[Fernando Mol]

You can double type “L” to make the waveform visible on the layer.

[Fernando Mol]

There are some codecs that accept only standard video resolutions, like the DV.

In the end, it doesn’t matter the laptop resolution, but the projector resolution.

Do some tests. Render your video and play it in a projector.

[Fernando Mol]

You can create a web page in photoshop. Just design your page and use the slice tool to split your image in parts. Double clic in each slice (with the slice selection tool) and you get a dialog box with options like links, alternate text and others. Then go to file/save for web & devices. Photoshop will give you the options to export an html document with your slices.

This is not te best way to get a web page done. It will be a hell to administrate a site made only in photoshop and it will not be SEO frendly.

[Fernando Mol]

There is a way to control the relative position of an object with actionscript. Just do not remember exactly what command is.

[Fernando Mol]

Its an html welcome page with a link to a flash site.

Flash sites are not recomended for SEO.

You can do the html parth with adobe dreamweaver and the site with adobe flash, but let me tell you, it uses advanced animation techniques and actionscript (flash code) for the navigation.

If you do not know anything about flash, start with something simpler.

[Fernando Mol]

You can do it with fractal noise and a displacement map. Create a solid layer and apply fractal noise effect to it. Animate the noise and precompose the layer. Then, use the pre-comp as you layer base within the displacement map effect, and you got it.

Check out the video tutorials: “Displacement Mapping”, “Looping Fractal Noise” and “The Very, Very Basics of Fractal Noise” by Aharon Rabinowitz, here in the COW.

[Fernando Mol]

You can animate a silhouette with the puppet tool. Also, you can record someone dancing in a green background, keying it out and color it with black. Just add a color solid as the background and there it is. iPod style disco. To see how to key out the background you can check out the “Basic Color Keying Techniques” video tutorial by Andrew Kramer, here in the COW.

[Fernando Mol]

Hi, Chris

There is actually a way to do it with just one effect, but my AE is in spanish, so I will try to translate the names. The effect here is called “Deformación de tiempo”. I guess in english is called “timewarp”.

Just put a very low number in the speed option and select “pixel movement” in the “method” property.

[Fernando Mol]

Try the hue/saturation effect and play with the color channels. One good way to decrease the saturation of an individual color is, not to desaturate it, but instead raise the luminosity value. I did some tests and worked fine for the greens and blues (sky and ground). The tricky thing of that 60s look is the “flattened” color that the skin tone had. Didn´t find an easy way to get it.

Also you can try this: get a frame of an old movie (I just googled one), sample a color from the skin (I got Red 231, Green 176 and Blue 153) and create a solid layer with this color. Then, change the color mode of this new layer to “color” and reduce the opacity until you like it (around 40%, maybe). This method affects the color of the whole scene, but depending of you source material it could work.

Anyway, I am sure using a preset will be easier, but is nice to get dirty sometimes. Good luck.

[Fernando Mol]

Cheer up, this is just a job and you are learning from it. You will learn how to manage difficult people or, maybe, how to recognize the ones you simply doesn´t whant to do buisnes with. Remember the words of Steve Jobs, talking about being fired from apple: “It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

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