Joseph W. bourke
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Just to put my two cents in, I have owned a second generation Drobo for a couple of years. I bought it used, but under warranty, with 8TB of storage included, for under 500 dollars. I bought it with the knowledge that it was purely a backup device, and have never even attempted to edit with source material stored there. That said, it has been bullet-proof. It turns on daily with my system, does its’ selective backups, and I pretty much ignore it. It works.
Joe Bourke
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You don’t say whether your logo is 3D or not, so I’ll assume it’s not. In addition to what Roland has suggested, you might also want to create a secondary texture map (or just recolor if in 2D) which changes at the frame the asteroid hits your logo. Because, you know when an asteroid hits your logo you’re going to have to have your paint job repaired. Maybe some burn marks, or dust/debris. Depends on the scale of your logo, of course.
Joe Bourke
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Yes…and it’s quite an excellent collection. You have to log in with your Adobe ID, but here’s where to find it:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/audition/loopology/Audition_Content_Download_page.pdfJoe Bourke
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Yeah, Chris – I think a bit part of cutting the time on a project like this is the previz, and backing into it. Creating the final layout of your grids, and then animating them from back to front, so to speak. That could save some time.
Joe Bourke
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Roll up your sleeves and get out the aspirin! Here’s a shortcut to getting some ideas generated:
https://motionboutique.com/collage-script-328/
But it sure won’t do the animation work. I would start out looking at the video I’ve got, with an eye toward various grid compositions, and how they might be masked/cropped. A storyboard would certainly be your friend here, even if it’s penciled roughs, so you know where you’re going. I would even think about capturing stills of all the video clips I have on hand, then bringing them in to Photoshop, and playing around with layouts. It’s not rocket science, but it’s a lot of planning.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Hi Kata –
The 2D/3D price per second is a trap as far as I’m concerned – if you say, or example, 100 Euros per running second finished 3D, you may well run into a situation in which you have to do a lot of prep work to get the logo looking good (conversion from .eps file, texturing multiple colors, converting a bad .psd to 3D, etc.). While you can structure your price to take these into consideration, many times you will end up on the high end, and lose bids.
I think that the price per hour gives both you and the client an advantage. Of course, you always want to look at what the client has before you quote on it, but if it’s a simple logo which won’t require too much work, you can keep your quote low, and still make money. As far as production prices in Germany, I have absolutely no idea what the going rates are, but of course, as with anywhere, you’ll find different rates depending on the market (don’t expect to get Munich rates in Lubeck). I think the best thing to do is to find out what your competition in the same market is charging (by checking out websites), and putting your price somewhere in the middle – and of course, since you’re new to the market, you may want to do a few low profit projects to get your name and reputation out there. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
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When you actually do your download, you can specify where you want it to go, by using the Save As feature, rather than the Save feature. This will give you the choice of putting the files wherever you can access them the easiest (I don’t find the My Downloads folder to be the place of choice). In my case, I have separate media drives where I keep all my non-project assets. There’s an Audio folder, and I keep all of my audio and music clips in categorized folders for easy access. Then when I use one of them in a project, I copy the file to the project folder, so I won’t lose track of it if I have to make revisions at a later date.
Joe Bourke
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I agree, Robert – in fact I put a link to the authors’ website four posts back. It’s an invaluable book, especially, as you said, for features you might not commonly use. They also have an apprentice level book, which I don’t own, but might be good in this case.
Joe Bourke
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Here’s an old trick from the days of reel to reel:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/168/857931
You’ll find it in the third post down, courtesy of Angelo Lorenzo. It may not work on music, but it’s worth a try.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Steve –
Matthew is correct. After Effects is not logical until you understand the basic concepts behind compositing, and then begin applying them in an orderly and logical manner, you are like the monkey throwing bananas at a typewriter – you might get a great book, totally by luck, and you more likely will get gibberish, which seems to be what you’re experiencing (no insult meant here).
Lynda.com is a great place to learn AE, as is the bible by Chris and Trish Meyer:
https://www.crishdesign.com/books/Creating-Motion-Graphics/index.html
I would suggest, however, that it might make more sense to start on a beginners level (again, no insult intended):
https://www.crishdesign.com/books/After-Effects-Apprentice/
A knowledge of Premiere and Encore does very little toward preparing you for After Effects, other than a familiarity with the overall Adobe GUI standards. I’ve been working in After Effects for almost fifteen years, and there isn’t a day that I don’t smack my forehead and say, “I wish I’d known that five years ago, it would have saved me hours!”. It’s a deep, feature rich program, which only makes sense after you learn it. Start at the bottom, and in a couple of weeks to a month, the light will go on, and you’ll start getting fluid with AE.
You can also find a lot of good, well-organized tutorials at tv.adobe.com. If you go here:
https://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-after-effects-cs6/
…you can start by scrolling down to Getting Started, and get the basics under your belt, before you jump into the deep end. Good luck with it!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com