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I would bolster my red text, IF I NEEDED it and it was somewhat bold in a deeper\safe color shade of red.
Many times it looks nice and ‘contains’ your edge integrity as well.SuperNova
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Scott Novasic
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Quicktime Pro is pretty useful as well. I use that quite a bit.
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Hi Usama, I am one of the “Leaders” on this forum and a multiple Emmy Award winning animator and visual effects artist. Ive also won numerous Gold and Silver ProMax awards (national) my reel has been one of the best rated here on the Cow.
I own and run SuperNova…. Check out MY work and see if its ‘good’ enough. I happen to have an opening now…
Scott Novasic
or my website which is straight and to the point
https://web.mac.com/finaleffects/SuperNova_Animation_%26_Visual_Effects/SuperNova_Home.html
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Scott Novasic
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also check out particle illusion, which, TO ME, is the best particle generator. Particular is very good, just harder to get the exact look your going for quickly. An AE version is coming out very soon…
Scott
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Scott Novasic
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I would use After Effects. I would create the outline of the tree in black and white silhouette.
Then I would hand keyframe the 30 -40 characters to fly up and rotate or whatever you choose, to
various areas of the trees limbs and trunk. Use the black and white tree silhouette as a luminance mask,
Which will clip the letters perfectly to the shape of the tree. That is the “simple” way to go.Personally I would also apply a mesh warp over the tree shape, that was distorted to the edges of the tree
and effecting the text animation layer (precomped) I would also animate each text piece to ‘scale\grow’ upward from the next piece of text in that ‘sprouting’ way.Scott
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not sure if this helps, but it appears that you have an extremely subtle radial blend in the background. Those type of subtle blends ten to be more difficult to get smoooth. Notice in the top image there is some banding and an attempt at a blend. The bottom image seems to have ‘given up’ on even trying to replicate that blend and is just a lighter solid grey. The key lies in that blend and if you truly need it or not. Otherwise, a higher bit depth should help. Its so subltle I might just eliminate it.
Hope my observation helps some….
Scott
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open gl is a good guess. Are these segmented at all? if so, one may be on a 3d layer accidentally set at a different height…
Scott
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need to know a little more detail on WHY you may need 30000 pixels. There are memory settings that can help, and keeping your cache clear constantly… What are you trying to pull off visually?
Scott
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it all depends on editing flexibility. If your POSITIVE of your videos timings your fine rendering that out separately and laying text on top of that. If you have ANY possible need to slide any of the clips or tweak the timing, then precomp things and composite those comps into your final comp. Giving yourself maximum flexibilty in making changes…
good luck!
Scott
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When you say ‘clipping’ your whites, do you mean ‘keying them out to transparency, or garbling them into video noise of some sort?
Scott
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Scott Novasic
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