[John Cuevas]

Jerry, when you use the zoom to get a closer view, AE shows you exactly what you would see if you zoomed into a finished rendered file, and that’s interpreted scaled up pixels. It will not look perfect. It’s just like if you scale up a bit map photo. If you have created your text correctly, it will render perfectly and will be sharp.

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]

Just duplicate the clip, turn off the opacity(use the eyeball) and you now one clip for your audio. On the clip you are going to cut, turn off the audio(speaker) and that’s your video clip.

Otherwise, you could just drag the file into audition and save out a .wav file that’s separate from your video clip.

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]

In the precomp did you set the solid layer’s motion blur on?

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]

Jerry, when you are saying the text is blurry, are you zooming in to see it? And I mean, magnifying the comp window to 800% or 1600%, because if that’s the case the text, everything will become blurry.

Set your comp viewer to 100%, then either use a camera or select your text layer, press “s” and scale up the text. You will see it’s not blurry at all.

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]

I think Derek’s spell correct messed up his reply. Think he meant “check the motion blur” and “precomp the whole thing”. What he is saying is step into the precomp, and check motion blur for the layers inside the precomp.

What are your motion blur settings for you final comp, because if you are getting some blur in the rotation, it might just be that your blur settings are set high enough currently for what you are trying to achieve. To adjust the motion blur settings, press cntl+K and click the advanced tab.

If that doesn’t increase your motion blur, please do a screen grab of your timeline and comp and post back here.

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]

Which render engine are you using (Ray Trace or Classic), press cntl+k and switch to the advance tab. If it’s classic, please post a screen grab of your timeline and comp please.

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]

I haven’t freelanced in a while, but 50 seems reasonable, you might ask around a bit, talk to others in your area.

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]

Charge per hour, give a range of hours you think the project will take. 8-10, 12-16 hours, this is important and you need to get really good at estimating your time.

As far as price, 30 bucks an hour seems really low. That barely covers the cost of the you, not your equipment and utilities…Just my .02 cents, but you might want to rethink your pricing model.

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]

I’ve used Hot Keyboard and similiar shareware in the past.

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]

Check out this tutorial, maybe it might help you out.

How To Make A Wiggling Cord From Particles

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.