[Michael Szalapski]

The filters will not work back and forth with those versions of the software. The edits from Premiere will all be there, (It’s waaaay better to edit in Premiere,) but no filters. And it doesn’t work the other way around either. Even things like cross fades don’t work.

Edit in Premiere, do effects in AE, render, output. If you only need an effect for a short clip, only render the short clip in AE.

Dude, upgrade! 6 to 6.5 was totally awesome, imagine what 6-7 will feel like!

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[Michael Szalapski]

It is an included filter. (With AE 6.5 at least…) I don’t know of a way to change it in Illustrator, precomping it should work if you don’t have Grow Bounds.

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[Michael Szalapski]

There’s a filter called Grow Bounds that will do what you want.
Or you could put your logo in a precomp and make the size of that comp bigger than the logo and apply your effect to the precomp.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I have had to recreate reflections before. The glossiness of an object is built with reflections.
You could try bevel on the eye a bit, but it’s more likely going to be adding in white bits (or actual footage screened) to create a good glossiness.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I’m sure you could create quick little blood bursts with particles. Or Mr. Mercury.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Whenever you scale down stills in AE they’re going to look jittery.

OPTION 1: The problem is that the stills have way too much detail in them. The detail jumps from frame to frame.

It would look much better if you scaled down your stills in Photoshop or some similar graphics program and used the scaled down versions in AE.

OPTION 2: The problem is that viewing it on a video monitor (with the lovely fields etc.) A detail is showing up on one pass and not the other. It’s the same reason you can’t have a 1 pixel line. Introduce a 1 pixel vertical blur on your pictures and that should help.

One (or both) of these should help.

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[Michael Szalapski]

It sounds like it would be simple to do, but it would take a long time to set up.

I would duplicate my video layer as many times as needed to create the different panels of the fan, masking off the shape of each panel. Making sure to leave enough overlat of course.
Don’t forget to have the anchor point for each layer at the point of rotation for the fan.
Then I’ll bet you could work out a cool expression so you only need to animate one layer.

But if you’ve got someone offering to do the work for you, why bother doing it yourself?

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[Michael Szalapski]

It sounds like it would be simple to do, but it would take a long time to set up.

I would duplicate my video layer as many times as needed to create the different panels of the fan, masking off the shape of each panel. Making sure to leave enough overlat of course.
Don’t forget to have the anchor point for each layer at the point of rotation for the fan.
Then I’ll bet you could work out a cool expression so you only need to animate one layer.

But if you’ve got someone offering to do the work for you, why bother doing it yourself?

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great)

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[Michael Szalapski]

On the Adobe Studio Exchange there was a comp set up using fractal noise. It looked really good. Takes a long time to render on a slow machine, but looks smashing. It was called night flight.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I would try echo and CC force motion blur and other time plugins. I would also try different combos on different layers with different opacities.

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