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Trapcode 3D Stroke
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The Stats
- Developer: Trapcode
- Version: 2.5
- Platform: Mac OSX, Windows
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with Final Cut Studio 3, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, Microsoft Vista Compatibility and FxPlug
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Purchase
- 3D Stroke
- 3D Stroke Upgrade
- Trapcode Suite - All Trapcode Plug-ins
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Description
With 3D Stroke, paths, logos or lines can take on lives of their own: glowing, tapering, and moving in complex ways through 3D space, while a built-in camera lets you capture the action from any angle. It's broadcast TV's secret weapon for animated logos and sophisticated write-on effects.
Features
- Fast 3D rendering Speedy 3D rendering is perfect for HD motion graphics
- High-Quality Images Features 32-bit support (After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion) and 16-bit support (Avid AVX, Premiere Pro)
- Motion Blur Add motion blur to your strokes for a more realistic effect
- After Effects 3D Camera Support 3D Stroke integrates seamlessly with After Effects' 3D composition camera, allowing you to view the strokes from any angle
- Create Dynamic 3D Content 3D Stroke has its own built-in 3D camera for Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Avid AVX
- Endless Repetition Use the repeater to generate additional strokes that can be uniquely defined
Highlights
40 Preset Shapes
Preset shapes such as stars, grids, and more than ten kinds of squiggles give you pre-drawn starting points for compelling animations.
Flexible, powerful controls
3D Stroke's UI gives you pinpoint control over shapes, colors, thickness, feathering, start and end points, and offset. More controls are available for looping and repeating movement, motion blur, and opacity.
Built-in camera
You get controls for setting clipping planes, controlling camera position, rotation and zoom, and even an auto-orient feature to make sure your objects are always in the center of the camera's view.
Examples
Bend Reveal
This movie was created using three instances of 3D Stroke. One is used for the little "man" in the middle. Two are used for the logo that rotates around him. The two have identical settings, except for Z Clip that can be found under the Camera group. Z-Clip was set up so that the topmost layer renders the front half of the logo, and the other layer renders the back half. Then the "man" layer is sandwiched between them, thus appearing inside the logo. The circular shape of the logo was obtained using Bend in the Transform group with a value of 2.0.
Lightcycle Reveal
Inspired by the movie TRON, this movie uses imported Adobe Illustrator vectors with 3D Stroke and the Repeater option. A neon-style volumetric glow is achieved by duplicating the 3D Stroke effect in two different colors, adjusting the internal opacity, and playing with Transfer Mode settings on the duplicated effects. The Trapcode Starglow plug-in is used to make the neon effect more realistic.
Organic Reveal
Create a looping movie of a glowing 3D line that appears to melt away over time. Start with a mask, adjust feather, thickness and end controls, and then use Taper to make the stroke’s end appear thinner. Transform controls cause the shape to bend around the X axis. Trapcode Shine is used to add the color. As a final step, set some Offset keyframes to slide the stroke along the path, and some X-Rotation keyframes to rotate the entire shape around the X axis.
System Requirements
Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.
Apple Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.4.11 and later
- Power Mac G5, Mac Intel
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
PC / Windows
- Windows XP SP1 or later
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
- Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent)
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
Host Applications
Trapcode 3D Stroke runs in a variety of host applications. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on more than one host application, but only on a single computer at any one time. Except where noted, the features are the same in all systems and host applications.
- Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3, 7, 6.5
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, CS3
- Apple Final Cut Pro 7, 6, 5.1.4
- Apple Motion 3.02
- Avid Xpress Pro/Media Composer 5.6+, 2.7+
Please ensure that the host version is compatible with your operating system. Check with application provider for specifics.
