Joseph W. bourke
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You could also use Text Anarchy, from Red Giant Software – it allows you to transition between two different typeface, with quite a bit of randomization control. You would choose a Dingbat typeface to start out, which would have the circle symbol, and then transition it to the typeface of your choice:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/text-anarchy/
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This PDF should give you just about everything you need to know:
https://www.iatse728.org/files/ColorCorrectionFilters.pdf
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The same could be said of the Mac’s insidiously friendly interface -nothing at all intuitive about it. You have to learn it to use it, just as you do Windows. But I honestly think it all boils down to what you use daily – I’ve used both Windows and Mac GUIs, and find things extremely useful about both, as well as extremely bothersome. And once you get past the GUI these days, the software pretty much looks the same. Of course I wish MS Access had taken a few lessons from Filemaker Pro on how to create an easy-to-use relational database. Sheesh…
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Looks like an AE Lightning effect, using an alpha channel drawn around the various equipment to make it follow the outline. The plasma tube could easily be done in Particular, and possibly even Particle World, using multiple instances of the effect. Here’s a tutorial:
https://filmmakeriq.com/2011/06/trapcode-particular-after-effects-lightning-bolt-tutorial/
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It looks as if you need to learn some of the basics of AE concerning time display:
The “f” stands for Frames – that’s what you’ve got the timeline set to display.
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There are also some presets which can easily achieve this look, and you’d find them in the Red Giant Holomatrix, as well as the VideoCopilot Twitch plugin. This is generally called something like Gate Weave, or Bad TV. Gate Weave generally does the back and forth without doing a full roll.
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You might want to try Secondary Color Correction – it allows you to choose a range of colors and correct those. This might or might not work, depending on the movement and the color/contrast range of the subject:
Otherwise, using the Roto Brush tool may be your only choice:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/roto-brush-refine-matte.html
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I don’t know about knockoffs, but as recent as 2005 there was a cylindrical computer from FIC (the Piston) which was going to revolutionize computer design:
(https://www.engadget.com/2005/03/14/fics-piston-the-cylindrical-sff-pc/
It ran hot (at least Apple got the cooling design right), and as far as I know, didn’t get much past the development stage, due in part to the argument that making a cylindrical chassis to hold square components isn’t the smartest design concept. So I guess in the final argument it’s a “who copied whom” question. I’m not in any way saying the new machine isn’t cool looking, and it looks to be a real hotrod under the hood. I’m just saying that the industrial design isn’t an original…just re-applied and turned on its’ side.
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Just select the layer and type “LL”. There are numerous other shortcuts as Todd pointed you to.
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Merry Christmas to you David, and to all our fellow COWs. Time to head from the pasture to the future…
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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