Stone Reader
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Easy. Use the Hue/Saturation effect, and keyframe the Saturation from 0 to -100. That will take you from color to b&w.
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Well, rather than e-mail you might want to try some web space. I generally don’t send files more than a few megs via e-mail for the obvious reasons — either my host can’t send them, or our clients’ mailboxes can’t receive them. For us, the web has been the way to go.
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Thanks for the info!
So much to learn…
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Actually, I think I figured it out. It seems I had to adjust the mask itself on the layer.
The layer was masked, with the top and left sides of the mask being at the edge of the original layer, while the bottom and right sides were in from the edges (thus cropping the image on the right and bottom).
It seems the Stroke effect only goes so far as the edge of the layer. And since the Stroke effect acts on the center of the mask edge, half the Stroke is on one side of the mask edge, half on the other side. So for the left and top, which were at the edge of the layer, only the “interior” half of the Stroke effect was showing. Whereas for the right and bottom, both sides were showing.
The solution was to pull the mask in on the top and left, cropping a bit of the layer. Thus, the Stroke was visible on both sides of the mask edge.
Essentially, the Stroke effect is bounded by the dimensions of the original image. If you pull the mask past the dimensions of the layer, the Stroke disappears altogether.
BTW, thanks for your offer to take a look at the actual project files. It is greatly appreciated!
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Yep. Comp is at Full Res, Layer at full quality. And I had tried changing the image position since I thought it might be “between” pixels. Had the same result.
Perhaps it’s b/c of the scaling, but I can’t understand why that would only affect certain sides and not others.
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Don’t know if it’s a bug or something that has to do with the way the software works. Did you try it?
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Hmm, I had your problem before and solved it, but I can’t remember everything I did.
I know one problem was that the comp had to be Square Pixels, not D1. Try that and see if it works. I’ll try to dig up what else I may have done.
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Most DVD authoring programs can encode as well, so you’ll have to get a DVD authoring program and start from there. Just bring in the QT file and figure out how the authoring program works.
Or, there is plenty of encoding software out there to do the job if your authoring program can’t do it.
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Did you try it as an EPS?
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Perhaps I’m thinking this is easier than it is, but using Easing on the keyframes will create that sense of weight. Mess with the keyframe assistant & velocity and see if that works for you.