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New After Effects Sticky with Common Questions
I don’t know who exactly this should go to so I am sending it out to everyone. I have noticed that a lot of similar questions come up every week. How do you open a 7.0 file in 6.5? What is rotoscoping? Where are my Cycore FX? And so on. Would it be possible to have a Sticky at the Top of the page in Big BOLD letters that says, LOOK HERE FIRST FOR COMMON QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE BASIC FUNTIONS OF AE.
As this list grows the questions and links to previous posts can be made. It would just help eliminate a lot of the same posts every week by people who don’t know any better.Joel
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I believe thats what the Creative Calf was made for 🙂
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I agree the the creative calf is for that and it does cover the basic stuff well. All I was sugesting was that there be a sticky that has the common questions. People who are new or lazy just post something without searching to see if it has been asked before. It was just a suggestion. All we need to do is organize the top 20 or so generic questions and put several links to post answers or tutorials. It would help out the new guys by giving a quick place to look for many common questions.
I would even be willing to take common questions, make the list and find the answers here at the COW. As long as it is determined to be of value to the community.Joel
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If you want to make the list, I’d be happy to make it a sticky post. There’s no guarantees that people will look there before they barge in with the same question 2 posts down, but hey, maybe we’ll get lucky.
Kathlyn Lindeboom
The Mistress of Mmmooooo! -
Please respond to this post with several of the general or commonly asked questions. A list will be compiled and a sticky post added to the top of the forum.
Here are some quick examples of commonly asked questions
1. How do you open a AE 7.0 file in AE 6.5?
2. How do you cut out an actor from the background (rotoscoping)?
3. What is pixel aspect ratio?
4. Where are my Cycore FX?And so on…
Thanks
Joel -
– I have trouble with scrolling credits (answer would list possible symptoms and possible causes).
– I want to make ribbons in After Effects.
– What is a good 3D app?
– Any greenscreening tips?
– How do I get a “film look”?
– My video looks bad (answer would list possible symptoms and possible causes)?
– What is the best codec for web?
– What is the best codec for DVD?
– How do I make blood?
– How do I make those nifty ink transitions? -
I think I’ve heard those about one too many times, LOL!!
Oh yeah and “how do I get that Film Look” should be banned completely.Steve Curtis
HP Corporate Laserjet -
Here are a few more you might want to add:
1.) How do I get that organic growing vines look you see all the time?
(Then link to Jayse’s growing vines tutorial.)
2.) How do wiggle expressions work/how do you tie one to a slider?
3.) How do you loop a footage item?
4.) Why won’t AE see all my RAM?
(Then link to Steve form Gridiron’s post about how RAM is handled in AE)~Colin
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Also might want to include:
-How do I create 3d extruded text?
-How can I create a 3d ball/globe/sphere/apple etc. -
– How do I turn NTSC into PAL? (and vice versa)
– How do I do a “Powers of Ten” effect, or “cosmic zoom”?
– How can I speed up my computer for After Effects? -
– Workflow for 2K in AE
– Gamma shifts between RGB/YUV
– How to ‘dustbust’
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