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by ‘apple dv-pal’ i assume they want a quicktime (.mov) encoded with the dv-pal codec. to get that, from the render queue click the output module, set the format to ‘quicktime’ then click the format options button and select ‘dv-pal’ from the video codec dropdown.
as for 16×9 in an sd codec, the frame size for all pal dv media is 720×576, whether it’s 4×3 or 16×9. the pixel aspect ratio is what determines if it should be 4×3 or 16×9. the easy way to have this set up correctly is to use a comp with the correct dv preset. what i’d suggest is creating a new comp with the ‘pal d1/dv widescreen’ preset, then drop your current comp into that comp and choose layer>transform>fit to comp. the comp will likely looked squeezed (or anamorphic), this is normal. if you want to view it in 16×9, there is a toggle button at the bottom of the comp viewer window that looks like a rectangle with a 2-headed arrow above it, click that to toggle between square pixel preview and non-square pixel preview.
then render that dv comp using the output module described above.
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Yes in both cases, but I would build your list of values as an array in the text layer, then use the slider to recall values from the array.
v = effect(‘Slider Control’)(‘Slider’);
myArray = [ ‘0.7’, ‘1.0’, ‘1.2’ ]; // continue adding your values between the brackets
myArray[ Math.floor( v ) ]Kevin Camp
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an easy way to get something close, though its a bit a of a process, would be to create the gradient in photoshop. then change the color space to index color (image>mode>index color) and select ‘web’ or ‘uniform’ for the palette and set the dither option to ‘pattern’.
you may be able to create a custom color palette (an option in the index color setting) to make it more precise to the color space you are trying to mimic.
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if you are just updating text in after effects comps, you can likely do that in premiere… I’m not sure which version of AE/PP you are using, but the last several versions allow you to create text templates in after effects that can be imported and edited in premiere.
i think it might work for the scores and shots. I’m not sure about what needs to update for the power play, but if it is only text, then that might work. the clock could just be a comp that starts counting, you’d then need to utilize a freeze-frame (or similar) in premiere to make it hold if the clock stops at any point.
here’s a link to the basic process to see if you might be able to make it work for your needs:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/animated-text-titles-live-text.htmlKevin Camp
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the glow effect should get you pretty close to what you have in fcpx, just tweak the threshold, radius and intensity settings and you should pick up all the light bars.
it won’t get rig of the cords and tape, although it might lessen them to some degree.
you may be able to key the light bars out and then effect that to better hide the cords and lights, then re-composite them back onto the original footage, but you’ll need to do some garbage masking prior to keying.
if that doesn’t work, your probably looking at rotoscoping… at which point beam or saber may be the better option.
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the radio waves effect is capable of creative something similar to the first 2 examples (the radiating circles/ellipses).
by default it will make the circular form, but you can use a mask of any shape as the ‘wave type’. you can also adjust the velocity property to get it to offset the waves similar to the elliptical example.
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there is an effect called compound blur that allows you to control the amount of blur with the luminance of another layer (like a gradient layer).m apply the effect to the layer that you want to blur, then select the gradient layer as the layer map, adjust the blur from there.
if you use a shape layer with a gradient fill, you won’t need to pre-comp the gradient layer. if you use a solid with the gradient effect, or gradient layer style, you’ll need to precept the layer before you can use it as a layer map in compound blur.
however, as dave points out, your example has more of a chromatic aberration effect. if you search the web for that you should be able to find tutorials on creating that look. they usually involve separating our animation into red, blue and green channels, distorting each slightly (like with the bulge effect) and then recombining them in to the final RGB image.
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you might try the smooth() function, it will sort of average the movement over a segment of time… try adding this expression to the position property of the tracked layer:
smooth( .2, 5 )where .2 is the time segment (in seconds) and 5 is the number of samples it will average…. it seems a little redundant, but increasing the time segment and the number of samples should produce smoother results.
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i think you just need a capital ‘M’ so it reads like this: Math.round(effect(“slider Control”)(“Slider”))
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I haven’t seen any issues bringing my older CS4 projects into newer versions of AE.
That being said, I believe that CS4 was the last 32-bit version of AE. As such, all of it’s effect (bundled or 3rd party) are 32-bit, and all of them had to be updated to work with the later 64-bit AE versions. So there could be potential issues there… but I have not encountered any yet.
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