[Steve Roberts]

Yep Aharon, guessing was what I was going for, since after watching the render details a few times, we only know the exact file size is once the render is done, eh? 🙂

[Steve Roberts]

Yep … or drop it into another comp and speed it up a lot and render that … then you get an average…?

[Steve Roberts]

Does this help?

Chris_Meyer said on Jul 9, 2007 at 11:05 AM :
A gotcha to watch out for with multimachine renders: Some codecs (such as
some generations of the Avid and Aurora codecs) had a switch, set either in
their format options or through a separate control panel, on whether or not
they expand the 16-235 internal luminance range of a video stream to
0-255 when they hand files off to an application such as After Effects. Make
sure this is set the same on all computers involved in a network render with
these source, or otherwise different computer may input the source with
different visual contrast.

[Steve Roberts]

Did you install the Cycore effects from the AE install CD? Those are the effects you mention.

(however, if you have the educational version, you might not have those on the CD)

[Steve Roberts]

You can calculate this by knowing the data rate of various codecs, no? Or render 10 seconds, then extrapolate.

At least, AE shows an estimated file size while rendering from the Render Queue. If you don’t like it, stop the render.

[Steve Roberts]

I suppose it depends on how many characters are in the text.

If there are a lot of characters, and Aaron wants it to be irregular, it may be a good idea to bring in the clip without repeating it on interpretation, then use time-remapping keyframes in pairs (start/end).

Otherwise, we’d have of a layer for each instance. That could become unwieldy.

[Steve Roberts]

Ah – of course. My error.

[Steve Roberts]

Did you post here as well, Rich?

https://www.awn.com/

[Steve Roberts]

You could make a graphic of the typebar and typeguide and animate it coming up from the bottom over three frames maybe, with motion blur. Tweak it until you like it. Then render it and re-import it. Interpret it so it repeats as many times as you want. Lay it over your text and off you go. You might have to cut it for word spaces.

For reference, if you’re as geeky as me:
https://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Typewriter.html

Here’s the Murder, She Wrote open for a guide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aabssbby6Q
And another classic in this vein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtNJSDLIhYY

That’s one way, anyway.

[Steve Roberts]

Good + Luck!