Steve Roberts
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You can scrub audio in AE by holding down the ctrl key on Windows, or the command (apple) key on Mac.
Steve
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Final Effects plugs are now called “cycore” or “CC” effects in AE. They are a separate install on the CD.
Steve
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You might want to render to a different format, such as WMV or quicktime. I might not be the only content developer who dislikes installing RealPlayer on my system. 🙂
Steve
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Note: many codecs don’t like 255 red.
Which codec are you using?
(you should generally be rendering through the output module)Steve
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Hmm … I think you mean “from frames to timecode”.
You should ctrl-click (cmd-click on mac) the time display at the bottom of the comp window until you get what you want.
Steve
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Animate the mask shape parameter using keyframes, as outlined in the manual. You have to do it by hand — it won’t animate its shape randomly automatically.
Another option is to use the gradient wipe transition effect. It requires footage or a comp layer to be used as the gradient map. The transition is applied to a layer using the grayscale values of the map to make the transition. A linear gradient, used as a map, would make a linear wipe, since the grayscale values go from black to white in a linear fashion. Try it with a fractal.
But if your map is an effected layer, make sure you precomp that layer or render it. AE uses a map layer in a comp before any effects have been applied to it in that comp — that’s why you have to render the map layer or precomp it.
Hope that helps,
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Google or search the COW under “the kid stays in the picture”, which was the title of the first film to popularize this technique.
Steve
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You might be jumping to a solution while in the brainstorming stage. Just start blasting words, not motion graphics solutions. If a few pop up, that’s cool, but don’t try to direct the brainstorming that way. Brainstorming should be a kind of free-association.
Cross, x, RR, wide spaces, Jesus, offset, meet, join, directions, bows and/or arrows, conflict, not-perpendicular, XXX, many crosses, graveyard, throwing stars, addition (+), picket fence, rulers going “boing” when struck on the edge of a school desk, dotted lines on a street, parking spots, roadkill, wavy-air hot asphalt, desert, crop circles, sign with multiple directions (like M.A.S.H.), pointing fingers, motion trails, propellor, helicopter, fan, wheel spokes, ferris wheel, two fingers making an X, alphabet flashed on leading to X, X the unknown, ribbon of a gift, frame of a window or door, other architectural details …
Hope that helps,
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They are a separate install from the AE CD. “Cycore”.
Steve
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Windows Media Player 10 couldn’t play the clip.
XP sp2.
Steve