URGENT! Very easy but I don’t know…

[Chris Smith]

They left that out of the manual?

[Chicken Kebab]

if you have modifyed an imported file and just want it to refresh in AE
Project palette – right click – reload footage
if you want to replace an imported file with another
Project palette – right click – replace footage

[Travis Turner]

Just re-save your changed source file in the application you created it in (photoshop, illustrator) and then reload the changed layer inside your after effects comp

[Reloaded]

Hi guys, thanks for the help, but it didn’t work.
I right click my file and Reload my footage, but nothing happens.
If it was imported as footage, it’s OK, but when I import it as comp, it doesn’t work.
I don’t know why.

[Reloaded]

Chris Smith, thanks for your time.

[Greg Neumayer]

It doesn’t look like AE will let you reload a comp or a folder, which is what you end up with when you load Illustrator layers as a comp. However, you can multiple-select all the items in a folder (if they’re valid source items, not folders or comps) and reload them. If that still doesn’t work, close your comp and re-open it. If THAT doesn’t work, you may be accidentally linked to a file you have since abandoned. Did you re-name your new artwork, but forget that you renamed it?

I don’t even have to re-load usually. AE becomes aware of changes I’ve made in Illustrator before I even get a chance to reload.

-Greg Neumayer

Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com

[Reloaded]

Thanks a lot Greg.
I loved you Demo Reel, really nice work. By the way, would you have it in Quicktime? I’d love to see some of your work frame by frame.
Congratulations.

Just a doubt. Why to choose Flash as a player instead of Quicktime?

[Greg Neumayer]

Hey, thanks for the kudos. I use Flash for my reel because:
1. flv format is now very good quality at a very small size (although mine is not yet because my site is currently v.7 compatible)
2. using flv in flash gives you access to all the control you need like duration, current time, errors, onComplete signals, etc. allowing you to add any controls you’d like based on the current status of the movie.
3. I don’t have to know or use HTML to try to get flash and quicktime to play together nicely. At best, using both, you have a “quicktime in a box” but with Flash, you can overlay art, use transparency, and even use the alpha channel of a mov file. In short, movies can now be source artwork in Flash, instead of “imported media”. I can do all my coding from within flash, then simply export the default built-in HTML shell when I publish from Flash. Web development is such a broad career in of itself, I like not having to learn more than one application/discipline to get a great web page or web app going.

Here’s a link to a qt version of the reel (albeit pretty compressed):
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com/antifreeze06reel.mov

-Greg

Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com