Hasta La Motion!

I will generally be learning and practising everything for my own personal use, but who knows, if I get really good on it, I might look to go into as a career. I am really enjoying it.

I also have the Foundry’s Nuke X and 3DS Max.

I am thinking about buying all the video copilot prodcuts too.

However I really need some advice on my computer. I don’t even know what I am suppose to list to you guys. Really sorry but i would appreciate it if you could google it and tell me if my specs are good or not.

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A300 21H.

Can anyone tell me if this is good enough for what all these software programs and for stuff I want to be doing. I guess mainly After Effects stuff like what the video copilot guys do (but I would also like to learn a 3D software program and start using that.

Can my laptop handle it?

Can it handle all the video copilot products I am about to purchase?

If it is not good enough can I modify my laptop to be better? Increase its potential.

Or do I ‘NEED’ to buy a new laptop? I really don’t want to, but I would atleats like the advice on what to get and how much it will cost?

Just any and all info you can give me would be helpful. Thanks so much.

The new thing that i tried was using expressions for the first time to animate the clock seen in the composite. For those of you who wanna know (i dunno if this is the right forum to post it) here is how i did it:

Create black solid.
Precompose it (not necessarily, but its neat). Open the precomposed comp.
Create a Text layer.
Alt + Click the Source Text option’s stopwatch and enter the following code:

var sec = Math.floor(time);

// Mod sec by 60 else it will keep counting.
var secM = Math.floor(sec % 60);

// Function to get a double digit for numbers less than 10
function appendZeros(Number)
{
var finNum;
if(Number < 10)
{
finNum = "0" + Number;
}
else
{
finNum = Number;
}
return finNum;
}

// Replace "14" as per your choice
"14" + ":" + appendZeros(secM)

Done.

Here is the link to the composited video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTepL1ihqEU

Until next time…