Joseph W. bourke
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You might also want to take a look at this script:
https://aescripts.com/templater/
Joe Bourke
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You definitely need to use keyframing, but with a different type of interpolation, called Hold Interpolation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/keyframe-interpolation.html
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You might want to give this a try – it’s free, so you have nothing to lose but time. Omino Snake will let you distort a graphic along a path, so you should be able to animate just the path nodes to get the flowing hair:
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I’m not sure whether this is what you’re looking for, but it might help:
https://aescripts.com/text2spreadsheet/
Joe Bourke
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How about Quicktime Animation format, set to Millions of Colors Plus? This will give you the alpha channel (make sure you choose this in the settings), as well as audio.
Joe Bourke
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You’re correct Andrew. Another way to illustrate this is with tools. I’ve used Sears Craftsman mechanics’ tools for many many years. As a matter of fact, several of my tools were my father’s tools, and some of his were his father’s. I’ve never had a problem with them, and if I were to, I could return the broken socket or whatever to Sears for a replacement.
A friend of mine who is a lineman by trade said “Craftsman tools are fine, but my life depends on my tools not breaking, so I use Snap-On.”
Neither right nor wrong – just perspective…
Joe Bourke
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I agree with you totally, Bill. Carol Kaye, by all accounts, played bass on something like 10,000 cuts, pop stuff, rock stuff, movie sound tracks, and whatever was paying on any given day. The fact that she was an immense talent, able to contribute in almost any genre of music, didn’t improve upon songs which were bad to begin with. Although the bass part on “These Boots…” was great, the song was pap. Only a musician, or someone with a good ear for a good bass part, would pick up on it.
The marketing aspect of the music industry is legendary, and, from a musician’s point of view, depressing. Those who have “the look” have always been sellable, regardless of talent (Monkees, anyone?). Those who have talent, but not “the look”, are often relegated to the support roles in the industry – the studio players, song writers, sidemen (and women) who don’t fit the latest visual model.
And of course as you said, what becomes a classic relates ultimately to sales volume. I don’t know whether you remember classical albums in the fifties and sixties, but the marketing back then, trying desperately to popularize the classics, was to put a glamorous, semi-nude model on the album cover. Music publishers even tried this ploy with jazz albums for a long time. What seem to survive the test of time are the pieces of music we connected with when they were fresh and new sounds, as well as those which were so well written, arranged, and played, that they still sound good to new generations of listeners.
The reason that a lot of good music dies these days is that the music segments now are so narrow, that some stuff just never gets heard by a wide audience.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Yes Bill – right down to the brand of strings used. There are sounds and techniques used by the best players which can only be accomplished by using certain guitars, with certain strings, with certain techniques.
Example? Think of the Chris Squire’s bass sound on many of the Yes albums. Couldn’t have been achieved without the Rickenbacker bass and round-wound strings, plus the combination of a Marshall 100w head and Ampeg SVT heads playing through the Ampeg cabinets with 8 ten inch speakers. And that’s not even getting to the stage micing!
https://www.chrissquire.com/technotes
Now think of just about any of the Beach Boys songs (Help Me Rhonda, Sloop John B, California Girls, Heroes and Villains, the ill-fated Smile project), and you’re talking Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific studio bass players in history! None of the sounds she produced could have been created on anything but a Fender P Bass, with flat-wound strings, and muted very carefully with a piece of felt used in sewing, and played with a pick (not her fingers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kaye
That should give you an idea of how microscopic the discussions and preferences of musicians (pro and amateur) can get. It would be as if editors discussed the type of plastic used in the keys of their keyboards! You know, it does make a difference! :>)
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An easier method would be to just buy a green screen suit – not expensive:
https://www.google.com/search?q=green+screen+suit
Joe Bourke
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While the fines could be crippling to the rogue-drone business, the burgeoning anti-drone business could put drone operators out of business. My guess is that there’s drone insurance on the horizon:
https://dronelife.com/2015/06/04/5-anti-drone-solutions-that-could-change-the-game/
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com