[John Cuevas]

Some good answers here: https://www.quora.com/How-did-they-make-it-look-like-Lt-Dans-legs-were-missing-in-Forrest-Gump-movie

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

We have an archiving fee that’s built into the contract. We use a Facillis system, so everything is pretty much in one place(save for the NLE) and once a project is closed, I collect the NLE and back it all up to LTO. Need to make a change, just restore the LTO, drop the NLE back into the shared project folder and we are back up an running.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Well I work with one of the companies you mentioned and if they have a tool like that they sure haven’t shared it with me. Multiple occasions I have had to just copy and paste their titles into a project in multiple language.

I think this tool would work really well for you. Text2Spreadsheet

Export the texts of your After Effects project to a spreadsheet and apply the modified spreadsheet again to the AE project in a single click. Perfect for text translation, client review and other text processing tasks.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Trace a mask around the buildings you want to animate then add the effect Generate > Stroke and set it’s Paint Style to “On Original Image”. Keyframe the end point.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

screen shot didn’t come through.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Might be easier to use the RubicCube script.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

MIght want to try the Expressions Forum.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Might want to ask in the expressions forum too.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Personally this makes me NUTS and I avoid giving even the chance for this kind of “creative input” whenever and wherever possible.

At the start of a project, I usually will do the searches, but if I keep getting rejected, I send them links and instructions on how to search and save their stock footage choices. There are only so many times I can be told that this shot or that isn’t what they have in mind.

One problem with stock we have is once we buy it and charge client A for it. Clients B through Z usually end up getting a free ride…”oh remember that one shot we used in that video 2 years ago…pull that from stock and use it here.” Does anyone charge for stock footage that they purchased for Client A, and then use it client D’s video?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Slow motion effect with the outline of a subject @1:17

You might be able to do that with the Echo effect.

Lettering distortion @0:05 and distortion @1:25

Try creating a fractal noise pattern in a precomp, dump it in the final comp. And then apply a displacement layer effect to your text and point it at the fractal noise pattern.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.