Stone Reader
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The background streaks of light were probably done with Knoll Light Factory, or maybe Trapcode Stroke & Shine. The streaks on the text itself was done with Trapcode Shine.
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I don’t think it matters, as long as it is uncompressed and whichever NLE you are using can handle it.
If you are overlaying graphics on HD footage, I’d use Quicktime because of the alpha channel capabilities (when rendering, make sure to choose RGB+Alpha).
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Trapcode seems to be the new “in” particle system right now, and a lot of people are saying it is the best partical generator for AE, but ParticleIllusion seems to have some devoted followers around here, which can be a big asset when you need help.
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Have you tried 3D Stroke plugin by Trapcode?
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Have you tried 3D Stroke plugin by Trapcode?
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I have a post down the forum about rendering failure’s I was encountering (I think you had posted to it).
Here’s the fix (that I found in the Cow Forum archives):
Start AE.
Open your project.
Hold down the shift key, and then go to Edit>Preferences>General (hold the key the entire time, until the dialog box comes up).
Click the drop-down, and at the bottom you will see “Secret”.
Go to Secret and select the top check box. Enter “5” for the number of frames below the box.Apparently, this will purge the cache every five frames, thus keeping AE’s use of RAM low and allowing it deal with large compositions.
I had render failure after render failure on some pretty big comps involving 3D motion and whatnot. Once I did this, no problems (knock on wood).
Why this is secret is beyond me. Seems like an extremely important and useful feature that Adobe would want to tout.
Naveen
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From what I know, AVI does not support alpha channels (we use QT whenever we do alphas). However, perhaps there is a codec that supports this.
Can’t you use QT?
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Thanks guys.
I really wish Adobe and whomever would work on After Effects in conjunction with a video card like the Storm 2 so that we could have real-time effects and audio. (We have Storm 2 and Premiere Pro, and it is great). That would speed up work-flow immeasurably.
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Originally, we were using a Canopus ADVC-100 converter box to go into our monitor. So we would go firewire out of the PC into the ADVC-100, and then video out of the ADVC-100 into the monitor (you will need a cord which is RCA-out to component-in to go from the ADVC-100 into the monitor).
We’ve since upgraded to the the Canopus Storm 2 video card, so now we go straight out of the box to the monitor. However, if you’re working off a laptop you’ll have to do the former.
A monitor is a must have. Colors look completely different from a computer screen vs. a preview monitor, and the difference between a laptop and monitor is even greater.
Good luck!
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Thanks! That did the job. Just wonder why you can’t change the settings once a project is underway. Seems rather inconvenient.