Steve Morris
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Andrew Kramer has a tutorial on light streaks which uses a glow. He may having something in there that can help you.
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There probably is not much use installing it. You won’t be able to do anything once you get it installed. You will need to make some room or get a new drive.
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I created something last week that looked very good. I did not use it as a transition, but it could easily be a transition. I wanted to burn a hole in a book page. I just laid a large piece of white poster board (I did not have black paper around) on the snow, poured a little circle ( I needed a ring of fire)of gasoline on it, turned the camera on & lite the fire. I videoed the fire from the same perspective that my 3D comp camera was in. I masked out and feathered the areas on the fire video that I did not need. The white paper matched my book pages perfectly. I also used CC Page Burn to reveal the page underneath. For a transition, you could use CC Page Burn to burn off the entire page.
The entire process took 15 min. I spent more than that much time searching the net on making fire in AE.
I am still looking for a good fire tutorial.
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The ram preview is based on the amount of ram that you have. You have 2gb, but that still is not enough to watch a long segment.
The blocked pixels may be due to your preview settings not set to full, or the continuous rasterize button may not be turn on. It is that little sun looking icon in the column along with the shy and 3d buttons.
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The only way I learned particle playground was to play with it (pun intended). Just go in and try some things. Most of the parameters are named with names that make sense. Andrew Kramer’s last tutorial (named something like 3D Titles) he touches on particle playground.
Use a large emitter, as wide as the comp, or however wide you want the dust falling. Use a gravity setting that makes the dust fall ( I think it is +) and maybe a little wind and some random velocity.
After the particles fall, animate a mask to reveal your image.
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Card dance might be a crude way of doing this.
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I have had the error, but did not respond to the earlier post. Because someone suggested the fix that I was aware of. I had a comp that was only 1 frame long. I also got the error last night again on a comp that was 30 sec. long, but I had the work area bar squeezed all the way together.
Check both of the above mentioned issues.
If you are still getting the error. Start a new comp with one of the presets and start over.
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I had the same situation a while back. I used “Basic 3D” to get around it. It does not have the control like Photoshop has with holding cntl on a transformation, but I can get something close to what I am looking for.
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I can’t quit recall the Superman title. But, a particle effect with the word as a custom particle and the velocities turned down might be what you want. Use a darker (or lighter) color for the particle trail. Put a lighter color of the same word over the top. Animate both layers to move as you want them to move.
You could use Trapecode Shine to leave a short trail behind the word.
I assume you tried a motion blur, and that was not enough of a trail.
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There is a tutorial on this by Aharon. I think it is called boomerang effect. It is actually a 2 part series.