Graham Quince
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Thanks very much Mark
This worked brilliantly.
Graham
https://www.qcit.co.uk – web design
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If you’re having trouble with Encore subtitles, try Subtitle Workshop. It’s freeware, incredibly stable, easy to use and exports as a text file in the Encore format.
Graham
https://www.qcit.co.uk – web design
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Or….
You can time reverse a comp containing text which has been shattered with 0 force but inverted gravity. You should be able to achieve quite a nice building up effect.
Hope that helps
Graham
https://www.qcit.co.uk – web design
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I know its frustrating if someone doesn’t answer your posts. For me, its either because I don’t have a lot of time to give a detailed post or because I don’t know the answer. In those cases, I prefer not to reply, in case another poster sees you’ve been responded to and doesn’t read your original.
Regarding creating light rays without a plugin. In the early days of AE, Brain Maffitt created this tutorial to do exactly what you’re looking for.
Serge Hamad also wrote this tutorial for the cow on parenting. In it, he creates a beam of light.
Hope these help.
Graham
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Avoiding spending on a plugin. You can create a ground reflection of the moon quite easily. I’m going to suggest the most basic way of doing this as there are several options but I don’t want to confuse you.
Bring in a copy of the moon you choose and press ‘S’ to reveal the scale options. There’s a small link symbol next to the two percentages. Uncheck this. Now, grab the top of the moon layer and pull it below the bottom of itself. The moon should turn upside down. You can now pull the sides and top and bottom to get it looking just right for a reflection.
Once you’re happy, adjust the transfer mode to something like ‘screen’ until it looks more like a reflection. And you’re done.
Hope that helps
Graham
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Can I just add my own Happy New Year too.
[Filip Vandueren] “A colleague of mine saw the 3D CD-case project I made a while ago, and said: you didn’t post that on the Cow did you, you’ll loose jobs over that, I said: of course I put it on the cow 😎”
I have also had experiences with non-Cow folk. One of the managers came into the office one day, saw I was on the Cow and said “You’re always on there, don’t you do any work?” He said it jokingly, but still disapproving, so I took 5 minutes to show him where the mechanics behind half the resources I’d prepared had come from.
“Oh” He said “but at least you don’t help anyone else out, do you?”Some people just don’t get it.
Graham
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Can I just add my own Happy New Year too.
[Filip Vandueren] “A colleague of mine saw the 3D CD-case project I made a while ago, and said: you didn’t post that on the Cow did you, you’ll loose jobs over that, I said: of course I put it on the cow 😎”
I have also had experiences with non-Cow folk. One of the managers came into the office one day, saw I was on the Cow and said “You’re always on there, don’t you do any work?” He said it jokingly, but still disapproving, so I took 5 minutes to show him where the mechanics behind half the resources I’d prepared had come from.
“Oh” He said “but at least you don’t help anyone else out, do you?”Some people just don’t get it.
Graham
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Personalli, and I don’t know it’s name, but the close up of a person’s face, while the background slow fades out, followed eventually by the person’s face is an exercise in “let’s show the actor being moody/thoughtful”. 🙂
Graham
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Hi Kevin
I think the easiest way to achieve this is to draw your mask on a solid above the layer you want masked (I’ll call it ‘main layer’). Then set your main layer’s track matte to alpha.
Now when you animate the main layer, the masking will stick to the original size and shape. Hope that helps.
Graham
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I’ll second that from the other side of the world.
Seasons greetings
Graham Quince
Newcastle, Great Britain