Mike Procunier
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Another “quick & dirty” is to duplicate your text 10 to 20 times and offset each layer about 2 pixels on the z-axis. By experimenting with lighting, stroke on the text, and the z-offset you can get okay results.
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Are you rendering fields?
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Nice job. It could maybe use something subtle going on in the background at the beginning. I’m not crazy about the font choice for the text that you zoomed in to. I’d pick something similar to the text in the logo, & make it white so that it pops off the red logo without using a ton of outer glow. I’m not a huge fan overusing outer glow. It looks best when it’s very subtle.
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Search the tutorial forum for Andrew Kramer’s Keylight tutorial, he’ll get those legos keyed.
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You’re allowed to activate AE on 2 machines, so you shouldn’t have a problems.
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I’m not sure how educational licensing works, but with the regular retail version you’ll just be asked for the serial number of your older product, so no you don’t need to keep the older software on your machine. It wouldn’t hurt to keep the old software for a while in case you run into bugs & to remain compatible with folks who haven’t upgraded yet.
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Command-K / Control-K will open up your Composition Settings and allow you to make the Comp as long as you like. Also make sure your work area is set for the length of the comp (search work area in Help).
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It sounds like a lot of work. Maybe create a precomp with 10-15 bounces. You co-workers would have to adjust the position keyframes and the timing for each line. Squishing the ball for each bounce will add some work for them… maybe there’s a way to do it with expressions. Check Dan Ebberts’ site, for all I know there may be a way to do the entire piece with expressions.
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The Auto Color effect will get you close… you can’t use an eyedropper to pick your white & black points but it does a pretty good job.