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I’d shoot a close up of a cigerette burning over a black screen and composite that into my shot.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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It’s not much more complicated then manipulating the rounded rectangle tool to create the round bulges. Then creating another rounded rectangle to use as an inverted matte to cut out the half circle on the left side of the lower third. For the two shapes on the left, I duplicated the first shape, added a mask to cut off one side and rotated one 180 degrees and re-positioned it.
You would then precomp some of the shapes to use as a matte for the ticker. I made a quick mock up for you to check out—should get you started on figuring this out. 7526_lowerthird.aep.zip
You might also want to check out this link, and find the Andrew Devis tutorials on shape layers, it will make this a lot easier in the future. Getting started with After Effects (CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, & CC)
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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You might want to search ebay and limit the searches to used. You might be able to really stretch your dollar that way.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Bigger is better, it’s nice to be able to have some programmable buttons too, but I think any tablet is better than a mouse. We have tablets at every edit/graphics station in the office, and most of us use tablets at home.
As someone who once had to rotoscope enough football & basketball players for a 30 second spot—way back before rotobrush, don’t use a mouse. 1 eight hour shift and your wrist will be killing you, not to mention 4 days straight.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Might be worthy of a Feature Request
Couple of ways you do this. One, duplicate & lock a copy of your image underneath the layer you are masking. Or you can double click and open in the layer window and uncheck “render”. At the end you would then need to change all your masks modes still.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Alt + Page Down = Moves layer 1 frame forward
Alt + Shift + Page Down = Moves layer 10 frames forward
Alt + Page Up = Moves layer 1 frame Back
Alt + Shift + Page Up = Moves layer 10 frames backJohnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Sorry, I thought the foam was just traveling along a fixed path, hence use a stroke or shape layer. Took me a couple of times to work out the problem and my solution really isn’t going to help you, let me think and see if there is an alt solution.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
If the foam is coming in, moving with the gears and out, then yes, you could use a shape layer like that.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Another method would be to use a shape layer, add a trim paths and animate that.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
On the other board, I mentioned you might want to try the CC Wire Removal effect, I took a still of your video and it seemed to work okay.
Otherwise, if you can make your video available to be downloaded, I could try some other methods(play around) and see what works and doesn’t.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.