[Jimmy Zito]

Hey Marco,
This tutorial by Emanuel Eriksson might be of help…

https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/eriksson_emanuel/sand/index.html&forumid=2&remote_logo=&color=CCFF99

[Jimmy Zito]

Hey Arie. Thanks for the reply. I found a .pdf version of the file
(which gave me the same error). But I saved it as an Illus file and I
think it’s working now. Thanks again.

Jim

[Jimmy Zito]

I would agree that there aren’t many times in which seeing a boom is acceptable. On something like that show Insomniac with Dave Attell on Comedy Central, I think it is. I think it has to be a very loose form type show for it to be that acceptable though, but not in movies unless for comedic effect.

[Jimmy Zito]

Here are some wood textures for SPACEMAN.

https://www.techtonics.com/Tajima%20Majesta%20Seurats%20Wood%20Skus.htm

[Jimmy Zito]

Yeah, I think the only “Broadcast Standard” now is that the footage is compelling and interesting. It doesn’t really matter what format anymore. Which is fine with me.

Jon, it sounds like you have it much worse than me. In fact, I bet there are a lot of people in this industry that have it worse. But I just had to vent a little and hear that there are other people out there that are as annoyed as I am about nothing being standardized.

[Jimmy Zito]

Right. But here’s my question:

Why did the engineer gods decide to make that 6 pixel difference, so that when I burn DVDs etc, I have to worry about chopping off 6 from the top with uncomp. video and not with DV. I’m kind of asking a rhetoricl question, but I’m just frustrated with all these different formats, etc and no standards.

[Jimmy Zito]

Sorry about that. Adrenaline 1.6 on PC. I’m trying to learn more about the technical specs of all this stuff, and how it works, and I’ve checked on the web about this specific question and just got more confused. So any light you can shed on it would be appreciated.

Jim

[Jimmy Zito]

Happened to me one time too. Did the same thing with the black at the end. But I’ve rendered out to QT many times since, and it it hasn’t happened again. Weird.

[Jimmy Zito]

Hi,
In the Fluorescent Light preset, there are flicker effects on the individual letters and the whole word itself.
Click on the text layer a type UU. That will bring up all the properties that have been used to make the effect. Under RANGE SELECTOR 1, you’ll see keyframes for OFFSET that go from -15 to 100. Bring those keyframes closer together to make the individual letters flicker faster and more often or farther apart to make it slower and less often. As far as the whole word flickering, under WIGGLER SELECTOR 1, you can change the WIGGLES PER SECOND to suit your needs.
Also, you can change what flickers-the character, word or whole line under the BASED ON properties.

HTH,
Jim