Optimum Preference Settings in AE CS4

[Todd Kopriva]

– Update to After Effects CS4 (9.0.2).
– Read this and this and everything that they point to (especially this).

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[Gary Milligan]

[Fergus Walsh] “I’ve started preliminary editing on a new Mac and the performance is not as I’d expected.”

Are you trying to use After Effects as an editing tool? This is not what it is designed to do – it is more commonly used to apply effects to clips or short sequences which then get incorporated into your edit timeline.

Gary

This is me – this is what I do – https://web.mac.com/garymmw

[Fergus Walsh]

No I shot individual puppet clips against green screen and am using AE to composite onto a miniature landscape.

[Fergus Walsh]

Thanks Todd.