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Tristan Summers replied to the discussion "Add" Blending mode darkening edges unless BG layer exists in the forum Adobe After Effects

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:23:54 +0000

Reply to "Add" Blending mode darkening edges unless BG layer exists

I am not sure you ARE understanding things properly.

I would duplicate the person image and use tha as the matte for the wavy add layer.

That is what you would do in any compositing software to limit the edges.

I would Change the Transfer Mode of the wavy lines to Preserve Luminosity, then add a Shift Channels effect and take the alpha from…

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion Do Expressions enlarge AE Project files and slow down save/load times? in the forum Adobe After Effects

Wed, 04 May 2022 11:23:46 +0000

Reply to Do Expressions enlarge AE Project files and slow down save/load times?

Also worth mentioning that the native data workflow is incredibly slow, heavyweight and clunky. I would definitely try Dataclay which is just so much more responsive and useable.

I think it is probably reading in the CSV data and carving it out in stone with a blunt chisel!

Assume you have an nvme OS, Storage and Cache drive? Helps with saving. A…

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion Big Mac set-up for DaVinci Editor in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:35:56 +0000

Reply to Big Mac set-up for DaVinci Editor

Right now you will probably be fine with a base model Studio Max.

It is just a shame you can’t upgrade later, but you never know what OWC magic might happen.

Anything above the base model you are just over-paying mac tax in bucket loads.

FCP and Resolve are optimised for the M1 and always recommend transcoding to Pro Res anyway

Personally I am mostly…

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion AE – Text is offsets starting position differently per letter in the forum Adobe After Effects

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 13:21:56 +0000

Reply to AE – Text is offsets starting position differently per letter

I do it by adding an invisible | to the beginning and end and kerning the first one outside the box.

Use an opacity animator, index 1, offset 1, to hide the characters. | Usually covers ascender and descender height.

I’ve also used ” to set the top right.

This way means you can add text boxes easily to the top and bottom

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Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:20:13 +0000

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion Third Monitor iMac Avid in the forum Avid Media Composer

Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:58:41 +0000

Reply to Third Monitor iMac Avid

With a breakout box you can actually calibrate it properly. With a black magic one you can even use resolve.

Running three displays probably uses more pcie lanes than the processor has and you need them for any other thunderbolt devices. You could check if Apple bothered to tell you more details about their processors

People do it a lot and it…

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion Resolve 17.4 (Free) upgrade - unable to install in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:52:27 +0000

Reply to Resolve 17.4 (Free) upgrade - unable to install

I had to install. Uninstall. Reinstall and restart before resolve studio would open a project when i updated to 17.3 and 17.4.

I copied the .exe from the zip to the desktop and extracted/installed getting there.

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion Puppet pins not showing in the forum Adobe After Effects

Fri, 28 May 2021 11:22:09 +0000

Reply to Puppet pins not showing

Thanks for this, helped me. Why can’t it work on continuously rasterised?

Maybe an opportunity to reiterate the process of operations?

Layer sized effect can’t work if comp bleeding off edges?

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion inconsistencies in saturation/color and shadow quality when exporting in the forum Adobe After Effects

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:29:30 +0000

Reply to inconsistencies in saturation/color and shadow quality when exporting

So.

Your final deliverable will be 8 bit.

What ever it is finally viewed on will be 8bit.

Ideally you should have AE as a 32 bit project but the working space should be set to Rec709.

That way you will not be creating saturation that can never be in the final rec709 deliverable

Premiere works in Rec 709 by default. It is faking and fudging it HDR…

Tristan Summers replied to the discussion What is the best bang-for-buck computer for Resolve? in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:55:11 +0000

Reply to What is the best bang-for-buck computer for Resolve?

transcode to pro res and you can probably run it on your iWatch. Leave it as h264 and you will need a fast processor. smoothest playback I got was from a 4x ioFX raid0.

currently I would say (as in , if my machine died today, I would buy!)…

Processor : Threadripper pro 3995

RAM: 128GB

GPU: RTX 3080

Storage : 4 x Corsair MP600 RAID 0

Decklink 4K…