Thread by @TaranVH

I am very late to this, but remember how @iilluminaughtii accused @LegalEagle of plagiarizing this highlighter effect? I'm the editor who implemented it. And I didn't get it from her... I got it from Coffeezilla's editor @HarryRBagg, who got it from Envato Elements.
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See, I was in the process of standardizing the LegalEagle Dropbox, frame .io, .mogrts, file structure, etc, and writing documentation. We needed a method of highlighting court documents. I tried so many things... here are some: (tweet 2 of 12)

Next, I tried just having an after Effects composition that is completely full of different size highlighter strokes, pre-animated. Pick the ones you want, position & resize, and delete the rest. It was better, but still took too much time.
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...But that was still too tedious to use. It wasn't just me editing Legal Eagle videos. I needed something everyone could use, easily. That's when I saw a Coffeezilla video with a highlighter effect in it that looked pretty good. (7 of 12)

Fortunately, Coffee has credits. I messaged the editor, Harry Bagg, and he told me about the Envato template. Bingo! https://t.co/41Adr0nU7Uelements.envato.com/document-highl…

But there was a problem. It's at 1920x1080, at 25 FPS. I need 3840x2160, at 23.976 FPS. So, guess what? I had to completely rebuild the template, one comp at a time. I also added a bunch of my own pages (original has 6) and camera animations for editors to choose from.

Though I feel a bit bad... the original was 4x faster to render. This one is slower... not everyone has a machine as powerful as mine. And it's even slow on mine sometimes. But anyway, that's the origin of the Legal Eagle highlighter stroke.
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BTW, for highlighting text on a WEBPAGE, I use a transparent .mov. Huge filesize, but basically it's just a 1080p yellow block that animates itself. You can reposition and rescale it easily because the anchor point is at 0,0. I have it already set up in all my .prproj templates.

The end. It was from Envato all along! Anyway, don't forget to check out my dynamic highlighter. I decided not to make a video about it. But maybe I will if I figure out the keying problem. (tweet 12 of 12) github.com/TaranVH/TaranA…