[Tom Hepburn]

Hi Jonathan,

I also would probably render the whole thing and make subclips in Premier. However if you still want to have your movies separate, another option would be to make note of where each clip begins and ends
(00:00:10 – 01:10:12).
Then in the render settings, click on “custom” near start, end, duration, and put those values in. Of course you’ll have to do that for each comp in the render cue, but you can do it if you prefer to work that way.
Good Luck,
Tom

[Tom Hepburn]

You know I’d also check the anti aliasing under the character palette. Another thing I’d do is check it with another font and see if you get the same results. And as another poster said, make sure you looking at 100%

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[Tom Hepburn]

I’d say it’s kind of a personal preference. I like to create my own. For example for company “A”, I would have render settings template called “web_company_A,” or “HD_company_A,” and so on. Obviously each one of those would have the corresponding parameters like resolution, compression if any, format, and so on. Then when it’s time to render I just use the drop down preset in the render module.

You can create new output module and render settings under Edit>Templates.

Tom

[Tom Hepburn]

Start an empty layer

Under the filter drop down, in the top portion there is something called “vanishing point.” draw a grid with the tools there, and there is a little arrow at the top where you would tell it to “render grids to Photoshop.” That is what this person it talking about.

There are many ways to create a grid, but I have rarely used this one. That’s not to say this isn’t a good way.

Good luck.
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[Tom Hepburn]

Having not seen the shot, I would try using an animated corner pin (under distort). If you can get it close then it just becomes a matter of tweaking (I hate that word tweaking. Many times it turns out to be a lot of work in spite of sounding like a little adjustment). Nonetheless, that’s where I would start.

Good luck,
T

[Tom Hepburn]

I’m not sure that you’re going to find brushes that specific, at least in terms of the crowd. I would opt to make it yourself. I would get an image and trace around it. It’s been a while since I’ve made a brush, but I’m sure it’s information is in the help system.

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[Tom Hepburn]

“Is there a way to add a border to image and have the canvas and have it expand automatically? Thanks.”

I’m not completely sure what you mean by the above, but if you apply a stroke in the effects palette, then select the position to “inside” you should get what you want in terms of putting a border on that portion of the image. If the issue is the you’re having a problem saving out (in web form) just the header part of your of your image, then I would us the slice tool with guides and save selection. If you’re doing a lot of web work, the slice tool is sweet.
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[Tom Hepburn]

Are they (the alpha transparency) not working in FCP then? It’s normal behavior to have an RGB image open with the R,G,B, channels on and not the fourth alpha channel in PS.
When you bring it in to FCP, it should detect that there is an alpha, and knock out what was designated for transparency, in this case the black portion of the the alpha.

Am I understanding the problem?
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[Tom Hepburn]

I’ll take a stab, which means a guess at this point. It’s possible that when you crop it is cropping based on inches, not pixels (or vv). When the crop tool is selected you have the 3 parameters at the top. If one wants an image to be a certain size, one has to be specific and put in pixels (px) or inches (in). For example:

width:5 in Height:4 in Resolution: 300

That is one possibility.

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[Tom Hepburn]

After you give it a name and click save, you get a pop up window that is titled, EPS Options. At the top is a drop down for “version.” I’m running CS2 here at work and I see it, but I’m pretty sure I’ve done it at home (CS3). Other than that I’m afraid I don’t have any other options.

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