[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

In AfterEffects, check your composition settings and make sure that they are set to NTSC as opposed to square pixels. Also, your converter hardware that takes the signal from your computer to the monitor should have the appropiate settings in the software that’s driving it.

Hope that helps.

Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

I tried to do this once, by taking out some tape from a VHS casette, crumpling it back up, then playing it back in the player to see if wrinkling the actual tape would help, but alas that is not the case 🙂 The VCR broke and I had to get it repaired. I asked the guy at the repair shop how I could acheive it. He said the best way is just to do it. Duplicate many times between two tapes, and eventually you’ll get it.

I imagine that if you record solid white pixels on a VHS tape, then duplicate that many time, you could use that information as a mask for any clean digital footage, or you could simply use that as a layer and use the transfer modes to interact with clean footage.

Hope that helps!

Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

I made a number videos a few years ago that uses ink as a mask for effects. Once you shoot it, the sky is the limit. Check out the following link for still images:

https://www.lionleon.com/intersection/

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

You should expand the brush strokes into basic shapes before saving it for an earlier version. I think it is in the “Object” menu at the top. Once expanded, the brush stroke is not “procedural” so to speak, and that is what makes it incompatible with earlier versions. Saving as an EPS will work fine as long as the objects are expanded.

Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Not sure about a Mac, but on a PC you should open up the character mapper from the accessories menu within the start menu. Then you have to invoke a certain key combination to get that one.

Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Found some just Googling around, but if you know where I can get the rest, please do let me know. Here is what I found, where A is the top layer and B is the layer directly below A.

Multiply: A*B
Screen: A+B-A*B or 1-(1-A)*(1-B)
Overlay: (B>.5)? 2*(A+B-A*B)-1 : 2*A*B
HardLight: (A>.5)? 2*(A+B-A*B)-1 : 2*A*B
Darken: min(A,B)
Lighten: max(A,B)
Difference: abs(A-B)

Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Hi Floh,

This sounds like an interesting project to say the least, but I’m having a hard time understanding your current setup and what you mean by “link”? By “link” do you mean having one comp embedded in another comp? If possible, can you diagram the final comp out as nodes? That may help you . . .

Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

I’ve never heard of the plugin, but would like to know “what it was”. Can you describe what it did?

Thanks,
Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

You should be able to do this without any hassles. You may want to make sure that you are not using OpenGL preview. You should be able to blur on a text layer without rasterizing it.

Arie

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

If you have an MPEG2 codec, that is best because all Encore will essentially do is transcode any video format to MPEGII.

Arie