[Adam Bennett]

I’m not sure of the computer’s exact spec but I know it’s 2 GB RAM and is brand new and DEFINITELY able to handle this project. Will check connectors thanks Dave, but pretty sure they’re okay (checking the performance its not even using half its memory when After Effects is trying to open the project). Any more ideas welcome!!

Rusty 600 layers is a lot but it probably depends on how long the clips are and what effects you are applying to them. Two tips:

1. Precomps
2. Pre-renders (as tiff sequences if your pc is prone to crashing / quitting AE)

[Adam Bennett]

Thanks for the reply.

After I posted I went to preferences and display and changed the motion path setting from none to all keyframes which did the trick.

[Adam Bennett]

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[Adam Bennett]

Thanks guys. These’ll do nicely.

[Adam Bennett]

This was in a book I read – they discussed how it was done. I can’t remember exactly, but I know they filmed the titles off some glass or something to get the organic effect.

[Adam Bennett]

This was in a book I read – they discussed how it was done. I can’t remember exactly, but I know they filmed the titles off some glass or something to get the organic effect.

[Adam Bennett]

You should be able to create a new view by dragging one comp into a new space on your screen from the viewer window. Or view > new view.

If that doesn’t work try window > workspace > two comp view.

There is a way of toggling on or off whether it updates all windows you have open. It might be in preferences I’m not entirely sure.

[Adam Bennett]

From a previous thread about this …

Bring NTSC footage in and conform the frame rate to 30fps. Put it in a comp and double the rate of the comp to 60fps. Turn frame blending on.

Then drag this comp onto the comp icon and ensure this new comp is set to 30fps. Set the ‘Stretch’ value of the layer to 200%.

Finally drag this into a PAL comp at 25fps and with the same aspect ratio (ie 4:3/16:9) as your NTSC comps. Open the Stretch Panel and set it to 50%. The duration of this comp should be exactly the same as your initial comp. Use Fit-To-Frame (and check that your horizontal and vertical scale values are the same to make sure you haven’t stretched the picture in any one direction). And add a vertical gaussian blur of 1px.

Render out to 25fps at whatever field dominance (usually UFF) your Capture card likes.

Effectively you are deinterlacing your films’s fields to frames and recombining them for PAL UFF (unless working in DV, in which case, LFF). Give it a whirl, sometimes you get the odd piece of footage that doesn’t like this technique, but for other 90% of the time…

[Adam Bennett]

I’m on a pc right now but …

For example pressing “r” will bring up rotation, then to add say, position press shift and “p”. For certain effects it is useful to be able to remove the things you don’t want to see – to do this you press shift and alt and click on the items you want to take off

[Adam Bennett]

Have you definitely got multiple layers within the illustrator doc? If not cut the elements you want as separate objects and create new layers in the layers palette to paste them into.

I can’t think why it wouldn’t work with this and the advice above