Paul Hennell
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Video copilot sell pack that includes a lot of ink footage and paint splatters etc: https://www.videocopilot.net/products/riotgear/
I seem to recall he has a tutorial about making ink with particles as well
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Just had another look it at and still can’t get a choppy effect, but it might reflect the time range you’re changing over and the amount of change you’re doing. Try using the colour balance HLS effect and animate that saturation slider (which has a finer degree of values) instead and see if that helps.
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How exactly are you changing the colour? Dark red text, with a hue/sat adjustment and animate the saturation slider up seems to work ok for me.
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This pt_panorama script will arrange a comp into a nice 3D pane background. You might want to add some other stripes in front etc for variation, but it could look good.
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Have you added a 3d Camera to the composition, and are you viewing your scene from the camera (it should say ‘active camera’ in the drop down on the viewer rather then ‘front’)?
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I’m hardly an expert here but I’ve done a Premiere Pro CS3 to Audition (and back) work-flow a couple of times and the best I’ve come up with is as follows:
Export each audio track from premiere as a wav. This will take a little organization; obviously you can’t mix between anything on the same track so you’ll need to move sequential audio (that you want to mix between) onto separate tracks and extend them so the audio overlaps.
Make sure you export the entire time-line for each track, and if you’ve got a bunch of clips/audio things that are all going to need the same treatment (i.e. A constant buzz in some shots that needs removing or a reverb effect for a specific scene) put them on the same track (or 2 unique track if they also need mixing between).
Then import these wavs into Audition and layer them in in mix view. They should all be the same length and sound how they did in Premiere. Use Ctrl+K to split the files where it’s silent and you’ll have your clips in the right places ready to be edited. For decent sync you’ll want to import a copy of the video to use on the video track and set the timeline counter to ‘frames’. Where you’re fading between clips add some markers to show the exact frame where the scene changes.
After adding effects, cleaning noise etc etc It can sometimes be handy to export out via two buses “Clips” and “Music” to get two wavs to import back into Premiere. That’s not usually necessary but it gives you an easier tweaking ability in case you want to change the levels a little after previewing and rendering the final file.
It’s not the easiest method one could have, but it’s not that hard to do and provides a good amount of control. Good luck!
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Fair enough I guess, I was wondering if I was really thinking of the right thing.
Anyway it is pretty simple; in After Effects you’d use a text layer, make it 3d, then animate the rotation & position as desired.
If I remember the title correctly, it also blurs/changes focus as it moves, which you could do with a camera effect, but would be easier animating a ‘fast blur’ effect on the text layer.
For help understanding After effects 3D layers check out this, and the After Effects cow forums.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the intro to lost just the word “Lost”? On a black background? Doing very little of interest or excitement?
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I used a quick work around when I wanted to do something like this before; Added a slider control to the layer, then used “If Slider = 1”, “if Slider = 2” etc for the code blocks. Then just animated the slider number manually to call each block when I wanted it. Provided you don’t want to keep changing the timings lots, it works well and is easy to control.
(I also frequently use a check-box to control wiggle on/off, or a slider to easily adjust a wiggle value from on to off. Expressions joined with Manual controls really work very well together 😉 )
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I don’t have direct experience with this, but have done something similar where I found a usable solution.
Assuming you’re using windows, install this Power Menu program. Then take a screen shot of what you want to trace, and open in a (light-weight) image viewing program.
Using the power menu features, set After Effects transparency so you can see the window behind. You should (Provided the computer copes with it – I wasn’t using AE and can’t speak for your computer, so don’t know how well this will work!) be able to paint, seeing through the AE interface to the picture beneath.
Alternatively you can use a picture as a reference photo, by using Power Menu’s “always on top” setting, keeping the picture always at the front. Just move it to the side, so you can see it as you paint.
It’s not exactly perfect, but it works.
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