[Michael Duff]

just feather your mask! click on the layer with has the mask and hit “f” i think.

[Michael Duff]

there is a tutorial or artical floating around, it may even be here on the cow, where you can use shatter to create a falling leaf. I played around with it and got a fairly good looking result.

Michael Duff –
Southern Cross Ten, Australia

[Michael Duff]

there is a tutorial or artical floating around, it may even be here on the cow, where you can use shatter to create a falling leaf. I played around with it and got a fairly good looking result.

Michael Duff –
Southern Cross Ten, Australia

[Michael Duff]

if they are not numbered I think there is a program called IrfanView or something like that which is free and does batch renaming/converson. It is a pretty funky little program for doing simple batch things.

OR
import all the files, stick them on the timeline and go “sequence layers” then precomp all these layers…..

– hopefully they are numbered 🙂

Michael Duff –
Southern Cross Ten, Australia

[Michael Duff]

test your alpha by clicking on the little white square at the bottom of your comp window (next to the red/green/blue little squares). Or set your background colour to something like hotpink so you can see what will be transparent.

Make sure when you render that you set your export settings to include an alpha channel, or RGB+A, or 32bit. Rendering as a TGA sequence is a pretty safe format that most NLE’s will be able to read the alpha. Otherwise quicktime animation codec or AVI uncompressed are good too.

Cheers

Michael Duff –
Southern Cross Ten, Australia

[Michael Duff]

are you planning on playing back in quicktime on a copmuter? or are you playing out to tape/tv? are you PAL or NTSC?

If it is staying in the computer world make sure you are using square pixels. For PAL, 16×9 square pixels equates to 1024×576.

If you are playing out to TV and using non-square pixels make sure you have the correct composition settings for your format. Also, if you are rendering in non-square pixels and then play back the rendered video in quicktime it will looked squashed (right?)

[Michael Duff]

thanks for the reply – I think I will go for the G4 as 90% of my work is AE, I’m just going to be really frustrated in 6 months time when AE 7.x comes out with macBook support.

I was in there a few weeks ago to chat and drop my reel off and saw you working but didn’t want to interupt you….you looked like you were “in the zone”… I really liked that Fox Classics spot you did and could ask you a million quiestions about it. As well as the birthday thing. It is great watching the before/after edit side by side.

Cheers

Michael Duff –
Southern Cross Ten, Australia

[Michael Duff]

you could either set a white background (ctrl+shift+B) and then keyframe the opacity from 0% to 100%. Just click on your layer, then press “t” for opacity.

Or create a white solid (ctrl-y) – and animate the opacity from 100% down to 0% over 30frame. again click on the white solid and press “t” for opacity.

[Michael Duff]

or do the VHS trick with a really old crappy player and an old dirty tape and just record black a few time…..maybe slowmo or fast forward to get those horizontal lines. Because it is noise over black you can then lay that over your vision and try some transfer modes.

[Michael Duff]

I remember AE 6.5 came with invigorator or something on an extra disk? or mail order? ?? I thought maybe AE 7.0 came with it as well…….

Michael Duff –
Southern Cross Ten, Australia