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|  | Simpel blurby Hamid Rohi-Bilverdy 3 years agoHi Sorry for this simpel basic question. I add a solid to my footage, made a rectangle mask in it. In this mask I want a blur effect, no matter what i do I just cant seem to get it right. The blur is  | Re: Simpel blur
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
Instead of using a solid, try using an adjustment layer. Use a mask the same way to frame the logo, and then your blur will effect the layers below it. Andy Dykstra www.ghostrender.com
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| | "Fire Trail" effect help neededby Mark Ramsey 3 years agoA friend of mine, an avid snowboarder, asked if I could make a trail of fire, like in Back To The Future, igniting behind his snowboard as he zooms past the camera. I have a wall of flame already keye | Re: "Fire Trail" effect help needed
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
Try using a "linear wipe" effect on the flames. You can set the direction to the same as your snowboarder, and then set keyframes on the completion % to match the movement. Andy Dykstra www.ghostrende
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|  | Sync position with music?by Robin Lund 3 years agoHi. I would like to sync an objects position to music. Nothing fancy. Just 2 points. This is what I want. The object is at point "A" (x 0, y 500) for instance. I want it to "bounce" against point "B" | Re: Sync position with music?
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
There is a great tutorial from VideoCopilot.net that should show you everything you need to set something like this up. http: www.videocopilot.net tutorials audio_to_animation Andy Dykstra www.ghostre
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| | Grouping 3D/2.5D layersby Jake Gully 3 years agoI have a composition which has lots of bits of text on it laid out like a timeline, so it's very long and thin. Some of the text is massive and some is tiny. The idea is to have the camera zoom out to | Re: Grouping 3D/2.5D layers
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
If I'm understanding your layout right then there is a very simple answer. On the comps or layers that get blurry when you zoom into them, there is a "continually rasterize" box next to motion blur, f
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|  | TV ID production solution?by Pierre-Alexis Tremblay 3 years agoLooking for some kind of tv ident versions management solution. Put differently, a way to automate the process of outputting the dozens of templates declinations for all the tv id usual pieces. There | Re: TV ID production solution?
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
This may be a solution for you depending on what exactly you need: http: aescripts.com compsfromspreadsheet Sorry, I haven't used this myself, but from your description, it might be exactly what you a
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|  | After Effects CS4 Trouble!by Rhys Bowen 3 years agoHello, I have had this programme on my Laptop for a few months now, and it has been working fine. I had no memory on the laptop so I got an external hard drive and put loads!! of things on there so i | Re: After Effects CS4 Trouble!
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
After Effects is a pretty resource intense program. You'll need at least a few gigs of RAM to really do anything. It sounds like you're a little confused because adding an external hard drive will onl
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|  | AE Audio Questionby Austin Reedy 3 years agoHi Everyone, I am doing some key work for a friend, and I've been given Quicktime files that I'm pulling into AE to key them with. Everything is fine except that upon importing the .mov's, the audio i | Re: AE Audio Question
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
If a layer or comp has audio, there is a little speaker icon in your timeline far to the left next to the eyeball icon for visible invisible. If your footage is showing audio, but the render isn't, ch
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|  | File Error: Unknown File.by Tim Allen 5 years agoHey Gang, This is a weird one and has happened quite a few times, but I'm just now getting around to posting it for some help. Every now and then when I go to save my FCP Project I get this error that | Re: File Error: Unknown File.
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
We have several FCP machines set up working on the same projects from a storage server. All of our machines get this error occasionally, and it is almost always around 5:30pm. The time thing really th
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|  | Expressions that countby Stu Pond 3 years agoI have a job where I need to count between various integers both whole and with decimal places that start all over the place i.e. 135 - 166 or 4.2 - 8.3 etc.. As I suspect I might have to retime these | Re: Expressions that count
by Andy Dykstra 3 years ago
I think this should work - inside the parentheses for the Math.floor() portion take your value times 10, 100, 1000, one 0 for each decimal place, then divide the whole thing by the same number. Math.f
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