[Roland R. kahlenberg]

If it’s a whitescreen issue with QT then it means that you don’t have the adrenalin CODEC. I suggest you post your Q in the Avid forum plus perform a search at the AVID site.

Good luck
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Invigorator does beautiful gold text and other bits. Unfortunately, it doesn’t access AE’s built-in Text Animation Presets. There’s good and bad either way you look at it.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

For gold-like text, look at a post I made a few days ago that has a few Animation Preset Freebies. There’s a preset that creates a metallic texture. To put your alchemy thoughts to practice; switch on the Tint plugin to add color to the texture to turn it gold.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Your map has to use the colors specified. I’d suggest that you convert the map to a grayscale image and then use a color correction plugin to tighthen the colours to black and white – no grays. Your map tells Shatter how to break up the image – no inbetween values (grayscale).

HTH and if it doesn’t; I’m not a real artist. 😉

Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Y.D.] “Let me rephrase that, I would like to know if mpeg 2 rendered from uncompressed tga sequence files are as good as quicktime movie (animation codec) compressed (converted) to mpeg 2 for DVD output to play on a standalone player.”

That still sounds like a Q more appropriate for the DVD Authoring forum. 😉
Actually, alot depends on the quality settings you provide for the movie when you use the Animation CODEC. The said CODEC is only lossless qith a quality setting of 100. Anything less, theoretically results in some qualitative loss from the original content.

Uncompressed TGA’s are good, which is why broadcastGEMs uses them. 🙂 Being uncompressed, they’re definitely better than the Animation (with a quality setting of less than 100).

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

See if the following Random Layer Thread works out for you.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

See if the following Random Layer Thread works out for you.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Lots of possibilities – Particular, Particle Illusion, or you could check Bill O’Neil’s very cool tutorial on shadows which includes a precomp using one of the CC plugins to create a smoke.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Many possible answers. Your best bet is to go to either COW’s Vegas Forum or our DVD Authoring Forum.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg

[Roland R. kahlenberg]