Joseph W. bourke
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The people who get paid well for it!
Joe Bourke
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Hanna –
This will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about graphics cards and After Effects:
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/AfterEffects.htm
If you’re in a hurry, go about half way down the page to “What Video Card to Buy”, for a good snapshot of the reasons one card is better than another.
Joe Bourke
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In other words your client wants something complex and difficult for a cheap price. Sounds familiar… I wonder whether you might use the Text Animation tool, and the Character Offset. I think this would be random though, so you may have to dive in to expressions to get the exact control over which characters display.
If you check out this thread on the COW and go to Darby Edelen’s post, you’ll find something which will probably do the trick:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/975198
However, it may just be as time consuming as the method you’re currently using, and you’ll have to give your client the bad news.
Joe Bourke
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Since you don’t say anything about the version you’re using, I’ll take a shot and link you to this tutorial:
https://nofilmschool.com/2013/06/adobe-audition-cc-sound-remover-effect-fix-audio
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Just about every broadcaster will have some sort of specifications sheet for advertising and programming – here’s a link to one from a local ABC affiliate in my neck of the woods for commercials submission:
https://products.ibsys.com/Video-Ad-Specifications/17747646_18076296
Just about everyone’s will differ slightly, but with the station above, it is part of a Hearst group of 28 TV stations, and you’ll find the standards are pretty much the same across the board.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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And of course in the PPro sphere there’s Adobe Bridge, which uses Adobe’s XMP metadata platform, and gives you the ability to create Smart Collections (which have been around since CS4). Here’s a link to an article I wrote for the COW a while back, which touches on XMP Metadata (barely), and using keywords and collections to keep your searches fast and productive:
https://library.creativecow.net/bourke_joseph/magazine_27-Adobe-Bridge/1
As an organizational tool, Bridge is hard to beat! And given its’ customizable interface, you can set it up for many different viewing styles. It has also been detached from the various Adobe packages it used to come with (and the purchase of which was required to get it), so you can do a freestanding install on a machine which doesn’t have other Adobe packages on it. This makes it highly useful for searches by Producers, for example, in a department in which not everyone has a PPro license.
This is not in any way to throw stones at FCPX and its infrastructure of metadata, but to show that there is another way to skin the cat, and manage thousands of media files quickly and efficiently, using another flavor of metadata.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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It’s called Path Text (or Text on a Path):
https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/animating-text-along-a-path-in-after-effects-ae-basix–ae-8636
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I would suggest searching for something like “Flying 3D Ribbons Tutorial”. That should get you there.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Maybe using the Fill or Tint effects would help out – then you can change the color when you need to. Although if you have lots of shapes with multiple colors, you would probably need to break the colors out into discreet layers, maybe more trouble than it’s worth. Another thought would be to use a Layer Style and blending options:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/blending-modes-layer-styles.html
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com