[John Cuevas]

Glad I could help, one correction though, it’s 1280×720. Put the vertical of the full HD size there by accident.

Anyway, if you need anything, else you know where to ask.

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[John Cuevas]

Another tutorial on the write-on effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c97vXvDYBQ

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[John Cuevas]

Most likely you are going to have to create a mask path for each growing vine/branch/root. Be happy it doesn’t have leaves, I had to do a tree with leaves once. If you use the Generate>Write-On you can keyframe the thickness of the stroke, which will be very handy in a project like this. I would create a mask for a branch, copy the mask path, apply the “Write-on” effect, twirl down the write-on effect, click/highlight “Brush Position” and paste the path. The animate the thickness as needed.

Here’s a tutorial explaining a few different techniques for doing the effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2DS2bfxJ0M

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 would want to use a particle emitter/system. Probably 1 layer would be the snowball, and as it hits the lens, it explodes into particles. Trapcode Particular or the CC Particle systems probably could create the explosion. You might also experiment with the Simulation > Shatter effect to create this type of effect.

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]

Television screen size doesn’t matter. It’s the aspect ratio of the screen(4×3 vs 16×9), resolution(HD vs SD) and location(PAL vs NTSC).

If the monitor is 32 HD, you can deliver in 1080×720 or 1920×1080. Best thing to do, ask the operator what he wants.

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]

Hi Emily. I’m a bit confused by “background pass with primary corrections”. Do you mean that is a pass where the green screen has been cleaned up/averaged out? If yes, what you do is this. Background plate, is bottom layer. Foreground plate is middle layer.

Top layer is the “background pass with primary corrections”, and key this layer, and get the best key possible. Don’t worry about blowing out the actor with color adjustments. Sometimes you may even want to precomp the key layer, create multiple instances of it, if it’s a troublesome key. This layer(or precomp) will just be a matte for your color graded layer.

When you have pulled the best key possible, take your middle layer and change it’s track matte to “alpha matte”. If the track mattes aren’t visible you can toggle them by pressing F4.

Hope that makes sense, let me know if you have any questions.

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]

Have you moved the anchor point using the move anchor point tool(“y”)?

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 have a green screen it will be pretty easy. Key your subject, then duplicate the layer. On the top layer, add a matte > simple choke effect and set it to 8(adjust to taste). Now change the bottom layer track matte to alpha inverted. Precomp those two layers and effect(glow) to taste.

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 emitters are being fed there position through an expression. When you make children of the nulls, the position is changes to the relative position between it and it’s parent. That’s the number that’s being fed into to the emitters position. Since that relationship doesn’t change when you rotate the master null, the child nulls will stay in the same position.

You might want to try posting this problem on the Expressions Forum, someone there might know of a way of using the absolute position so that your nulls will rotate.

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]

Layers and keyframes from other layers have to be moved separately, so there is no way to accomplish what you want to do in one step.

If it’s a problem, I would use layer markers(* on number keypad) or comp markers(Shift + num) to keep things straight.

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.