Simon Bonner
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You would need to be more specific about what you want to achieve. However, there is a great tutorial at videocopilot.net on making a demon face which could be modified to suit your needs if you want to make a face change shape.
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You can enable depth of field in your camera, but this will only affect 3D objects that are different distances from your camera. Imagine 3 solids, 50×50 pixels, that are close, near to and far away from the camera. You could change the focus settings to make each of these solids come into focus in turn.
Your video is a 2D layer, though. AE can’t just “work out” which areas should be in focus and which shouldn’t. Instead forget about the camera completely and add an adjustment layer above the footage. Apply a fast blur to the layer and then draw a mask on this layer around the actors. Feather out the mask so that the blur edge isn’t stark. Then you will have to keyframe the mask shape/path property if your actors are moving. It’s a tricky thing to get right, so I would advise using it sparingly. If you use a tripod and your actors are relatively immobile though, it can look pretty decent.
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I’m not sure as my department got my copy. Check out current retail prices and be aware that if you’re a student you should be able to get a hefty discount.
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But does it matter if your voice is 1 sec delayed in playback? Presumably you’re recording it to add to the video? Once you’re finished with the recording, you could just drag the audio track backwards one second to sync it up with the video. Or am I missing something?
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You won’t have trouble learning Premiere. It’s easier to use than WMM. If you’re serious about learning, you’ll soon get tired of any ‘intermediate’ programme you pick up. I’d say if you have the cash, go for it.
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Do you mean text with a stroke but no fill? If so, this is quite easy.
Write some text with the text tool and keep it selected. Go to the windows menu and open the character panel, if it’s not already open. Increase the width of the stroke. Make the fill colour active (top right of the panel) and then click on the small white bow below it with the red line through. This removes the fill.
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Select the audio layer, or video layer that contains audio, and hit the L key twice in succession. This will reveal the volume property and the audio wave. Set a keyframe where you want the fade to begin, then scrub forward to where you want the audio to be off and set the volume to a very low value, e.g. -50. Select this last keyframe and hit F9 to make it easy-ease and fade the audio out more smoothly.
You may already know this, but you should ensure that any audio you use in AE is uncompressed (no MP3s) otherwise you will likely have problems with your render.
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Scrub (move the current time indicator) to where you want the value to be zero. Hit the stopwatch for the effect in the effects panel, or for the property in the timeline.
Scrub to where you want the value to be 100 and then change the value for the effect. A keyframe will be added automatically.
Scrub ahead again and change the value to 0. Once again, a keyframe will be automatically added.
If you want the value to remain steady for a while (e.g. to stay at 100% for a certain number of frames) add another 100% keyframe at the desired time by hitting the small button at the left of the timeline panel between the two small arrows.
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I don’t know what the issue is, but you might want to try activating the ‘hidden’ administrator account on Vista. Some of the myriad problems I’ve had with Vista have been rectified when I’ve used this account. Google the topic and you should find simple step by step instructions on how to do this.
Though I don’t want to get into a Vista slanging match, I think it’s hardly encouraging that Dell has resumed shipping machines with XP installed for business customers who request it.
Simon Bonner
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