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After effects CS3 help with stroke over map
Hi, Im wondering if someone can please help me.
I have Adobe After effects CS3 and are getting round to learning to use it.
I have a map I drew in Illustrator and coloured in in Photoshop.
I have loaded it into After Effects and generated a bezier between two places, generated a stroke, added my ship to it and added the time keys.
When I move my pointer over the frame I see the ship move and the line follow it right to the end. Good now I preview render it.
Heres where I have a huge problem. It only shows the first few frames or seconds of frames and loops so instead of my ship tracing a whole path it moves half an inch then starts again.
Can anyone tell me whats wrong? I have been trying to solve this for months. Im not sure if smaller pictures do this and my map is 296 kB so not huge. I have tried it with a 1MB one and a black and white line drawing bmp which seems to work better.
I also have a problem with another version of the same file where it loads it as three frames. The first two are fine the third moves the map slightly so when I render it its like th emap is shaking back and forward. I have not told it to do this and every time I put my strokes or lines on and render it moves the background.
If anybody has any answers I would really appreciate help as I have been going round in circles.
Best Wishes
Robin -
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Hi, thankyou for the swift response.
I am using it on a Pentium M series 2 GHz laptop with 1.5GB of RAM and also a Dual Core 3GHz Athlon Desktop with 3GB RAM which is very unstable with after effects due to Excepton errors and open GL errors.
It does the same on both.
It also will not render an output regardles sof the memory I have very slow videos which are non animated or just incredibly slow and take 20 minutes to show a 5 second render.
I am new to this so reading everything I can but knowing where to start is awkward.
The background pics are not really that complecated. the only things I can make it work properly on are black and white line drawings smaller than the screen size.
It must be possible to pan accross a larger picture in After effects an dput a line on it! Ive seen it on you tube.
Im only rendering a pic in a few colours made in Illustrator as vector art 3000 x 3000 and shaded simply in photoshop wih some text on it.
Robin -
I think I have fixed it. I thought it may be the 8 bit or 16 bit project settings but I found with all th ecrashing, open GL and exception errors it was not saving or confusing me with the project composition settings. It was rendering the whole thing to custom size of the imported pic so over 3000 by 3500.
I have now uninstalled and reinstalled it. dissabled open GL etc and I am now still having problems with errors and preview even with 3GB RAM but it renders playable files under 300MB now!!!
Great stuff.Ill look into the rest in slow time but its comforting. If you have any answers to the rest it would be appreciated.
Every time I close the program it throws up lots of exception errors etc.
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