How to render with Draft 3D setting in Adobe After effects without blurry text or items?
In cases where you want to have some plugins, i.e. Particular, with DOF (depth of field) on, and yet not having it on your text and other items, you would turn on ‘Draft 3D’ in the workarea of your composition.
However, during render at Best quality, you get DOF working on everything, and therefore blurry text.
To fix, in the Render queue window, under Render Settings, select ‘Current Settings’.
How to fix: The drive or network connection that the shortcut ‘STEAM.lnk’ refers to is unavailable
Sometimes this problem randomly happens, especially if you do not reboot your workstation or remove your harddrives or change some hardware etc.
1. Find your STEAM.lnk file (c:\ProgramData\Spectrasonics)
2. Right click on it in Explorer > Properties
3. Edit the ‘target’ field and point it to where your files are at.
Song: Who fired first
stage 1:
First decided on tempo 128.
Next lay out the chords on piano, and wrote the melody.
Finally set the key of the song.
Strummed on guitar to achieve a gallop feel.
Earphones showed noise, so I X-noise it.
Added a pluck, Trying to achieve old cowboy guitar feel, so using Amp 3, OLD F and eq further.
After that stack with Virtual Electric guitar to enhance gallop effect with Muted Fifths, Riding, Doubling.
Also stacked strum guitar with VA guitar, with Melancholy, Straight 4.
Now designing Anthem Chorus Beats.
Added Superior drums for a live drum , less EDM stuff. Loaded preset > Toontrack > Transformer pitbull
Bounce to rough_bounce
Unload to rough_unload
stage 2:
Final chorus design, and verse design.
All guitar recordings require a good X-noise .. after learning, or else there’s a static noise on earphones.
Fender rear record (1 click before end) sounds more like a baritone for wild west cowboy stuff.
The e-guitar strum in the song sounds super good with Amplitube 3 – 30 trem & amb, but I do a LOFI cut with EQ and Grungeliser.
While playing, i play with the fender bend stick!
Flute add Roomworks reverb Surr. Drama Hall.
Bass Trillian : hardcore funk sustain + roomworks, plate vintage
bounce to stage2_bounce
unload to stage2_unload
Stage3:
Deisng beats and structure:
1. Kick adding.. need to low-pass everything so Kick can be heard during designing. Using Nexus Xp Drums singles – Dr Progressive Kicks 7
2. Chris Heim Harmonica takes about 2 minutes to load.
3. Reverse a nice Stylus Ride high pitch, then Eq to raise the High frequency, finally add Modulation > Phaser effect for futuristic sound, default setting reduce mix to suitable. (in case you are looking for it, Nexus > XP Singles > DR Reverse Crash has one)
stopped at bar 67.
Maybe time to consolidate all sound fx from all edm songs! The 20 girls has an effect i wanted in this one!
at bar 56, gun shot scene could be the james bond thing
story for song:
even gun sound was handpicked, from modern and old movie sound effects.
bounce to stage3_bounce. (after bouncing, remember to check each channel effects, and export channel settings to ‘channelsettings’ folder.)
unload to stage3_unload.
stage 4:
Gonna design a riser/swell: risers and swells [there’s also a nice cheesy riser pack, http://www.biomedigital.co.uk/club-risers.html ]
But that would be stage4, it’s easy just use Omnisphere, roadrunner, turn off churchbells, and switch source A material – computer out of resources. Want more control? See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUuOyFJwR5A
change that fill sound at bar 66.5 [to copy from 20 girls]
using omnisphere club hit and bandpass noise hit for first dance chorus fills.
1st dance chorus snare, adjust atk to the right so it has a slight delay on start for a sticky feeling
final fill? and eagle sound?
bounce to stage4_bounce.
unload to stage4_unloaded
stage 5:
adding details tambourines into final chorus – add a StereoDelay Rhythm Enhancer to it, for a shuffling effect – making tambourines behave like shaker.
adding detail percussion into final chorus to portray the 3 HIT style.
stack the live drums with another set..
bounce to stage5_bounce
guitar based EDM? story of the song is a fight from old times, to modern times to future and back .. why keep fighting?
stage6:
lyrics! and changing the melody.
when recording remember to set microbook ii cuemix line to mono 1.
maybe later..
Add subtle white noise ?
fix bottom:
The less detailed your low-end is, the better
The low-end is the hardest part to mix. Some people don’t realize that and crowd a lot of stuff down there.
K.I.S.S
You know what that means, right kids? Keep It Super Simple.
Above the 200Hz range you can be a little less careful, but anything below that is going to cause issues when it overlaps too much. Don’t get stuck in the muddiness.
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Song for 張智成
So I decided to start writing the song for him today.
It starts with something sweet and touching: 男孩女孩
Then it would become a song with style and groove and dance!
So I started with 106 bpm, and strummed on the guitar.
Input the beats in Cubase, added my chords, and vocal rift and started from there. This will be a song that goes with feeling .. no theory.
Electric guitar.. use clean e-guitar from kontakt and try with amp 3 first .. get the right sound before playing on real guitar.. faster!!!!!!!
bass glide/slide/modulation: use omnisphere to load trillian bass, so you can adjust BEND UP and DOWN, and it’s usually 12 notes for a nice one.
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How remove white or one color from image in Photoshop
Select–>Color Range, then select the white. Delete the white. Layer–>Matting–>Remove White Matte to clean up edges. That’s the down and dirty way.
For best results, bezier pen the logo out. Cut into the edges a little and you shouldn’t have white fringes around them.
*OR*
1. Use the Magic Wand tool to select all the white areas. (set the tolerance level higher or lower to get all of the white, but nothing of the parts you want to keep).
2. Use Select/Invert Selection.
3. CTRL+C to copy the selection.
4. Open a new image with a transparent background.
5. CTRL+V to paste the data into the new image.
