Tom Scott
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I think “better” is a matter of personal preference. While I prefer Particular, there will be some folk who like to use Particle Playground.
Of course, if you want real power when working with particles, try the stand-alone program, Particle Illusion.
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Considering the fact that the majority of available After Effects tutorials are in English, the translation of plugin names (for other languages) should be as accurate as possible. Changing the (meaning of) names is a huge blunder by Adobe, resulting in much potential confusion. Perhaps a listing of all the translations needs to be created and posted by Adobe.
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Do you think you’d get away with “Lord of all that’s cool in Motion Graphics”?
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There’s a tutorial in The Cow’s After Effects tutorials section (by Aharon Rabinowitz, I think).
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As a former (freelance) software engineer, I consider the source code (or, in this case, the project files) to be worth, at least, ten times the finished program (or video file). Therefore, if the finished video file is worth $5000, your project files are worth $50000 plus.
Like a software engineers source code, your AE project files are your intellectual property. Just because you’ve used well known techniques and expressions, makes no difference, whatsoever. Software engineering is (basically) all about the creative use of common techniques and blocks of standard code. As you can see, the software/source code analogy is exactly the situation you have asked about.
If I were you, I’d offer the project files, with an appropriate price tag. If your clients client is unwilling to pay your price, they don’t have any right to expect to be provided with any project files.
Of course, I am assuming that you have provided them with everything that you were contracted to produce for your client, i.e. you were contracted to produce and deliver a finished video file (or a motion graphics package, or whatever), but not an After Effects template/project files.
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Try pre-composing your duplicate layer, before creating your mask.
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Try a color range key, gradually adding more of the background color to the key. You’ll probably need to use simple choker to clean up the last traces (around the edges). Being DV, it might help to give the blue channel a little blur, before keying.
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I would have thought that Dave’s answer (the correct one for your situation) would be obvious.
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Don’t convert all the keyframes to hold keyframes, just the one you want to hold on.
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“I think I will probably wait to see what the 3D Tracking will have to give from VideoCopilot.”
Doesn’t the 3d tracking require Boujou? Have you got a spare $10,000?