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Troy Anderson
September 25, 2006 at 4:45 am in reply to: Networking

I can mount a PC folder on my Mac. How do I get a folder on my Mac to mount on my PC?

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Troy.
Troy Anderson
March 21, 2006 at 7:37 pm in reply to: Text around the corner

I did something like this for a Target job a few years ago. I precomped the crawl of the text, then using careful masking I used the 3D abilities of AE to get the perspective right. It took me a while but it looked good.

Troy.
Troy Anderson
March 21, 2006 at 7:47 am in reply to: Freelance Subcontract Protocol

Thanks everyone, for good, late-night reading. My quick take on this after reading this discussion is that like everything else, it just takes clear and frank communication by all parties. I’ve been at this a long time and one thing I’ve learned is that if I bring up a contract or the final disposition of the project to my clients and I’m met with blank stares or worse, an adversarial stance then I can assume one of two things: This client is either not as professional is I’d like, or they’re trying to pull one over on me. Either way my exit strategy kicks in. I’ve worked on my share of projects without a contract, but in every case I’ve known the client personally or have done exhaustive research on them. And in the case of the latter, I still go in assuming I’m putting my paycheck at risk.

Be smart, it’s “Their” job to get us as cheaply and conveniently as possible. It’s our job to put food on the table. I figure we can all still be friends and have a beer when the final AEP’s are delivered.

Thanks,
Troy.
Troy Anderson
March 15, 2006 at 8:31 pm in reply to: Hyper X or LEX

It’s for graphics for a sports piece. The client worded the question this way, “I’ll send the graphics disk. What platform? Duet Hyper X or LEX?”

Thanks,
Troy.
Troy Anderson
February 23, 2006 at 8:09 pm in reply to: how do i go from AVID to AE and back to AVID

We have two Adrenalines here at Media Loft, and we do a ton of the compositing you are talking about. Our adrenalines are on G5s and I use two HP XW8200’s with AE6.5 pro on both. I have the Avid codecs on my PCs and we trade clips everyday with great results using those codecs. We use 2to1 compression for some things, uncompressed with others. I like compositing with the video and then giving the finished clip back to the Avids because it allows for more polished composites. I just think it looks less “supered”. If we need more edit session flexibility, then I’ll provide 32-bit QT’s with the Avid compression. You have to be careful about how your pieces are premultiplied in that case however.

Hope this is helpful,
Troy
Troy Anderson
January 25, 2006 at 6:48 pm in reply to: How do I create a paint splatter effect?

Frankly, I’ve had the best results by throwing white paint onto a black surface, then compositing different takes. I clamped a piece of low-glare glass to a piece of foam core and hurled paint at it.