[Geo Lam]

I use AfterEffects, so here’s my AfterEffecty suggestion.

Use a mask and text animation.

1. The text reveals itself from the middle to outwards. Make a feathered mask and animate the mask expansion.

2. The text spreads itself out over time. Make the text and in the property menus for your Text, twirl it open once and click “Animate” and then click “Tracking” and animate that.

3. The text randomly disappears, letter by letter. Same as (2), click “Animate” and then click “Opacity”. Twirl down to “Advanced” and turn on “Randomize Order” and animate the opacity offset.

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[Geo Lam]

Thanks for that, really got me started :]
Now I’m hungry for more lol

[Geo Lam]

I want to especially learn about matte painting..
3D is not much of an issue yet as I plan to do these scenes with still images for now..

[Geo Lam]

Thanks for your reply Joey

1. Matte painting is none existant, as I’m just starting to get into it.

2. I can track motion as far as: Using the inbuilt AE motion tracker and rotoscoping track points

3. I’ve never used a 3D program before.

I’ve still got a long way to go, eh 🙂

If anyone could direct me to some tutorials, that’d be greatly appreciated

[Geo Lam]

Hmm no, I don’t have Flash. But anyway, I think I can’t use Flash anyway.

And yeh, H264 is good but the file size is much bigger than required.

Temporary solution, I used Premiere and exported it at 40% quality which made it 14.5mb

[Geo Lam]

Have you tried creating a proxy for your footage file?