[Steve Roberts]

Recompress it, j. The file size is waaaaaay too big. Go for 75KB/sec, Sorenson Pro 3 if you got it, 320×240, 15 fps.

(still waiting, and I’m on broadband)

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

For progressive download movies, I render out of AE using the “composition>Make Movie” command to the Quicktime animation codec at the final frame size & frame rate. Try 480×360 or 320×240 at 15 fps for video sources. Next, I drag the video into Media Cleaner Pro for encoding to the Sorenson 3 Pro codec. You need Pro for high quality, low data rate encoding — regular Sorenson out of AE won’t do it.

The Sorenson Pro settings are usually spatial 50%, 15 fps, 75 KB/s, VBR, keyframe every 75. Audio is QDesign Music 2, 6 KB/s, 16-bit.

I’ve never made streaming movies, so if you want to know more, you might want to check out the docs on the Apple Quicktime site.

Hope that helps,
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Trapcode’s Particular should be able to do it by creating static particles from a moving emitter, thus creating a path. Peder posted a tip to that end recently … if I recall, it involves:

– setting velocity to 0
– setting velocity from motion to 0
– using a light as an emitter, and animating the light’s position to create the “stroke” path
– in your case, using a layer as a custom particle

Hope that gets you started.
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Trapcode’s Particular should be able to do it by creating static particles from a moving emitter, thus creating a path. Peder posted a tip to that end recently … if I recall, it involves:

– setting velocity to 0
– setting velocity from motion to 0
– using a light as an emitter, and animating the light’s position to create the “stroke” path
– in your case, using a layer as a custom particle

Hope that gets you started.
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Hmm … the 9000 seems to be supported … got the latest drivers for the card?

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

I got mine from Sean Cavanaugh’s Digital Type Design Guide, but you can google “alt codes”.

Try https://home.olemiss.edu/~ccjjs/OCUG/Oct-98-nl.html .

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

I’m not sure why you’re having that problem.

I select the text tool, click in the comp windows, then hold down the alt key, then type the four-digit code for the character on the numeric keypad, then release the alt key.

If you’re having trouble with the Euro character, you might need to download this font:
https://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/Euro.htm

Hope that helps,
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

You should convert the MP3 to AIFF or WAV using Quicktime Pro anyway. MP3s in AE can cause clicks and other problems.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

[Mylenium] “when I tried such things in 3D progs some time ago, it just wasn’t fun at all… “

I know what you mean, having tried it using Lightwave’s dynamic parenting a couple of years ago. After the first couple of moves it became unwieldy, so I faked the rotations by rotating the null very fast, doing renders at different cube orientations, then dissolving between them. In this case, it worked because the rotations were very fast: zip-zip-zip. They didn’t have to be completely accurate.

If the cube has to rotate slowly, more than twice … ouch.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

[Mylenium] “when I tried such things in 3D progs some time ago, it just wasn’t fun at all… “

I know what you mean, having tried it using Lightwave’s dynamic parenting a couple of years ago. After the first couple of moves it became unwieldy, so I faked the rotations by rotating the null very fast, doing renders at different cube orientations, then dissolving between them. In this case, it worked because the rotations were very fast: zip-zip-zip. They didn’t have to be completely accurate.

If the cube has to rotate slowly, more than twice … ouch.

Steve