[Iannorthrop]

Thanks! That’s exactly what I was looking for.

ian

[Iannorthrop]

oooooh yes. a much anticipated feature. I’m guilty of having to hand-animate individual letters (nightmare), hand spaced, in 3-d before this feature was released.

ian

[Iannorthrop]

tried decompose. would be great if it kept the kearning. tried it twice now and it jumbles each letter on top of each other (not keeping the position of individual letters)
ae7 & cs3.. same result.

Am I doing something wrong?

ian

[Iannorthrop]

good call. I forgot about the render-every-other-frame technique. thanks for the reminder

ian

[Iannorthrop]

I’d try the ‘ol “I’d like to speak with your manager” routine.
Or, sometimes your can get different results by calling again and speaking with someone else.

[Iannorthrop]

also-
have you tried a quicktime with the animation setting? This always works for me. looks great and supports straight and premultiplied alphas.

ian

[Iannorthrop]

I suppose you could render a custom alpha channel (used as a luminance matte in your compositing/nle app.

Try this:
1. precompose your final comp.
2. apply => effect => generate => fill. fill new precomp with white.
3. create a black solid (comp size). place this layer underneath the first.
4. render this file for use in your nle.
5. apply this new file as a luma matte/key to your jpeg sequence.

This is of course assuming that you want this area of transparency. Considering this is probably going to be a lengthy render you should probably wait to try this until someone else verifies that this is your best option. There are probably plenty other options out there. Hope this helps.

ian

[Iannorthrop]

isn’t there something to do with “vectors” as far as creating frames that aren’t there? There is also an option to have it create frames from the frames that come before it and follow.
Sorry couldn’t be of more help.

ian

[Iannorthrop]

also, you’ll need to restart illustrator for these preference changes to work.

ian

[Iannorthrop]

great. feel like I’ve learned alot. thank you.
I’m not finding the dither checkbox on the “layer styles” gradient overlay. I do see it when using the tool manually. so that solves that.. I’ll only use the gradient tool from the tools window to take advantage of the dithering/diffuse qualities. thanks again.

ian