Stone Reader
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And PI will be releasing an AE plugin soon. So get to know it, and soon you won’t even have to leave AE to use it.
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Right. And Silhouette rocks. Why wait for Adobe to get on the ball — just buy Roto.
Naveen
P.S. I don’t have any affilation with SilhouetteFX.
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We firewire out to a Canopus ADVC-100, then composite or S-Video into a monitor. Cheap, effective, though not the most beautiful.
Not sure why you’re having so much trouble…
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If the background is not plain, I don’t know how you can do it. If it wasn’t chroma, you could conceivably try to key it, and using a variety of filter, it could work. But if the background is complex, with moving objects, especially if they are of various colors which may match those in the object you want to silhouette, I don’t know how you can do it.
Rotoscoping might be your only way. Tedious, yes, but you certainly wouldn’t be the first to have to do it. Some people make a living doing it every day.
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Yep, very overused, though the “shine effect” was overused long before Trapcode came out with their plug-in. It’s such a standard effect now, I think it’s become a fundamental effect for the mograph designer (just like drop shadow is for graphic designers), and everyone should have it in their toolkit (just use discriminately).
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Well, I would say go with Particular and just use the end of the animation, where the particles have come together and finished forming the word(s).
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Thanks for the help guys! I actually heard that it’s going to be Curious gFX that’s going to be in AE, not Silhouette. In fact, if you go to the Curious website, they say that they’re no longer offering a free trial of gFX because they’ve liscened the product out to Adobe. But I guess it’s all just speculation until AE 7 appears.
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I just figured it was 3D stroke by Trapcode (www.trapcode.com).
Already way over-used before the modified ABC logo.
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Look for Winmorph. It’s a shareware app, but works pretty good and is easy to use. Hope that helps.
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Okay guys, figured it out. I’m in AE 6.5 Standard, so I’m not sure what I’m missing from the Pro version, but here’s what I can do to acheive my effect:
1. Set the Duration to “Constant”.
2. Draw the image I want.
3. Then I go into the Timeline, where each brush stroke has it’s own layer. To create the draw on effect, I keyframe the End percentage, and then stagger the layers (or keyframes) down the timeline so that each stroke is drawn on sequentially.Thanks for your help!