[Alan Tonn]

YES!

That was the best suggestion. Thank you. The bezier warp is what I was looking for but couldn’t find.

I would render and post, but I have to now replace some text in the newspaper. Need to do some more tracking. 🙂

Thanks for your suggestion. 🙂

[Alan Tonn]

i forgot to add a little important information:

amd 4400+, asus motherboard, nvidia 8600 gts, 6 seagate sata hard drives 2 320 gb, 3 250 gb, 1 160 gb, adobe production suite cs2, windows xp sp3 pro, samsung dvd dl burner.

windows is up to date, adobe is up to date and video drivers are up to date and audio drivers are up to date.

if i missed anything let me know.

[Alan Tonn]

havent checked but i think the setting you are looking for can only be gotten to by holding shift when you choose the choice to get to that dialog. once there you will see a “secret” set of settings.

i think i had the same problem and checked the box and it went away.

[Alan Tonn]

hey!

i guess i should have tried that first, i thought that the difference mode would be the only one to get the transfers right so that i could see another layer behind the masks. k. problem solved.

Thanks!

[Alan Tonn]

there is something to note about copying and pasting from illustrator to after effects.

you should open illustrator, change the aicb, draw your shape, copy your shape, then open after effects and select your layer and paste.

having after effects open before the check mark being made in aicb causes it to not work.

[Alan Tonn]

what effect specifically are we talking about?

after the login scene the arrow moves around really fast and then the page does a quick rotation. i would tend to say that the login scene and the second scene are parented front to back, or possibly using some effect like card flip. its hard to tell, i cant pause or frame by frame easiliy, but it looks like the login page disappears as the second scene appears. they are definitely rotating at the same pace and are basically like a piece of paper with the login on one side and the 5 clothing page on the back.

https://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/cardwipe.html

the effect the tutorial generates is not what you want, but i believe that it will get you where you are going.

there is a part where the page is showing 5 clothing items on the page. the arrow clicks on one and it flips. if this is the movement you are talking about then you need 2 layers, your front and back. parent one to the other but orient the one 180 degrees from the other then at some point in the scene rotate the parent 180 and the other should follow.

there is a part where another picture of a piece of clothing pops off and flys by the camera, obstructing the view of everything else, basically becoming a transition.

every thing i know i know because i found some tutorial somewhere. you should dig around a little. one thing i found when i first started with ae was that i had little time to watch tutes if they didnt have a title that matched what i was looking for. later i found that sometimes just because the title doesnt say “flip like nordstroms” doesnt mean it wont help. when you get a moment just start watching some tutes for the heck of it. someday it will come back to mind when you need something for a project.

i am by no means an ae expert, heck i dont think i am even near a advanced novice, but i hope i have been of some help.

[Alan Tonn]

i am imagining a little more than 10 layers in your comp… 🙂

it gets tricky after a while, layers upon layers. i would suggest that you try precompiling some of the layers together. in fact i would build each “scene” as a composition and then bring it into my main comp. or build a “scene” and then select all the layers for that scene and choose layer, precompose. with 3d layers you can tell it to keep the 3dness by collapsing transformations in the main comp. this causes the 2d comp to become a 3d object. it can still have shadows and the like.

i would keep the camera out in the main comp and just drive it from scene to scene.

[Alan Tonn]

it looks like there is a point where its not even the same “movie”. there is some kind of cut with an object blurring past the camera hiding the appearance of the next thing to be seen.

i suppose its possible that there is a lot more going on in the transition part, maybe the movie is time shifted in such a way as to obscure the changes. or the camera is moving so fast between points of interest that it blurs out stuff that is going on.

in fact you should watch https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/advanced_camera_tips/
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/colorful_universe/

these might help in getting the camera controls you might need and then its just a matter of setting up your scene(s).

i would create a 3D comp with “pocket” scenes and have the camera travel between them. the parts in between the pockets are probably the fast motion blurred parts of the movie example.

in fact this gives me an idea for what i am working on right now. Thanks! 🙂

[Alan Tonn]

goto edit, preferences, memory and cache and check “prevent dll memory fragmentation”

worked great for me.

[Alan Tonn]

Hello Andrew

thanks for responding. after much frustration i found the problem, i think…

i took a look at the tracks keyframes and volume levels. i had a bunch of key frames on the audio track. i went through and killed them, and it seems to have fixed the problem.

another part of the problem i believe was the fact that each clip had not been normalized. so i went through and did that as well.

i finally got the project finished. the audio worked out and at this point that is all that matters. 🙂