Aharon Rabinowitz
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Fixed. This is what they did:
added this to my .htaccess file:
# AddType x-httpd-php .html .htm
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .htm .html .php5 .php4 .php .php3
.php2 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .htm .html .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2
.phtmlAharon Rabinowitz
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Best of luck on all that you do. You’re help here has been truly invaluable.
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Just a quick Hello and thank you all.The power grid blew in my apt. 1o minutes after the baby came home, so things are hectic.
Anyway. thanks for your kind wishes. Ron, indeed, I got my first taste of real parenthood last night – went to sleep at 5:45 AM. I got a whole 3 hours of sleep, and they were wonderful.
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This is actually a tutorial I recorded for august.
In the shape layer, under stroke, look for the property called “Trim Paths” Animate that, and your stroke will animate on.
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I can;t speak much to this, but it might be worth looking into G-tech Drives.
https://www.g-technology.com/products/G-RAID-mini.cfmPeople at Adobe have told me that when they demo and edit on the road the G-Raid Mini drives have been pretty reliable, even for use in premiere which does need much faster throughput than AE. They also have an internal fan to keep them cool, which is pretty rare for a small portable drive.
I haven’t used them myself, but reviews and word on the street have been pretty good.
Their drives have many options, USB2, Firewire 400 and 800, and eSata.
But, as always, do your research before buying. Not the cheapest drives – that’s for sure.
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Not that it should kill you but you are capturing larger than their largest recommended size (1024×768).
Would you consider capturing at 15 FPS? I always capture at 15. Again, it shouldn’t be too big a deal at 25, but you never know.
I know it;s freezing when it plays, but will it render out of AE OK? Try that and let me know.
Another option is to export from Camtasia using their quicktime codec called Enshapren. It;s not quite as good, but it’s much better than most of the other compressed codecs for situations like this – screen captures I mean. The default level of quality has banding on gradated areas, but you can bump the quality up a bunch at the cost of filesize.
An example of a tutorial I did using the Ensharpen Codec instead of the camtasia one is this:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/workflow_4/video.php
If you look carefully, you can see banding in blue gradated bar at the top, and also in a few places in the comp window where 1 color fades to another. The quicktimes in this scenario were about 2x the filesize of the techsmith catpture codec.
You can also convert the video to a PNG sequence to use as a proxy. The PNG sequences are much MUCH larger in file size than Camtasia AVI’s, but they work, and are lossless. Don’t forget to export a separate audio file to match.
Best,
Aharon
Aharon Rabinowitz
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[Aharon Rabinowitz] “All of my tutorials use the techsmith screen capture codec.”
Meant to say, The codec is used in AE – not the final video, of course. All of my screen caps are done through camtasia, and I’ve never had a problem with playback in AE so long as it was a capture of a computer interface. Live-action stuff performed terribly.
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All of my tutorials use the techsmith screen capture codec. It should work fine in AE. However, it is designed for screen captures with low motion – not actual live footage – or high motion video – and performs pretty poorly in those situations.
What does your footage contain?
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Are you talking about the look of the dust particle or the motion?
Pretty sure particular can do this – but without time in front of it, I can’t be sure. You definately want to play with the opacity, and you also want to look at the property called Physics > Air > Turbulence Field > Affect position, which will make particle move at random. Hopefully that will get you started on the motion.
Also, I am sure particleIllusion can do this effect as well. ParticleIllusion has a property called Motion Randomness which would produce a result similar to what your seeing there as far as the motion goes.
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you *might* get passable results with the effect called CC page turn. But only if the angle is head on.
Otherwise, look into Zaxwerks 3D warps, a plug-in that can actually bend shapes in 3D.
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