[Mike Clasby]

It doesn’t sound like you’re rendering out the clip from AE. Nothing is done to the clip (hence AAE is non-destructive) until you render it out. Ctrl + M gets you to the render que.

[Mike Clasby]

Have you seen this new tut below:Date: Jan 26, 2006 at 7:19:46 pm
Subject: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Glass Globe

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=869642

I think I might creat an interface on that glass sphere, maybe without it rotating, until it had to do a super-duper future calculation. Just a thought.

[Mike Clasby]

I like this guy’s interface stuff:

https://www.lyzrdstomp.com/

Click on tutorials, and scroll WAYYY down (stuff down low on my screen) there’s about 6 or so on interfaces, here’s another example:

sci-fi computer screens.

https://www.lyzrdstomp.com/tutorial_vidscreen/

[Mike Clasby]

https://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

tutorials too!

[Mike Clasby]

This tutorial might help (another suggestion father down):

Creating an Animated Volume Meter by Talid Al Khatib

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/al_khatib_talid/volume_meter/index.html

He does this in #D, but you don’t have to take it that far.

Another suggestion:

Render > Audio Waveform and Audio Spectrum both might do what you want. Just plug your audio layer in the dropdown in the plugn. You can also make it crawl onto any mask you make or import into AE.

[Mike Clasby]

Wow.

[Mike Clasby]

Wow.

[Mike Clasby]

That’s good to know about CC PArticle. I’ll check that out Try, thanks.

But another way is to Check out Dan’s “Building a 3D Particle Generator” byclicking on Dan’s head (top of page) and then scrolling down.

You can swap out the particle (they are psd’s, but you can use any layer, or a comp – make a “P” with text in it’s own comp). Swap by alt dragging onto a selected layer.

You might need to adjust things like gravity (open expressions up, anf life, etc).

[Mike Clasby]

That’s good to know about CC PArticle. I’ll check that out Try, thanks.

But another way is to Check out Dan’s “Building a 3D Particle Generator” byclicking on Dan’s head (top of page) and then scrolling down.

You can swap out the particle (they are psd’s, but you can use any layer, or a comp – make a “P” with text in it’s own comp). Swap by alt dragging onto a selected layer.

You might need to adjust things like gravity (open expressions up, anf life, etc).

[Mike Clasby]

That’s beyond my pay grade. Maybe someone else will come to the rescue.