[Jeremy Allen]

SORRY FOR THE CAPS, I’M RENDERING..

I’VE HAD A SIMILAR PROBLEM WHEN RENDERING ANIMATION, RGB+ALPHA. THE SHADOW LOOKS GREAT IN AE, BUT COMES OUT GREYISH IN FCP. IT’S BEEN A WHILE, BUT I BELIEVE I TRIED STRAIGHT AND MULTIPLIED. I THINK I ENDED UP TAKING A SECTION OF THE FCP EDIT INTO AE AND LAYING THE GRAPHICS WITH SHADOW OVER THE TOP OF THAT. THEN RENDER THAT SECTION OUT AND REPLACE IN FCP. VERY CUMBERSOME, BUT IT’S THE ONLY SOLUTION I COULD COME UP WITH IN THE TIME I HAD TO WORK ON IT.

IS THIS A COMMON PROBLEM, AND IS THERE A STANDARD FIX FOR IT?

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

I’m not sure if this will help you or not, but this tutorial covers shooting in the day time and making it look like night. He also adds headlights to the car which shine down on the ground. Maybe this will give you a starting point or some other ideas..

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/day_to_night_conversion/

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

Also, if it’s just text you want ot put around the ring, there is a text animation preset that will do that.. Good luck.

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[Jeremy Allen]

No problem, glad i could help!

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

Somebody suggested Turbulent Displacement for a similar effect in another thread.. Maybe give that a try

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

If I understand what you’re asking, you could start with a very low birth rate and size. Then increase the birthrate and “size over life” until the particles fill the entire screen.

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

Sorry, I posted without refreshing the page.. didn’t see Dave’s response. Carry on..

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

It depends on how “minor” the problem really is, but AE certainly has tools to manipulate the color.

Try Levels or Curves to start with.

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

Dave, I think he’s wanting to animate the scale of one word, and the words around it will animate to keep the same distance from the scaled word. So the main word grows, and the other words move outwards around it to keep the same distance.

I think that’s what he means anyway 🙂

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AE CS3

[Jeremy Allen]

Hey thanks for the help Dave, I knew I could count on you 😉

I don’t have a Kona card, but the final edit will be laid to Beta at a local post house. So with what you said, I could really give him the file at 23.98 and he can convert it to 29.97 when he prints it?

Also, something about changing frame rates and the word “broadcast” makes me a little nervous. The pre-shot sequence is a music video and I certainly can’t have any weirdness going on with the cadence, so I have to make sure I get this right.

In theory, could I convert my final 23.98 edit to 29.97 and then edit in the pre-shot stuff? If so, would you recommend Nattress for that? That way I could use the exact footage they gave me and if something came up wrong, it would be their fault 🙂

I’ve only had a couple shows broadcast, hence the apprehension.

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