[Frazer Ash]

Thanks for your suggestion Kalle. That did actually help quite a bit. Not perfect but probably good enough for the job at hand. From what I gather it’s to do with how Illustrator exports SVGs, in that it uses PNGs in an SVG wrapper (or something to that effect at least). Anyway, thanks for your help. Much obliged.

Frazer

[Frazer Ash]

Thanks guys.

Speed does seem to be the next best thing. I had assumed that using per-character 3D would mean each character received its own unique xyz axis – which they do, of course, just not quite how I imagined – they’re still wrapped in the 3d block of the entire word.

Yes, I keyframed opacity as well (still a ways of from dipping my toes into getting into expressions!), in conjunction with a speed increase and it’s pretty much got me where I wanted to be. Not exactly, but that’s probably more a question of me know what I was going for – it’s doubtful the end viewer would even register it.

Anyhow, thanks for taking to time.

Frazer

[Frazer Ash]

Hi Jeff,

I’m working on a Mac, running CS5. If that’s of use…

Frazer

[Frazer Ash]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your response.

Re-interpreting the footage was one of the things I tried, yes, but that didn’t do it for me. However, I’ve since learnt that, in this instance at least, the aspect ratio was essentially irrelevant. It was the codec involved in the clip that was the issue – to generate the correct sequence settings for my AE animated file I had to create a custom preset. Upon creating a new sequence I set it to Digital SLR 1080p25, then went to the general tab, changed editing mode to Desktop, then the video preview file format to Animation, ensuring the dimensions were 1920 x 1080, then saved the preset. Premiere then treated the footage as it should.

I’m sure this is no doubt an amateur mistake, but maybe this info will prove useful to someone else down the line, since all my troubleshooting was focused in the wrong place, i.e the aspect ratio.