Steve Morris
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How about something along the line of NASCAR style numbers / letters or a font along that line. Speed the text on quickly with a lot of motion blur, stop it quickly (each letter can bump into the letter in front of it when it stops) for a few seconds, then take off suddenly with tires screeching / smoke (lots of blur), finish with fast passover of a checked flag.
NASCAR is not my type of thing, and it may not be the thing for your company. It is the first thing that came to my mind when I thought of fast.
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How about the “continuous rasterize” button? It is the little icon next to the shy button. If you scaled the .ai file, it will pixelate if you do not have it set to continuously rasterize. However, you did not mention anything about the actual file pixelating. It would also pixelate if scaled with the c. rasterize button checked.
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Have you tried Kurt Murphy’s tutorial on making a glass globe?
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/869845?univpostid=869642&pview=tIt is complicated, but looks good. You could simplify it a lot. Just do the basic parts without all of the distortions and background stuff.
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Don’t forget to hit SHIFT + 0 (zero) for the ram preview. It will skip every other frame. You will get twice the amount of time for the preview.
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Just go to any fabric store and buy the cheapest low-luster fabric that you can find. I made my green screen out of 2 – 15′ lenghts of 4′ wide material. I used the iron activated bonding material to bind the 2 pieces together. I paid $1 per yard. It cost about $15. I also made my own softboxes using something called fan-fold foam. It is something like foam core poster board. I used 4 – 5500K fluorescent light bulbs in each one. I use 2 of those to light the talent. I use several of those clamp on lights with 55ooK bulbs to light the screen. Everything cost about $60 including the screen, 2 softboxes with PVC stands and 4 clamps lights. I used a thin white plastic tablecloth for the softbox cover. The most expensive part was the 12 daylight fluorescent bulbs. The bulbs were the most expensive part. The fluorescents burn cool and do not use much electricity. You could get away with using just clamp lights and standard bulbs for a lot less than $60.
I also made a second screen with green material. Green will work better with a DV camera.
Pure cotton would be fine. Just make sure it does not have a shine to it.
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That is correct. Everything is acting as it should. The ram preview is based on the amount of ram you have. AE is not an NLE.
Change to “1/4” quality rather than “full”, you will get a longer preview.
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Andrew Kramer and Ahron have great tutorials. Click on them at the top of the main AE page. Look for Ahron’s Super Tight Junk Matte tutorial. Andrew’s is titled something about keying. It should be easy to find. It has been a while since I have watched them. I believe they use Keylight exclusively. But, maybe it was one of the other keyers in AE.
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Are you referring to a RAM preview? Or, are you saying it plays slow when you just play it right in timeline. It won’t play at normal speed without a ram preview, unless you have a top-notch computer.
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Did you do all of the Trapcode tutorials? Their website has a lot of tutorials. Go to the download section. It has tutorials on-site and some links for off-site web pages full of tutorials.
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Some words to look for are:
overlays
lower thirds
motion design elementsCheckout http://www.digitaljuice.com for ideas. They won’t have any tutorials. But, you can get top-notch ideas from them.
You might get some ideas from Ayato.
https://www.ayatoweb.com/ make sure to go to the English part > tips
The tutorials are not for beginners.