Hype Napungra
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There’s a few tutorials which show you how to create the waveform effects with particle plugins and sync them to audio but I don’t know about making the text follow the same paths. Check the tutorials for Aharon Rabinowitz’s tutorial on the subject, it’s fairly involved but he explains it very clearly and simply.
Hype Napungra
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Where are you creating your vines? If you’ve used Photoshop then I suggest that once you’ve made your artwork, turn it into a selection and drag it to a new window with a fully transparent background, export this as a PNG and then you’ll preserve the transparency. It sounds like you’ve exported the PNG with a white background rather than a transparent one. What you need to remember as well is that your artwork will be pixelated in PS which may account for the halo effect. Check out Andrew Kramer’s tutorial on this very subject where he’ll show you how to do this in 3DS Max and After Effects.
If you’re not using a 3D programme to do this then you’ll find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to pull the effect off properly since After Effects and Photoshop don’t have true 3D capabilities. Check out the tutorial on videocopilot.net and you’ll see what I mean.
Good luck!
TommyHype Napungra
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Would the info for the null not just show in the comp? If you open the null layer, the anchor point co-ordinates should be there to see unless I’ve completely misunderstood this question! lol Alternatively, if you’re looking to apply these figures to another object I can only suggest that you try pickwhipping the anchor point to the position of the object. Again, I may have entirely misunderstood so my apologies if that’s the case……
Tommy
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I’m still very much a beginner with AE but I’d recommend Studio Techniques too, it’s in depth and very detailed but will prove a valuable resource for future work. Even if you don’t fully understand some of the stuff that’s in it, it will stand you in good stead for quite some time and it’s an excellent resource to have available. Well worth every penny!! It may not cover animation but the tips on everything from blending modes to levels are excellent and worth investing in.
Other than than, gorge yourself on the tutorials on this site and also on videocopilot.net – They’ll teach you more practical tips that a book can possibly give you AND they’re free!!
Tommy
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Are you running CS3? There’s an effect which allows you apply Photoshop-like effects to text such as bevel and emboss etc…but since I’m in work and can’t see AE I can’t remember where it is!! lol Sorry!
As for animating the text, I don’t know if just using the camera would work. If you’re making the text follow people (e.g. A speech bubble) then you’d probably need to animate it by hand or motion track them. There’s probably a million other ways to do it but I’m no expert and this is the best I can think of.
Hype Napungra
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It sounds like you want to animate the position of the fire itself in relation to the subject in which case there are two basic options that I can think of. The first, and most laborious, is to keyframe the position of your fire layer to follow the person who’s meant to be burning – you do this by basically going through the footage frame by frame and, as the other comments says, add position keyframes to follow your subject.
Another option could be to motion track your subject, apply the results to a null object and then parent the fire layer to the null which should make it follow your main figure.
I’m still learning AE too and these are the easiest ways I can think to achieve your effect. If you’ve already managed to generate the fire then you don’t need to worry about particle effects or suchlike. I recommend checking out every tutorial on this site and also on http://www.videocopilot.net – you’ll learn everything you need.
All the best
TommyHype Napungra
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I regularly output to Quicktime and/or uncompressed AVI and can confirm that the files are massive. A 3 minute shot with basic colour correction and some cuts ended up at about 14 gig in QT and about 4.5 gig in AVI. I didn’t realise that the export and render queue were different though so that’s certainly something that’ll come in handy. I’ve noticed that the Cineform codec seem to be of a lesser quality than the uncompressed files although I don’t know enough about it to fully comment.
If you’re exporting from Vegas as HD it will take AGES to export (I run a pretty fast quad-core and ten minutes of video took almost an hour to export without ANY effects or transitions to use in AE) but I can confirm that it maintains the quality. An idea might be to use Vegas for your colour corrections etc and export only the one segment of film that requires special effects then re-import that part into Vegas with the rest of the movie. I don’t know if it’ll be of any use to you but hopefully it could save you some time!
Good luck with it!
TommyHype Napungra
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I’m sure there’s a tutorial by Andrew Kramer that shows how to do with with motion tracking. If it’s not here, it might be over on his videocopilot site but I’m certain that it exists.
Hype Napungra
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I don’t recommend the noise reduction effects in Audition because of this problem, it’s when you remove too much of the frequency of the voice that these strange artifacts are left behind after processing. With the setting mentioned before you can get passable results but it’s worth trying a third party plug in, particularly if you can get hold of the Waves X-Noise. It’s expensive but it’s indispensable!
Hype Napungra
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There are specific 3rd party plug ins that do the job perfectly (Audioease do one called “Speakerphone” which is excellent). The way to do what you’re talking about would require an EQ and the ability to ‘automate’ the values of the high frequencies.
Think of the way that walls and floors behave, if you were to remove the low frequencies as you’re suggesting you would be left with a really thin sound in the voices which is nothing like the effect you want. Walls and insulation will remove and muffle the top-end of the frequency scale leaving the lower end to be heard so that’s what you’re trying to recreate. Using the EQ option at the left hand side of Audition should bring you up the options. Take the slider or handle at the FAR RIGHT of the freq. chart and drag it down to about 200Hz, this will remove the top end and take the emphasis away from the voice which sits around 4Khz in the top-mid range.
As for making the values change over a period of time, I don’t know how to do this in Audition as I don’t think Audition allows for automation of values (although I could be wrong!). In a sequencer such as Cubase, you need to activate the automation track and then choose which parameter you want to control over time, apply a curve or slope so that it the values change according to what you want.
Hopefully this is of SOME use to you!
All the best,
THype Napungra