[Jerry Smith]

Thank you! That might be a bit too industrial. Will that work for text also?

[Jerry Smith]

It’s not short comps that causes it because I don’t have any short ones. I haven’t experimented with it this week, but as far as I remember, it maybe has something to do with the overall size of the layout. I did a bunch of syncing in Sep-Oct and noticed that sometimes it would be more zoomed. I didn’t care much. But now I actually would like that super zoom.

[Jerry Smith]

So you never noticed on your machine that sometimes zoomed in all the way is more zoomed than other times?

[Jerry Smith]

Right, I saw you mentioned this in another thread. I won’t be using mp3s, but unfortunately, it is still too late to avoid problems as I already synced to them. Now I need to move the real .wav audio by what looks like about 23 milliseconds before rendering. But there are multiple projects, so I want to make sure what the actual delay time is and whether that is the only problem.

[Jerry Smith]

Thanks Kalle for taking all the time to clarify that. I gave up and decided to hire a professional! Hehe.

[Jerry Smith]

And one more question. They describe it as a translucent app. And to a novice like me, it seems translucent. But to your trained eyes, what is translucent about it?

[Jerry Smith]

Thanks Kalle,

Do you think there is any systematic way to choose four colors for a given color?

I have 25 or so different projects. So I would need 100 or so colors. It actually took me a very long time to find the 25 colors.

I’m amazed that you can see four colors in those images. (Remember I’m not really a designer.) How do you know there are four?

And why do you need the radial effect on top of the 4 color effect?

And how do you know it is radial and not linear?

You must have some good eyes!

[Jerry Smith]

Thanks Kalle,

I was asking about the brown that is right around the round white head shots. You mentioned brown in your first response, so you seemed to know what I was asking about.

But, to be 100% clear, I’m asking what the app designer for that brown app would use in AE to make that app assuming he started with some kind of brown solid or at least a brown hexidecimal number. Assume he can’t use Photoshop or another program.

[Jerry Smith]

Thanks John,

So you say I should use CC light sweep, a gradient, noise, and then a directional blur? So four effects?

I’m sorry, but I’ve really only used a few effects. I’m a time re-map master, but a novice with almost everything else.

What effect do you use for the gradient?

[Jerry Smith]

Did they use reflection maps for that cellphone app?

Is there any kind of plugin I can buy?

I’m a bit surprised there isn’t some effect called “Reflective Glass” that you can just slap onto solids. Or again, “Brushed Metal”; I see guys construct a brushed metal look using noise and several steps.