[Graham Quince]

Just to chuck something else in. Blur the shadow version of the guy and set the transfer mode to colour burn, you can get a really nice flowing effect as the black colour moves over different parts of the background.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Yes exactly. Good luck.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

What’s her favourite TV show? I’ve done stuff like this using the music and style of the titles.

Always gets a good reaction

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

If you boss still says no. Try playing around with a small circle flying around in a nested comp and applying Echo and/or radial blur.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

I’d do this with two compositions. In the first one, set the size of the comp to be the width of your video layer plus the width of your photoshop still. Then drop in the video and still and use position to place them alongside each other. I’ll refer to this comp as ‘Side-by-side’

Now create a second composition and make is the default size for your final video output. For PAL that would be 720×576.

Bring ‘Side-by-side’ into this new comp and press ‘P’ to reveal the Position properties. Move ‘Side-by-side’ until your can just see the video layer. With the Position properties, you’ll see a little stopwatch icon. Move the timeline position until you want your change to begin. Now click on that little stopwatch. After Effects sets a keyframe, a little tick appears in the checkbox next to the stopwatch. Move the timeline again to where you want your animation to finish. You’ll notice the tick has disappeared. Click on that checkbox to add a tick and then move ‘Side-by-side’ until the photoshop layer is visible.

Tada! Now this is the most basic way to do this. You could also play around with the Motion Blur settings, consider changing the Anchor values instead of the Position ones etc…

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

I feel the need to echo Troy’s post. I’ve occasionally had problems (some technical, some not) that Kathlyn and Ron have had to put themselves out to help me. I should also add that I think each problem turned out not to be the Cow’s fault at all, but something at my end.

You guys rock!

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

I’ve built stuff like this in the past. I think the secret is going big. I say that because I don’t mean the same thing as scale.

As this is Creative Calf, I’ll probably be telling you stuff you already know, so apologies…. by holding down the space bar and dragging the comp window, you can move around a huge amoount of space not normally seen in the comp frame. That allows you to position layers thousands of units (pixels ??) apart. Again apologies if i’m patronising you, but I found that out from this forum myself a couple of years ago.

If you’d like me to take a look at your project, I’d be more than happy to.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

This looks like it was mainly done using AE’s 3D layers. Basically, create a series of interesting animations, turn on the 3D layer option and move through them with one of AE’s cameras. Text can be a 3d layer too.

Hope that helps

Graham

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As much as I’d love Knoll Lens flare (or shine for the matter), I’ve found you can create pretty good lens flare using the basic ones available in AE and colouring them, stretching the layer, adding a distort etc…

It’s probably not as good as KLF, but it is a lot cheaper 🙂

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

You can get this effect pretty easily using Fractal Noise. Matt Dallos has this in-depth tutorial which goes through everything you’ll need.

The short version is to keyframe evolution of Fractal Noise on a solid, and then color that noise orange using Hue/Saturation and then use a transfer mode like Add to get the fire look.

Hope that helps

Graham

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