[Ryan John]

Im aware of and already tried that approach. Both through dynamic link and also by multiple rendering and the result is the same with a lot of degradation.

The problem is that the quality of the mpeg2 that CS4 produces directly is significantly better than anything CS5.5 has produced directly or via encoder, even with a big change in the bitrate.

Somebody has reported a similar problem over in the Premiere forum;
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/911992

….unfortunately I cant seem to get the solution made there to correspond to AE.

[Ryan John]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Unfortunately the scale script works by creating pre-comps, this in turn plays havoc with the numerical file names already in place.

Had to just cmd+k each comp and change the values individually. Not a fun job but sorted now thanks.

[Ryan John]

Thanks, I animated the source text in this instance and could get away with it due to a lot of motion.

I had a play around with masks but found a lack of control, it was fine for going from one line to one word lines but to get it to have multiple words going to multiple lines it fell to pieces.

[Ryan John]

Hi Graham,

I have just tried importing the same file type to Premiere on the same machine and I get;

“File Import Failure; File video dimensions (width/height) too large.

…and as per After Effects I have tried importing the file to Premiere on my colleagues machine and it imported with no problems what so ever.

[Ryan John]

“I could easily see doing this in Particular. It even has particles that respond to AE’s 3d lights.”

-any more information available on this method? ….Im comfortable with particle systems in 3DSmax so I might be able to take some of that logic and apply it to particles in AE. Do you know if you can also have “camera facing” particles?

[Ryan John]

It looks like they use stock footage, the trick is to also use it a displacement map to distort the text in sync with the smoke, plus a combination of stylise and colour effects to give it that glow.

Andrew Kramer has a tutorial over on video copilot explaining a similar effect using particular, but you could just use any stock footage of smoke with an alpha channel the principles are the same.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/green_smoke/

[Ryan John]

Well I pressed enter and in the time it took to pre-render I had rebuilt the entire scene in AE and rendered it out. Other than a few tools(that with marginally longer time you can do in AE) Im struggling to see what use Premiere is if it takes so long to preview.

[Ryan John]

Thanks.

This is what I had suspected. Just checked the price of the plug-in and it is reasonable enough to not justify trying to do any work arounds.