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CS4 Trial question
Hey I’m downloading the trial right now from adobe, interested in this new “mocha” thing, but I heard it doesn’t come with the trial, is that true? :S, is there any other things that the trial is limiting?
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well it seems it doesn’t have it, or maybe I just can’t find it yet lol
anyway, this is my first time in the application, I have read about it alot though! But it kept crashing when i was adding effects and applying them on clips “like blur” so I turned off the “OPENGL support” in preview, and it fixed it! (maybe my gfx card has an issue with it, it’s an 8800GT) Anyway is there any disadvantage to having openGL turned off? everything still seems fast to me, what does opengl do anyway
Oh! And let me just say one thing: I REALLY like this intereface, it gives off a professional type of feeling, and how the effects are applied, I can’t wait till I get to play with it more tomorrow, before I had only ever used sony vegas
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Is it normal for it to take a while to load the “ram preview” stuff when you apply effects? I have a:
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from the “Installation, activation, and registration” section of After Effects Help:
“Important: The free trial version of Adobe After Effects software does not include some features that depend upon software licensed from parties other than Adobe. For example, mocha for After Effects, some effect plug-ins, and some codecs for encoding MPEG formats are available only with the full version of Adobe After Effects software.”
You can search for ‘trial’ within the After Effects Help document to find details of all such limitations.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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Anyway is there any disadvantage to having openGL turned off? everything still seems fast to me, what does opengl do anyway
OpenGL in After Effects is most useful for accelerating rendering of 3D layers (for previews or final output). A lot of people run with it off. I only turn it on to accelerate previews when I’m animating a lot of 3D layers.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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Thanks for the help Todd!
I have another question now;
I’m trying to follow this tutorial: https://aetuts.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/design-rhythmic-motion-typography-in-after-effects/#comment-1654
and I’m having a bit of trouble with the Camera, a few other people had this problem too in the comments but no one helped them, maybe they had trials too?
anyway here’s the problem:
“I couldn’t get the null object part to work. I linked the null object to the camera and using the position sliders to zoom the camera in and out on the text as explained in the tutorial, nothing happens, no zooming in out, it looks like the camera is doing something, but no movement in objects. Looking at the tutorial everything seems to match up the same, but no movement. Any ideas.”
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I haven’t watched that tutorial yet.
I’ll venture a guess, though. If you’re moving a camera and you don’t see any change in the appearance of the layers seen through it, I’d bet that those layers aren’t set to be 3D layers.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Hello,
When I try and enable OPEN GL either Always on or Interactive. With Adobe CS4 with all the updates under Vista 64bit Business.
I am on a HP XW8600 Dual Quad 3ghz Xeon, Quadro Fx 3700, latest graphics card river. 8gb of ram. Just Vista Business 64, bit with Adobe Production Premium CS4.
I get the OPEN GL has crashed, then we will try and save you work.
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Nah I have the 3D space checked and everything
here’s what I’m doing:
I make abunch of text layers, make it “pre-comp”, then I add a Camera, then I add a null object, I parent the camera to the null object (everythings in 3d space, I have active camera sellected under preview window) and try to change the position, and it doesn’t zoom into the text or anything, alternatively I tried using camera without null too, and it wouldn’t do it, any idea?
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