Cheers @maxr, these should be very useful for an experiment I have in mind.. thanks :)

Useful, thanks!

Mikey Borup joins Kevin P McAuliffe's 2.5D and othe 2 hyper fast ways of making 3D kind of text which may be used by older version of AE

 
At Mattrunks you can download a lot of AE project files with very nice ideas. Unfortunately - maybe understandably - great french site doesn't allow embed videos, so

3D tracking and 3D text
https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials/after-effects/3d-tracking-3d-text-cs6
 

Words made out of dynamic colourful lines
https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials/after-effects/words-in-lines
 

Sound management and audio synchronisation
https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials/after-effects/audio-synchronization

 
Now, remember 2D can also be great :P

@Peter123456 I'm neither Windows or Vegas user, so I can just feed you links… which BTW you would acces with a simple search

• Sony YUV codec

• Vegas 10, best save ASS

• Render lossless, Vegas 12

• 7 Samurai, I mean lossless codecs comparison

• Best Quality Possible?

Here at PV Forums:

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/79604
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/85091
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2659/sony-vegas-12-topic/p1

Now, would you show us yours? The intro seq I mean

@Peter123456 If your intro sequence is going as an block, not overlaying anything you can use those (UT is very fast) even proRES/DNxHD Codecs (latest MXF DNxHDs supposed to be really good) or whatever similar thing Vegas' working with; if not, probably PNG or TIFF sequence as they preserve alpha channel. Again I'm not remotely best person you'll get advice from - to tell you the truth I have the weirdest unorthodoxly dumb contradictory methodologies imaginable and most important I like to test things by myself, even today while grading I rediscovered the wheel when, by switching to a supposedly less good option codec, I got really much better results out of my workflow ,-)
Above I left 3 links to Vegas threads and users where most certainly you'll find a much better advice • All goody

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Thanks, folks. I will go with DNxHD, since I have that codec currently installed. I guess another option would be to keep the title sequence saved as an unredendered project, then plop it into whatever project I'm working on. But that gets a bit more complicated.

@GeoffreyKenner thanks for pointing the right direction =)

I tried several export settings for the titles I'm working on, when brought back to the timeline couldn't make them work as a clean alpha; had to duplicate and use track mate... probably I'm doing something wrong, also couldn't notice any difference between OpenEXR, animation, and others. Anyway I am very green in this AE thing :P

The sound is not the right one and also type and size might change, just wanted to have a visual reference. Done in AE with noise, fractal noise (the poor man's particles :P), fast blur, a bunch of keyframes and using stencil alpha opacity option. Mind you this is a hyper compressed H.264 (8MB) 720p version

Though I ended up not using, I'll leave here a tiny research on how to create a trail with expressions and echo effect modes:

Expression-based motion trail in After Effects

Creating Trails

Use Echo To Create A Motion Trail

If the Soylent Green Title Sequence doesn't play, here it is on Vimeo: found at artofthetitle:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/soylent-green/#

There's absolutely no reason to avoid using TIF, unless your software can't support it.

While it can be used for print, it can also just as well be used for video. I've rendered tens of thousands of TIFs for use in broadcast; there's nothing wrong with the file format whatsoever. TGA was once the format of choice, but it's a bit dated now - and often the filesize can be unnecessarily larger. PNG is also a good choice, depending on your project.

@thorn Or unless tiff has a problem to output correctly a linear workflow... which is in most cases what happens. I remember the headache it gave me in NukeX before understanding that it interpret so poorly the color space probably due to its primary specification: tiff is a print file format. The solution was in the end to choose OpenEXR or Targa (but usually I use OpenEXR as Output and Targa as input [i.e. for Textures]).

Of course nothing is stopping you to use tiff, if you manage to make it work and seems to have no gamma problem with it then it is fine. I'm just putting a warning here.

png as you mentioned is fine and as you said it depends of your project.

Very very cool free effect for AE by Sander van Dijk
You can download it ➾➾➾ HERE and also watch an hyper concise tuto on how to use it
Just one thing, transform shape to bezier may not work in all AE versions.

☻

Source: Premiumbeat

Another great 10 episodes for getting aquaitance with monsieur après efets at cgi
http://cgi.tutsplus.com/series/welcome-to-after-effects--ae-28707
 

 
BTW I'll leave HERE 63 scripts legally downloaded mostly from aescripts.
Please if you use them commercially consider proper feedback and even, ta maluco yo!, donation to developers.

Some of them are really useful, e.g. omnio, YY, batchprocessor, Aerender (a render slave that eats peanuts and runs like a horse on speed; the script file needs a bit mod in order to work with CC, but totally worth it), decomposetext, keysmith, layerlibrary is super (however only works with older AE versions), etc, etc... I just saw forgot the ft script that shows when values clip and I inadvertently through latest UT video codecs for mac, oh well =)

Complete list:

In no time everybody will become a Dino Muhic, ja ja ja

Hey @tinbeo, in previous version one had to modify script, now it's easier =)

On a mac:

PREVIOUS
In After Effects send the comp(s) you want to renderQ and the SAVE the project file. Close AE

NOW
1. put the AErender app (zip) somewhere you like.
2. Launch AErender app and will ask you 2 question

• "where is after effects aerender executable located?" you navigate to path (normally would be inside After Efects Folder) and choose aerender (small unix exe) then
• "Select the project to render" so you go and navigate where the .aep project you want to render is and choose it.

Terminal will launch (normally 2 instances) and start render.
If you want to stop process (not loosing already rendered video) "ctrl + C"

2.B optional and even faster, drop AErender app in dock and just drag and drop .aep project files there

Resources:
http://www.andrewandoru.com/labs/ - for more nice stuff
http://www.andrewandoru.com/2010/03/17/labs-aerender/
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS8A8CD670-4A72-4fb5-AE8E-CB9E232EC0B5a.html

 
Plus the very nice and FREE 3D Pre-Compose script by Andrew Kramer Here :P aka video copilot

Script direct download link
 
More on http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/