[Mike Haines]

Thanks team for the suggestions. I now realise that I didn’t make the best job of explaining what I was after….

I was looking for a logo to just rise up out of footage of water in a vertical manner, with the water appearing to be lapping around its base.

I managed to achieve this with a mask and the liquify effect. The bit that I was missing was knowing how the mask could be applied ONLY to my logo and not the background footage. This was a simple option on the logo – to change the mode(?) from normal to an alpha matte. It worked a treat!

Once the production is complete I’ll post a link to it here.

thanks again…

Mike

[Mike Haines]

After returning to CS3 I came up with a cleaner and simpler solution…….

Simply make an additional sequence and drag the original sequence to it, add the time code effect to the clip in that sequence!

[Mike Haines]

I have this all the time too (files offline). The reason is I use two PCs to work on my projects and I always store these on an external 3ooGB drive.

One PC sees this as the H:\ and the other see it as the L:\

So – I very carefully make sure that I tell the project where the missing avi files are stored once it opens. It repeats the request for other types of files (wavs, JPGs etc) as I have my files organised into folders by file type.

You can if you want kinda avoid this….but be wary as the plot may thicken somewhat…

If you know that Premier is expecting to see your files on say an L:\ and you know that they are located say on d:\data\myfiles you can ‘trick’ your PC into thinking that it has an L:\ by opening up a command prompt and typing…

subst L: D:\data\myfiles

Your PC will then accept that it has an L:\ and will look in d:\data\myfiles whenever L:\ is referenced!

As I said >>>>> not for the faint hearted!!!

Good luck!

Great forum guys.

[Mike Haines]

Jon – thanks for that.

Regards…

Mike