[Alisa Placas]

Thanks, for the help, Ted!

[Alisa Placas]

Yes, that is the way I am animating my text on.
I’ve tried what you suggested.

In my subcomp, I have 2D text animating on and with the roughen edges effect applied. When I put it into a 3D comp, the precomped layers are not reacting to the camera. They want to be 3D.

When they are 3D layers in the precomp. And then the precomp is animated via a camera, the roughen edges effect ripples through.

My present work around is to create a still of all the text (with roughen edges applied) and then animate the text on via blurred masks.
It’s not quite as nice as the blur on by letter text effect, but it is close.

I guess I have the same question for other effects, like “brush strokes.” Is it possible to have brush strokes or roughen edges remain a STATIC effect rather than cycling through?

[Alisa Placas]

The white paper thing was great. Just what I was looking for.
Thanks so much!

I also figured out what I was doing wrong. I had worked on the images in Photoshop BEFORE I’d changed my color settings to HDTV. I had saved them with no embedded color profile. I was under the impression that they would change to the HDTV color profile when I reopened them in Photoshop with the new working color space. I didn’t realize they were NOT converting since they had no embedded color profile and that I had to resave them WITH the HDTV color profile embedded. Now in the Photoshop window and the AE Comp window, the image looks the same.

[Alisa Placas]

Thanks! I might have to try the complete reinstall. I’m dreading it because there were ‘issues’ in installing both of the applications. I’m sure it is somehow related to this crash thing, but adobe phone tech support had no insights on the matter.

[Alisa Placas]

Sorry about that, but I had abandoned the rest of the install and such due to the late hour and didn’t finish it till this morning.

All is well. It was human error, luckily. I still don’t know what caused AE to initially fail….but I figured out the install problem. I had a AE 7.0 disc in my AE CS3 box and was trying to install that. This OS wasn’t liking it, I guess.

Do you recommend NOT cross-posting between Creative Cow and Adobe forums?

[Alisa Placas]

Bruce, I really can’t believe you and I are the ONLY ones who have had this issue. Just doesn’t seem possible.
And what is your definition of “complex” animations? Sounds unsafe to use it period…..especially since I was seeing mine on that newer system, but the anomalies didn’t show up when I played it back on my older, home computer. Does it exist or not? I’d have to think it was a quicktime issue with that codec….but you are saying you think not?
Any luck getting an HD avid suite editor to check them out for you?

[Alisa Placas]

Thanks, Kevin.
I guess “color banding” was not a good description though.
I know what you are referring to with the banding with gradation of colors.

But, these anomalies are huge colored squares that show up in a horizontal line.
Multiple lines at once that all travel up and down the screen.

Again, these are BIG lines, definitely not to be confused with ‘field’ type of lines.

[Alisa Placas]

Thanks for the advice!
I’ll try your ‘fix’ and also post to adobe.

[Alisa Placas]

I’ve got CS3 8.0.2.27

Open GL is not enabled.

I have 16 bit color depth.
I’ve tried rendering with different codecs and it shows up in the rendered animation regardless of the codec.
It’s incredibly hard to troubleshoot since it simply does not exist in the composition itself.

It disappears if I turn the lights off, so it is definitely the lights and not just the 3D move.
THe z position of both the document and the light are not moving dramatically.

I just tried rendering it with no fields and that did eliminate the glitch. But, my clients want interlaced quicktimes, so I need to figure out why this is happening.

Any other thoughts?

[Alisa Placas]

Thanks for the tip! I appreciate it more than I can tell you.

It worked for the most part. On a couple, the playback of the ‘non-fields’ doubled frames is a bit jerky. I may just have to lessen the 3D tilt on those till I can get a field render with no flickers.
I certainly feel better knowing what the problem is now though.

Best Regards…
Alisa