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: Best output / compression settings for After Effects by Steve Roberts on Nov 20, 2009 at 2:22:25 pm
Re: How do you creat a 3D Spaceship from scratch? by Steve Roberts on Nov 16, 2009 at 3:59:49 pm
Re: How do you creat a 3D Spaceship from scratch? by Steve Roberts on Nov 16, 2009 at 2:22:37 pm
Re: How do you creat a 3D Spaceship from scratch? by Steve Roberts on Nov 15, 2009 at 10:44:10 pm
Re: codec comparison by Steve Roberts on Nov 15, 2009 at 2:12:13 pm
Re: How to best upscale for cinemascreening? by Steve Roberts on Nov 15, 2009 at 2:04:41 pm
Re: Removing objects frame by frame in videos by Steve Roberts on Nov 11, 2009 at 2:40:26 pm
Re: Tearing apart logo by Steve Roberts on Nov 11, 2009 at 2:39:36 pm
Re: Broadcast workflow fieldorder by Steve Roberts on Nov 10, 2009 at 11:21:10 pm
Re: spirograph to flash export by Steve Roberts on Nov 10, 2009 at 5:31:29 pm
Re: Broadcast workflow fieldorder by Steve Roberts on Nov 10, 2009 at 4:09:41 pm
Re: Upscaling a DV composition by Steve Roberts on Nov 10, 2009 at 2:58:24 pm
Re: AE rendering to DV by Steve Roberts on Nov 10, 2009 at 2:56:03 pm
Re: Video in QT looks good, video in AE looks bad. by Steve Roberts on Nov 9, 2009 at 8:51:25 pm
Re: Video in QT looks good, video in AE looks bad. by Steve Roberts on Nov 9, 2009 at 8:07:30 pm
Re: Video in QT looks good, video in AE looks bad. by Steve Roberts on Nov 9, 2009 at 7:36:41 pm
Re: Suggestions for film projection look by Steve Roberts on Nov 9, 2009 at 3:08:39 pm
Re: AE import secuence images in disorder! by Steve Roberts on Nov 9, 2009 at 3:06:17 pm
Re: Video in QT looks good, video in AE looks bad. by Steve Roberts on Nov 9, 2009 at 1:40:23 pm
Re: Pixel Aspect Ratios & Settings by Steve Roberts on Nov 9, 2009 at 1:32:28 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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