[Tim Vaughan]

Why aren’t you using the captioning software inside Pr Pro? File–>New–>Captions
We generally outsource our captions as a whole, but I’ve had to make adjustments on some–especially when cutting down shows at a later date–and it works rather well.

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Tim Vaughan
Production Editor and Motion Graphics, PBS Charlotte
Charlotte, NC

[Tim Vaughan]

Thanks Ben, that looks like it could answer my issues. I hadn’t yet had a chance to research and figure it out, and you’ve really helped out. Thanks!

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Tim Vaughan
Production Editor and Motion Graphics, PBS Charlotte
Charlotte, NC

[Tim Vaughan]

If you do find out, I’d like to know. I had the same problem. I also found that even when using the same machines, the cache was not used. There were obvious differences between the machines. I had to come up with a different solution that didn’t involve xParticles at all.

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Tim Vaughan
Production Editor and Motion Graphics, PBS Charlotte
Charlotte, NC

[Tim Vaughan]

Ha! I’ve too often seen footage from iPhones and iPads used. If you’re going with Shutterstock, Getty, or any of the others, you’re probably well ahead of the game…:) Besides, once it goes out to the tower from the station, it’s compressed down to a few MB’s for transmission.

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Tim Vaughan
Production Editor and Motion Graphics, PBS Charlotte
Charlotte, NC

[Tim Vaughan]

Cineversity has a tutorial on exactly that. https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/cloth_simulation

Tim
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[Tim Vaughan]

Not sure where that particular tutorial came from, but that looks like a simple animation involving a plain effector and the delay effector. Maybe even the random effector. Just create your text using motext, add the plain effector with a -z and and some random rotation values in the parameter, set your strength from 100 to 0 over the course of 20-30 frames, then add the delay effector with the mode set to spring.

Tim
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[Tim Vaughan]

You would have to stop the render and then restart it. As long as you don’t remove it from the queue, it shouldn’t start over but rather from where it last was. Be careful though, as any change could topple the house of cards and it’ll start from frame 0 all over again….

Tim
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[Tim Vaughan]

It works fine for me. I’ve got one decked pretty well, but I’ve not really experienced any issues other than the odd out-of-the-blue bug that always pops up at some point throughout the year

Tim
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[Tim Vaughan]

On something like this, I’d probably draw a bezier spline and use the align to spline tag. Maybe use a rail spline and adjust further play with the rotational properties. Then I’d simply target the camera to the snowflake and follow accordingly. But there’s a million ways to work this 🙂

Tim
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[Tim Vaughan]

I do this stuff all the time–it’s rather easy once you get the hang of it. Something like what they’ve done is probably a 2-3 hour project for the text animation.

I simply place my text on the scene, depending on how I want the animation to play out I may type each individual word or sentence.

Once everything is where I want it, I’ll check the 3d box and adjust my anchor to where I need the rotation, scale or position to animate from.

I’ve found it’s much easier overall to NOT use 3d cameras and go all out, but rather parenting to each other and/or to nulls for full scaling/positions/rotations.

Also. someone posted this script which I live by. Adjust the amp, freq and decay parameters to your specs, do NOT use ease keyframes, and use about 3-4 frames for the start/end for a nice bounce.

amp = .1;
freq = 2.0;
decay = 2.0;

n = 0;
if (numKeys > 0){
n = nearestKey(time).index;
if (key(n).time > time){
n–;
}}

if (n == 0){ t = 0;
}else{
t = time – key(n).time;
}

if (n > 0){
v = velocityAtTime(key(n).time – thisComp.frameDuration/10);
value + v*amp*Math.sin(freq*t*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*t);
}else{value}

Tim
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