[Dan Danner]

many thanks… of course the one place i didn’t look… aescripts… duh!

Thanks for the reminder and saving me some search time!!

[Dan Danner]

I know of a great data burning software (pc) called imgburn… i don’t know if there is a mac version.

imgburn is open source so it’s free 🙂

thanks for the input noah!!

[Dan Danner]

yeah i know… my bad… I should have been more detailed. I’m making it for sales folks to do presentations with the videos we’ve made and they will be using laptops.

I’m making a self contained “website” but I’m using quicktime to play .mp4’s so i can get better quality from the videos… it’s coming out ok so far.

thanks Noah.

[Dan Danner]

Many thanks goes to Jonathan Shohet for the tip about StaxRip. We’ve been testing it at my job and it does just what I want.. and NEED it to do.

Thanks again Jonathan Shohet!!!

[Dan Danner]

yeah I figured that getting an x264 mp4 out of after effects would be near impossible…. I always render an uncompressed avi from after effects then encode with the media encoder. Only problem is that the media encoder won’t work with x264. Any idea for encoders that work with x264? I’ve tried handbrake, avidemux… since I’m on a budget the open source is what I’ve got to work with.

And thanks for the response Dave!!

[Dan Danner]

I think you have to transfer it. Just pull your layers onto a new doc.

[Dan Danner]

when you open a new document inside photoshop, one of the settings is “resolution”… that’s your dpi. 72 for web, 300 for print and 150 can go either way.

[Dan Danner]

I posted the same thing on videocopilot and John Dickinson from motionworks.au had a great answer for me – https://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=32429

[Dan Danner]

no no good sir, the ignorance is mine for not being more specific. Yeah the having both ae and ai open lets me adjust text… but I’m looking to achieve how you’re able to import photoshop text into ae then change it into editable text thereby animating it with ae presets and stuff… but with illustrator instead of photoshop. I built several nice vector designs with text but forgot that you can’t do the make editable text with it… doh!! I’ll most likely have to do it manually – copy and paste the ai text onto a blank text layer in ae in order to easily animate it with presets.

thanks for your help though, it’s appreciated!!

[Dan Danner]

Many thanks for the response. Unfortunately that’s not what I’m looking for. What I’m trying to achieve is the photoshop editable text in after effects… but with illustrator text.
I can’t be the first person to think of this. I’m hoping someone out there wrote a script for it.