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Tim Tippets
March 12, 2024 at 4:20 am in reply to: Text On A Plaque Effect

When I use kerning to close the gaps it brings the letters so close to each other that they overlap. I’m looking to leave everything where it is and just close the gaps in the white background. Maybe I’m missing something in your reply?
Tim Tippets
January 4, 2024 at 12:17 am in reply to: Dynamic / Reactive Volumetric Light Base On Source Footage

I tried that but it just doesn’t look good. Right now I’m using the Extract effect to remove all black and just leave white and bright colorsand then track matte the audience to that. Playing with it now but now sure. That said, blur will be part of it for sure no matter what. Thanks for the suggestion!
Tim Tippets
May 4, 2023 at 1:31 am in reply to: How to get a shape to follow the path of a dynamically changing sine wave,

That’s amazing! I’d like my circle to go just one direction or the other along the line of the sine wave. I’m on mobile but will get back and dig in soon to look at the expressions to see if I can tell what’s causing it to move relative to what the sine wave is doing. I’m not an expressions guy but I’m guessing it won’t be to hard to tweak?

Thank you a thousand times for giving me some direction to go in!
Tim Tippets
March 1, 2022 at 12:52 am in reply to: Slow rendering of Radio Waves effect

John Cuevas Yep. Filip got it right on the spot.
Tim Tippets
March 1, 2022 at 12:51 am in reply to: Slow rendering of Radio Waves effect

Filip Vandueren, you nailed it on the head! The comp was 15 min long. LOL. I shortened it to 40 sec and it’s rendering ahead of real time in full res. Oh, man. So simple. THANK YOU!
Tim Tippets
February 28, 2022 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Slow rendering of Radio Waves effect

I had no idea. The comp is 15 minutes long by default for whatever reason. I’ll cut that down and let you know. Thanks!
Tim Tippets
August 16, 2019 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Absorbing Radio Waves – Dynamically

That looks interesting. Can’t hurt to give the trial a shot. Pricey for this one-off, though. Thinking about how I can use it moving forward as well. Thanks!
Tim Tippets
December 19, 2017 at 7:06 pm in reply to: After Effects Flickering

Thanks, guys. I tried both speeding up and slowing down but no love. Digging the post on juddering so I’ll look into that for sure. Thanks to you guys for your insight!
Tim Tippets
December 13, 2017 at 9:16 pm in reply to: After Effects Flickering

Thanks, Dave! Speed it up or slow it down?
Tim Tippets
November 27, 2015 at 1:24 am in reply to: Rotating a C Shape perfectly on center

Thanks, Kalle.

In hindsight, I should have explained my total end game. Here’s what’s going on:

I’ve go a logo that has an open circle with an arrow on one end. Like so:

This version of the logo is missing the text in the middle, but I’m sure you get the idea. So I’d like to not only have the Ai logo for various uses, I’d also like to animate it in 3D. That’s where the rub comes in because when I use 3D Element to extrude the logo, it sees any mask as part of the object, so things get crazy real fast. e.g., if I use a mask over the circle and arrow in After Effects it will become part of the object in 3D Element.

If I can import the circle and arrow into After Effects and have the circle portion perfectly centered, everything should work out really well. But I’m wondering if I’m somehow sending the object off center when I create an opening in the circle when in Ai? I wouldn’t think it would work that way, but nothing else makes sense at this point. There’s probably a really simple answer but my request is odd. That’s probably why I can’t find an answer on Google. Argh…