[Mike Johnson]

Actually, in my experience, the best snowballs have a few rocks and the occasional nail in them. One good hit, and that guy ain’t getting up. 😉

[Mike Johnson]

that did the trick! i did have to precomp it, but it did work. thanks!

System 1: G5 2Ghz DP, 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.3, FCP 4.1, QT 6.4, AE 6.0, 2 TB Xserve RAID through a Vixel 335 Fibre switch, DVCAM SDI a/v and BetaSP Component through AJA IO, NTSC monitor through Videotek VTM100 through IO

Second System: G4 1Ghz DP, 1 GB RA

[Mike Johnson]

awesome! never even thought to try automator. i’ll take a look. thanks.

System 1: G5 2Ghz DP, 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.3, FCP 4.1, QT 6.4, AE 6.0, 2 TB Xserve RAID through a Vixel 335 Fibre switch, DVCAM SDI a/v and BetaSP Component through AJA IO, NTSC monitor through Videotek VTM100 through IO

Second System: G4 1Ghz DP, 1 GB RA

[Mike Johnson]

That did the trick. My issue had something to do with using the Layer style>gradient overlay. I wanted the “reflective” setting of black to white to black. For whatever reason, even precomping the solid with the layer style would give me the popping that I was trying to avoid.

My solution (from your advice) was to make two solids with ramps going in opposite directions (again, black-white-black) and precomp them. I set my scrolling text (also a precomp) as the track matte for my Ramp precomp. Bingo!

What’s odd (at least to me) is that when I went into the Ramp precomp, I added a solid and applied the reflective gradient Layer Style to it. I turned off the two solids with ramps. Guess what? It still worked fine.

Is there something I’m missing about pre-comping layer styles?

Thanks for the help,

Mike

System 1: G5 2Ghz DP, 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.3, FCP 4.1, QT 6.4, AE 6.0, 2 TB Xserve RAID through a Vixel 335 Fibre switch, DVCAM SDI a/v and BetaSP Component through AJA IO, NTSC monitor through Videotek VTM100 through IO

Second System: G4 1Ghz DP, 1 GB RA

[Mike Johnson]

sent

System 1: G5 2Ghz DP, 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.3, FCP 4.1, QT 6.4, AE 6.0, 2 TB Xserve RAID through a Vixel 335 Fibre switch, DVCAM SDI a/v and BetaSP Component through AJA IO, NTSC monitor through Videotek VTM100 through IO

Second System: G4 1Ghz DP, 1 GB RA

[Mike Johnson]

Off the top of my head I would think a script/expression could distribute them. Then you could link them to a null for easy rotation.

[Mike Johnson]

Off the top of my head I would think a script/expression could distribute them. Then you could link them to a null for easy rotation.