Tomek Suwalski
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Thank you for answers.
Although there’s a possibility of quality loss I’ve never had any problems from any TV station about that. Recording many many broadcast tapes daily we have no time to render every broadcast filter, but of course we’d like to. Anyways, setting record settings to playback options allows me to record without rendering.
Thank you again for answers and explanations.Best.
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Thank you, guys, you’re awesome.
You’re right Dan, there should be Math.floor() instead of Math.round() and there should be Month_ID and Day_ID in square brackets instead of Month_select and Day_select.
And can you recall any more precise method to control rate of change, cause slider is very unprecise, at most values it changes text every frame, and for example when set to 0,0 at frame 0 and 0,01 at frame 30 it changes every 2:05. It would be nice to have a slider correspond to frames, say every 1,0 at slider means one text change.
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Thank you, guys, you’re awesome.
You’re right Dan, there should be Math.floor() instead of Math.round() and there should be Month_ID and Day_ID in square brackets instead of Month_select and Day_select.
And can you recall any more precise method to control rate of change, cause slider is very unprecise, at most values it changes text every frame, and for example when set to 0,0 at frame 0 and 0,01 at frame 30 it changes every 2:05. It would be nice to have a slider correspond to frames, say every 1,0 at slider means one text change.
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Ok, I do understand that, but more like asking what is this mask supposed to do and where to apply it. Is it supposed to make text-flares disappear or highlight places where text will be or both etc. I’ve already completed this tut my way, but I’d also like to understand the very way he did it.
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Hi Serge, thanks again for answers.
I know Ayato’s tutorials were discussed before and I did search before and most stuff is just confusion, not answers. Although I did search again and find some answers that you already gave me (oops…) and also few questions about Ayato’s tutorial #1, but none of them answered.
Take this thread for example: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=348565&archive=T
He asks exacly the same thing that I’ve asked about color flare (it’s not a lens flare, but blured text), but I’ve already got it, now the problem is step 4 – mask animation, I really don’t get what he means by that. I mean, right precomp two layers and than what? The point is to make this blurred-flare-text to disappear after each letter stops rotating. I was able to achieve similar look manual way, but it’s not that good, my flares just disappear, his – fade out. And it wasn’t answered before, as far as my search goes, although someone already asked that, but no response at all.Maybe I’ll post it also in main ae forum, cause now it’s quite beyond zaxwerks only.
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Hi Serge, yep this helped, thanks a lot! Now I was able to animate 3d text as I wanted. By the way, after setting each letter to a set, each one actualy had its own anchor point, but last time (as it stands in my previous post) there was just a one anchor point set for whole word. Strange. And I’m just curious if there is a way to move anchor point whenever I want to, not just to center?
Anyways, if you’re still interested in giving me few tips, the whole thing is about that I’m trying to complete ayato@web tutorial, the first one, and there are some more problems now. Here’s the link https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae01_e.html. All those question helped me complete just the first step and again I’m stuck on the next one. His flare is full of colors and mine is just black&white or plus additional one color if I change some 3d_inv lighting values. But just that, not whole spectrum as his. So, again, how did he do that? I’m doing everything as mentioned, but my blured and saturated text color is a combination of 3d_inv three lights and nothing more. Any idea?
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Hi Serge, thank you for answers, they’ve helped, but new problems occured.
I’ve released letters to layers in ai, so now each letter is on one layer, 3d_inv opens it, but moves first letter forward z axis and x axis, so now the word isn’t a word, don’t know why it does that. Anyways, opening layered word in 3d_inv doesn’t change a thing, cause I still have to manualy set each letter to new set. Or am I doing something wrong? Opening ai file in 3d_inv as layers and so one (in 3d_inv ‘open illustrator file’ box) doesn’t help. But that’s not the biggest problem.
I can create text directly in 3d_inv and assign each letter to new set and then control them. Thanks for that, I’ve finally found it. BUT I’d like each letter to have it’s own anchor point so I can manipulate them separately, I want them to rotate by Y axis, but their own axis, like they would roll each in it’s own place. Manipulating letters by sets can’t give me that, cause they rotate by 3d_inv word anchor point which is in the middle of the word.
So, how to do that? How to put each letter on it’s own layer, make it quasi-3d in 3d invigorator, and than animate each one by it’s own anchor point?
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Ok, seems like first problem is already solved. Saving file as illustrator 8 helped, anyways, why cs2 format doesn’t work?
But there immediately came another question – how to import ai file or create 3d text within 3d invigorator to have each letter from a word separately to further animate each one individualy not the whole word as a layer. And of course making each letter as a layer is not a solution cause it’s too much work and there are things like kerning that cannot be make good that way. -
Ok, I see it now, 3D Invigorator takes fonts from windows/fonts directory. But I still don’t know an answer for the first question, so if anyone can help, I’d appreciate.
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Oh, I’m not very well, but thanks for asking. Your polish is almost good 😉 Thanks for links. Anyways, you seem to have a polish surname, I’ve got a friend who’s got very the same.