Item: Video Rock DOWNLOAD | Price: $84.99

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Item: Video Rock DVD | Price: $84.99 + S&H

What is Video Rock?

“Video Rock” is an awesome new DVD or download library of pre-rendered QuickTime elements and still images set in a vintage style, with 12 After Effects templates included to jog your creativity.

What format are the files?

Mostly, they are QuickTime movies rendered with the PNG codec. PNG was chosen for its ability to retain an Alpha channel (transparency) and maximize space.

Still images are primarily PNG and PSD. PNG is used where alpha channels are needed. Any hand-drawn elements are also included as an EPS file.

The templates use After Effects CS3 with no third party plug-ins. Any additional typefaces can be found here: Misirlou and Bifurk. Others should be installed on your operating system like Arial or Mistral, but this varies widely from one OS to another.

What resolution are the files?

These files are NOT all 1920×1080. The question I always asked myself was: how big do you need a pyramid/sphere/triangle/cube to be? You find the resolutions to be around 800×800 to 1200×1200. They are all completely usable for any HD resolution, but not always full screen. If you use the library, please understand that you need to be able to do very basic move, scale, position and rotation of the elements.

Is this a library of moving backgrounds?

No. I like to consider this a “grab bag” of design elements for you to create lower thirds, bumpers, transitions, etc. You can sprinkle them around your video, add them around text, in the corners, wherever. It’s not a library of motion backgrounds.

There are many background images, but a 1920×1080 background that is fairly short takes up a LOT of room. So, I opted for still frame backgrounds to make room for the types of elements that I wanted to include.

Do the elements loop?

The vast majority of the elements in the library loop. The only ones that do not are short transitional elements. You’ll notice that almost all of the movies are 7 seconds in length.

The loop structure for these is: 2 second intro and 5 second loop.

In other words:

0 – 2 Seconds : Movie does a snazzy intro.  2 – 7 seconds: Movie loops.

If you did not want the intro, just cut it right at 2 seconds. If you want it to loop continuously, loop from 2 seconds to 7 seconds.

If you navigate to 01_Homeroom ->FFX_PRESETS -> graymachine_VideoRock_Loop_CS3.ffx you will see an After Effects preset that does this for you. In After Effects, go to the in point of the clip. Then go to Animation -> Apply Animation Preset.. then navigate to the preset I included. This will loop any of the 7 second clips.

Why aren’t there more of rainbow/unicorn/<insert clip here> elements?

I wanted to keep this to the length that would fit on a DVD. I included as much diversity as I could, plus additional elements that rounded out the templates. You might some random things here and there, but it was all included to to maximize diversity and usefulness.

Hopefully, if Video Rock does moderately well, I can move on to future products, including Video Rock 2.

I get an error when trying to import the movies!

I am sorry that you are having problems. If the whole package downloads and decompressed properly, odds are the problem lies inside your computer. You need QuickTime installed. Period. There is no way around that as these are QuickTime files. They work, I’ve tested them all repeatedly. So, hopefully you have some support resources to call to be able to use QuickTime movies on your computer.

How do I edit the AE Templates?

To change the type and images, if they are nested in the composition, simply look in the project window for a folder called >Edit Type/Image Here. Otherwise, the type is right in the comp window. If you need help on basic After Effects editing, check out Video Copilot’s Basic After Effects Training that is free.

How much is it?

$84.99. So named after a great year, 1984.