Tim Kurkoski
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Yeah, the dotted lines look like the “safe” area, if you will. The solid lines appear to be the bleed area. I’d suggest you design just past the solid lines to be safe. (You can always contact the publisher of the template to ask for sure.)
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No. Computer monitors and TV monitors are very different creatures.
What you can do is connect a DV device (camera, deck, or converter) to your Firewire port and hook up a TV to the device. Premiere can preview live to a DV device while you work, just set it up in the Project Settings. This will work with any deck or converter, and with most (not all) cameras, though for cameras you may have to change a setting in the menu.
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Yes, change the resolution to print-quality resolution. Other than that, there’s not much to it. Just create your design within bounds of the template. About that- with printed templates that are going to be cut, it’s always recommended you give your design a little “bleed”- make sure the design goes outside a little bit so you have some wiggle room for when the paper is cut.
Oh, and you probably will want to make sure to turn off the template layers before you print. I haven’t looked at the template (but am familiar with the type), so I don’t know how many layers it will create. Might want to tuck them into a layer group/set (same thing) and keep that as your top layer. Of course, always put your design work on new layers.
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Not sure on this one. Have you tried leaving the comp set to Custom View and rendering it?
Elsewise, I can only suggest trial and error to match that view. Maybe create a solid, position it so it exactly fills the custom view, then work on adjusting your camera to do the same thing.
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You have to make sure that you select the Mask Shape property specifically, and copy and paste that into the Position property. Otherwise AE thinks you want to copy the whole mask and all of it’s properties, not just the X/Y coordinate data.
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Did you import your PSD file as footage or as a composition? If you imported as comp, what did you choose for the Footage Dimensions option? Choosing the Layer Size option there could throw things off, as it resizes each layer, which could affect their positions.
If all you want to do is animate the whole menu image, import as footage.
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Can you clarify what you mean by “bend text on X and Y”? Or better yet, is there an example on the Internet that you can point us to?
You can certainly put text on a path or curve. Draw a mask on the text layer and then assign the mask to the Text > Path Options > Path property of the text layer.
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Click on the Graph Editor button at the top of the timeline, then select the property you want to edit. Use the Pen tool for editing graphs, though be aware that not all properties (specifically, some X/Y properties like Position) don’t work as Beziers. Read up on the Graph Editor in the Help files for the details.
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Aharon’s toonification tutorial. The one you referenced.
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/index.html -
Harder. This film looks to me like it was animated from scratch, probably with some motion capture (and reference film of the actors) as a framework for some of the characters.
Aharon’s tutorial takes advantage of some pre-built scripts in Adobe Bridge, which really makes it a snap to get an animated look from live footage. It’s really far more comparable to the style used in A Scanner Darkly and The Kid Stays In The Picture, but those films used custom software as well as lots and lots of manual tweaking to get the results right. (You can still play and tweak with the technique Aharon uses, of course.)