you now enter the real

For those of you who don't know, I've been directing and now editing a feature-length project for Brooklyn Battle Comedy.  Shooting began in September and now we're dropping the teaser trailer.  

Brooklyn Battle Comedy puts on live shows that feature comedy alongside pro wrestling, so the project is like a mockumentary that ends in a pro wrestling match.  Oh yeah.  

Anyway, check it out if you're down.  I recommend turning up the speakers and setting it to at least 1080p or even 4K if your internet can handle it without lagging.  

Bring logo or whatever into timeline, select it and go up to Layer > Auto Trace.

Now your logo is converted into mask paths.

BLOCK LETTERS (using pen tool in Illustrator after threshold filter in Photoshop-- letters can be outlined, don’t need to be filled).

In text for example, cut the holes out of the B once you have paths for all 3.

Make sure the cut-out paths are in a layer above the B-layer.

Open Pathfinder window, select all relevant layers, then set to Minus Front.

BRUSHWORK LETTERS (using Image Trace in Illustrator after threshold filter in Photoshop -- letters should be filled in with black)

Use Image Trace feature in Ai, set to Black and White logo and press Expand when ready.

Multiply eliminates (keys out) white background auto

Overlap clips by 3 frames, first one on top.

Put Transform effect on top clip.

In Transform effect, set Position/Scale key frames on start position (start of overlap) and zoomed in key frames on end of clip (3 frames later).  Temporarily reduce opacity of top clip to determine where to zoom into.

Uncheck box for Use Composition’s Shutter Angle

Set Shutter Angle to 180 (this is what gives you the blur)

Shape layer 

Add Mask if you want a shape (like circle)

Set Mask type to None

Add Audio Spectrum effect to layer

Bring in audio to timeline

Set Shape>Audio Spectrum>Audio Layer to the audio file (first dropdown)

Set Shape>Audio Spectrum Path to Mask 1 

Adjust heights, bands, etc in menu.

EXPORT: 

in Ae -- add to Render Queue, click on Lossless, set to Quicktime and RGB+Alpha

12. PASSENGERS

13. A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

14. WOLF CHILDREN

15. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

You gotta click off the text clip, then click back on, then check the Edit tab in Essential Graphics. 

1.       PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997)

2.       EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)

3.       THE MATRIX (1999)

4.       MOANA (2016)

5.       DUNKIRK (2017)

6.       BIRDMAN (2014)

7.       SPIRITED AWAY (2001)

8.       INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)

9.       NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)

10.   GLADIATOR (2000)

Make a new Solid, set dimensions to a line’s: example: height 5px, length 1000

Once you have your picture imported and in the timeline, click that little sideways V that is pointed > by default.

That will open the tab and reveal Transform, which has its own >, click that.