Creative COW - Kevin Camp

System Details: Mac Pro 2x3 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB SATA2 Raid 0
G5 2x2.7 GHz, 4.5 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA Raid 0
G5 2x2.5 GHz, 5.5 GB RAM, 500 GB SCSI Raid 0
and a handfull of older Quicksilver G4s for print & email

Hobbies and Interests: Goofing around with my kids.

Favorite Forums:

• Adobe After Effects • Adobe After Effects basics • Adobe After Effects Expressions • Adobe After Effects podcast

My Recent Posts:

Re: After Effects 3.1 by Kevin Camp on Aug 29, 2008 at 2:21:05 am
Re: Still Getting Render Crashes >:( by Kevin Camp on Aug 28, 2008 at 3:27:17 am
Re: Still Getting Render Crashes >:( by Kevin Camp on Aug 28, 2008 at 3:20:13 am
Re: Still Getting Render Crashes >:( by Kevin Camp on Aug 26, 2008 at 8:48:58 pm
Re: AE does not recognize the Mac OS X update required to use Open GL by Kevin Camp on Aug 26, 2008 at 8:30:59 pm
Re: AE 7 Pro Installation Failure by Kevin Camp on Aug 21, 2008 at 6:24:15 pm
Re: Disk Crash by Kevin Camp on Aug 21, 2008 at 3:41:22 pm
Re: Mercury Jones Flicker free Roll by Kevin Camp on Aug 21, 2008 at 3:28:18 pm
Re: How to make randomized animation loops by Kevin Camp on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:13:28 pm
Re: Support Help for AE and DVCPRO HD720 Codec by Kevin Camp on Aug 20, 2008 at 2:38:41 pm
Re: CC Cylinder by Kevin Camp on Aug 20, 2008 at 2:22:13 pm
Re: Simple Rolling Timeline by Kevin Camp on Aug 19, 2008 at 8:59:39 pm
Re: I have 4GB of RAM but AE says "2% used of 3GB" by Kevin Camp on Aug 19, 2008 at 7:00:22 pm
Re: Newbie needs help. by Kevin Camp on Aug 19, 2008 at 5:24:26 pm
Re: Snow Problem by Kevin Camp on Aug 19, 2008 at 5:20:50 pm
Re: I have 4GB of RAM but AE says "2% used of 3GB" by Kevin Camp on Aug 19, 2008 at 5:00:17 pm
Re: .mxf files by Kevin Camp on Aug 19, 2008 at 4:53:31 pm
Re: Lengthening multiple comps and elements by Kevin Camp on Aug 19, 2008 at 4:49:49 pm
Re: ATI gfx card Mac Pro? by Kevin Camp on Aug 18, 2008 at 5:20:10 pm
Re: ATI gfx card Mac Pro? by Kevin Camp on Aug 18, 2008 at 3:59:39 pm

My Tagged Posts

Re: Ideal video/audio format for work in AE? (using mencoder to convert from h.264/aac mp4)
by Kevin Camp on Aug 17, 2008 at 4:53:57 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
as brendan mentioned, lossless animation or uncompressed avi would be best, to avoid further compression. if you needed to conserve disk space quicktime's photojpeg is good quality codec with no temporal compression (which would be good for ae). avid's dnxhd...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Jonathan Holt

Re: AE RAM question
by Kevin Camp on Aug 7, 2008 at 1:30:02 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
ae is only a 32-bit application so it can only address 3gb of ram. however, if you have a 64-bit os (osx, xp-64, vista-64) and multiple processors, then you can enable multiprocessing. this will launch a render engine...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Dan Meehan

Re: Expression(hold opacity connected to audio keyframes)
by Kevin Camp on Jun 18, 2008 at 12:28:40 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
something like this may work: min = 0; //set minimum audio level max = 15; //set maximum audio level a = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider"); Math.round(linear(a,min,max,0,1)) * 100 'a' is the audio amplitude parameter for your audio layer. set 'min' and 'max' as needed for...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by michael stark

Re: How can I create a round room?
by Kevin Camp on Jun 4, 2008 at 12:21:16 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
the cc cylinder effect will 'wrap' a layer into a cylinder. the cylinder will react to a 3d camera, so you can place the camera in the middle of the cylinder. i believe dof would work with the...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Josef Andreas Scherer

Re: Are Realtime HD Previews Possible With An NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600?
by Kevin Camp on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
with mac (probably pc too) you can hand 2gb of ram to each core for rendering, if multiprocessing is enabled in ae (cs3). the way multiprocessing gets around the 32bit ram addressing is by running a separate render engine...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Brendan Blair

Re: Digital Noise/chatter with picture montage
by Kevin Camp on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:58:42 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
what's the resolution of the images? if they are pretty high rez, you can scale them to the size you need them in photoshop first, then if needed add some blur. or, you can scale them in ae...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by CPJ

Re: Speed ramps&Slow downs w/ Pict sequences
by Kevin Camp on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:58:50 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
me too :) Kevin Camp Designer - KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Scotty

Re: Speed ramps&Slow downs w/ Pict sequences
by Kevin Camp on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:58:58 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
interpolating pixels between frames to generate whole new frames isn't exactly the ideal way to work, and it rarely works well for graphics (video footage is a little more forgiving). can you bring those raw pics into ae? then just keyframe...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Scotty

Re: constraining blending mode
by Kevin Camp on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:59:06 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
you should be able to pre-comp the 3 layers, but then check the 't' box in the modes panel for the overlay layer (it's between the layer mode pulldown and the trakc matte pulldown). that should matte the overlay layer to...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by terrycoolidge

My Friends

• Topher Welsh

Notes

Topher Welsh wrote on Aug 12, 2008 at 10:51:38 am

ahhh I see what you mean... thats the type of position I would like to work myself into. Right now, the work I do is pretty much shooting and editing our features that go out to Comcast, FSN and TVG. I occasionally get to make commercials which are really fun and more up my alley... and opens for segments I produce. I don't know how much editing work I'll have once the season ends though.

Do you guys have any positions open or opening up in the next couple of months? Perhaps apprenticeships?

Kevin Camp wrote on Aug 12, 2008 at 8:09:20 am

hey topher - glad i could i help... i've never used any horse race footage here, but i would only see the footage if it needed effecting (i'm purly a graphics/effects guy here). if there have been some spots that have been done with emerald downs, the editors must have handled it...

what's the work like at emerald downs?

Topher Welsh wrote on Aug 11, 2008 at 2:49:22 pm

Hey Kevin... thanks for the help with the Avid to AE stuff... I learned a lot. I saw that you work at KCPQ 13 in Seattle... do you ever end up working with the footage that I send over there from Emerald Downs?

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