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keep Premiere CS3, Creative Suite comes with the new Dynamic Link gizmo, it'll save you sooooo much pain while integrating between AE and Pr.

JediNight wrote:float speaks gibberese better than the rest of us I guess

Yea well... these old ninja skills do come in handy sometimes

It's a bit more complicated than that. The text starts out at a 90degree to the camera and gets illuminated as it turns to a normal facing, then slowly moves back on the Z-axis so the shadows are "moving". I wanted to be able to cast shadows onto the video without having the above light source affe...

so... what you want is just your text to cast shadow over your video?

Oh, here's a picture;

Use AE "Convert Audio To Keyframes" feature, than just parent it to the opacity of your clip.

...or you could do it manually, but nobody wants to do that.