[Kelly Griffin]

Karen–

Your logo probably disappeared because you cropped it when you thought you were moving it.

Undo the crop and use the “Track Motion” tool instead. It’s pretty intuitive as to how to use it.

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

Or just forget to white balance!

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

I think rotoscoping is killing a roach with a bazooka.

Just use a mask and follow the door as it opens. Probably take you five minutes!

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

Ron, I think we call this a “wipe” (?)

You follow the edge of the door on the incoming scene with a mask and let it overtake the outgoing scene.

I don’t use AE, but Fusion does it marvelously easily. SVP can likely do it, too, but I find its masking tools cumbersome.

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Mike, can you e-mail me privately please?

kelly@kgcreative.biz

(And, Steve, if the budget works for you I don’t care if you live in Hong Kong)

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

Unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re asking, it seems to me that “downloading your silencer” doesn’t help you much (?)

Unless the weapon to which you need to attach it stays in profile for your whole clip(s), isn’t what you really need a 3D animator to follow the weapon around in the shot and add it that way?

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

Hmm, okay, but that just seems peculiar.

Maybe there’s some advantage to NOT being able to use the same element in a different way on a different track, but it’s not occurring to me what that might be.

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Raymond–

Just make a black bar graphic top and bottom and stick ‘er on the top video layer.

Boddaboom.

–KG

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Gary–

Not to evade your question, but why not just rent a camera that resolves your concerns?

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Unless I’m missing something, how would you just “add it onto the end of the project” otherwise?

–KG