[Daniel Ramirez]

You can also just click on the clip in PR. Right click. Choose>Replace with After Effects Composition(new to CS4). This will “dynamically link” the clip to AE. Any changes you make in AE are now reflected in your PR clip.

Dan Ramirez
After Effects
QA Engineer

[Daniel Ramirez]

Adolfo’s spot on here. Without upgrading the ram on your machine, you can also improve your multitasking performance by turning multiprocessing OFF in the “Memory and Multiprocessing” section of the preferences AND bumping up the value for “RAM to leave for other applications”

By default, we assume you want AE to use all of your machines resources. By setting your “RAM to leave for other applications” to 2GB, you should have extra processors and ram for other applications.

I highly recommend bumping up the RAM on your Macs though. An 8-core machine with 4GB ram will likely underperform a 4-core machine with 8GB ram.

Dan Ramirez
After Effects
QA Engineer

[Daniel Ramirez]

Is this a P4 chip? If so, you don’t have multiple processors or cores. You have a multi-thread capable machine. AE’s multiprocessing requires multi processors or cores.

Dan Ramirez
After Effects
QA Engineer

[Daniel Ramirez]

I do not get a gamma shift when switching between 8bpc and 16bpc in AE, but I have just been working with a customer who had the exact same problem. Like I mentioned before, I emailed him my prores codec and the problem went away for him. This is strange because our codecs were bit for bit identical. I was also unable to reproduce when I tried using his codec.

I suggest the following:

copy [your hard drive]/Library/Quicktime/AppleProRes422.component somewhere off your computer(external drive, email, CD, etc,). Delete the original, then copy the file right back to the same location.

If this doesn’t work, we can try something else.

Dan Ramirez
After Effects
QA Engineer

[Daniel Ramirez]

I experience gamma/color shifts when I ingest prores into AE and export to RGB(QT-Anim), but I don’t experience any problems going into AE with prores and exporting with prores.

Do you by any chance have any AJA codecs installed on your machine? In the past, an AJA codec has caused some strange problems with prores.

Finally, I’ve been working back and forth with a user and he’s been having gamma shifts in 16bpc and 32bpc, but not 8bpc. I’ve was never able to reproduce, but I emailed him my prores codec and his problem went away. My codec was bit for bit identical with his, so I’m not sure what happened there. Maybe a permissions issue? You could try copying your codec (library/Quicktime) to an external HD, then copying it back and replacing your original.

Also, Apple’s going to gamma 2.2 in Snow Leopard, so I’m interested to see which problems this solves and possibly creates.
Thanks,
Dan Ramirez
AE QA Engineer

[Daniel Ramirez]

Unfortunately. After Effects cannot import Premiere’s multicam clips with the edits applied. It imports the multicam clip before the edits.
This same problem will happen if you do a “Replace clip with After Effects Composition” in Premiere.

I’m trying to get this limitation better documented in our help system. This is a workflow that’s valuable to me as well, so I’ll be advocating adding support for multicam clips in AE’s Premiere importer as we move forward.

-Dan Ramirez
AE QA

[Daniel Ramirez]

Real Media export is available in CS3 Windows only, but it’s not shipped in CS4 to my knowledge.
Dan Ramirez
AE QA Engineer

[Daniel Ramirez]

Missing footage dialogs should show up when you open a project with missing footage.

You can also find missing footage by typing “missing” in the search field in your project panel. The search field is new in CS4, so you couldn’t do this in CS3.

-Dan R.

[Daniel Ramirez]

The trial versions of our software have certain restrictions due to licensing agreements with our partners. Since we have to pay to use certain technologies, we can’t in turn, “give” them away. This is particularly annoying for our audio programs because the trials can’t import MP3 files.

All that said, Real Media export is *not* in CS4. Windows Media export is included in CS4 along with a myriad of other options not available in the trial.

Dan Ramirez
After Effects
QA Engineer

Dan Ramirez
After Effects
QA Engineer