[Immanuel Morales]

wow.. visual hub rocks

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[Immanuel Morales]

try using a gaussian blur set to .25 or .3 this usually does the trick for me.

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[Immanuel Morales]

not that i know of..
what effect would you be going for?

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[Immanuel Morales]

if you have some intense graphics going on in your film, it’s going to take a pretty long time anyway. however, there are some compression types that are slower than others. particularly streaming video and dvd codecs. i have noticed significant increases in compression times when outputting to these formats. there are some things you can do to improve your renders a bit, like hitting caps lock to disable the viewing area and making sure you’re taking full advantage of your multiprocessor. (check that your memory and cache settings are taking full advantage of your multithreading capability) and that you have your multiprocessing switched on. Other than that, hey man, you’re making a motion graphics film, that’s pretty much gonn be the rub

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[Immanuel Morales]

Well i don’t know of a preset, but you could use some Math.sin on the rotation/position values then motion tile the footage

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[Immanuel Morales]

man, wouldn’t that hog your processor??
try this instead

apply shatter to a separate 2d solid and move the force way away from the screen.
set your custom shatter map to your logo’s layer and that should do the trick.
oh yea and i think you have to turn off your gravity and stuff to keep it from moving.

this would be way faster and easier to manage.. man, that had to be a hassle making all those layers if you didn’t use expressions.

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[Immanuel Morales]

hey ron, i do like the choppy look too and now that you mention it, maybe you could get that with expressions. what if you took your wiggle expression, converted it to keyframes, used the smoother to cut unwanted keyframes and converted them all to hold keyframes?

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[Immanuel Morales]

that might not be a bad alternative, i’d only have to wait until i got home on my own pc to convert it. (we run all macs here.) .. oh and now i recognize flip4mac by the green wmv icon. i used it at another studio and it was fantastic. plus it’s only a few bucks : )

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[Immanuel Morales]

amit, i tried the mp4, but i believe it is encased still in a quicktime format. if i could get an AVI mp4 that would be great

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[Immanuel Morales]

wiggle would do it;
just type something like “wiggle(3,7)” into the position values of the rays.
in case it’s your first time using the wiggle expression, the first number controls the speed, the second controls the amplitude.

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