[Scott Green]

I’m working with a mid 2012 Mac Pro 12 Core with 64GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, LCS Cinema Display, and the standard graphics card that came with the machine.

I use After Effects CC a lot but seem to be experiencing long waiting times when previewing my animations, it’s really good at rendering though.

I’m wondering if I need a GPU upgrade and which card I should look into. Nvidia recommended the K5000 when I spoke to them on their live chat, I’m just wondering if this card is going to give me a better/faster previewing experience or what other cards I should look at or other solutions that might help?

Thanks.

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[Scott Green]

Is it possible to use this technique for what I’m trying to achieve here?

I want to track some nulls (with graphics attached to those nulls) to specific points on my Plexus sea that I’m creating. The sea gets quite choppy towards the end and as indicated by my pink arrows it might be difficult to track the tiny points in the distance using the motion tracker as the point will overlap other point and get confusing, and in my head I don’t think it will work.

I’m wondering if there’s a way to pick the data from a particular point and link it to a null somehow or if you have any suggestions?

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[Scott Green]

That’s where I got the idea from too form C4D and the selection tools they have. I knew there’d be a simple solution, don’t know why I didn’t think of using outlines 🙂

Just out of interest while we’re talking about C4D and Illustrator, is it possible to creater AI vector shapes from a C4D model?

Thanks for the info.

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[Scott Green]

That looks fantastic. Did you have a tutorial that helped you create this? That would be a great help. Thanks.

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[Scott Green]

Looks great.

Would that give me the ability to motion track the flag movement to my footage do you think?

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[Scott Green]

Sorry to be so vague.

I’m about to start a project and looking for ways to best approach it. I came across Type Monkey and looked at their tutorials and tried the trial version, but I think I’d like more flexibility over each of the individual words to achieve something like the link I shared but I don’t think it’s possible with Type Monkey.

The project will basically be a script, then I’m planning to speak it as a voice over (not to be included in the audio just to mark the points), and the text accompanied by images and video clips. I have a few questions in mind.

1. When marking the audio points do I have to mark them manually or will a ‘audio to markers’ script like THIS work and save me time?

2. I would like to use 3D type but have never really got my head around where it’s appropriate to use this option in AE:

Should I be using it if I’m using text, images and video in precomps with 3D layers?

3. Should I use a camera? Moving the position of the camera to center the text, or move, rotate and scale the text (possibly attached to a null) without a camera?

4. Do I have to type out each word individually or can I paste in the text and run a script to separate each word onto it’s own layer (if that is the best way)? And if so where can I find the script?

5. Is this a good way to do it?
https://vimeo.com/26079113

I’m sure I’ll think of some more questions over the weekend 🙂

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[Scott Green]

Which method would be best for creating something like this do you think?

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[Scott Green]

Perfect! Can’t get much simpler than that, thank you so much 🙂

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[Scott Green]

Thanks for the info, I just used expressions to do a quick test, the Strobe effect didn’t work for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8XT7Iq7gYU&feature=youtu.be

there = 100;
gone = 0;
f = timeToFrames();
if (f%2>0.5) gone else there;

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[Scott Green]

I did plan to film a person speaking a few words and moving points on the lips to follow. Yes I imagine that being able to move such points in 3D space would be an advantage and look move natural.

I’m not going to be animating lots of words, just a few, so what do you think my best method would be; to carry on trying with the puppet tool or something else?

Thanks.

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