[Michael Szalapski]

I agree with both previous posters.

The most important thing about these spots is planning. Lots and lots of planning. The techniques are mostly pretty basic; rotoscoping/keying, text, layer position animation, color correction, etc. Basic, but really well executed. It’s executed so well because of massive amounts of planning (coupled with very rather writing).

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[Michael Szalapski]

Sorry, I sent that from my iPhone before I really finished it properly. Although I’m sure you can figure it out from there.
All you have to do is copy that expression you wrote out then click that animate>Fill Color>RGB thing on each text layer and right-click on the stopwatch and paste it in!
(Or duplicate the text layer and change the text – either way.)
Then, when you want to change the color of all the text, you just change the Color Control effect on the Control layer in the Color comp.

I hope that made sense. If not, let me know.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Create a composition and call it Color in it create a solid called Control. (the names don’t really matter, but you’ll need to reference them later in an expression).
On the new layer apply Effect>Expression Controls>Color Control.
Go to a comp with text, in the timeline flip down your text layer’s twirly arrow. In the Switches/Modes column click the little arrow after the word “animate”> fill color>RGB then alt-click (on Mac I believe it’s option-click) the stopwatch next to the Fill Color option that shows up. Delete the highlighted text that shows up in the timeline area and write:
comp(“Color”).layer(“Control”).effect(“Color Control”)(“Color”);
then press enter on your number pad. You should notice that the text color now matches the color of the color control effect you applied in the Color comp.

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Michael Szalapski]

How are you outputting your file? Often AE outputs uncompressed lossless video that has a bitrate too high for normal hard drive. To handle. Take you rendered file into Premiere and see what it does. I’ll bet you’ll be able to play it there. AE should not be used to encode your final file. Use Adobe Media Encoder to take the uncompressed and lossless file and render it into the type of final output your client needs.

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Michael Szalapski]

There’s a CC plugin but the name I don’t recall at the moment. And my AE machine is not with me. I’m going to guess CC light sweep, but I could be wrong.
Anyway, it gives you a nice little bit of light that runs across the text.
Although, you can fake it pretty easily. Make a white solid, put a long and thin mask on it, feather the mask, rotate the layer and move it to one side of the logo, animate it across the logo.
Then duplicate your logo layer and use it as a track matte for the solid layer.
Experiment with different blending modes and opacity levels for the solid and voila.

– The Great Szalam
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No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Michael Szalapski]

Hopefully they’re using something more HD rather than the old SD standards. I agree with Dave, ask the cinema; they should be able to tell you what they’re using and, heck, might even know what sizes you can do.

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(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Michael Szalapski]

Dave’s right; you need a lot more RAM. (You didn’t mention what kind of processor you’re using…but you definitely need more RAM)

Until then, turn caps lock on before you open AE and start linking files. Once everything’s linked change your composition to quarter resolution THEN turn caps lock off. That may or may not help you.

HOWEVER, considering your teeny tiny amount of RAM, I would suggest that you NOT dynamically link your Premiere project in AE. Instead, import the Premiere project into AE as a composition. It’ll use a lot less RAM and is much less likely to cause issues.

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(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Michael Szalapski]

Apply the effect to a solid and set the audio layer property in the effect to be your audio layer. Is that what you’re doing?

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No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Michael Szalapski]

[Natalie Deans] Oh well, all in a days work.

More like all in a week’s work. (Maybe more.) So long as the camera is locked down and never moves it shouldn’t be too hard to do, if you plan your shooting properly.

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(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Michael Szalapski]

It probably has to do with the bitrate. A lossless file has much too high a data rate for a normal hard drive to play back at the correct speed.

You don’t want to use AE for your final delivery of the product. It’s not exactly built to do high quality encoding.
You want to put out a lossless file and use a different program (Adobe Media Encoder, for example) to do your final file creation.
In that program make sure you use proper settings for final delivery. There are tons of different options for this, depending on your final audience and how they’re going to play it.

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.