Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Daniel: What the Dynamic Link feature in Production Premium helps you avoid is the need for intermediate rendering. In other words, you don’t have to render a video file to go from your compositing/motion graphics application to your editing application. Better than that, you can change something in one of the applications (say, After Effects) and see the results immediately updated in Premiere Pro (or Encore, etc). You don’t even need to save the file, because the Comp is… dynamically linked 🙂 You would still need to render the segment in the host application’s timeline for full frame rate playback or mastering.
It’s about an efficient workflow for creative exploration. But it doesn’t multiply your CPU power 🙂Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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Yes, it may have worked for them if they wanted to rotate the layer instead of moving the start/end points. I only tried to explain why you couldn’t choose rotation when an effect point was the target.
I am not suggesting a method over another, simply because it depends on what you need.Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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It’s no a bug, Ben.
The “start point” and “end point” effect parameters define coordinates in space (ie, position), so tracking rotation is not relevant to them. Because of this, when you define an effect point control (like “start point”) as target, AE doesn’t let you use rotation. Since rotation means layer rotation (in the top level transform group), it can only be applied when a layer is the target.There are many ways to address the need you have. Probably the easiest one is to use two separate trackers, each set to position. One would track the feature for start point, and the other the feature for end point.
Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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If you press the alt or control modifiers (Win) or option/command (Mac), you temporarily leave the pen tool to enter a marquee selection mode for nodes. Just click anywhere except a mask node, and that will commit the current mask. And the pen tool will be active to create the next mask.
Is that what you need?
Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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Absolutely. Take a look at the Blending mode reference section in After Effects Help.
Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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It should work just as well.
But just FYI, After Effects CS4 has a new Cartoon effect that should let you get results quite similar to those you would get by batch-processing Illustrator’s Live Trace feature. And of course, it would avoid the pain of tracing hundreds or thousands of still images.Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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Alex:
You can totally do this with Photoshop CS4 Extended.
Just open the Quicktime file as if it was any other kind of file. Then go to Window > Animation. That will bring a rather familiar timeline (sort of a very limited version of the After Effects timeline, including basic trimming and keyframing capabilities).
You can of course create a new, blank layer and paint frame by frame as you move back and forth in time. When you’re done, you can delete or turn off the original video layer and (this is the best part) you can just save a PSD file with video and open it in After Effects without having to render an intermediate file (which you can of course do if you must). Bear in mind that a PSD file with video *links* to the original Quicktime file – it’s not embedded into it.
Please let me know if you need more information on this.Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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Maciek:
I have received literally hundreds and hundreds of e-mails about this.
Most of them -and I mean MOST of them-were from people who clearly are using illegal copies or leaked pre-release versions of the software that were never meant for public consumption. A minor amount of messages were from people with valid licenses who had used older public preview versions of Adobe software and did not remove them properly. In the latter case, Adobe tech support is the way to go.Kathlyn is one of directors of the Cow and as such is very likely that she had a pre-release version, and that’s why I offered my help.
Everyone else, please stop writing to me about this.
Please call Adobe tech support and they will guide you, if you have a valid license.Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
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Yes.
After Effects supports more and deeper aspects of layer styles (like advanced blending, blend if, custom profiles, patterns, etc) when you bring them from PS files than when you create them in AE. Essentially there are a few things that are supported in PSD files but can’t be created in AE directly because the UI elements are not there. When you convert PS text to AE text, it becomes a text layer just as if you created it in AE. So some of these “secretly supported” aspects of PS layer styles are lost. -
AE product manager Michael Coleman just announced that AE 8.02 (which will bring full Leopard compatibility, native P2 support and bug fixes) will be released in mid-january. It was originally expected for these days, but they decided to postpone it a couple of week for the sake of quality.