Steve Roberts - Creative COW

Motion graphics artist, multimedia producer (when they called it "multimedia"), loves teaching. Believes that technology should provide tools, not objects of affection. Makes sound effects with mouth and can make sound of one hand clapping.

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System Details: G5 dual 2 GHz, 2.5 GB RAM, Decklink SP
Macbook Pro, 2.33 GHz, 3GB RAM
MacPro, 8-core 3.0 GHz, 9GB RAM, Kona LHe

Hobbies and Interests: In no particular order: playing jazz trumpet, practising T'ai Chi and Lok Hup Ba Fa (http://www.canadiantaichiacademy.org/), teaching, playing squash, tidying up.

Favorite Bands / Musicians: Wynton Marsalis, Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Paul Desmond, Chick Corea.

Favorite Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Great Escape, The Incredibles, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Fail-Safe, Galaxy Quest, The Third Man.

My Recent Posts:

Re: How to capture video best for keying by Steve Roberts on Nov 7, 2009 at 9:39:04 am
Re: Creating Depth (Where None Exists) by Steve Roberts on Nov 7, 2009 at 9:33:23 am
Re: Output Rendering by Steve Roberts on Nov 6, 2009 at 6:29:15 pm
Re: Infrared Look by Steve Roberts on Nov 6, 2009 at 6:27:05 pm
Re: Output Rendering by Steve Roberts on Nov 5, 2009 at 3:22:39 pm
Re: Output Rendering by Steve Roberts on Nov 4, 2009 at 11:03:58 pm
Re: Output Rendering by Steve Roberts on Nov 4, 2009 at 7:07:02 pm
Re: Strange tape issue - can AE fix? by Steve Roberts on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:27:40 pm
Re: Field Dominance Problem! by Steve Roberts on Nov 2, 2009 at 3:14:08 pm
Re: Wheel rotation to a smooth stop by Steve Roberts on Nov 2, 2009 at 3:06:59 pm
Re: Strange tape issue - can AE fix? by Steve Roberts on Nov 2, 2009 at 3:05:43 pm
Re: jittery/jerky playback when panning accross still image via keyframes by Steve Roberts on Nov 2, 2009 at 2:59:29 pm
Re: Field Dominance Problem! by Steve Roberts on Oct 30, 2009 at 2:19:36 pm
Re: Field Dominance Problem! by Steve Roberts on Oct 30, 2009 at 2:15:00 am
Re: Starting work/portfolio by Steve Roberts on Oct 27, 2009 at 7:53:14 pm
Re: exporting to FCP? by Steve Roberts on Oct 27, 2009 at 2:09:53 am
Re: is image sequence faster than movie? by Steve Roberts on Oct 26, 2009 at 7:40:00 pm
Re: exporting to FCP? by Steve Roberts on Oct 26, 2009 at 2:21:36 pm
Re: Facial Animation by Steve Roberts on Oct 23, 2009 at 3:36:29 pm
Re: Facial Animation by Steve Roberts on Oct 22, 2009 at 8:23:00 pm

My Tagged Posts

Re: shortcut for scale when repositioning in 3d space
by Steve Roberts on Sep 8, 2009 at 10:02:33 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Yep, a shortcut like that would be nice. Did you try the AE Expressions COW? Or you could copy the original object, then move the copy and scale it up until it matches the size of the original. Then delete the...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by anita sancha

Re: Creating a cracked glass effect
by Steve Roberts on Feb 18, 2009 at 8:15:43 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Make a grayscale image of cracked glass where the (large) different pieces have a different gray value, then use this image as a displacement map for the displacement map effect, which would be applied to the footage? This would shift...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by brandon morris

Re: Rendering from AE7 (photo jpeg, animation, h.264?)
by Steve Roberts on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
You want an Intermediate codec, not a delivery codec. Intermediate codecs are high-quality (to prevent loss) but are not necessarily playable in real-time, due to their size. Delivery codecs are lower-quality, but playable. Delivery codecs are Sorenson, H.264, and MPEG-2. The...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by simon bonner

Re: after effects - windows plugins on a mac
by Steve Roberts on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Nope. You need to buy or download Mac versions of the plugs. Now for some plugs, you can download the mac version and your serial number will work, but I don't remember which work that way. You'll have to look up...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by mlafont2

Re: Animate a layer behind a mask?
by Steve Roberts on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Yep. Set the upper to be the track matte of the lower. Check the help for that....

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Andy Taplin

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Facial animation
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Simple face animation in AE...
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