[John Cuevas]

Been asked a bunch of times, just needed to search EKG. Check out some of these threads
and the tutorial and if you have any questions, just come back and ask.

https://forums.creativecow.net/search.php?q=EKG&f%5B%5D=2

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.

[John Cuevas]

Unless you have a backup system, I don’t know of anyway to recover a overwritten QT. Once they start writing you don’t have an End of File marker, til it finishes and now your file doesn’t have it.

Perhaps there is a data recovery service that could manage to find your files, but you probably should start rendering again. If you have multiple things to render I would start looking for people you know who can spare some CPU time.

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.

[John Cuevas]

Are your pictures in the RGB color space? You can open them in photoshop import the photo and it will be right across the top. If they are in CMYK, just go to Image->Mode and change them, then try and import them.

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.

[John Cuevas]

If you mean the transition around 7 seconds, it’s not very difficult. Just enable 3D for both layers. For the layer you are transitioning, rotate -90 on the X, move it’s Y position to 0 and it’s Z position to height/2. If you turn on one of your custom views your layers should look like the corner of a box.

Next you would add a null to the scene, enable it’s 3D and it’s Z position would be comp height/2—so for a 1280 x 720 it’s z would be 360. Now just parent both layers to the null and rotate the nulls x rotation 90 degrees. You could form an entire box if you wanted and keep rotating if you wanted.

Lastly in that example I noticed a little light as it rotated so you would want to add one that is behind and over the front layer, so it only shows up as the box is turning.

I made a quick example project to illustrate the technique, hope you find it helpful: 4615_3dtransitioncs5.5.aep.zip

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.

[John Cuevas]

Place the element in your composition and then add the effect Distort -> Offset. Animate the offset position.

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.

[John Cuevas]

Create your text and twirl it open. Under the Animate flyout you will find a text animator for Skew. You can now animate the skew of your text.

By adjusting the range selectors you could selectively skew your characters, or you could start with no characters skewed and have a skew wave pass over your characters.

The “3D Fall Back and Skew” isn’t really an effect per se, it is text animator preset that’s been saved. If you create a skew look you like you could save that and reuse it later. Text animators are extremely powerful and when you get a chance anyone who uses AE should take the time to learn how to use them way beyond just grabbing a preset.

Andrew Devis has done a series on learning AE and Lessons 39-45 are all about using text animators.

Here’s a couple of quick animations using the character animators: 4612_characteranimation.aep.zip

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.

[John Cuevas]

The first and third are examples of kinetic typography and AE tuts has this TUTORIAL on the techniques. If you google “kinetic typography tutorial” you can find more examples.

If you are new to AE, I would strongly suggest you start HERE, Todd Kopriva has gathered a lot of information for people who are just starting out. If you try to jump into this program without learning the basics, you are going to get very frustrated pretty quickly. Half down the page are two very good introductory courses for learning AE for free online, Andrew Devis(Creative Cow) and one from Andrew Kramer(VideoCopilot). Both the Cow and VideoCopilot have hundreds of tutorials from begginer to advance You should check them out.

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.

[John Cuevas]

In that effect, it’s like there is a stencil where the paint is going on, but the following technique would work in either case.

Create your object, text and place it in a comp over your background. Create a solid and call it paint. Double click your layer to open up the layer window and select the brush tool. In my example I used a brush with 600px diameter, 10 Angle, 45% Roundness and Spacing 62%. Now paint the layer where you want the spray paint to go. It took me a few attempts to get the start correct, but eventually I was able to create one paint stroke that covered my entire text.

—-If you really wanted to make this easy, you could take your object and background and prerender them, re-import them and paint that layer and use it as a track matte for your solid color. that way you would know exactly where you were painting in the layer window.

Finally, open up the paint effect and turn on “Paint on Transparent” and animate the Brush -> Stroke Options -> End %

To create a look like in the video you linked, you would place your object as the top layer in the layer stack and your paint below it and change the paints track matte to alpha inverted.

To paint on the object, Paint is the top, object in the middle and the track matte would be alpha.

Here’s a simple example project to get you started…
4610_paintbrushexamplefolder.zip

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.

[John Cuevas]

If it helps, I created a CS5 version of the effect. There’s nothing with these techniques though that couldn’t be replicated in any version that has paint/eraser tools in AE. If you have any questions just let me know.

4609_erasercs5.aep.zip

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.

[John Cuevas]

You could take a solid and place it over your composition and use the eraser on that. You could even animate the brush stroke. Then you could use that as a track matte for your final video.

I made a quick example: 4606_eraserfolder.zip

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.