Aharon Rabinowitz
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Thanks!
If you want part 2, it’s available as a podcast now:
https://www.creativecow.net/aepodcast
It will be availbel as a forum tutorial in a week.
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That should not make a difference. A path is a path. AE doesn’t recognize fills, so it should have just come in the way yopu expected it to. That’s odd.
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I can only tell you for a PC – I don’t know where it is on a mac:
AE 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\7.0\
Delete the file called: Adobe After Effects 7.0 Prefs.txt – AE will create a new file the next time you start it.
AE 6.5
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\Prefs
Delete the file called: Adobe After Effects 6.5 Prefs.txt
USERNAME = your name (or whatever is used for your user profile/account in windows XP).
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In case you didn’t catch it in the tutorial – make sure you have the position property of the layer selected before pasting the path as a motion path. If you don’t have the word position highlighted, it won’t work, and you’ll get a mask instead.
If that isn’t working, add a position keyframe at the first frame, and then select the keyframe, and then hit paste.
If that still doesn’t work, I’d suggest shutting AE down, and if still not working, shut down your PC. I’ve seen this happen a few times on 6.5 and 6.
Finally, if this is still not working, try trashing your preferences. Sometimes, AE just gets it in its head that it should do something the wrong way…
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Thanks!
Well the problem is not exactly file management, other than larger files. As I record, if I make a mistake in the middle, I want to pick up from that point. the problem is that the new clip doesn;t entirely hide the old clip, so as a result, the remove hidden clip option doesn’t actually work. I end up with a bunch of longer clips then I need.
But I guess the method you talked about for backup helps, and truth be told I only need the final recording – the clips are no better then the final exported single audio file in this case (since they can function as the source if i need to make changes), so I can erase them without any worry at all.
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For effects it actually seems to work without any real hassle more or less – although you may need to paste it into a text editor first and then copy it. Not sure. Just give it a shot. I did it that way with the Levels effect and it worked fine.
On the other hand, as i explained above – you need the text editor for transform data (position, rotation…etc.) because you have to actually edit the text before pasting the data ionto AE 6.5. It’s not to big a deal though.
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Man, Steve, you must go to the good parties….
Seriously, though – When I started using FLash, I hated the way it showed you everything, instead of cutting it off at the edge of the “comp window”.
Maybe now that Adobe owns both, it will creates something that finds a balance between both approaches. I wouldn”t mind if they found a way to show the pasteboard, but I imagine the overhead could get really high – the second AE doesn’t need to calculate something heavy (like when it goes off the screen) it starts to pick up speed again. Maybe they could find a way to make it so that it doesn’t render effects outside the comp boundries…
I think I might just send this request in.
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This is standard with most animation packages. Opening anything from a later version of maya in an older one is pretty difficult, adn you oftyen lose data.
With AE, every version of AE has new features, and if those are utilized, then how could an older version of AE open them?
Not that I’m not saying it wouldn’t be nice, but It wouldn’t work the way you expect it to.
Who knows, maybe someone will come out with a script that could remove all references to new features and then convert it for an older version – I think someone did that with Maya. That would be cool, but again, probably not what you’d expect when you opened it.
On the other hand, if you need to copy position data or any other data from 7 to 6.5, you can, you just have to have a text program (like notepad) and be willing to make minor chages to the code.
For example AE 6.5 code is written like this:
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Keyframe Data
Units Per Second 30
Source Width 320
Source Height 240
Source Pixel Aspect Ratio 1
Comp Pixel Aspect Ratio 1Position
Frame X pixels Y pixels Z pixels
0 160 120 0
8 226 186 0
15 297 111 0End of Keyframe Data
Whereas 7 has some other data (in bold) that needs to be changed or removed:
Adobe After Effects 7.0 Keyframe Data
Units Per Second 29.97
Source Width 720
Source Height 480
Source Pixel Aspect Ratio 1.2
Comp Pixel Aspect Ratio 1Transform Position
Frame X pixels Y pixels Z pixels
0 160 120 0
8 226 186 0
15 297 111 0End of Keyframe Data
Change 7.0 to read as 6.5, and delete the word transform, so that Position (or rotation or whatever) is all the way to the left.
Then copy and paste the whole thing into AE 6.5
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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I think it’s pretty clear that I drink a bit before I do those podcasts…
Sorry.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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Definately contact adobe. think of it like voting, but where your opnion actually means something…
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com