[John Cuevas]

First change your the view pulldown from “wireframe + forces” to rendered. Twirl down “Shape” and change the pattern from “bricks” to “custom” and then choose the layer itself in the “Custom Shatter Map” pulldown.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

Not hard to accomplish, check out these tutorials:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kantorski_kevin/signature.php

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/animating_signature2.php

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

Use both Avid and CS5. For my reneders, I generally use Quicktime with the Avid DNX145 codec with an alpha. Files aren’t small, but with HD sizes that’s to be expected.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

Can’t speak for him, but I can give you my bosses reply, “Yeah, when we were shooting, this guy walks through the back of the shot…SO JUST DO THAT THING YOU DO AND REMOVE THEM”

Apparently all you have to do is push the “thing you do” button.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

Thanks Kevin, that did the trick…

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

Hope someone has an answer for this, I’m having the same problem also on multiple computers.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

You are correct, I did not know that blend modes were disable under continous collaspse when an effect was applied.

Might be an incredibly long work around, but in the HUD comp could you apply the bezier warp to each layer. You may need to precomp each layer, if they are different sizes all into precomps of the exact same size(but with position and scale needed for the master). Then just apply the warp once and copy and paste to the other layers.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

I can assure you that AE CS5 does render out to 720 x 486.

Pretty sure what’s happening is you have are trying to work with SD at a 4×3 ratio, but you’ve inadverntly set the pixel aspect ratio to square. Change it to .91 and you should be good to go.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

Remove the adjustment layer from your precomped HUD. In the main comp, apply the warp directly to your precomped HUD layer.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[John Cuevas]

Next time before trashing your prefences, check to see if the live update button is pushed. On the timeline above your modes the second button is “live update” if that has been accidentally unclicked it you won’t give live updates as you scrub through the timeline or parameters.

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