[Daniel Jacob]

Thanks Dave, for the idea. It led me to think to try to open it on another computer…

I compressed my whole project folder and opened it on my other computer. Had to relink a few things and install some fonts but viola, it worked! I was able to perform the Collect Files action with no problem.

So as far as I can tell, that isolates the problem to my computer. Would you know what I’d need to do to figure out what’s causing this and make sure it doesn’t happen anymore? I’ve not noticed any other problems on it besides that.

“There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind” – Fred Rogers

[Daniel Jacob]

Also, just to see if anything’d happen, I opened it up in AE CC but had the same results.

“There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind” – Fred Rogers

[Daniel Jacob]

Thanks for taking the time, Todd. I checked it out and the file names for some of what it’s saying is an error aren’t abnormally long ( copsmartphone.ai is one name for instance) and there aren’t what I’d guess would be an odd character.

Here’s a screenshot of what I’m looking at:

You can see on the error it says I’m missing copsmartphone.ai and you can see in the project window there’s a file called copsmartphone.ai (the one below the highlight one) with no color bars. So at a loss here.

Any other insight?

“There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind” – Fred Rogers

[Daniel Jacob]

Dan Ebberts,
You’re great! That worked perfectly. Exactly what I needed.
Many sincere thanks.

Daniel

“There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind” – Fred Rogers

[Daniel Jacob]

At my work we’re also doing some rotoscoping for an upcoming project (the spot is only 30 seconds, thank goodness). We did alot of test and we’ve decided to go with Flash. The line correction that Flash can create a very “wobbly” stylized line (if you want it to) which we ended up liking alot.

As far as our footage goes, we just shot it against any wall in the room as we’re going to replace the background with other things. As the one doing the rotoscoping, my suggestion would be mainly to have good contrast and good lighting. For the test footage we did we just used available lighting and while that was adequate, I had a hard time differentiating some elements because of the shadows.

Another thing – and this may or may not work for you – we experimented by animating on 1’s (every frame) and on 2’s (every other frame). Animating on 1’s was, as you can expect, less jerky and a little more fluid. One work around that may or may not save time is drawing every other frame and then just motion-tweening all of those key frames. More than likely it’ll interpret those in-between frame really screwy as it did for ours. However, sometimes it works which will save you the time of drawing those frames. When it doesn’t, you’ll just have to draw those keyframes in. I should mention that this works best when each element is on it’s own layer – i.e. hair, head, shirt, arms, etc. all are drawn on their own layer. When I rotoscoped our subject I just spent a whole day rotoscopign his head. Then another day doing his arms. then another day rotoscoping his shirt, etc. It’s been a pretty good workflow so far.

-Daniel

“There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind” – Fred Rogers

[Daniel Jacob]

Thanks, Peter.
Would it be a safe assumption to say it was released prematurely? It seems like a relatively basic element with having camera & lights.

“There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind” – Fred Rogers