[Jason Brown]

You know what is strange about this…just the other day, I had some EX3 footage delivered to me and when I opened it, it imported fine and the options in my Easy Setup and codec options magically transformed to include the XDCAM EX codecs…I don’t have XDCAM transfer software installed.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I have it turned on…every other QT file displays the extension (I like that from my PC days)

These files DON’T have an extension until I assign one. When I do it, the OS even prompts me asking if I want to add an extension.

[Jason Brown]

I’m using Matrox MXO2 with max…which they brag as *faster than real-time* h264 encoding. I know it does depend on your sequence codec…but I’ve had AWESEOME experience with it. I make short 2-3 minute videos and it encodes in under a minute…using HDV content in my sequence…it’s really nice. I believe the Compress HD card uses similar technology?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I like layer tools from Zaxwerks.

[Jason Brown]

Hey Caspar,

Don’t know if this helps…because I don’t work in PAL, but there is a discrepancy when rendering 24p material for FCP…FCP calls it 23.98…whereas in AE, you need the frame rate to be 23.976.

Again, don’t know about 25 (which is PAL I believe)…but maybe that info might give you something to go on.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I got it done…placeholder images…but the effect is done.

One strange thing, the space between the hexagon’s changes just before the rotation keyframes starts. (background is alpha seeing through to black color. Check out this animation if you step through it, you can see it…it’s not an issue of compression, it happens in my comp window.

https://www.jbtwist.com/CC/preview.mp4

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I’m trying to have them flip…Y rotation flips from center, but Z and X flip anchored at the bottom of the text object…I need that center to be in the middle of the hexagon.

Anchor point doesn’t seem to change that. They always rotate locked to the bottom of the text box. Is there a way to change this when you enable per character 3D?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Hey Dave…the process is simpler, but it’s still not working. If I collapse transformations, it cuts to white, then flips…if I leave transformations off…it flips, but never changes color…it’s strange.

I’m going to try Eddie’s suggestion of the font…

I’ll let you know what I find.

-jason

[Jason Brown]

Dave…you are a genius!

Thanks man…this accomplishes the issue I was having…I use replace all the time…I didn’t think about replacing a layer with a composition…I normally don’t do that, only replace footage with footage and comps with comps…just not part of my normal workflow.

Now…should I use the existing rotation of the layer…or rotate inside the precomp to change the color?

-Jason

I love this forum, you guys are so great and helpful…

[Jason Brown]

OK…thanks for your help Dave.

The problem is that I have about 265 (enough to fill a 720p full frame). They are all placed equidistant from each other and if I tried to replicate that with precomps, it would take a ton of time and be hard to get exactly right.

Is that what you are telling me? Take one precomp with one hexagon…rotating and duplicate that in a main comp?

Just making sure.

-Jason