Christian Wheel
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OOOH!!!! FIXED THE PROBLEM!! By going to a different mouse driver!
How to solve, in 10 easy steps:
1) Go to control panel… Device Manager.
2) Locate your mouse in the device list.
3) Right click it, and go to “Update Driver.”
4) Select “Browse my computer for driver software.”
5) Choose the “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer” option.
6) Uncheck the “Show compatible hardware” checkbox.
7) Under “Manufacturer,” choose Microsoft.
8) Change the model to “Microsoft USB IntelliMouse.”
9) Ignore any warnings that come up about it possibly being incompatible.
10) Your mouse will freeze for a moment, and then come back, with FULL ZOOMING ACTION in After Effects.
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Hope this helps!
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
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Glad to know I’m not alone.
If I plug in a wired mouse, the zoom works as expected. I also seem to be having zoom issues with this mouse in Picasa. This leads me to believe it’s a problem between the Microsoft Mouse driver and some Windows API call that AE and Picasa are both using.
I just tried submitting a support ticket to M$, but their ticket system is down and they “apologize for the inconvenience.” Ugh.
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
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MS Visual Studio Developer
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Vista x64, AE CS4 9.0.2.42.
Thanks!
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
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WOW thanks… In three years of using AE, I never knew about that.
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
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Aha – You have to precompose with motion blur OFF, then add the “force motion blur” plugin to the precomp within your new comp. Still no idea why… Just another AE anomaly I guess?
Thanks Jim!
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I also have this bug. Can’t believe this has been an unpatched problem for almost a year now. I literally have to RE-TYPE lines and lines of text because I can’t paste.
Has anyone found a solution to this yet?
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Problem solved. This one had me ripping my hair out for many hours.
I realized that when I rendered the audio as MONO (which, for my purposes, is all I needed for this project) it rendered silence. And when I rendered to stereo, it rendered audio, but then for some weird reason I had trouble hearing it, even though the waveforms were perfect.
Come to realize, the audio in the source video that my client provided was flawed.
Their camera audio (for some reason) was a STEREO feed but the left and right channels were identical, but INVERSE from each other.
So when it was downmixed to mono, the two channels cancelled each other out. When I played it in stereo on my pc speakers, the waves cancelled each other out in the air.
Weird, crazy, once-in-a-lifetime problem, resolved by simply clicking “Channels…Left Only” on each audio source.
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
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Thanks for the help guys,
I downloaded the trial version of Primatte & watched the tutorials, but still wasn’t happy with the results. So at this point a re-shoot may be the only option.
The camera was set to AUTO, which clearly is the wrong way to go. Light shouldn’t have been a problem – Used a 3-light kit and there was plenty of ambient lighting in the room.
Not sure if you’re familiar with how the Reflecmedia keying system works, but the floor-mat is a different brand of reflective material from another manufacturer, so it’s color is off from that of the wall.
Weighing my options now… Thanks again for the help!
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
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I would experiment with duplicating your footage, scaling it up a few percent and making a mask of just the right side of the curtain. Then try to overlay it so that it covers the wood. You’re gonna have to feather the hell out of the edge to make it look right.
…Unless I misunderstand what you’re trying to accomplish.
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
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Quite a workflow adjustment but that is a good way… Thanks!
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
After Effects Enthusiast