Wow! You could do this for a living! The title production seems flawless, with amazing attention to detail.

I do have a couple of comments as it relates to the “tutorial” aspect if you won’t be offended. The script does make a great difference in how concise and precise, and therefore how understandable, the communication is. An aspect which shouldn’t be lost on those who think it’s no big deal to just “turn on the mike and ramble.” Well done. The whole point of a “tutorial” is to teach which is several quantums different than a performance piece. Anything which detracts from the communication or learning is bad and should be avoided. This piece is a great example of how much difference that actually preparing a script, or at least an outline, makes in the overall tutorial.

That said, the speech synthesizer, in some areas required some conscious distraction on a few words. Perhaps you used it for some non-trivial reason; if not, the technique might not be quite ready for prime time, at least to an english speaking audience (which I assume is your largest). However, this also shows how quality content can overcome minor distractions like needing to translate “key” for “chi” and “frame 30″ for “30 frames” and the “negative (or minus) 125″ for “less than 125.”

The background music, on the other hand, should only very rarely be used in a tutorial where it’s the communication on a unfamiliar topic which is the intent and key. Even though what you used was probably very relevant to the movie (where it was very effective) – here it was not. For the movie, it was prepared to meticulous coincide with the actual action on screen and mold emotion accordingly; here it rarely did. First, most people almost never need any emotion when they are trying to learn something; and second, for the majority it is a highly competitive sensory input which is shown to actually impair comprehension.

One place where it can be used is to actually “distract” an audience from repetition – such as in your segment where you were coding the letters repetitively. You could have cut to a later time; but, doing it real time with appropriate background music is nice too. However, it needs to be attenuated whenever a voiceover comes in, which can make it more trouble than it’s worth; again, in a tutorial setting.

Believe me, this tutorial, and the way you did it, didn’t need ANY “enhancement” from music! Personally, you could do one of these a week and it wouldn’t be enough for me. Well done!

I used several tutorials on this site to make this video of my holiday in Manicore, a small town in Amazon, Brazil
http://youtu.be/Jcxb_7_su_Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxxi44rOZ8o&feature=related

can you make this tutorial?

Can someone please tell me what the name of the font used in the tutorial for me to download thanks

how did you manage to get the same amount of points, close to the original font in the inner path, so that it extracts correctly?

anyone know where the particular preset PARTICLES IN THE SKY.ffx that he mentions can be found…. i did a search and could not find….

These titles are awesome. Thanks for the AI tutorial on letters.
I am an AE beginner who is a member of premium aetuts+ over this year.
Just a hobbiest when it comes to this. I do a video at a christmas charity every year and was wanting to do a rendition off the Guardian Title but I do not know the 4d tool to get it done. Any chance of getting some help?

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