarely need to search for any since I’ve accumulated a fairly large collection of music and sfx over the years, but when I do, some of the sites I use are:
https://www.grsites.com/sounds/
https://www.audiodish.com/
https://www.audiolicense.net/
https://www.findsounds.com/types.html
https://www.firstcom.com/
https://www.freeplaymusic.com/
https://www.killersound.com/cgi-bin/killersound.storefront
https://www.ljudo.com/
https://www.loopsound.com/
https://www.media-tracks.com/
https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
https://www.thepocket.com/
https://www.q-music.co.uk/
https://www.samplenet.co.uk/
https://www.sopersound.com/
https://www.sounddogs.com/start.asp
https://www.sound-effects-library.com/
https://www.soundrangers.com/

Happy hunting.

[David Johnson]

After Effects. And, in Photoshop, CNTRL J to paste in place.

[David Johnson]

The only other thing I think of is monitor calibration, but that’s likely not the problem since you say the files appear correctly in other apps. Maybe try trahsing your PS preferences…on my Win2K system, the file is:
C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorApplication DataAdobePhotoshop8.0Adobe Photoshop CS SettingsAdobe Photoshop CS Prefs.psp

[David Johnson]

Maybe check your color management and color mode settings. To narrow down the problem, you might also determine whether it’s happening with all images and/or file types or particular ones. And, have you seen your eye doctor lately? Sorry, couldn’t resist.

[David Johnson]

Don’t know of any “handwriting” plugins, but if you just want to composite handwritten text into an image, why not just write your text and scan it. There are several ways to get rid of the paper like using a blending mode or selecting & deleting the background color…depends on the look you want. You could also search for one of the many “handwriting” fonts available on the web, but most don’t look very realistic.

[David Johnson]

I do cross-platform a lot myself and what Steve described are indeed the main issues. Not sure what you mean by “The Windows box could only read files in the Drop Box on the Mac.” I’m more of a Windows guy so it’s probably that I don’t know what the Mac “Drop Box” is. I have a Mac and PC connected to a fairly beefy network so I get around the Mac writing to NTFS & FAT32 limit problems by transferring Mac files to the PC over the network, then to an NTFS drive. Still an extra step, but not nearly as bad as cross-platform work use to be. And, I heard that Macs will soon be able to read & write to NTFS.
“Firewire was much faster than USB”
Yep, but I’ve yet to find a reasonably priced FW drive as small in size and big in capacity as my USB2 drives. FW 800 is definitely way faster than all the above, but it probabaly won’t be on most computers for a while, which defeats the advantage of external drives…to be able to take stuff anywhere.

[David Johnson]

Personally, I use external Firewire/USB drives for exactly that purpose. They’re getting cheaper with larger capacities every day…I have several 160Gb 1394/USB drives that I paid about $150 each for and a couple card deck size 20Gb USB drives that I paid about $200 for (the convenience of the small physical size ups the price). I often get clients to buy their own so they also have uncompressed archives/backups of their projects and/or media. If you’re going between Windows & Macs, watch out for formatting issues…they’re manageable, but harder to manage when they get you by surprise.

[David Johnson]

Never heard of .igc files, but Filext.com says they’re “Global Positioning System Datalogger” files…whatever that means. It’s also possible they’re proprietary file extensions from some software (Inscriber CG maybe?), which usually means only that software can use them. Regardless, you just need to find or buy the Rubino Sans font in the proper format and drop it in your system font folder. On Windows, the easiest is to get a True Type font (.ttf) and drop it in C:WINNTFonts (I’m on Win2K so path may vary depending on your O/S and drive configuration). When you close and reopen PS, the new font will appear in the list (not always in alphabetical order). Mac font folders can exist in several different places and I’ve yet to figure out which is right for new fonts.

[David Johnson]

When you duplicate an item, AE adds an asterisk to the end of the duplicate’s name so it is not identical to the original. or, I did I misunderstand your question?