[Mike Clasby]

Ok, fair enough. I wasn’t bad mouthing AE7, I loved the demo, it just didn’t seem as big an upgrade as AE6 to AE 6.5, IMHO, at least not for me.

By the by, did you or Fox have to pay for the copyrights to use the movie clips, just wondering how expensive something like that is. Maybe i’m asking too much, so just tell me none of my business if that’s the case.

Thanks for responding.

[Mike Clasby]

I’ve only got AE6.5, and the aep is AE7, so I get the “time to upgrade, and ae7 is great but there’s nothing I can’t not that great since I don’t do film, so help, help. Any chance you could add an AE 6.5 aep to the download?

Thanks

[Mike Clasby]

I’ve only got AE6.5, and the aep is AE7, so I get the “time to upgrade, and ae7 is great but there’s nothing I can’t not that great since I don’t do film, so help, help. Any chance you could add an AE 6.5 aep to the download?

Thanks

[Mike Clasby]

I think this might be if some help.

“Creating fire with fractal Noise”, the “Bonanza Look”.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=128361&archive=T

I think he used an oval for the Flames spreading , and you could probably put your logo shape into the first part of that comp, then switch over to the oval as the fire spreads. Just a thought.

[Mike Clasby]

The Demo version is the full Pro Version, 30 days of fun.

[Mike Clasby]

And, way cool, I just pulled up one of the tabs in the Timeline Window, and now have two Timelines, and two Composition Windows open. I’m glad you asked the question.

[Mike Clasby]

Unless AE7 is different than AE6.5, just drag one of the tabs from the Composition Window, out to the side, you should be able to see two comps at once.

[Mike Clasby]

Ah, yes, your are correct,upon closer perusal, I see a wow in the oval as it rotates. Ouch.

[Mike Clasby]

For your future refence you can do what you want a little more straight-forwardly.

Set a Mask Shape keyframe like mentioned earlier, go down the timeline, double click a mask vertex (point, node, one of those little square dots on the mask) and you get a “free-transform” box around the mask(like in Photoshop). Rotate the “free-tranform box” and the Mask Shape will animate.

One Mask on one clip, the clip stays upright, the Mask rotates.

[Mike Clasby]

I think this is a great place to start:

https://www.editorsguild.com/AfterEffects.html

After these 9 tuts you can come back create some of that Cow magic.