Brian Charles
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Sounds like your preferences were trashed and replaced with the defaults. If you have a backup of your prefs file you can replace it. Otherwise I believe you’ll have to recreate the workspaces and render presets.
The animation presets shouldn’t be affected though, they’re usually stored in the presets folder as individual files.
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If you have the Adobe Media Encoder try re-encoding the footage using an After Effects friendly codec.
If its crashing on render it may be a memory issue or an openGL issue. Set the Secret Preferences to Purge every 30 or so frames, to access these hold down the Shift key as you select Preferences from the menu, this will reveal the “Secret” preferences and allow you to purge memory during render.
Turn off openGL, its not helpful for rendering in this case.
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You should look at the Tutorials here on the Cow and please check out the Basics Forum:
https://forums.creativecow.net/adobeaftereffectsbasics
In particular read the common After Effects Questions section, this will help you avoid asking questions that have been answered hundreds of times.
There are many other good tutorial sites, among them:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/
and
https://www.graymachine.com/category/tutorials/and
Trish and Chris Meyer’s books are indispensable for beginners and Mark Christiansen’s is good for intermediate learners.
Creating Motion Graphics:
https://crishdesign.com/After Effects Visual Effects and Compositing
https://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321592018I’m sure others will have more recommendations.
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Card Wipe or Card Dance
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Its an openGL error. Are you running the current version 9.02?
If not update. Turn off openGL.
Mylenium has a database of After Effects error codes and the one you have is listed there.
https://aeerrors.myleniumstuff.de/?cat=22
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Reveal the Source Text property for both layers and pick whip the reflection source to the original source.
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MP3’s are compressed audio and FCP and AFX will re-compress them resulting in pops.
You must convert these first to work with them properly.
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If its After Effects performance you want then RAM is most important. 6GB is not nearly enough, particularly for CS5 and 64 bit. 16 to 32 GB is more like it.
If you’re compressing lots of video the Matrox card will help but again with CS5 Adobe’s media encoder will be pretty fast.
3TB, I’ve not got 12 TB, not all online but storage is cheap at $100 a bare 1TB drive. You can always add more later….
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After Effects can’t do it alone.
I’ve done this many times in the past, I do many awards shows where the presenter or someone behind the scenes controls the presentation using a keyboard.
All the animations/videos were done in After Effects and rendered as FLV’s with compression settings to keep quality high, so the bitrate is very high since the presentation is run from a hard drive.
The last one I completed (last week) consisted of 51 individual flv’s which would stop when they completed, the Flash player cues the next one up and when the presenter presses a key (your choice of which key) the next one plays.
In addition 45 of the animations had stop points set in After Effects with markers so there was additional control possible.
The video player uses an XML file set up as a video list which Flash can read and store the sequence of the FLV’s.
F4V doesn’t work since it won’t record the markers from After Effects.
If you know enough Flash and Action Script you may be able to do this, if not find a good Flash programmer – I did.
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Particles. Lots and lots of small particles. Try CC Particle World.
See tutorials on it here https://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/adobeaftereffects/particle
and here https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/q/particles/