[Jon Hornbacher]

Check out Video Copilot’s Designer Sound FX. Pretty solid swooshes and such — don’t love the music bites, but the FX are good.

Also, I just used a disc called HD Sound Tools. You can find it out there for 250, but the web site seems to not be working. I used this for the following rough cut (used video off the web as I await tapes from BBC). All of the non-dialogue audio was from this effect library, including explosions and drum build-up. The techno track at the front and end tag were not from this library… This is a really good quality sound effect library, but a little low on total effects for the price.

https://www.tiltmedia.com/samples/MI5_LONG.wmv

–jon–

Jon Hornbacher
Tilt Media

[Jon Hornbacher]

Lots of good points have been made on this post — helpful, so thanks.

Our clients’ needs and attitude have much to do with this equation as well. Some of our clients come back to Tilt because we make the process easy. Others come back because they like they like the price. Others because they can appreciate the quality of work. And others because the relationship is so strong (that’s always a part of it).

But for all of our clients, I think the ranking of those things is different. The trick, and something we’re still figuring out, is to understand which of these things is most important to each of them.

Recently we proposed a solution for a return client that we truly felt was the absolute best way to communicate their message. But we came to find out they didn’t WANT the best way to communicate their message, they wanted a cheaper and faster solution because they needed to show Management they were “doing something,” and show them quickly. While we were pushing quality of message/work, they wanted only price and short time line.

Jon Hornbacher
Tilt Media

[Jon Hornbacher]

Thanks for the responses! Very helpful tutorial too.

But for zooming WAY in on a vector file with a Stroke effect, Darby nailed it:
[Darby Edelen]“Another option might be doing the stroke on a solid above the layer, parenting the solid with the stroke applied to the vector layer and using the solid as a track matte.”

Everything is rasterized EXCEPT for the solid. When the camera zooms in on the vector art, the solid layer’s Stroke effect pixelates, but you still end up with a perfectly rasterized graphic:

https://buffalonas.com/tiltmedia/links/STROKE_RASTER.mov

Thanks again.

–jon–

Jon Hornbacher
Tilt Media

[Jon Hornbacher]

James,

Expanding on Stace’s post: edit your piece in FCP at 1440 x 1080, ignoring the stuff want to crop out. Export the final sequence as a self-contained QT (it’ll be 1440 x 1080). In After Effects, create a new comp at the 35mm size, then drag your QT clip into it. Render that out as your final movie.

–jon–

Jon Hornbacher
Tilt Media