[Phil Hew]

It kind of does, but doesn’t. At least, not in a nice way like, say, Trapcode’s 3D stroke.

The only way to achieve this is to make a reeeeeaaaaaallly long custom tail end. Serpentine only allows you to attach custom caps on the head and tail, and customise the body (twist among other things). But if I wanted to shrink that tail in length, over an a period of time, it won’t do it.

I played around with it for a day and I couldn’t achieve the same results sadly. Almost but no cigar for me I’m afraid.

[Phil Hew]

It’s freakin close to what I want man… But I can’t find an option or find a way (other than having the path come at camera) to taper the back of the tail, which is something the client seems set on.

ARGH! But this would’ve solved a lot of problems! Thanks though.

[Phil Hew]

Yeah! Though of that!

I was nervous things might get out of whack if I do that. Being different formats and all. I’ll go ahead and do that then. Yay! … Still need to wait for a new conversion though 🙂 Don’t have like 24GB of RAM to power through for me 😀

Thanks for giving me more opportunity to sleep! That tip was greatly appreciated.

I mean, seriously, sleep is so underrated.

[Phil Hew]

Thanks for that. In the end, that’s what I did. I’m also a massive fan of the Quicktime format and reconverted in the end. It was a just a pain since I had already originally done all the editing in AE and didn’t want to have to go through and transfer all my colour corrections. But I guess it can’t be helped. I was hoping I could find a solution that didn’t require reconversion.

But thanks for explaining WHY. Now I can sound all cool and smart when someone else has this problem. The internet makes me look awesome.

I had to get the job done by the end of today, but I guess I’m pulling an all nighter reconverting all the video and retouching again. Should have seen this coming.

So, for all the other poor souls with jumpy, jittery, badly running, bad HD video. This is your answer. Get converting. Now.

Thanks again Dave!

PS. First time on this forum, but your photo… you seriously look like a white version of my Asian Grandad… Like, one for one resemblance…

[Phil Hew]

I’m using CS4 and have yet to move to CS5. My University and workplace does not use CS5 yet (work apparently plans it for next year though…) So at the moment I’ve stuck to CS4 at home until more places have adopted CS5…