Just to let you know I spent 30-40 minutes last night whipping up an "old style" Paramount logo. I got the footage from MI:2, but you can use wikipedia to look up a list of all their movies and figure out what you own. That's a handy trick I've been using a lot recently.

In any case, the Paramount thing I made is exactly as I described in AE with the text covered up with background and ready to be written over. The only thing I didn't do yet is add in custom text from Blender. I was going to post a sample video but I don't have time for that now, I have to get to work.

I know that you were asking for a Blender project, not AE, but this is all that I can accomplish in a half hour ;) Tonight I'll look for a good font to use and make a Blender text file to add to the project for you.

Darn you're good! Congratulations. I really didn't expect anyone to get it just based on the font and color scheme, so I had already made the next couple of clues to post, oh well. I'm not really sure how I could have made it much harder unless I didn't give the text any colors at all, but that's downright impossible. :D

In any case, I attached a low res sample of the video that I'm using as the source for those who are curious. It's hard to see in this sample but in the real video you can see the letters through the translucent balloons and then of course they pop to reveal the letters at the end. I think it's a cool animation and I'm pretty sure that I can work my way through replacing each letter with a lot of effort. So far I've basically got the letter "D" done so the proof of concept is pretty sound, it just needs some tweaking. Who knows what other obstacles I'm going to run into on the way though.

Nice job, at this rate I will have a whole DVD full of intros.

also was wondering where can i download the GillsExpert font needed for the photoshop file in the new disney intro, ive tried searching for it but cant seem to find it...

Cheesestringer,

If you are talking about the Lionsgate project file I sent to W84no1, I included the font file in the zip. Just need to place it in your font folder on your harddrive.

Magius,

Wow! You ARE quick!!!

Looking forward to seeing what you have put together.

Thanks for the Wiki info. I didn't know about that... ;)

Hey guys,
Sorry I wasn't able to post this earlier, I've been extremely busy with work. I still haven't gone looking for a suitable font for the Paramount intro or made the text in Blender, but this is the "clean" paramount intro that I told you I made a couple days ago in AE.

It really is as simple as I described since the background is static you can just mask off the text that you don't want to see and replace it with a copy of the same footage time remapped (paused) to an earlier frame. Intros where the background is moving are a bit trickier (ie: Lionsgate... where we all wanted to keep the motion of the clouds after the doors open.)

Anyways, I have family coming in this weekend and I also have to work Sunday, so I wouldn't expect to have any time for these projects. Next week I'll be on business travel so again no time for projects. When I do come back and toss some Blender text into this I'll post the project files, and then it's back to work on my DreamWorks Animation intro.

No comments on the Paramount logo so far huh? Well in any case I have the day off today so I finished the logo off with text from Blender. I'm attaching the project files that you'll need to make one yourself as well as a sample video & image of what it looks like in the end. There are no instructions with the project files, but it's the same idea as all the others:
1.) Modify the .blend files with your text and render an image.
2.) Use Photoshop magic wand to remove the background from the image. Save as .psd.
3.) Replace the missing .psd files in my AE project with your .psd files.
4.) Potentially tweak scale/position if your name is long/short/doesn't look right.

Truth be told I'm not happy with how either font looks, but they were the closest fonts I could find to the Paramount and Viacom text. If anyone comes up with a font they like better please let me know.

Hopefully as I find time I'll be able to keep working on my new Dreamworks Animation logo, but since this Paramount thing only took an hour or so in total I figured I'd squeeze it in. Enjoy!

No comments on the Paramount logo so far huh?

Looks great. Looking forward to testing this out this weekend =)

No comments on the Paramount logo so far huh?

Thanks so much Magius! I'm looking forward to trying this out. If I find any other fonts I'll post them here.

Have a question for you AE experts. In the Disney intro, it appears what happens is AE hides the Disney Part at the bottom. Is there any documentation that would explain how this was done? Would like to play around a bit with AE and I thought this might be a good place to start. Also wondering if you found any books or tutorials helpful.
Thanks,

wimovie - You can learn alot from http://www.videocopilot.net start with the basics.

Wow Magius, you've posted some really great stuff in here recently. I was happy with my blender FOX intro, but I think I might have to tinker around with some of these zip files you've given us :)

Thank you Dradius for your kind comments. I'm glad you're enjoying the project files! Don't forget though I'm not a one man show and there are many people here who deserve credit and thanks :D.

If it weren't for the community here helping each other out and introducing each other to new tools and techniques I don't think any of us would have been half as productive as we've been. The introduction of After Effects by sa91899 in particular was a huge step forwards as only so much can be done starting from a blank canvas in Blender.

As more people start to contribute their talents and ideas to these threads I can only imagine the intros getting even better in the future. Thanks again and have fun customizing those files!

Magius,

You have it exactly right. A group effort will always be better than an individual endeaver. We all have different skills sets and bring slightly different perspectives to the same subject. It's what is great about our group here.

As for the move to AE, I think it is just the natural progression. We have been trying to recreate the wheel in Blender (and Bryce... ;) ) but why recreate the wheel when we can just take the original wheel and switch the rims? Replacing the alloy ones with nice sparkling custom chrome ones...

There are some draw backs with AE... Number one being the pricetag... That along with the learning curve makes AE a less appealing alternative.

I'm sure there are free software packages that do similar things as AE so there are ways around that as well.

The main thing I wanted to do was concur with you on the community concept. There may be learning curves with what we are doing, but at least we seem to have the community thing down pat.

I'm all about community and realize a lot of people have contributed here :) I was just giving Magius a shout out in particular because I downloaded a couple of his zip files that day. sa91899, I haven't gotten a chance to mess with AE yet, but I'll thank you in advance for your work there. Oh and I'm sure I'll have some questions for you whenever I do start an AE project :)

No problems here Dradius...

I was just agreeing with what Magius was saying. I really don't feel that I have done much of anything to help out here really. Just a little bit.

And as for AE... While I'll try to help out any way I can, I am far from the guy to ask about it. Best thing I could do is point you to www.videocopilot.net

Great resource.

Hi folks,

Glad you're all using Andrew Kramers site, I've yet to see a better guy for AE tutorials!
Magius/Sa91899 - I guess I'm on the return leg of the AE journey so I'm now focussing my time on C4D.
A few weeks ago (it's more like two months now:)) I began re-creating the Pixar 'Luxo' intro and I've run out of enthusiasm for it. I have the scene all set up with the correct lighting, text/font, materials and the Luxo is a near perfect replica right down to the Helix springs....do either of you wizards want the project file to finish it off?
All that needs doing is the IK points, joints and and constraints...in other words the animation part of the lamp...or the hard part :)

Nice LionsGate Magius!

Eubank,

I'm gonna leave that to Magius...

It's always been his baby. I really look forward to seeing what he can do with it.

Thanks for your help in getting it this far!

Screenshots look really great

No worries dude.

Here's the C4D (created in C4D R10.5) project file and relevant font if anyone wants to pick-up the baton....

Cheers

Ahhh... just getting back from my business trip. This place has gotten a little quiet.

Eubank,
That's really cool what you've done so far with Luxo Jr. Your model is definitely more faithful than mine to the original, but your camera is also zoomed in a bit closer where those kinds of details could be seen.

It sounds like you and I are now basically at the same spot, just in 2 different programs. That's great as there's now a better chance of someone coming along and wanting to finish one of our projects. Unfortunately I won't be the guy to finish yours as I've never used C4D and if I had the time to learn IK and animation I'd prefer to finish my own off in Blender.

Here's to hoping some new member will come along with an avid interest in learning animation, or even better a little skill in it so that they can teach the rest of us. I know exactly what I need to do in Blender I just can't figure out how to build a skeleton that works with IK the way Luxo should. It's like he has an extra couple bones connecting his ankle to his butt, and another couple running up his chest like a 2nd backbone...

In any case, great work so far!

Ok, I guess I will have to give it a try then... BUT it will have to wait until after my current project is finished. Until then maybe somone else will do it...

No probs guys. I might pick it up again in a few weeks.

Im re-doing the Universal intro: rendering out the the original blender file but removing the flare at the beginning, then import into AE for a nice new replacement flare and some sparks and glow behind the text.

It's funny you mention that Eubank.

One of my projects that I've been keeping on the back burner is a complete re-do of the Universal intro. That intro was the first thing I ever made in Blender and IMHO it shows :D I don't like the flare at all, and even my improved 2nd try at the halo never really satisfied me. Both of those effects could be redone in AE so someday I'll just re-do the whole thing using a combination of tools.

I was going to create a version entirely in AE without Blender based on some tutorials at Video Copilot, but I couldn't figure out how to warp the text appropriately. I'm sure there's a plugin to do it, but I didn't know where to look. In Blender it was a simple Ctrl+W or something like that but if I could figure it out in AE I think I could make a really nice looking intro.

Keep us posted with how yours is coming along. I'm sure some other people will be interested in an updated version of that logo as well.

Well I got bored this afternoon so I decided to spend some time on my DreamWorks Animation intro. This sucker is just as difficult as I predicted and the going has been extremely slow. On the bright side, the techniques I planned to use are working great so far, and the result is looking very promising. I'm intentionally trying to go slow and get it right the first time around as opposed to rushing it and later having those nagging "it could have been better" feelings.

I'm uploading a test video showing my progress so far, as well as a screen shot for those who don't want to download the video. In the screen shot check out how many file copies I already have to be working on! :eek: (lower left)

Right now I only have the first two letters D and R covered up. The plan is to first cover all of the original DreamWorks letters to produce a nice clean video. At that point I'm hoping I can pre-compose this project file and release it inside another project file for people to customize. Whether or not that ever becomes a reality, the idea is to take the clean video and add my own letters from Blender. It might be very difficult for other people to customize but we'll have to see when we get there if it even works. Don't hold your breath as I can't promise anything, but for now enjoy the test renders. :D

:)
That's an impressive first anim dude!!
As good as AE is it doesn't do 3D very well so you're always going to struggle with the text. Zaxwerks Pro Animator is probably best for the text and it integrates into AE compositions directly....download the trial!?!?

Wow Eubank, now that's a lens flare! Well done!

Just a question, I know you don't like Blender very much but I'm wondering what I would gain in Zaxwerks Pro Animator vs. using Blender which I'm familiar with already? You said it integrates directly into AE, but I'm not sure exactly what you meant by that.

Will it warp text into an arc like I'd need for redoing an AE-only Universal intro? That would be something I'd definitely like to tinker with. Otherwise I haven't been able to find a way to cut out Blender for that intro.

Yeh, I managed to get a copy of 'Knoll Light Factory' Plugin for AE - way too many presests and types for me to play about with :)

Being totally honest with you Pro Animator is outstanding for creating 3D text and average at anything else!
BUT, the one thing it also does extremely well is integrate into AE; I bought this DVD...it's very intense: watch the clip here http://www.zaxwerks.com/dvdtraining/milg1movie.shtml
As you can see whilst you create the anim in Pro Animator, you can also bring it into AE in real time and adjust camera positions, lighting, shadows etc etc. It actually has TWO Universal text intros preset, they even call the 'Universal 1' and 'Universal 2' :)

It's the equivalent of creating your Universal into but before you render it bring it into AE for some final touches like additional lens flare, lights etc.

Nice job on the Dreamworks intro dude.

Just finished the Columbia intro....

1) removed the text and froze the cloud image
2) introdced a new lens flare to give it some life
3) inserted text with an animated shine effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrFhZeMv1xc

That's AWESOME!!!

Thanks dude, I see you've got a nice collection there too :)

That's great Eubank. I actually attempted Columbia quite a while ago but gave up.

I couldn't find a font that even remotely matched the original so I was trying to build my own out of cubes in Blender. That was a mess and was too complicated so I lost the inspiration.

Before I quit I did use the same type of technique as you did though, freezing the background to fade in my own text, but I couldn't figure out the flare coming off the torch. When I froze the background the flare froze too and I never thought of adding another one in AE, plus I don't really know how.

In any case, great job on this one. I'd love to know how you put it together, particularly the end with making your letters shine. Any chance you have an AE file I could peek at?

Nice job on the Dreamworks intro dude.

Just finished the Columbia intro....

1) removed the text and froze the cloud image
2) introdced a new lens flare to give it some life
3) inserted text with an animated shine effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrFhZeMv1xc

Wow.. Nice work Eubanks! Looks really good

Well I don't have much time to work on these projects during the week but I did want to post an example of the type of work that I'm up against in case anyone was interested.

I've attached a screen shot showing one of the technical challenges of this animation, replacing the DreamWorks letters in the balloons with my own. The first frame is an unmodified snapshot from the original video. You can see the letters inside the balloons as they float up into the clouds. Some letters are easier to make out than others, but as they rotate around they will come into view or fade out depending on their angles to the camera.

The second frame shows my method for getting rid of these letters and making a "clean" video. Right now it only takes care of two of them, as I haven't composited the effects for the rest yet. This clean video would be the starting point for any customization.

The third frame shows the same scene with two of my own letters added in where the old ones were. These letters were thrown together in Blender without any attention to extruding them for a nice drop shadow or anything else fancy. It was really just for proof of concept.

So as far as feasibility it looks like this should do the trick. In my last test video and screen shot I demonstrated how the letters can be removed after the balloons pop to form the logo, so by combining these two techniques the majority of the technical hurdles should be behind me. Now it's just the thankless repetition of making this happen for every letter in every frame of video... Anyone care to bet on how many weeks it will take for me to finish? ;)

Hey Magius,

Things are really looking good on the Dreamworks intro!

Sounds like you have most of the tech issues out of the way...

Now it's just the thankless repetition of making this happen for every letter in every frame of video... Anyone care to bet on how many weeks it will take for me to finish? ;)

Are you serious!?!?!!?

There has to be an easier way than doing that all by hand, frame by frame.

Im sure there is.

Off the top of my head, I would say motion tracking would be an option...

Hi Folks,

Magius> I'll post the AE file when I get back from work today, I created it in 528x384, I nicked the intro from an AVI of the movie 'Step Brothers' I downloaded.
It's really simple to do - just as the cameras finished zooming out I time froze the frame. I increased the layer size to 110% then slowly allowed it to come back to 100% giving it the effect of movement when it's really a static shot. I couldn't find the font ANYWHERE...I got something looking ok in Pro Animator but decided that AE would be better suited coz of the lighting in the scene. Finally I added Trapcode's 'shine' effect to the text and messed around with the colors.
The Flare is easy, create a black layer...then change the transfer mode to 'Add' - this makes it transparent to the layers below it. With the layer selected add the effect 'flare' ..i think it's under effect\generate. With the effect selected in the layer you can drag the centre of the flare about the screen and key frame it to match the scene.

Your Dreamworks job is looking spectacular!! You've taken a MONSTER job on with that!
You could motion track each balloon but if you're looking for a faultless job then sadly you have to do it frame by frame. If you're having blending problems with the colors add a little (5%) fast blur to it to take your eyes away from the area - it's all smoke and mirrors :)

The attached file is my AE project, I've included the font and a version of 'Shine' to install. Missing is the avi source and 'knoll light factory' plugin - 500kb limit kills :)

Hi Eubank, I really want to make the Pixar Intro by Own, but i would not know how to use C4D to "Move" the lamp, although i have already download your c4d files, but i found two things, one i would not use the Right Font on my mac, it means when i load the Font, it "disappear" on the Stage. Second, i couldn't know how to "move" the lamp?:confused:

because i use the demo version of Cinema4D? Thanks.:)

Hi there....
Try and find a similar replacement front from 'dafont' web site.

The lamp model/mesh is pretty much complete but if you're a novice with Cinema4D then the job of linking the IK/Joints/Null Objects in a motion will be nigh on impossible.
The model is good but it needs animated through a complex series of joints and motions, add into this that the scene needs an element of gravity and weight added and you've got a huge job on your hands.
Sorry, there is no easy answer to your question - lots of practice, lots of reading and lots of time is the only way you'll complete it.

Sry
Eubank

sa91899 and Eubank it's funny that you both mention motion tracking. I'd considered that approach but it's really not that hard doing it the way I'm already doing it so I decided not to bother with motion tracking. As I've alluded to in the past, once I feel comfortable with a technique I tend to keep using it as long as the results look good. If I wasn't happy with my results I would have given motion tracking or another method a chance to see if it could look better.

I also admit I exaggerated with the "frame by frame" comment. For the majority of the balloons you can't even see the letters inside them, and for those you can see there are times where the letters are obscured by clouds, other balloons, or just rotated 90 degrees from the camera view so as to be unreadable. For the best look I'm just manually covering up each letter wherever necessary in the video, and ignoring frames where it would be unnecessary. I stick in a keyframe for the new position of the coverup object every 4-6 frames and it's really not that long or hard a process. Plus hopefully this should look better in the end (marginally at least?) as opposed to making the motion tracker guess where to put the coverup each frame. I would think the motion tracker would jump around a bit more, maybe looking a bit less smooth? Who knows; It's also anyone's guess which method would render faster :D

I found the comment about smoke and mirrors very humorous as well. It's so true that all we're really doing is perfecting the art of smoke and mirrors here. I've used fast blur, hue/saturation, opacity keys and other tricks to just blur/fade something out enough to make it look like it belongs in the scene and not distract your eyes away from where I want you looking. I figure if I'm a borderline-OCD perfectionist and I'm happy looking at something frame by frame, then there's no way my audience will see anything odd in their 25s of real-time viewing.

Thank you both for the positive feedback and suggestions. I can't wait until I have some time to work on this a little more. I'm really anxious to see how far I can push it.

LOL, for me it's about the challenge of trying to replicate something using different methods and so far there hasn't been one I've seen that I couldn't atleast explain how to do :).
I've done dozens and dozens of studio intros and to this date only THX has removed any of them from Youtube, twice. They got a bit arsey with my Star Wars THX job which has now been removed. Youtube also tell me they'll ban my account if it happens again. Surely they should see it as flattery?!

Anyway looking forward to seeing the finished Dreamworks job! Anything I can help with?

Well today has been full of bad and good news:

Bad News - I woke up this morning feeling ill :confused:
Good News - I stayed home from work and around lunch time was feeling much better. That gave me some time to mess with my DreamWorks Animation intro. :D
More Good News - I've now finished the "E" and "A" in DREAM, which you can see in the attached screen shot.
More Bad News - The technique I've been using for covering up letters isn't going to work on the letter "M". :eek:

So far I've been using nested masks with an intersect mode, and as you can see in the attached screen shot the M's right foot sticks out of the background mask outlined in yellow. I realize the screen shot looks crazy and you might wonder what the heck is going on but long story short if it's inside the yellow area I can cover it up just like the D-R-E and A.

I do think I have an idea on how to tackle the M, by treating it as two pieces. The part inside the yellow mask I'll just do as normal, and the other piece I'll have to do separately somehow. Here's hoping for the best!

There's are a few ways to get around your problem, none easy but all do-able.
I'd try mask of the individual letter then paint it using frame by frame colors from the back ground.

I managed to get the "M" covered up yesterday and it doesn't look "too" bad. It's not as great as I'd have liked, but hopefully when I throw some new letters on top of it you won't be able to notice a little bit of weirdness in the background.

Unfortunately the "W" turns out to have the same problem, but at least I know it can be fixed. If only this weirdness was somewhere other than the *exact middle of the screen* lol. No smoke and mirrors is going to pull someone's eyes away from center, but like I said hopefully the custom text will cover it up.

Eubank,

Do you have a completed new universal file?

What was that one in again?

Magius> If all else fails have an event in that area (zooming text/firework/flame/flare)?!?

Sa91899> I rendered out the original without the blender flare and used the new 'white' text overlay. The imported it into AE, added the lens flare (marking the globe of) and text sparkle. I'm now looking at giving the earth some light flares like the 'proper' one does :).
Want some screens?

Eubank,

Naw, I think I follow you. If you want to post some screenshots that'd be cool too.

Am thinking about redoing the mine.

The original Magius Universal anim is hard to beat to be honest but i've managed to re-created it in C4D.

The pros are;
I reworked the sphere map and added an ultra hi-res map (4500x2500)
Added a cloud map and rotated it slightly faster than the glode speed to give an atmosphere effect - of course the down side is that the Universal intro didn't have clouds, but it looks great :)
To get the flame/shining glow effect from the earth map I imported the rendered file into AE, created a duplicate layer and added Trapcodes shine effect: note you need to keyframe the shine angle to give the illusion of perspective.
I've just read that back and it sounds complicated...but it's not!

I'm good except for...

note you need to keyframe the shine angle to give the illusion of perspective.

But I probably will understand once I get into the Shine effect itself...

It's been quiet here for a while... What's everyone working on?

I have started a number of threads of work - adapting some AE pieces starting with Andrew Kramer then digressing.

So I have completed my version of the Andrew Kramer Icebreaker with a Dolby Surround track and am in the process of adding some further pieces to cover 'coming soon', 'feature presentation' etc again all with Dolby 5.1.

I have just completed a generic visit the Lobby (again adapting an AK piece and adding voice over from the AVS buy) . .

I have adapted a Guitar Hero HD 'advert' to make it relevant.

I have a few other pieces which I am 'playing with' the AK Fancy Plates and zoom into earth piece.

I am currently looking as some Ayato stuff to see how I can incorporate/adapt, thinking about a 'we show allsorts here' style piece using film posters or DVD covers.

My aim is to produce a number of short standalone pieces that I can then thread together. as I see fit to create longer segments. Either on a 'theme' or as a mix, if that makes sense. Steve

I have started a number of threads of work - adapting some AE pieces starting with Andrew Kramer then digressing.

So I have completed my version of the Andrew Kramer Icebreaker with a Dolby Surround track and am in the process of adding some further pieces to cover 'coming soon', 'feature presentation' etc again all with Dolby 5.1.

I have just completed a generic visit the Lobby (again adapting an AK piece and adding voice over from the AVS buy) . .

I have adapted a Guitar Hero HD 'advert' to make it relevant.

I have a few other pieces which I am 'playing with' the AK Fancy Plates and zoom into earth piece.

I am currently looking as some Ayato stuff to see how I can incorporate/adapt, thinking about a 'we show allsorts here' style piece using film posters or DVD covers.

My aim is to produce a number of short standalone pieces that I can then thread together. as I see fit to create longer segments. Either on a 'theme' or as a mix, if that makes sense. Steve

Sounds cool, do you have any demos to show some of your work?

Myself, I'm just returning from another business trip and finishing off a 79 hour week. As you can imagine I haven't messed with any of my current projects in a few weeks. I'll be looking forward to some down time this weekend, but probably won't be finding much spare time for my projects over the next couple of months.

Glad to hear others are moving forward though, and I'll look forward to seeing you guys' work.

I am interested in making one of these intro's myself. I have downloaded the software and will attempt it. I have one question (which may have been asked before-Sorry), how do you play this intro and then play the movie without having to get up and change the disc? I am hoping that I can put it on a flash drive so that my USB compatible bluray player can play it.

I have one question (which may have been asked before-Sorry), how do you play this intro and then play the movie without having to get up and change the disc? I am hoping that I can put it on a flash drive so that my USB compatible bluray player can play it.

Grod,

Well, this can be done several ways...

Both require some enginuity and yes.... more software.

Option #1:

You can take the movie off of the original dvd and, using something like DVD Shrink or other like product. Then with both your intro and original movie on your hard drive, you can use DVD Architect or other like product to create a custom DVD. You can create a playlist on the DVD and then just hit that button and it will play the whole thing back to back. Or a different flavor of this option is to create the playlist then make it the autoplay file that plays when you insert the DVD.

Option #2:

You can use a Home Theater PC. You actually have several options for this... If you have a networked PC you can use a program called XBMC. (XBOX Media Center) Yes this can be used on the PC... With this software you have all the files on harddrive and can create playlists here as well. Start the playlist and sit back and enjoy.

You can also use XBMC on the original XBOX which is where it was originally programmed for. This would require the XBOX 1 to be modded. Not very difficult really.

Either way you may choose, it is fairly easy to do. The original setup may take a bit either way, but once the workflow is in place it is really easy to do.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask...

Grod,

Well, this can be done several ways...

Both require some enginuity and yes.... more software.

Option #1:

You can take the movie off of the original dvd and, using something like DVD Shrink or other like product. Then with both your intro and original movie on your hard drive, you can use DVD Architect or other like product to create a custom DVD. You can create a playlist on the DVD and then just hit that button and it will play the whole thing back to back. Or a different flavor of this option is to create the playlist then make it the autoplay file that plays when you insert the DVD.

Option #2:

You can use a Home Theater PC. You actually have several options for this... If you have a networked PC you can use a program called XBMC. (XBOX Media Center) Yes this can be used on the PC... With this software you have all the files on harddrive and can create playlists here as well. Start the playlist and sit back and enjoy.

You can also use XBMC on the original XBOX which is where it was originally programmed for. This would require the XBOX 1 to be modded. Not very difficult really.

Either way you may choose, it is fairly easy to do. The original setup may take a bit either way, but once the workflow is in place it is really easy to do.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask...

I never thought of using a PC. I guess I could run a VGA cable to my LCD and just program my remote with different Macros. I think what I will do when I get a chance is buy a cheap DVD player and program my remote with a macro for that and then once I'm done I will pres my watch movie macro. Or I can press my watch movie macro, press pause then go back to the intro dvd. I guess I'll have to play around with it.
Thanks for the input.
By the way do you or anyone know where I can get the blender files for the Awards Night and City Cinema intro's? I love those two but I have not been able to find them.
Thanks Again.

Sounds like you have a workaround then.

I did the same for a while and it worked ok, but after some time I decided that I wanted to do a HTPC anyway, so this took care of the problem for me.

As for the 2 intros you were asking about, you may want to check on W84no1's site. He hosts files we have worked on in this forum. They can be found Here (http://www.woodyfamilycinema.com/projects.asp).

Good luck and come back and let us know how things are working out.

Steve

Sounds like you have a workaround then.

I did the same for a while and it worked ok, but after some time I decided that I wanted to do a HTPC anyway, so this took care of the problem for me.

As for the 2 intros you were asking about, you may want to check on W84no1's site. He hosts files we have worked on in this forum. They can be found Here (http://www.woodyfamilycinema.com/projects.asp).

Good luck and come back and let us know how things are working out.

Steve

I checked that site but it did not contain those intros, though. Thanks anyway.

Any thoughts on a good flow for using the intros when ultimately the movie is on Blu-Ray? I don't have a Blu-Ray burner.

Is there a way to automate on a HTPC playing intros off the HD and then automatically playing the Blu-Ray disc?

I'm guessing the 2-player w/ macros approach would be easier, but this may be cleaner.
- Dave

Any thoughts on a good flow for using the intros when ultimately the movie is on Blu-Ray? I don't have a Blu-Ray burner.

Is there a way to automate on a HTPC playing intros off the HD and then automatically playing the Blu-Ray disc?

I'm guessing the 2-player w/ macros approach would be easier, but this may be cleaner.
- Dave

Dth122,

Well, if you mean that the blue ray is going to be in a seperate player and NOT in a tray on the HTPC then I don't see a way to automatically trigger this besides having to do it manually (macros).

For me the fact of having to even mess with my remotes was enough to persue the HTPC and movies on HD option.

WOW...

Um, guys... I just watched Get Smart the other day and have you seen the WB studio intro at the beginning of this movie?

Pretty awesome! I have been looking for an example on the internet but I can't find any...

If anyone has a link to a sample please post it...

I don't own the Get Smart DVD or else I would start working on my own custom version, so I guess I might be going out to get it tomorrow! :)

Dth122,

Well, if you mean that the blue ray is going to be in a seperate player and NOT in a tray on the HTPC then I don't see a way to automatically trigger this besides having to do it manually (macros).

For me the fact of having to even mess with my remotes was enough to persue the HTPC and movies on HD option.

No... I'm thinking of playing the BR out of the player in the PC. How do you automatically switch from a media file to a BR disc?

And, while we're on the subject, are the PC-based BR players (or player software) capable of decoding the newer advanced audio codecs? (Sorry - I'm not up on the state-of-art in HTPCs.)
- Dave

No... I'm thinking of playing the BR out of the player in the PC. How do you automatically switch from a media file to a BR disc?

And, while we're on the subject, are the PC-based BR players (or player software) capable of decoding the newer advanced audio codecs? (Sorry - I'm not up on the state-of-art in HTPCs.)
- Dave

Ah, ok. I haven't used XBMC on the PC YET... Best thing to do is check it out though and see.

As far as switching from intros on the HD to the BR disc that should be able to be handled by the playlist. Just choose the correct file(s) on the BR disc and add it/them to the playlist. May give a bit of a small pause (with a blank/black screen) but that's about the worst of it.

As for the audio... I'm guessing you mean the 7.1 or True HD audio streams. I honestly don't know about that.

Maybe someone else can chime in on that...

No... I'm thinking of playing the BR out of the player in the PC. How do you automatically switch from a media file to a BR disc?

And, while we're on the subject, are the PC-based BR players (or player software) capable of decoding the newer advanced audio codecs? (Sorry - I'm not up on the state-of-art in HTPCs.)
- Dave

As I understand it...the decoding of HD audio is done on the receiver side due to the DRM mess.

There are a few audio threads in the HTPC section that talk about this.

-t

As I understand it...the decoding of HD audio is done on the receiver side due to the DRM mess.

There are a few audio threads in the HTPC section that talk about this.

-t

If that's the case then it's sad...

The software codecs should be a ble to do this as well though as long as they are for the HD standard.

DRM - That's the bane of my existance... DRM intereferes with my rights of fair use. If I own the product, I should be able to copy it, archive it, basically use it "fairly". With DRM, I can't.

Ok, sorry... Don't want to get this thread off topic any further than it has already gotten... so...

Has no one else seen the WB intro for Get Smart then?

I have uploaded a few of the bits I am working on

http://www.vimeo.com/user792067/videos

Steve

Can someone please explain how to add text to the end of theatrecurtain.blend file. I have been trying to add the text to the end when the curtain opens and the screen is black but whenever I add the text it's upside down and I can't seem to straighten it or make it larger. Any help would be GREAT!

Wow, theendisnye...

Those are looking good! I see some video copilot influence. Those are great. Keep it up.


grod,

Magius seems to be the Blender expert around here. We can move around in there but I try to steer clear of it myself. Maybe you can PM directly or otherwise just wait until he makes it back into this thread.

Any thoughts on a good flow for using the intros when ultimately the movie is on Blu-Ray? I don't have a Blu-Ray burner.

Is there a way to automate on a HTPC playing intros off the HD and then automatically playing the Blu-Ray disc?

I'm guessing the 2-player w/ macros approach would be easier, but this may be cleaner.
- Dave

I use a PS3 where I keep my pre-show movie files. I play the file and quickly hit play on the disc. No one complains and is close enough to seemless for my viewers.

Any thoughts on a good flow for using the intros when ultimately the movie is on Blu-Ray? I don't have a Blu-Ray burner.

Is there a way to automate on a HTPC playing intros off the HD and then automatically playing the Blu-Ray disc?

I'm guessing the 2-player w/ macros approach would be easier, but this may be cleaner.
- Dave

I do this all the time. I use my Mac Mini HTPC to play my pre-movie slide show (Coca-Cola Trivia slides, etc.) while I'm making popcorn (our guests find this highly entertaining!). Once I'm seated for the movie, two quick keystrokes on a Bluetooth keyboard switches the HTPC to playing pre-movie trailers and custom "Booth Bijou" home theater intros (which I have pre-loaded in VLC player before the guests arrive). Once the pre-movie trailers and intros are finished, a single button press on my Universal Remote MX-850 sends the macros to switch the A/V receiver from the HTPC to my Blu-ray player and then take the Blu-ray player out of pause (I also have the movie queued up and on pause in advance). Oh... that single button press also dims the lights! :)

All in all, it is extremely seamless. It all flows from one thing to the next perfectly. There is only the slightest pause (built into the macro) to wait while the A/V receiver switches (it takes a few seconds for the display to re-sync to the new device). The guests love it! :)

Mark

I use a PS3 where I keep my pre-show movie files. I play the file and quickly hit play on the disc. No one complains and is close enough to seemless for my viewers.

That's a great idea. I use a PS3 too but never thought of that. I actually have never loaded any media onto the drive, but this is probably even easier the burning the intros to a disc. I'll have to try that. I assume there should be a way to automate the switch over.

I do this all the time. I use my Mac Mini HTPC to play my pre-movie slide show (Coca-Cola Trivia slides, etc.) while I'm making popcorn (our guests find this highly entertaining!). Once I'm seated for the movie, two quick keystrokes on a Bluetooth keyboard switches the HTPC to playing pre-movie trailers and custom "Booth Bijou" home theater intros (which I have pre-loaded in VLC player before the guests arrive). Once the pre-movie trailers and intros are finished, a single button press on my Universal Remote MX-850 sends the macros to switch the A/V receiver from the HTPC to my Blu-ray player and then take the Blu-ray player out of pause (I also have the movie queued up and on pause in advance). Oh... that single button press also dims the lights! :)

All in all, it is extremely seamless. It all flows from one thing to the next perfectly. There is only the slightest pause (built into the macro) to wait while the A/V receiver switches (it takes a few seconds for the display to re-sync to the new device). The guests love it! :)

Mark

This also sounds like it would work quite well.

The common theme in all of these possible solutions sounds like it's using an HTPC or other mass storage device (as opposed to a DVD player) to play the intros back, which probably makes some of the switching around faster and easier.
- Dave

The common theme in all of these possible solutions sounds like it's using an HTPC or other mass storage device (as opposed to a DVD player) to play the intros back, which probably makes some of the switching around faster and easier.
- Dave

You got it!

Has anyone used Blender to create a intro for a MAME arcade? I would love to look at some samples, looking for ideas for my new MAME cabinet

Jeff, I have been gathering some vector graphics with a view of doing an intro for my MAME table. I have a few ideas but it will take me some time to put it into practice. Will probably use Vegas and After effects though.

Steve

Wow!!!

As everyone knows, I am NOT a Blender fan. Probably more accurate to say that I am just too illiterate at 3D to learn Blender, but anyway, this video would ALMOST make me give Blender another try... Really good and was done almost 2 years ago???

Youtube video is Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AiLyQWXjIg)

Issue with aspect ratio. I rendered the fox intro and everything looked fine but I have black bars on either side of the screen. I used 720x480. I rendered other intros with no problem. What setting should I use. ( I would rather not full HD either it will take way too long to render). Thanks for any help.

Issue with aspect ratio. I rendered the fox intro and everything looked fine but I have black bars on either side of the screen. I used 720x480. I rendered other intros with no problem. What setting should I use. ( I would rather not full HD either it will take way too long to render). Thanks for any help.

720 X 480 should fill a standard def screen. When you play the piece on your pc does it still have the bars as well? if yes, then it was probably rendered with the bars intact. If no then you may want to check your display to see if it has a setting that will stretch it to fill the screen. You should only need to do this if you have a HD (widescreen) display.

For example...

I rendered my Fox intro at 720 X 480.

When I play it on my HT screen, it fills the whole screen which is 7' wide. It does this because, on my projector I have it set to "normal" which will fill my entire screen. If I would set it to "native" it would only display it at the actual resolution leaving the black bars on the sides.

Hope this explains it a little.

In a nut shell, 720 X 480 will fill a standard screen. With HD, you will need to do something to make it fill your screen.

Otherwise, re-render at the higher resolution...

Wow...

Did everybody drop off the face of the planet? It's been really qiet around here...

I know, right! lol Anyways, I was really hoping on seeing some fun animations to do here at home...

Been extremely busy at work, even on weekends. Haven't had time to even think about my ongoing Dreamworks Animation project. I've been checking in here from time to time but it was so quiet and I had nothing worth posting about :D

On the bright side I'm planning out a DIY 2.4:1 projection screen build to be followed by a DIY anamorphic lens for the new year. Those should keep me busy and hopefully I'll be logging progress in the DIY 2.4:1 projection forum.

Oh, cool. So does that mean that this thread is sort of done? It was such a great thread. I've been trying to tell people to come here for info on how to use blender. Well, it was awesome. BTW, Magius, that's awesome! :)

Well hopefully this thread's not "done". It's been through slow times before and then someone new will stumble in with a great project or idea and suddenly everyone is clamoring again :D

I for one will eventually do more with Blender and AE at some point, but at this time in my life there are just too many other projects and I don't have the time. I hope that others will keep this thread alive with their own work, but it certainly has seemed quiet around here...

Yeah, you got that right... Anyways, I like the way you are really positive about this place. I really do hope that more projects are thrown in here for other members to play around with and stuff.

I've been working on a few things, I just bought the Andrew Kramer Pro-scores DVD and am working on an intro based upon that.

Also just preparing for Christmas we have a few people over and intend to use the theatre. I have made a simple intro to set the scene and turned it into a generic version which if anyone wants to use can be downloaded here

http://files.filefront.com/Christmas+spectacular+Genm2ts/;12734167;/fileinfo.html

It is HD in M2TS format with a 5.1 surround sound mix, hopefully someone may find it useful

Steve

doesnt anyone know a place a can get the intros that we put into AE i mean the original ones

has anyone got a tutorial for dreamworks one and colombia one plz ty would be appreciated very much

also to the person who done the dreamworks one were do i ge the 2 images needed for tehm matioe would be a big help ty and greta work btw on ur intros eubank

is there a dreamworks logo file for blender available yet?:D

Hi, I'm new to Blender and would very much like to start learning some animation.

I've tried out the Disney intro and Fox intro (thanks to the contributors) and find them great for home videos. Am keen to try out Dreamworks intro and even MGM intro too.

Can I know if there are Blender templates for Dreamworks, MGM and Looney Tunes please? Thank you for all the help given. :)

thanks for that info!
could you make a custom pearl and dean logo file for after effects cs4?
sambb

Such amazing work on these intros, I finally decided to take the plunge and see if I could modify one with my theater name. So I downloaded Blender and grabbed a copy of the Disney3d animation. I've been able to change the text, but my problem seems to be changing the location so that i can recenter it. When I grab the text and slide it over, it looks fine. But for some reason, this only appears to be moving the text in this single frame. All of the other frames have the correct text, but still show it in it's old, uncentered posistion?

Any suggestions?

I remember having the same issue when I first played around with that intro. I was eventually able to find the fix but am currently drawing a blank. Will look into it this week and post it if someone else doesn't beat me to the punch.

Wow somebody posted in my thread! Let's see if I can help out vespaguy:

On the Disney intros, the text is keyframed to hang out off-screen until we need it, then it teleports into place underneath the bright halo on a particular frame and stays there for the rest of the animation. So basically there is a position key inserted for an off-camera position at frame 0, a 2nd position key for that same location at frame "n-1" (we don't want the location to interpolate between keyframes and "slide" towards the final position), and 3rd position key for the new location in front of the castle at frame "n".

Your problem is that you're moving the text around on some random frame in your viewer, but when you go to render the animation it's following the keyframe instructions for where to place the text on each frame (which you haven't modified), so it doesn't care where you might have moved it while playing around.

Here's what you need to do.
1.) First find out which frame number is actually frame "n". I can't remember as it's been a couple of years but if you really need help let me know and I'll look it up. To find it, just step through the frames one at a time until you see the Disney text teleport in front of the castle. That frame where it jumps is frame "n".
2.) Stay on frame "n" and reposition the text wherever you want it.
3.) Insert a new position key which will overwrite the existing key for this frame. This is done by pressing "i" to get the "Insert Key" menu, and choosing "Loc" for location from that menu.

That should do the trick and make your chosen position the new place for the text to show up when it renders. All of this stuff is crazy and exotic for someone just picking up the software and having no experience in animation (trust me I know first hand!) but once you get a handle on the basics it's amazing what you can do with basic keyframes. The Universal logo uses "Rot"ation keys to spin the earth around, and most of the other animations that I released are done with similar smoke and mirror techniques.

I hope you're enjoying your initial foray into Blender. Let me know if you need any further assistance.

Many thanks Magius!! Worked like a charm.

I don't know if I have the patience to do much with Blender on my own, but thanks again for the unbelievable work you've done. I'll be playing with more of them in the future for sure.

Hi Folks,

Magius> I'll post the AE file when I get back from work today, I created it in 528x384, I nicked the intro from an AVI of the movie 'Step Brothers' I downloaded.
It's really simple to do - just as the cameras finished zooming out I time froze the frame. I increased the layer size to 110% then slowly allowed it to come back to 100% giving it the effect of movement when it's really a static shot. I couldn't find the font ANYWHERE...I got something looking ok in Pro Animator but decided that AE would be better suited coz of the lighting in the scene. Finally I added Trapcode's 'shine' effect to the text and messed around with the colors.
The Flare is easy, create a black layer...then change the transfer mode to 'Add' - this makes it transparent to the layers below it. With the layer selected add the effect 'flare' ..i think it's under effect\generate. With the effect selected in the layer you can drag the centre of the flare about the screen and key frame it to match the scene.

Your Dreamworks job is looking spectacular!! You've taken a MONSTER job on with that!
You could motion track each balloon but if you're looking for a faultless job then sadly you have to do it frame by frame. If you're having blending problems with the colors add a little (5%) fast blur to it to take your eyes away from the area - it's all smoke and mirrors :)

The attached file is my AE project, I've included the font and a version of 'Shine' to install. Missing is the avi source and 'knoll light factory' plugin - 500kb limit kills :)

Where can i get the avi for this???

Ok. I got the disney logo working and it looks fantastic. So, I thought I'd try my luck with the Fox animation.

Well, I've tried it twice now and so far I'm getting no luck. After the animation is fully rendered (which takes a loooooong time), I try to open the .avi file and get this message:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."

It's happened twice now. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

Ok. I got the disney logo working and it looks fantastic. So, I thought I'd try my luck with the Fox animation.

Well, I've tried it twice now and so far I'm getting no luck. After the animation is fully rendered (which takes a loooooong time), I try to open the .avi file and get this message:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."

It's happened twice now. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

You're using the blender file "as is" when downloaded and just adjusting the text then compiling the video? What version of WMP are you using (and what OS)?

I believe you are trying to create an HD version. The way I achieved it was to render to JPG or TIF and then import into the stills into my video editing program. Elsewhere in this thread there were a couple of occassions where the same problem had occurred and IIRC there is an explanation of why. Steve

You're using the blender file "as is" when downloaded and just adjusting the text then compiling the video? What version of WMP are you using (and what OS)?

WMP is version 11.0. The OS is Vista. I also tried it on a different computer that is running XP. Same problem. Which leads me to believe that I'm doing something wrong.

Hello everyone!

What's up? What is everyone working on? I've been gone for a long time... Can you catch me up?

Anyone making columbia tristar, or paramount? in blender

I have been able to edit all of the files located here for my needs...THANKS, but I want to add the THX logo into my blender video. Does anyone already have this or an easy way to add it?


Thanks

I have tried the disney 2d and 3d and also the universal intros. I have sucessfully put my custom name on all of them and have made an animation of them to an avi raw format. The problem that I am getting is that the video looks very jittering when playback. I followed the steps and hit animation which made the video in about an hour (which doesnt seem right as I have read it takes hours and hours to render).

Do I need to render the files first (how do I do that) and the hit animation? I have it set to 1280 x 720 to avi raw output. Thanks

I have been able to edit all of the files located here for my needs...THANKS, but I want to add the THX logo into my blender video. Does anyone already have this or an easy way to add it?

You can always rip the THX logo from another DVD that has it (ie Star Wars and some Pixar ones readily come to mind).

I have tried the disney 2d and 3d and also the universal intros. I have sucessfully put my custom name on all of them and have made an animation of them to an avi raw format. The problem that I am getting is that the video looks very jittering when playback. I followed the steps and hit animation which made the video in about an hour (which doesnt seem right as I have read it takes hours and hours to render).

Do I need to render the files first (how do I do that) and the hit animation? I have it set to 1280 x 720 to avi raw output. Thanks

Burn it to disk and then play it.

-t

hi
I am completely new to blender , only just stumbled across it on youtube which is where I saw the disney logo .I'd love to try that too and asked a few people on youtube for help but sadlly were frankly nothing less than downright rude or insulting.

I was wondering if someone on here could possibly point me to a tutorial and where to add the files.

I live in scotland so our tv system is pal widescreen

many thanks indeed
ps this is my 1st post( apologies )

cheers

Do any of you have blender files that I can create intro's with? I already did 20th century fox, universal studios, and universal studios death star version. The only ones left are paramount, columbia, disney, touchstone, pixar, and metro goldwyn meyer.

E-mail me for the Warner Bro's .Blend file

bcaery@gmail.com

It's to big for attachment

hi
I am completely new to blender , only just stumbled across it on youtube which is where I saw the disney logo .I'd love to try that too and asked a few people on youtube for help but sadlly were frankly nothing less than downright rude or insulting.

I was wondering if someone on here could possibly point me to a tutorial and where to add the files.

I live in scotland so our tv system is pal widescreen

many thanks indeed
ps this is my 1st post( apologies )

cheers

this thread seems to be dead, you can e-mail me, my address is above this post

sorry magius
can i know where can i download the lionsgate intro template ???
i wan to create 1 by my own

Anyone have the opening crawl for star wars? I cant find it anywhere!

Also, Ive edited the Disney 3d and the Universal .blend files. They Disney one has an error with the spark. The Universal one has an error with the text. It comes through the world rather then around the globe where the spark starts.

I read about these earlier in the thread but I didnt see any solutions or fixed .blend files. If someone can point me in the right direction that would be very kind.

Anyone have the opening crawl for star wars? I cant find it anywhere!

I created one based off of the "Universal Death Star" logo someone else made, but I couldn't get the camera right... it was always flying around too much before the crawl begain. The crawl itself wasn't hard to do- create a starfield and create motion text that goes for X amount of frames.

If I find my file, I'll post it and maybe someone better with cameras can fix the flying around.

Im sure its not hard to make one from scratch but I am totally new to Blender and wouldnt know where to begin. I can edit a file in a matter of minutes however.

Here's the crawl I created today. I'm not great with cameras yet, so instead of using the one camera, I created a second one and split the rendering into two pieces. Frames 1-500 should be rendered using the first camera, "Camera", and frames 500-2000 should be rendered using the second camera, "Camera.0001". (and if anyone wants to fix it, that'd be great too!)

After the animation was done, I put the two files together using avidemux, removed frame 500 (since it was duplicated), and removed a bunch of frames in the middle that just showed stars before the crawl reached the screen.

I'll finish the audio and post to youtube at some point, but for now I'll post a link to it in the next reply, because it won't let me post links until the third post.

Ugh! It still won't let me link... add http:// in front of this:
westtexaswebdesign.com/sites/default/files/starwarsfinal.blend

(see previous post for instructions)

sweet man! this looks good. I was wondering however if you could make one that started with

"THEATER NAME" fade to background...

"text text text"

That way we could display our theater names with the star wars intro rather then a universal intro. Dont get me wrong, the star wars globe looks cool but its not for everyone.

I was also thinking we should put together a sweet intro script like the one you have included with your blend file.

"It was a dark time in your home theater, the popcorn was hot and buttery, the soda... chilled" heh.. idk, something like that.

Does anyone know where I can get a Blender or even After Effects template of the Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures logos?

Thanks!

Jesse

I would like those too! Preferably blender files.

Im having some issues with the Disney one. When ever I center the main text it just jumps right back to where it was before. Is there a button or something that I need to click? With my other blend files, when I move and object it stays where I put it

thanks

sweet man! this looks good. I was wondering however if you could make one that started with

"THEATER NAME" fade to background...

"text text text"

That way we could display our theater names with the star wars intro rather then a universal intro. Dont get me wrong, the star wars globe looks cool but its not for everyone.

I was also thinking we should put together a sweet intro script like the one you have included with your blend file.

"It was a dark time in your home theater, the popcorn was hot and buttery, the soda... chilled" heh.. idk, something like that.

This may be similar to what you're asking for- I've got one file attached with a similar "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." as the intro.blend, and another for the "THEATER INTRO" and then the flying-through-space text.

It should be pretty simple to edit- for the flying through space one, use frames 280-2500, since the "THEATER INTRO" doesn't fly back until frame 300, and the crawl doesn't start until 510.

I've also included font files for the crawl- the starjhol.ttf should be used for "THEATER INTRO", and the swcrawlbody.ttf for the crawl.

blueharvest.net (I think that's the site) had some sound effects as well as the intro theme somewhere on the site. I did a google search and came up with a bunch to throw in there.

I'm also using avidemux for my post-processing. I find it a little easier to use than blender for sound, fades, etc.

Let me know!

hey man thats really great! EXACTLY what I was thinking. Ive been messing with blender a lot editing the text and movign things around, thats easy. Im use to flash and there is a timeline right at the top where I can edit everything.

I cant seem to find a timeline in blender. There is a "K" in my name and I want a long bar going from the "K" across the bottom of my name underlining it. I have that set up but its interfering with the 2nd line of text. I hit "return" and moved the 2nd line of text down but now its too far.

How can I add a 2nd line of text and have it move along with the first line? This has been the biggest challenge for me... finding the time line!! haha

thanks again man these are great.

hey man thats really great! EXACTLY what I was thinking. Ive been messing with blender a lot editing the text and movign things around, thats easy. Im use to flash and there is a timeline right at the top where I can edit everything.

I cant seem to find a timeline in blender. There is a "K" in my name and I want a long bar going from the "K" across the bottom of my name underlining it. I have that set up but its interfering with the 2nd line of text. I hit "return" and moved the 2nd line of text down but now its too far.

How can I add a 2nd line of text and have it move along with the first line? This has been the biggest challenge for me... finding the time line!! haha

thanks again man these are great.

From what I understand, there isn't a timeline per-se, but it's done by frames. In other words, figure out if you're using 25 frames/sec or 30 frames/sec, and if you want the animation going for one second, jump up 30 frames (hit the up arrow 3 times when your mouse is in the viewing box, not the editing section).

As for adding a second line, I think you can hold down shift and right-click both of them and they should be kinda joined at this point. I don't know if this is the exact way to do it, and I think there is a way to make them a parent/child object, but it worked the first time I did this thing as two separate lines of text.

The problem Im having is...

after I shift+click the 2nd line of text they are connected but only temporarly. If I animate the frames, or even more to the next frame, what I had move before jumps right back to where it was. Then if I go back to the frame where I moved the text, its back where it was. so basically moving it does nothing. Its like they are centered into that big box surrounding them

wow the thread is still alive :)

Heres the Warner Bro's .blend file... It's pretty big

enjoy

http://rapidshare.com/files/263195130/PW1.blend

AWESOME! keep them coming haha. I love playing with these.

Im having some trouble rendering the star wars.blend.

Whenever I click to render it, it just renders like 1 frames and stops. I set the codec I wanted to use and all that. Im very familiar with this part, I just cant figure out why its wont render the animation. thanks again for the work! My family names looks awesome in star wars letters! :)

Has anyone used a program called "Kinemac" (runs under Mac OS) to create a project? If so, have you been able to convert/use a blender created project with Kinemac?

thanks

This may be similar to what you're asking for- I've got one file attached with a similar "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." as the intro.blend, and another for the "THEATER INTRO" and then the flying-through-space text.

It should be pretty simple to edit- for the flying through space one, use frames 280-2500, since the "THEATER INTRO" doesn't fly back until frame 300, and the crawl doesn't start until 510.

I've also included font files for the crawl- the starjhol.ttf should be used for "THEATER INTRO", and the swcrawlbody.ttf for the crawl.

blueharvest.net (I think that's the site) had some sound effects as well as the intro theme somewhere on the site. I did a google search and came up with a bunch to throw in there.

I'm also using avidemux for my post-processing. I find it a little easier to use than blender for sound, fades, etc.

Let me know!

Heres the Warner Bro's .blend file... It's pretty big

enjoy

http://rapidshare.com/files/263195130/PW1.blend

I have added both of the projects that you guys have posted to my website for hosting.

Hey w84no1,

Did you try those files out? Im having trouble rendering the star wars and the WB one.

Hey w84no1,

Did you try those files out? Im having trouble rendering the star wars and the WB one.

I haven't had time to try any of the new ones that I have on my site. I need to install blender on my new Windows 7 machine and see.

I can't seem to find a .blend project that doesn't have this bug. The pixie dust "dot" stops at about 1 o'clock but the line keeps drawing.

w84no1 - the one on your wfc.com site is linked to from a youtube video where you can see the error. He links to your site, and the .blend file you have on your site has the bug.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIaY81Fvq1I

At the 0:10 second mark.

Can anyone help here?

something about having to render with an old version but I think that is complete BS.

I read the same thing about the flickering bug in the FOX intro. That was easily fixed by a few clicks.

How did you fix the flickering problem?

Steve

Doesn't seem to be it. I went all the way back to 2.25 and when I load the .blend the text is blank.

Guess I need to start reading up on the animation tutorials...

OK, so at frame 250, the dot stops moving with the arc. I'm not real sure how to get it to continue to follow the arc, nor how to continue the pixie dust effect.

Where's Magius or Eubank?! :D

All I can do is render the files, I have no skills with blender:). That is why I host the files, it is my way to contribute and give back.

Oops, I confused it with tsMuxer. Sorry! Too many dang conversion programs!

Here's a Windows converter based on ffmpeg.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Quick_Media_Converter

All I can do is render the files, I have no skills with blender:). That is why I host the files, it is my way to contribute and give back.

I'm slowly figuring it out, I think. I think this bug has been in there for some time. Not sure why no one has noticed it before.

I'm sure this would be a very easy fix for one of those two guys though...

I finally rendered a fox version of my own .. Came out surprisingly well... I did however learn a few things I feel I should share in regards to rendering.

When rendering to 1080hd be sure to expect extra long render times. (2 to 3 mins per frame)

Choose your render output wisely. Though avi raw keeps exceptional detail. It creates HUGE files, and has issues once these files gets over 2 gig... And by issues I mean rendered products over 2 gigs disappear into thin air. Even though you just spent 32 hours watching it render. Two ways around this :

-Render in small batches than edit them together after the render.
-Render output as Quicktime (no file size limit)

I ended up steering away from AVI RAW output though it looked better. I was having to hard of a time converting / managing the file. Quicktime was 90% faster.

Adding audio (though possible in blender) seemed effortless when using AE.
Id post up my finished result via youtube but Im not sure if that's acceptable on these forums. You can look yourself if you would like. my youtube account is the same as my AVS.

Lastly, on a side note, I read in some of the earlier posts of this thread someone looking for a "star wars" scroller. Where as this is possible in blender. AE can accomplish it in seconds. I am working on one now and would be happy to post up the .aef once im completed.

sometimes in life we want 110%

I'm working on a diff project aside from movie intro's. I'm doing the A-Team intro with custom text. I'ts a challenge, I'll post if I need help or need a place to host.

I'm also working on a happy madison intro, like the one at the end of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSyAVoKRz8&feature=related

^^ Here is my After Effects file for the starwars crawl. I think it came out pretty damn good. Editing all the text fields shouldnt be to daunting but if anyone needs a tut Ill post one up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPMRWIZ7f4

It seems I am a little late to the party, but can anyone make me up a blender file with the Universal Logo. I am using the latest version of blender, and using the instructions posted way back in the thread I haven't been successful doing it myself. I would like the text to say Reznor Home Theater.

Thanks.
Reznor

^^ Here is my After Effects file for the starwars crawl. I think it came out pretty damn good. Editing all the text fields shouldnt be to daunting but if anyone needs a tut Ill post one up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPMRWIZ7f4

Nice job Funk. Thanks for a good laugh. :)

AWESOME! keep them coming haha. I love playing with these.

Im having some trouble rendering the star wars.blend.

Whenever I click to render it, it just renders like 1 frames and stops. I set the codec I wanted to use and all that. Im very familiar with this part, I just cant figure out why its wont render the animation. thanks again for the work! My family names looks awesome in star wars letters! :)

The settings I'm using are:
Save Format: AVI Jpeg
Frames per sec: 25 FPS
Quality: 100
SizeX/SizeY: 1920/1080
AspX/AspY: 1.00/1.00
Color: RGB

I have it set to start at frame 300 and render through to 2501. If you open the basic file I created and click the "ANIM" button, it should render correctly (before any font additions or changes). If it renders before you make any changes, note the steps you are doing and we'll see where it's getting tripped up. I'm also doing this on Blender 2.49b 64-bit.

Good luck!

where i can download PIXAR.blend???

anyone knows? Please tell me....

Damn this thread is huge. Can someone supply me a link to the Disney 3D blender file that has the Sparkly thing going all the way across? All the ones I've found have it stop just a little bit after it starts.

Not sure if there is a fix for that but didn't find it in my attempt to navigate this thread.

Thanks!

try searching for the "fox intro" thread. It's even LONGER, but I believe it's in there.

Hi guys.

Long time reader, first time poster!

I've taken my time to read this thread, which has been great. With that, I decided to have a go at making some of my own idents with Blender, based on your project (.blend) files.

I've tweaked them a slight bit in Motion and After Effects afterwards, and got some really good results.

(I posted a link, but the forum wouldn't allow it as I'm a first time poster). So look on YouTube for '20th century roy - test 1'

I graded in FCP, and added additional lights and lens flares in Motion and After Effects. I'm a video editor by trade, but graphics don't come naturally to me, though I'm keen on learning as much as I can to improve myself!

I've actually gone back to this and added more stuff, including a high quality version of the fanfare, which is much much better. Will post version 2 soon!


Secondly, I've produced a Disney ident:
(again, forum wouldn't let me post a link)
Search YouTube for Roy Disney - Test 1

I had some issues with this, as the export didn't come out quite right. As with others, the sparkles didn't continue more than about 25% around the arch. Also the glow over the name didn't come out right for some reason (did I export it in too higher res?), which meant I had to try fix it in Motion afterwards.

So I added more particles in Motion, to ensure the arch is covered 100%, as well as adding an additional glow which isn't working 100%, but is a damn sight better than the original blender export. The blender export also did some kind of weird alpha channel thing, so I actually had to put the background back in again!

Finally, I added a dissolve the 'cinema' wording, which was flashing on for some reason. Again, the graphic needs to be tweaked on a whole, but I'm happy with it as it is for now. By the way, does anyone know what the actual font should be for the 'cinema/pictures' in this logo?

I'm going to have a go at the Universal logo next, and maybe add some extra lighting and flares afterwards - to give it that Star Trek effect! I'm also trying to work with the Dreamworks logo at the moment, that I downloaded from Woody's cinema site. Did you design this Magius? It's mostly working fine, but I've been struggling to get a good water ripple effect for the beginning. I have had a go at making them in AE (caustics/radio waves) and Motion (particles/refraction), but neither of them look realistic without spending a LOT of time on them.

Magius, if you designed the Dreamworks AE project, do you have the water ripple effect as a file you could send me?


Anyway, I just thought it was worth posting my progress on here, as you guys have been incredibly helpful. The reason I'm doing this in the first place is because my father is currently building an amazing home cinema, and he wanted some idents to precede each film that is shown. I also intend on making a couple of other things, as well as shooting/directing some fake trailers, but these idents have really been the icing on the cake.

Thanks so much!

Did you fix the sparkle thing in the main blender fie itself or by tweaking it afterward? I've been looking for an updated Blender file with that fix for a long time and never found one. I don't know how to use Blender other than to animate the existing files or I'd fix it myself. heh.

The sparkle doesn't look like it pauses for a split second as it passes the top spire on the castle but it still looks great.

No I had to do it in Motion 4 afterwards. I had the same problem with the sparkle stopping, so I masked out the top of the castle and added 3 different particles (with differing 'life spans'), to give the effect I wanted. Was a bit of trial and error really.

You're right in saying that the sparkle isn't as fluid at the top of the spire, but it follows the movement of the curve exactly. I compared it against other versions other people had done with working Blender projects, and the sparkle effect actually does the same thing on that original version. Only way of fixing that I think, would be to go back to the original Blender project, but I don't know the software well enough to be able to do that.

Do you know how to use Apple Motion or After Effects? You could just put the sparkles in there and fix it that way?

I am a new member but have been a reader of these posts for a long time. I will soon be finished with my home theatre (really we are never finished, are we), and have some things I still want to finish to create a real theatre experience. I would like to create or find some cool intros that can be personalized, some ads and stuff that you would normally find before a movie at a theatre. I dont have a home theatre PC, but could build one if necessary. What i do have is a Blue ray DVD player and a regular DVD player. If I were showing these intro's would i need the PC? I'm really not sure how it would all fit together. I am looking for a seamless transition. Thanks to anyone who responds.
PS I've seen these on youtube

saxmbs,
Yes you would need an HTPC to get these files to play seemlessly. Your only option with stand alone players is to convert these files into playable DVDs or Blurays. But that's not really a seemless conversion. Or you can rip your DVD/Bluray and then add these on to the beginning and reburn them. Also if you are looking for more files to play around with check out this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=69270

I am a new member but have been a reader of these posts for a long time. I will soon be finished with my home theatre (really we are never finished, are we), and have some things I still want to finish to create a real theatre experience. I would like to create or find some cool intros that can be personalized, some ads and stuff that you would normally find before a movie at a theatre. I dont have a home theatre PC, but could build one if necessary. What i do have is a Blue ray DVD player and a regular DVD player. If I were showing these intro's would i need the PC? I'm really not sure how it would all fit together. I am looking for a seamless transition. Thanks to anyone who responds.
PS I've seen these on youtube

What I do is queue up the DVD to the proper location and pause it. Then have the intros and things on my laptop. I run the intros from the laptop and then just change the source to start the movie. Pretty seamless.

Otherwise you could rip the DVD to the PC and then have everything just play from there, or get the intros and convert to DVD format and play everything from there...

I finally rendered a fox version of my own .. Came out surprisingly well... I did however learn a few things I feel I should share in regards to rendering.

When rendering to 1080hd be sure to expect extra long render times. (2 to 3 mins per frame)

Choose your render output wisely. Though avi raw keeps exceptional detail. It creates HUGE files, and has issues once these files gets over 2 gig... And by issues I mean rendered products over 2 gigs disappear into thin air. Even though you just spent 32 hours watching it render. Two ways around this :

-Render in small batches than edit them together after the render.
-Render output as Quicktime (no file size limit)

I ended up steering away from AVI RAW output though it looked better. I was having to hard of a time converting / managing the file. Quicktime was 90% faster.

Adding audio (though possible in blender) seemed effortless when using AE.
Id post up my finished result via youtube but Im not sure if that's acceptable on these forums. You can look yourself if you would like. my youtube account is the same as my AVS.

Lastly, on a side note, I read in some of the earlier posts of this thread someone looking for a "star wars" scroller. Where as this is possible in blender. AE can accomplish it in seconds. I am working on one now and would be happy to post up the .aef once im completed.
____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ __________

I'm new to this so forgive my ignorance, but what is AE? I'd like to learn more.
Mike

^^ Here is my After Effects file for the starwars crawl. I think it came out pretty damn good. Editing all the text fields shouldnt be to daunting but if anyone needs a tut Ill post one up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPMRWIZ7f4

Man that is so cool, I want to do this................how long did it take you from start to finish?

saxmbs,
Yes you would need an HTPC to get these files to play seemlessly. Your only option with stand alone players is to convert these files into playable DVDs or Blurays. But that's not really a seemless conversion. Or you can rip your DVD/Bluray and then add these on to the beginning and reburn them. Also if you are looking for more files to play around with check out this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=69270

Hi Slaveunit, I have been following that thread for over a week, but I'm blocked from posting on it. i saw some references to it on this thread. I asked the Admin to let me post there, no response as of yet. It seems this is for the XBox, correct? If so My son has the Xbox 360. I am unsure of a few things...bear with me, I tech savvy but not a programmer. What is the difference between an HTPC, and a regular PC? Also if i were to reburn the DVD wouldn't it have copy protection, and how would I eliminate the selection menu at the beginning of the DVD? Thanks for the advice, and for being patient with a novice :)

Hi Slaveunit, I have been following that thread for over a week, but I'm blocked from posting on it. i saw some references to it on this thread. I asked the Admin to let me post there, no response as of yet. It seems this is for the XBox, correct? If so My son has the Xbox 360. I am unsure of a few things...bear with me, I tech savvy but not a programmer. What is the difference between an HTPC, and a regular PC? Also if i were to reburn the DVD wouldn't it have copy protection, and how would I eliminate the selection menu at the beginning of the DVD? Thanks for the advice, and for being patient with a novice :)

Why are you blocked from it? If you register you can post there.

Its for Xbox, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Those files are pc files. Xbox 360 wont have anything to do with this.

HTPC = home theater personal comptuer
pc = personal computer
An HTPC is usually connected to a TV or bigger display and is primarily used for movies/media.

If you were to rip then reburn. Then yes you would have copyright protection. There are programs out there that can usually remove that. Same with the menus on a DVD. You can remove those as well. Such a program that can remove menus and copyright protection for your own DVDs is DVDFab.

For these questions google is a good friend. These could all be answered within minus from just searching.

Why are you blocked from it? If you register you can post there.

Its for Xbox, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Those files are pc files. Xbox 360 wont have anything to do with this.

HTPC = home theater personal comptuer
pc = personal computer
An HTPC is usually connected to a TV or bigger display and is primarily used for movies/media.

If you were to rip then reburn. Then yes you would have copyright protection. There are programs out there that can usually remove that. Same with the menus on a DVD. You can remove those as well. Such a program that can remove menus and copyright protection for your own DVDs is DVDFab.

For these questions google is a good friend. These could all be answered within minus from just searching.

I Did register and still can't post, don't know why, but read many of your posts and was impressed with your knowledge.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, basically an HTPC is just a dedicated PC connected with the proper video card (preferably and HDMI output) that is dedicated to your theatre. if I were to buil one, I woul want a high def card. Would you reccomend windows 7 for an OS? Would you reccomend windows media to rip, and if so which version?
I have spent quite a bit of time on google, and the answers sometimes dont make sense, but i'm a quick learner and will repay your kindness. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I am no good on a MAC, haven't used one in years so I'm glad this can all be done on a PC. Do you think Blender is an easy program to learn, or should I get started on something elase first?

I Did register and still can't post, don't know why, but read many of your posts and was impressed with your knowledge.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, basically an HTPC is just a dedicated PC connected with the proper video card (preferably and HDMI output) that is dedicated to your theatre. if I were to buil one, I woul want a high def card. Would you reccomend windows 7 for an OS? Would you reccomend windows media to rip, and if so which version?
I have spent quite a bit of time on google, and the answers sometimes dont make sense, but i'm a quick learner and will repay your kindness. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I am no good on a MAC, haven't used one in years so I'm glad this can all be done on a PC. Do you think Blender is an easy program to learn, or should I get started on something elase first?

This is getting too much off track from the original blender thread. I will PM you the answers to you questions. Just respond in PMs.

Can someone send to me Universal Studios blend , I would like todo my own logo, many thanks !

Can someone send to me Universal Studios blend , I would like todo my own logo, many thanks !

Check the projects page that is in my signature. It has most of the blender files that are in this post.

got my hands on a 1080p 3d disney file in .m2ts file format.

Ive tried the disney after effects file and my render messed up somehow. both the disney text as well as my photoshop text came up in the render. not sure if it is because im using a 1080p file or whether i am making silly mistakes with the render, not too good with after effects.

also when i am replacing the footage i am using the .m2ts file, i am not sure of what settings to use when converting it to .avi which results in alot of messed up .avi's. it renders the .m2ts file perfectly, looks exceptionally good on completed render, only problem is with the text.

tldr - having an issue with 1080p 3d disney trailer - original walt disney text as well as custom text appear in trailer.

thanks

Hi everyone,
I don't remember who sent this to me, or where I may have found it but it's a cool intro that I'd love to alter. It's made in a quicktime file though, and I'm not sure if it is possible to convert, or if it's necessary. What I'd like to do is change the ending to have my family theatre name on it at the end, and then have The fox, or Universal logo intro follow it, with of course my own name in it's place. Is this possible?
Thanks everyone.
Mike S.

REPOST:
Sorry everyone, forgot to attach the file, been up all night:confused:!!!!
Hi everyone,
I don't remember who sent this to me, or where I may have found it but it's a cool intro that I'd love to alter (see attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWOTUYoAyQ

It's made in a quicktime file though, and I'm not sure if it is possible to convert, or if it's necessary. What I'd like to do is change the ending to have my family theatre name on it at the end, and then have The Fox Searchlight, or Universal Studios logo intro follow it, with of course my own name in it's place. Is this possible?
Thanks everyone.
Mike S.

Mike S,

I've only been toying around with Blender and After Effects for about 3 weeks now but I'm pretty sure it's possible to do what you're asking using these two programs. I know Blender has the ability to join multiple movie clips into one using the Video Sequence Editor so I think it would be just a matter of joining your finished Fox or Universal movie to the end of the the other. All you would need to do is add your name to the end of the first clip before you join the two. Then you could possibly add some kind of transition effect between the two clips so that it flows better from one to the other.

Lonnie

David,

Thanks for hosting all the files on your website. I've already made some of the easier ones and now I'm starting to work on the more complicated ones.

Lonnie

I've combined several pieces of different projects found in this forum and over on the forums at Backyard Theater and the following post is the result (sorry had to make 3 posts before I could link to a website). It still could use some tweaking here and there so it's not really a "finished" product.

Lonnie

I've combined several pieces of different projects found in this forum and over on the forums at Backyard Theater and the following post is the result (sorry had to make 3 posts before I could link to a website). It still could use some tweaking here and there so it's not really a "finished" product.

Lonnie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9j65ju8Rag

Where's Magius or Eubank?!

Wow there's actually people alive in here!? I haven't visited this dark little corner of the forums in months after the thread "died" about three separate times in '09.

Unfortunately I haven't touched Blender in much much longer than that even and I was never very good at it to begin with, so I've forgotten how most everything works :o Some day I've got to pick the software back up but my work schedule has been murderous these last couple years.

If you guys are having trouble with a file I created, such as Disney 3D (side note: holy crap that video is *everywhere* now!), let me know and I'll see what I can do to help. It looks like something about what I did doesn't render right in newer versions of Blender? I don't know anything about that, but I can tell you that 2.42a is the Blender version we were all using back then. In an SSE-optimized 2.46 I get the weird flickering in the Fox intro, but I never had problems with my own projects using that version either. I can post the installer for either of these if someone needs them to render the project properly.

On a little side rant, I guess I genuinely hoped someone would have stepped in, learned a smidgen of Blender, cleaned up my mess of a project and returned a better copy to the community by now. Instead all I see on Youtube is mirror images of my same ugly mess :confused: It's a little embarrassing seeing all those videos with my mistakes and sloppy coverups because I didn't know what I was doing... Arcs that aren't round, Tinkerbell that stops and starts again instead of flying smoothly behind the tower, that hideous gate/portcullis with all of its render artifacts from "faking" 3D by overlaying lots of 2D rectangles... *yikes!* Maybe I'm just oversensitive to it because I know they're there and I always wished I knew how to do it better? Then there's that Mactasticalous I saw a link to a page or two back doing "tutorials" that basically amount to "download Blender, download this project file (btw no credit to Woody for hosting it or myself for creating it) and click render."

Ah well perhaps you guys caught me on a rough morning. As I said I'll be happy to help you guys get my projects to render properly, even if the solution is as cheesy as rendering in an older version. I never claimed to be any good at this stuff, I just poked at it and tried new things until it did what I wanted.

Wow there's actually people alive in here!? I haven't visited this dark little corner of the forums in months after the thread "died" about three separate times in '09.

Unfortunately I haven't touched Blender in much much longer than that even and I was never very good at it to begin with, so I've forgotten how most everything works :o Some day I've got to pick the software back up but my work schedule has been murderous these last couple years.

If you guys are having trouble with a file I created, such as Disney 3D (side note: holy crap that video is *everywhere* now!), let me know and I'll see what I can do to help. It looks like something about what I did doesn't render right in newer versions of Blender? I don't know anything about that, but I can tell you that 2.42a is the Blender version we were all using back then. In an SSE-optimized 2.46 I get the weird flickering in the Fox intro, but I never had problems with my own projects using that version either. I can post the installer for either of these if someone needs them to render the project properly.

On a little side rant, I guess I genuinely hoped someone would have stepped in, learned a smidgen of Blender, cleaned up my mess of a project and returned a better copy to the community by now. Instead all I see on Youtube is mirror images of my same ugly mess :confused: It's a little embarrassing seeing all those videos with my mistakes and sloppy coverups because I didn't know what I was doing... Arcs that aren't round, Tinkerbell that stops and starts again instead of flying smoothly behind the tower, that hideous gate/portcullis with all of its render artifacts from "faking" 3D by overlaying lots of 2D rectangles... *yikes!* Maybe I'm just oversensitive to it because I know they're there and I always wished I knew how to do it better? Then there's that Mactasticalous I saw a link to a page or two back doing "tutorials" that basically amount to "download Blender, download this project file (btw no credit to Woody for hosting it or myself for creating it) and click render."

Ah well perhaps you guys caught me on a rough morning. As I said I'll be happy to help you guys get my projects to render properly, even if the solution is as cheesy as rendering in an older version. I never claimed to be any good at this stuff, I just poked at it and tried new things until it did what I wanted.

When people come over to my house and I have any of the custom intros running on a 100in screen, they don't see anything wrong with your work. They comment how cool it is to have a personalized intro.

I am grateful to you and everyone else who has contributed to custom intros. Without your ugly mess, I would have had to pay for some custom DVD crap. So thanks to you and everyone else who contributes to the custom intros!

So I was fooling with this and read the threads on making it work and came up with my own solution since I do a lot of work in AE. The trick is to separate the lower half from the upper half so you canoverlay the text you want.

Time remapping works ok, but I still had some issues, so I came up with this work around, it involes creating another layer and using a mask in AE.

1. Download the project w84no1 has on his site.



2. I used this HD version of the Disney intro

demo-world.eu/trailers/redirect-high-definition.php?file=hd_distributor_walt_disney_pictures.rar


3. Unzip and UnRAR the files. Make the edits in the PSD file you want.

4. Open the AE project.

5. Double click on the 'missing' Disney file. Locate the HDintro you downloaded in step 2.

Now, make SURE you have set the composition preview for After Effects to something like quarter or third. If you have it set to full, you're going to be sitting there for a while while the frame renders.

6. Once you have the new Disney intro in your project, you want to click it and drag it to the "Create a New Composition" icon at the bottom of your 'Project' tab. This will create a new compostion that you can make edits to.

7.You will now have a new composition open on your workspace. You want to move the time indicator out to around 25 seconds.

8. Use your PEN tool and click just above the upper left corner of the video space, in the black area above the video.

9. Click again at the left horizon line.

10. Click again at the right horizon line.

12. Click up just above the upper right corner of the video area, in the black area above the video.

13. Lastly, click on the upper left spot againto 'close' the mask. You'll now see that everything outside this area is now 'black'... for intents and purposes, this area is actually gone.

14. Go back to the sequence 01 composition. In the project area,find the newest disney composition and drag it into the sequence 01 composition and place it ABOVE the Time Remapped layer.

15. The next part is a little tricky, but it was by experimenting that I figure what worked for me. If you are using After Effects CS3 or CS4 and the files mentioned above, these settings should work for you.

Shorten layer 3 to 24 secs 21 frames
Move the time Remapped layer to the same 24 seconds 21 frames
Put your time marker on that exact frame. Expand the time remap layer so you can see the keyframe for the time remap. Double click that keyframe and change the time value to 24 seconds.

Next, save the project and render out to your own settings. The beauty of this method (and I'll admit I didn't try to render out the others ones after reading some people were having trouble with the sparkle trail stopping.... using a mask allows the upper portion to keep going while the lower portion can be time mapped more easily.

A hint in AE, when moving parts around, as well as the time cursor hit CAPS LOCK and that will shut OFF the composition window refresh until you get the cursor right where you want it. Hit CAPS LOCK again and it will render whe frame the cursor is on.

I rendered this file on my quad processor box in about 20 minutes at full HD.

I also added a reflection in the water for the PSD layer, so the text reflects.

I'll render it and post a version up to YouTube. I can also make the AE project available to anyone if they want it.

There is probably an easier way to do this in AE, but this is what I came up with.

Next, I might put this into 3D space and animate a camera that moves past the text in the foreground, skimming the 'water' and moving towards the castle.

Not sure if people can PM me here, or if I need to leave my email address.

- MJ

Additional info...

Putting this into 3D space isn't going to be as easy as I thought, it'll take a bit more fudging with compositions. I'll work on it more when I am done authoring the DVD I have due in the next two weeks. Meanwhile, I'm posting the clip to youtube, will get back with link, and I'll wrapup the project in AE and post that to RapidShare, complete with the HD content, wo you won't have to hunt for anything.

Ok, posted on Youtube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdfZC7mnog

Not bad guitarbuildernh, your video looks to be coming along well. I like the added effect of the text reflection in the water. My old project didn't do that, I just dropped some text in front of the castle and faded it in when appropriate. :D Good luck on getting this into 3D and animating a camera around. That sounds pretty cool!

There does seem to be a little "jerk" in your video at ~25 seconds right after your custom name fades in and it seems to have something to do with the particle field. Do you know what's causing that?

Right at that moment a whole lot of particles that were on the screen a split second before disappear, and the ones that are left behind freeze in place and stop moving. To me this reminded me of playing a video in WMP, where when it ends it sometimes jumps back to a freeze frame of the first frame in the video... Do you think it's something like that where your particle effect needs to be continued for longer so it doesn't stop in mid video?

Anyways, I took a look at my own project from way back when to see what I had done with my particles and on mine they just ran through to the end. Admittedly not the best solution either, but it was good enough for me at the time. I would consider fading the particle system out after the name fades in if I were doing it again. That would probably make for a good effect.

In any case, I have to say thank you for the link to the 1080p version of this intro. Way back when there was no 1080p version, so I upconverted my DVD rip to use with my AE project. I'm downloading the 1080p version as I type so I can see if it's a simple drop-in re-render or whether I'll have to tweak the timing of my project. Too bad I've forgotten how to use AE after all this time!

Magius, thanks.

I think the particles could fade where you are indicating, I hadn't really looked at them closely, but it's certainly easy enough to set. They don't line up perfectly either, but I can fix it easily enough. The reflection is Video Copilot's VCReflect. It's a free plug in, works GREAT. I also think I want to update this project later so that you don't need the PSD file, you could just edit a text composition and have it work without some of the issues caused by the PSD. It's just a matter of applying the correct effects to the text to match those in Photoshop. Too back you can't export the style used and import it into AE.

The 3d stuff will be difficult. I can animate the camera based on a null object, but the problem is I need to extraxt a layer of water to pass the camera over.

I might be able to solve it if I render out a single frame at HD resolution and then use that to construct the 3d space. Lots to do to get it to work, but not much time right now, trying to get several projects all authored at once.

The link to the entire project, including the HD intro is:

http://rapidshare.com/files/377386081/disney_intro_final_folder.rar

Magius, thanks.

I think the particles could fade where you are indicating, I hadn't really looked at them closely, but it's certainly easy enough to set. They don't line up perfectly either, but I can fix it easily enough. The reflection is Video Copilot's VCReflect. It's a free plug in, works GREAT. I also think I want to update this project later so that you don't need the PSD file, you could just edit a text composition and have it work without some of the issues caused by the PSD. It's just a matter of applying the correct effects to the text to match those in Photoshop. Too back you can't export the style used and import it into AE.

The 3d stuff will be difficult. I can animate the camera based on a null object, but the problem is I need to extraxt a layer of water to pass the camera over.

I might be able to solve it if I render out a single frame at HD resolution and then use that to construct the 3d space. Lots to do to get it to work, but not much time right now, trying to get several projects all authored at once.

The link to the entire project, including the HD intro is:

http://rapidshare.com/files/377386081/disney_intro_final_folder.rar

I am adding it to my site as I type this.

Thanks!

Would any of you be willing to take on a custom intro project for a fee?
I am unable to do mine right now due to my work schedule and other commitments.
Thanks,
Mike

Yeah blender is great! Thanks everyone for these. Is here a way to convert the files on woodys site to blender files? Not all of them are and blender is the easiest for me to work with

Yeah blender is great! Thanks everyone for these. Is here a way to convert the files on woodys site to blender files? Not all of them are and blender is the easiest for me to work with

I think the ones that aren't blend files are Adobe Effects. Can anyone take the .AEP files and create them as a .BLEND file for those that don't have Adobe Effect and create them so people can easily change the text to personalize the other intros like with the 20th Century Fox and Universal intros?

The .AEP intros on Woody's site are for the Latest Disney 3d, Dreamworks and Lionsgate.

woodyfamilycinema.com/?page_id=12

Also, can anyone write up a process on how to change the lettering on the Warner Bros. blend file?

Sorry but there is no way to convert between an After Effects project and a Blender project. They are two completely different kinds of program that do two totally different things. Blender is for 3D modeling and animation, thus you generally start from scratch and create something with it out of shapes, meshes, etc. After Effects is for adding effects to existing videos, so you just load in a video file and do what you want with it.

The technique with the Blender projects was to recreate as accurately as possible a studio intro from scratch. The castle in the Disney Blender project for example was built by hand out of hundreds of cubes, cones and triangles. Mostly because the creator had no idea what he was doing :D. Tinkerbell was created as a particle simulation, flags were created as cloth simulations, etc. In the end it looked "close enough" to the original Disney castle to serve the purpose.

The technique with After Effects intros on the other hand was basically to mask off (cover up) the original studio name and add text with your own name, leaving the rest of the video untouched. The Disney project in After Effects simply plays the original Disney video (which you are expected to rip from a purchased DVD or Blu-ray) up until the part where the text would fade in. It then "freeze frames" the bottom portion of the video while letting the top continue to play, effectively stopping the text from ever fading in, but otherwise looking normal. A text box can then be laid on top of the frozen video on the bottom and faded in with whatever text you want.

Hopefully you can see that the techniques involved are completely unrelated, and the reason that AE caught on like wildfire is because it is far easier to edit someone else's video than to create one yourself from a white canvas. Long story short though, there won't be any converting between the two.

Interesting... I always thought blender was the better choice but now AE sounds good. I guess blender is still easier since you can just change the resolution as apposed to having to rip a different resolution.

Sorry but there is no way to convert between an After Effects project and a Blender project. They are two completely different kinds of program that do two totally different things. Blender is for 3D modeling and animation, thus you generally start from scratch and create something with it out of shapes, meshes, etc. After Effects is for adding effects to existing videos, so you just load in a video file and do what you want with it.

The technique with the Blender projects was to recreate as accurately as possible a studio intro from scratch. The castle in the Disney Blender project for example was built by hand out of hundreds of cubes, cones and triangles. Mostly because the creator had no idea what he was doing :D. Tinkerbell was created as a particle simulation, flags were created as cloth simulations, etc. In the end it looked "close enough" to the original Disney castle to serve the purpose.

The technique with After Effects intros on the other hand was basically to mask off (cover up) the original studio name and add text with your own name, leaving the rest of the video untouched. The Disney project in After Effects simply plays the original Disney video (which you are expected to rip from a purchased DVD or Blu-ray) up until the part where the text would fade in. It then "freeze frames" the bottom portion of the video while letting the top continue to play, effectively stopping the text from ever fading in, but otherwise looking normal. A text box can then be laid on top of the frozen video on the bottom and faded in with whatever text you want.

Hopefully you can see that the techniques involved are completely unrelated, and the reason that AE caught on like wildfire is because it is far easier to edit someone else's video than to create one yourself from a white canvas. Long story short though, there won't be any converting between the two.


That's a great explanation. Thanks. Be nice if AE was free like Blender. :)

Vbabe1272, you bring up an interesting point about the flexibility of resolutions in Blender. AE is by far "easier" in general, because you're starting with a video that is 90% the same as what you want in the end. All you have to figure out is how to get rid of the part you don't want (the studio's name) and replace it with what you do want (your name). Of course sometimes that can be very difficult or impossible depending on the video...

With Blender you're starting with nothing, but if you have the skill and patience you can create anything. And as you mentioned, once the project is created it can be rendered in any aspect ratio or any resolution without having to rework anything, unlike AE which requires a different source video and usually quite a bit of rework in the project.

If you want to do something which requires three dimensional panning around objects you really do need a 3D program like Blender. However, After Effects really is not limited to just laying effects on existing video.

If you go and watch the Video Copilot training videos and check out their site, you can see that After Effects is highly useful for creating things like movie trailers from scratch. If it doesn't require actual 3D panning around an image, you're going to get faster, easier results in AE in my opinion. Many of the custom HT trailers you've seen posted on this site has been created in AE.

The link to the entire project, including the HD intro is:

http://rapidshare.com/files/377386081/disney_intro_final_folder.rar

Hi, ive downloaded your project, are there any instructions for it? when i go to render the movie, the end .avi file comes out really laggy. do i need to change some settings around before render or?

also the project was missing a plugin, the reflection one, was easy enough to find though, very nice.

thanks.

Hi - The rapidshare link doesn't allow for downloads - it says it's reached its max amount of dl's, and that the uploader needs to change their account type. Thanks!

Does anyone know where to get the DD5.1 or DTS version of the Fox logo fanfare?

Hi - The rapidshare link doesn't allow for downloads - it says it's reached its max amount of dl's, and that the uploader needs to change their account type. Thanks!

i think the server is heavy temporarily. you can download another time.

i think the server is heavy temporarily. you can download another time.

Lol. The free rapidshare uploads have a limit of 10 downloads or so. Its not a temp heavy load on the server. That DL is not coming back.

I think my earlier post should have gone in this section...

I do not know anything about 3D animation, but I have followed tutorials on this site for making blender projects for my movies (Fox intro, etc.)

My question is: Is there anyone with the know how who could create on Blender the 1980's CBS Movie Open (found on You Tube...I could not post the link) with all the cool music and neon.

I think this would make a great home theater intro and it could be customized like the Fox intro.

Thanks for any and all help that is provided!

yeah we def need more intros. only a select few on here know how to make them from scratch. :(

Blender is a extreamely powerful tool but not very user friendly. Most shortcut keys don't do what you think they should do. A little confusing at times, but I have managed to create nearly all of the available intros and just finished learning the Star Wars crawler intro with the help of Magius. I tried some of the Blender.org tutorials but they were just as confusing. Sort of reminds me of software programs created by the US government, always unfriendly. I do think the intros for blender have somewhat dried up as most advanced programers are going to After Effects (AE) and others. It was fun while it lasted. Have a nice day......

Hi everyone,

Check my version of 20th Fox intro :)
This is not a blender or any other 3d software project!

youtube.com/watch?v=7CMZe6kg-0w

Sometime later, any user can create own personlized verson of this(and any other, check my youtube channel) intro.

Now im not ready yet public how its made......
If someone intresting how create own intro, plz PM me.

Sorry for my english....

Hi everyone,

Check my version of 20th Fox intro :)
This is not a blender or any other 3d software project!

youtube.com/watch?v=7CMZe6kg-0w

Sometime later, any user can create own personlized verson of this(and any other, check my youtube channel) intro.

Now im not ready yet public how its made......
If someone intresting how create own intro, plz PM me.

Sorry for my english....

Nice Work! I like your Pixar one also. Please share what you used to create them.

Hi everyone,

Check my version of 20th Fox intro :)
This is not a blender or any other 3d software project!

youtube.com/watch?v=7CMZe6kg-0w

Sometime later, any user can create own personlized verson of this(and any other, check my youtube channel) intro.

Now im not ready yet public how its made......
If someone intresting how create own intro, plz PM me.

Sorry for my english....


Nice work. Would love to learn how you made it.

Dronson,
I just checked out both your Fox and Pixar videos. One word - Incredible! Since you say it was not Blender or After Effects that you used I would very much love to know how you did it. Even just the name of the tool so I could go look into it would be great if you're not ready to unveil to the public. Pixar has been the holy grail intro for me for so long and while I got about 50% of the way there in Blender myself I could never finish the job. Thank you for sharing your work with us. Here's to hoping you'll share the secrets!

yes very nice work. I like how the fox intro looks the same as the fox version as far as the beams and walls.

I had a question for those of you who know blender and the Fox intro.

I've been playing around with Blender and I wanted to make a single image of one of the frames from the customized Fox introduction, but one thing is the background city lights always get "blurred" at the final stage of rendering of the single frame. I thought that turning off MBLUR would solve this (by having it un-highlighted) - but it doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas? Any help would be appreicated.

Thanks

Been a very long time since I have checked this thread out. Glad to see their is still some life. After reading over some of the posts I was going to play around with my updated version of the walt disney blend file. Problem is I can't find a copy of it an longer. My fileden account isn't working and I can't find it on my machine anywhere. Is their any chance anyone still has my version around? The name as I posted it was WaltDisney3Dnewarc.

Thanks

Dronson,

I too just checked out both your Fox and Pixar videos. echo Magius - Incredible!

Hope you will share method soon

Hi!
Thnx for comments! I am glad that you liked my work!

Ok, my method is very simple :)

After about a year of persistent work , we are ready to invite the first users to test an unique on-line service vipid.me (i hate spammers!, plz dont forget www :) )
Now the creation process of complex computer-graphics intro came as a pleasant and simple entertainment . Create your own custom intros , invitations and greeting card in a few minutes on-line! That's it, no more
complex software or annoying manuals reading. All you need is just a few minus and click... and a little of imagination of course !

I think in this thread many peoples dreams about similar resource :).
In the 21st century it becаme possible!

As for now vipid.me ( vipid - VideoPersonalIdentity) service is in early "alpha" stage. Therefore, we are not registering new users directly, but we accept invitations. Each registered vipid user can invite several of his friends.
Also please note that due to "alpha" stage of vipid.me site there may be some bugs and other problems in our service work.

Plz if you intrested our project, pm with your e-mail and i make invite for you.

Sincerely,
The Vipid Team

Hi!
Thnx for comments! I am glad that you liked my work!

Ok, my method is very simple :)

After about a year of persistent work , we are ready to invite the first users to test an unique on-line service vipid.me (i hate spammers!, plz dont forget www :) )
Now the creation process of complex computer-graphics intro came as a pleasant and simple entertainment . Create your own custom intros , invitations and greeting card in a few minutes on-line! That's it, no more
complex software or annoying manuals reading. All you need is just a few minus and click... and a little of imagination of course !

I think in this thread many peoples dreams about similar resource :).
In the 21st century it becаme possible!

As for now vipid.me ( vipid - VideoPersonalIdentity) service is in early "alpha" stage. Therefore, we are not registering new users directly, but we accept invitations. Each registered vipid user can invite several of his friends.
Also please note that due to "alpha" stage of vipid.me site there may be some bugs and other problems in our service work.

Plz if you intrested our project, pm with your e-mail and i make invite for you.

Sincerely,
The Vipid Team

Great service. I have created 2 Intros in the same amount of time that it would take me to just edit a blender file. The problem I have is on the 20th Century Fox, I don't want to use a number for the first line. This is what I want to be able to do.
http://woodyfamilycinema.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Fox-Cinema.jpg
Besides that, everything went smooth and now have an HD Pixar like intro. THX!

How do you get an invite? Steve

The problem I have is on the 20th Century Fox, I don't want to use a number for the first line. This is what I want to be able to do.

You can enter text in upper filed. But i make restriction for only 4 character :)
I like this intro....if you make many character in upper field you lost recognition in my opinition.

May be later i make version without "th" and more characters in first string.

Also: now we have bug with make preview option. You can done preview only once time. If you want make other prw go to first page and select template again.

thnx

Thanks for the invite! I have made a couple intros this morning already. Not sure how you did this but it is a great idea!!! I do think that having the "th" not there would be a better choice. most people are going to want something other than a number on the first line.

How do you get an invite? Steve



Plz if you intrested our project, pm with your e-mail and i make invite for you.

Sincerely,
The Vipid Team

PM Dronson

Pretty slick tool. Thanks for the invite Dronson.

Sorry im not good in english.....
What do you mean about "slick" ?

Sorry im not good in english.....
What do you mean about "slick" ?

Sorry about that. By "slick" I meant good and impressive.

ok so I have a tiny request...can someone render me a FOX or Disney (3d) one to play on my popcorn hour?

I have an old core solo mac and its gonna take me a month to render this lol

I want it to say my last name cinema or something similar

Someone? Anyone? please with a cherry on top? =)

ok so I have a tiny request...can someone render me a FOX or Disney (3d) one to play on my popcorn hour?

I have an old core solo mac and its gonna take me a month to render this lol

I want it to say my last name cinema or something similar

Someone? Anyone? please with a cherry on top? =)

Have you asked Dronson for a login to the beta? You can use that tool to do this and not worry about having to render on your pc.

Ok!

We make small update our site.

1. Im make another version of 20th Fox intro. Now users can create 20th fox intro without "th" in upper string.

2. We add some new, exclusive vipid's designs. Search new vipid's in "intros" category.
Examples here:
http://www.vipid.me/watch_my_vipid/?vipid=6171411028477970185

http://www.vipid.me/watch_my_vipid/?vipid=-2763873038688389539

http://www.vipid.me/watch_my_vipid/?vipid=9030366169874771059

I hope you like it.

3. Remember: any user who recieve invite from me, can himself send out invitations to other user's. For make invite: place mouse cursor over your login name in upper right corner. You must see small menu with invite option.

4. Also very soon im add "Universal" intro.

5. Overall speed of vipid's cooking should be a little faster.

thnx for your interest.

Well VPID is great!

Tried both the Fox & Pixar..... very easy and very fast ....about 5 mins to create what would have likely been many, many hours in Blender.

Both played fine on my PC but streaming to my Blu-ray player didn't work. Be good to add capability of not just selecting container but also audio/video codec. But was able to convert very quickly with RipBot.....

Would be great if you could do something like National Amusements (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6kvinRDCdE) with the No Talking, No Smoking, Refreshments, Trash

Dronson - sent you a msg asking for an invite please? =)

Cableguy send me (or any other user who has already invited) pm with your e-mail. And you will receive an invitation.

hi Dronson
could I please have an invite to your site too :)

many thanks indeed

Great work!
I just joined today, but i'm sad to see that the WoodyFamilyCinema website is down and that i cant get the blender files. I just started tinkering with it and found this website through you tube. Is there any place i can get the Walt Disney 2D and 3D blender files from somewhere?

I have created a Castle Rock logo in Blender 3d last night.
http://icelucario64.deviantart.com/#/d2uk4x6

Great work!
I just joined today, but i'm sad to see that the WoodyFamilyCinema website is down and that i cant get the blender files. I just started tinkering with it and found this website through you tube. Is there any place i can get the Walt Disney 2D and 3D blender files from somewhere?

woodyfamilycinema.com is working again.

I am working on a new after Effects project that will allow you to:

1. Drop your text directly into the intro file without having to know anything about my previous project and layers and time mapping and all that stuff.

2. I am hoping to recreate the project so that at the end, the camera will zoom past the text and 'fly' along the water as it fades out. That will take a little more doing, but it should be fun

Sorry that my Rapidshare link went away. I don't have a 'premium' account so it didn't stay up long. If I'm not mistaken it's up on w84no1 's website.

Once I get the AE project done, I'll post it here.

Cableguy send me (or any other user who has already invited) pm with your e-mail. And you will receive an invitation.

Okay this is seriously some cool stuff here. Great job! I can't wait to see where this goes and what kinds of things you are going to include. If you need any testing of any new features, please feel free to ask.

Keep up the great work!

I am working on a new after Effects project that will allow you to:

1. Drop your text directly into the intro file without having to know anything about my previous project and layers and time mapping and all that stuff.

2. I am hoping to recreate the project so that at the end, the camera will zoom past the text and 'fly' along the water as it fades out. That will take a little more doing, but it should be fun

Sorry that my Rapidshare link went away. I don't have a 'premium' account so it didn't stay up long. If I'm not mistaken it's up on w84no1 's website.

Once I get the AE project done, I'll post it here.

That's awesome. I'm trying to follow the tutorial you posted a while back but I've never used AE before so I'm stuck with step 5. Not sure where to double click. Any help would be great.

Thanks.

kelemvor

Step 5 says:

5. Double click on the 'missing' Disney file. Locate the HDintro you downloaded in step 2.

In AE, in the upper left corner of the progam workspace is the 'asset' area. When you open a project that is missing a file, AE usually warns you... and marks the 'asset' with a funky little icon that looks like TV color bars. Locate the Disney file in that asset window and double click that.

in the disney 3d final are you limited to the amount of letters you can use ??

no matter what I try it keeps cutting off part of my name

if someone could please help or advise

many thanks

floridafan,
Assuming your using my original file there is no limit on the number of characters you can use. The key is in how you scale them ('s' key) to fit in the appropriate area. Are you having it not render additional letters past some maximum, even with more space on the screen, or are you having letters off the screen because they're taking up too much space? The scaling will fix the latter, but I have no idea about the former...

I have heard that my Tinkerbell arch and particle effect doesn't render properly in the latest versions of Blender, so people have tweaked my file to fix that. I would still be willing to bet that in a tweaked file there would be no character limitation, but I couldn't say for sure since I don't know what people have done to it. I've also never used the newer versions of Blender, so I can't speak for what it might have changed about the text objects. All I can really say for sure is that if you get my original file (from Woody's Home Cinema for example) and a copy of Blender 2.42a, it should render just fine and with no character limitations. Hope that helps.

hi Magius,
thanks for the tips I'll try them all out ...here's hoping

many thanks

cheers

Hey Guys,

After a long time away I decided to take a look see what everyone was up to here.

Glad to see that it continues on!

I was very interested in the website Dronson pointed everyone to however when i go to www.vidpid.me ....

The site seems to be down. Can anyone confirm this?

Other than that, glad to see Magius, W84no1, Brit and the gang are still hard at it.

In my time away I have been using mostly AE for little projects here and there. I have been making lost of videos for our church for different projects so I haven't had a chance to do much for my HT. That and the fact that my bulb has been blown for like ever now...

Anyway, nice to see the thread carries on...

Steve

Hey Guys,
I was very interested in the website Dronson pointed everyone to however when i go to www.vidpid.me ....

The site seems to be down. Can anyone confirm this?


Yeah, the site is currently down for now but I know that Dronson and team are working on it. Here is a quick low res video I was able to make(original is in 720p) before they started re-working the site. I am really excited to see where they take it. The entire process only takes about 10 minutes per video. Oh, and just so you are aware, the correct address is http://www.vipid.me/

fki5kztD5cA

Yeah, they have a great service. Beats having to use blender and wait 10 hrs for video to render to find out that it has tons of flicker ;)

Hello!

Im sorry about information pause.
As you may already know it's too hot here in Moscow, so we are pushed to run on very limited resources. But we continue our work.

We restore the work of our site. But we continue are experiencing some problems with our internet connection, therefore the work Vipid-site can unstable and slow a while.

We hope resolve our problem in week or two. But now you can try use vipid again.

Also we add new famous template :) "Universal".
All users who send me invite request, must be recieve our invite today.

Tnx!

hi
dronson thankyou very much got my invite this morning but still cant register after 5 hours is there a problem with registering the 4 steps , once you receive your invite........?? I cant get past the the green writing that says "proceed to registration" ??

anyway many thanks and heres hoping I can register soon

floridafan: thanx for your notice! We have small bug here. Now registration for new users should be work fine. Try this. If you have some prblm with service plz send me pm or write on info@vipid.me

Tnx

may be this litle off-topic for this forum, but chek our new template for apple users.
I hope you like it :)

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I would love an invite to this. Does anyone have one to share?

Cheers!

I have created 3 VipID intros and I can't get them to play on either of my computers.



I take it back, it does play on my HTPC, must be a codec missing on my other 2 machines.

One thing I would like to request it a 2.35 aspect ratio version. Other then that for a beta project it is looking good.

For a beta project, it's amazing! I'm impressed by the speed of rendering. Very good work.

For a beta project, it's amazing! I'm impressed by the speed of rendering. Very good work.

How long does it actually take? I clicked on make preview. Just curious to know how long I should expect it to render.

Cheers.

I never clicked on preview. I just request a 1280x720 MP4 file and I get an email within 10-15 minutes to say that it's ready. Takes a whole night to render the same on my machine using Blender.

How long does it actually take? I clicked on make preview. Just curious to know how long I should expect it to render.

Cheers.

I found it only takes a few minutes :)

Thank you very much for the invite, Dronson. Your site is amazing!! Looking forward to using these amazing intros in my videos.

My only bug to report is that when I go to use the created MP4 in a video project for Pinnacle Studio Ultimate it cannot read the contents of the file. I use WinFF to re-output the MP4 file and it works just fine after that (this process only takes 2-5min at most so its really not a huge burdon, and there is no loss of quality either).

So I'm not sure if a codec is missing during the output but other than that your site is remarkable. A truly great addition to the WWW. KUDOS!!

I am wondering what ways people are finding to actually get these to play seamless before the movie?

I have both BluRay and DVD, both are ripped to hard drive as folders, no compressing or format changes.

DVD's are played from folders by W7 Media Center Player. BluRays are played from folders by TMT3 launched from Media Browser.

I have an Asus O!Play R3 that grabs all the theatrical trailers, custom trailer, DD/DTS/THX trailers from a NAS drive. It plays everything in alphabetical order so I quickly name my files accordingly. When it's done, I switch my AV receiver to the Bluray player which has the disc already loaded. The Asus will also play random slides while we prepare ourselves for the movie.

It's not very seamless as I have to push the button to make the switch on the receiver, but it doesn't bother us.

I, too am looking for a beta invite if anyone has one to share. I'd love to try the service out, as I'm currently in my 20th hour of Blender rendering (somehow not quite 1/3 done).

Dronson, I too would like a beta invite.... Please

I agree. It's a great service. Having done on e the fox ones myself: having to get belender, learn it, experiment and then 28 hours of rendering (for 1080p)

Dronson, are you planning to charge for this in future? I'd pay a few bucks per intro to get "created with vipid.me" removed. This way I can me the intro and check it out with the "vipid.me" text and then if I'm happy with results, pay for a "clean version".

the pixar one is the most impressive: have it will squash any cahracter (I assume: it did the "R" in "Mark"

Regards

mark

Tnx for using our service, and comments.
We know service is very slow from USA and Europe. We work for solve this problem. And im hope in near future we solve it.
We will be very much faster.


Dronson, are you planning to charge for this in future? I'd pay a few bucks per intro to get "created with vipid.me" removed. This way I can me the intro and check it out with the "vipid.me" text and then if I'm happy with results, pay for a "clean version".

Yes we planing a pay service. Cost will be depend from resolution. Also we have 90% our content in 1080p resolution and flawless quality (check attachment).
Small watermarked version will be always free for all members.
Also we work very hard for create much more new templates for our release date.
We hope you will enjoy it and will be useful.

http://picasaweb.google.ru/lh/photo/OmSiRhNoagDvpMQP4QTDKw?feat=directlink

Could someone please invite me to use vipid?
I'd love to try it out. Sounds easy and the quality and presentation look as good as the originals.
Thanks Dronson

Can I get an invite to try this out? Thank you very much in advance.

Yup I'm another one begging for a Beta invite. Pretty please with sugar on top??

I would also like to get an invite so I can try this out.

I deleted my universal trailer from vipid. I was too blurry and the gold drop shadow didn't really have a metallic look to it.

The fox and pixar ones are stunning though

Can I get an invite to the Vipid site.....Please!

Dronson, I too would like a beta invite.... Please

Amazing! I too would love an invite, if you would be kind enough. Thanks in advance.