[John Cuevas]

Chris,

When moving or panning around real documents you will often get these problems just because you are moving between fields with lines of text that can disappear between the fields.

The first thing I would try is to rescan the document at a very high resolution, 600DPI. This might get you enough information and make the text big enough to avoid this problem, though if you are going to zoom from full document to CU of one line you are going to have the same problems. Zooming from a paragraph to the line might work.

Another solution would be to make a decent size .pict and just let the editor do the move in Avid Marquee. I use AE and Adrenaline and for stuff like what you describe, marquee will handle it better.

Also, is it possible to not zoom? Why not show the document, full screen, then just dissolve to the line of text blown up. Or use the technique where you leave the full page doc up, it slowly gets darker, as a dissolve of the important line comes up over it.

Good Luck
johnny
Ck&Co

[John Cuevas]

Marcus,

One of the things you should know realize about many of the demo reels you see in the demo forum is that those are compositors and motion graphics people who just do that type of work. So really you are comparing apples to oranges if that’s not what you do full-time.

As to the initial query, house I work at does 90% corporate video. Of that, we probably need to use AE for compositing, effects, animating logos in about 60% of the video. If you pick up the AE and the first Trish & Chris Meyer book, Creating Motion Graphics in AE, you will probably be able to handle 95% of your clients needs in regards to that little extra polish for corporate video.

If you check out our site which has quite a few vids up in the gallery, you can get an idea of the effects composition that corporate clients require. Just a warning, most of them videos are of the most visually interesting parts, after the first 20 seconds or so we start showing products or talking heads.

Johnny Cuevas
Editor
CK&Co
http://www.ckandco.net

[John Cuevas]

Thanks,

Figured it couldn’t be done without creating multiple menus and auto-activate and a lot of thinking I really didn’t feel like doing on Friday.

[John Cuevas]

Check out elastic gasket. Allows you to take 3rd party AE plugs and drop them into the Avid.

[John Cuevas]

Thank you Dan

I’m only about 16 years removed from the last time I used trig fuctions and basic alegebra. Took me a bit to wrap my head around exactly how it worked out.

I feel for you having to deal with students like me. Again, I really appreciate you taking the time to put up motionscripts.com. Been using AE since Cosa 3.0, it’s about time I start fully taking advatage of the program.

Johnny

[John Cuevas]

Thank you Dan

I’m only about 16 years removed from the last time I used trig fuctions and basic alegebra. Took me a bit to wrap my head around exactly how it worked out.

I feel for you having to deal with students like me. Again, I really appreciate you taking the time to put up motionscripts.com. Been using AE since Cosa 3.0, it’s about time I start fully taking advatage of the program.

Johnny

[John Cuevas]

The best looking way would be to run over a stuntman’s head with a car, but I don’t think most unions would allow it…

[John Cuevas]

Easily done in AE.

Create multiple layers of text for each word. Then animate the text offset parameter, animate the text opacity parameter.

[John Cuevas]

I rarely use the mouse at all, having completely switched to a wacom. Takes a little bit to change over, but after learning how to do it, I don’t think I’ll ever switch back.

Using a mouse all day, seemed to be putting me on the fast track to carpal tunnel, glad I made the change.

[John Cuevas]

To be fair it does take a little time to get used to it. What’s nice though is finding a configuration that works best for you, once you got that set up, I find it does save me time, having everything open, just a resize a way from getting to what I need.