Kevin Camp
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you might also look at the turbulent displace effect. apply it and animate the evolutions to get started then tweak the other settings to see if it will give you the effect that you are looking for.
Kevin Camp
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i use mpeg streamclip… render out of ae as quicktime photo-jpeg, or lossless animation. then import into streamclip and export to quicktime. select h.264 for compression, check the multipass and b-frame options and set the other settings as needed.
the qt h.264 files are nearly the same as the mp4 variety with similar settings — qt files are usually a little larger even with all the same settings.
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Yes, thank you Roei!
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in photoshop there is (type>convert to paragraph text), but i don’t believe there’s an option for that in ae…
Kevin Camp
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likely two cameras, the first is the viewpoint that you see in the shot, the second is from the viewpoint of the sphere (like a camera on a tripod). you could do it with two takes from the two POVs, but 2 cameras would make it easier.
you could then use cc sphere on the shot from the sphere’s pov to make the sphere. then some shading and a shadow to make it more real.
if you were going to experiment with this, you might try different wide angle lenses on the sphere camera, possibly as wide as a fisheye lens.
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ae does have align tools that are like those in photoshop (not quite as good as illustrator)… so you could set the ‘align to’ option to ‘composition’ and the click the align left button, select the next layer and click align center, etc. unlike ai, the distribute functions don’t distribute over the composition/artboard (i think that is likely a bug…)
depending on what you are doing, you might be able to use a single layer and a repeater…
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assuming the obvious way is scaling the x-scale 33.33%…. you can change the current solid properties by selecting the solid, and typing command-shift-y or alt-shift-y to bring up the settings. then, for the width type /3 to divide the current width by 3.
duplicate that solid 2 times and you have your 3 equal solids.
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yes, the speed won’t be affected, just the frame rate will get conformed to the new frame rate.
Kevin Camp
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if you just set the frame rate of the final comp to 12fps (or drop or final comp into a new 12fps comp), then all the animations in the other comps will be conformed to 12fps.
any rendered animations or footage elements will also be conformed to the new frame rate, but will drop frames out, which might make the animation seem a little ‘stuttery’. you can try enabling frame blending for those footage layers which can help that issue, but will increase render time and may introduce other issues (though it’s worth trying if needed).
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I agree with Michael.
CPU speed is the best performance boost to AE. Then RAM amount. I’d also try to get an SSD over the GPU upgrade.
Getting RAM from OWC (other world computing) or other retailers is cheaper than from Apple, so that might help you to afford an SSD (and the RAM is easy to install).
There is a second SSD slot (at least on iMacs as late as the late 2015 models), but Apple does not offer that as a CTO option… OWC does sell a kit and the instructions to do it yourself, but it is not easy, and will void your warranty. Finding the fastest Thunderbolt or USB3 SSD may be a better route. Also, you don’t need a huge SSD for the internal drive, you can save all your projects, footage and files on relatively cheap external drives… multi-terabyte USB3 drives are quite affordable.
I don’t believe you can upgrade the GPU afterwards, so that is one argument to get as good of a GPU as you can at purchase, but I think i’d still lean towards getting an SSD over the GPU upgrade.
Kevin Camp
Art Director
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