Darby Edelen
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My mistake, I was rushing the response.
I always remember it because ‘b’ is to the left of ‘n’ on a western english keyboard, and the in point is always to the left of the out point in AE… I just happened to not pay attention to that this morning =)
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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You can also set the duration of the workspace in the composition by using the ‘n’ (in point) and ‘b’ (out point) keys. AE’s default behavior is to only render within the workspace.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
I liked the attention to detail in the second to last shot, the reflection in the water was nice.
Looking good!
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
This is just the way that AE works with timecode.
If the duration of your composition were 1;00 second at 30fps then you would have 30 frames from 0;00 to 0;29. 1;00 is outside the duration of the composition.
So for your 6;00 second comp the last frame in the comp is 5;29. Adjust your time-remaps accordingly, set the last keyframe to 5;29 (if you want to maintain real time then you should move that keyframe one frame earlier on the timeline as well).
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
I was confused, I thought you were asking the poster to make sure that he was working in 32bpc in Photoshop to minimize banding, not changing the number of colors on the display.
My mistake =)
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
[Todd at UCSB] “Unfortunately, the only thing that is going to increase how fast you can preview and render from AE is new processors. RAM will give you more time in RAM preview and a speed increase when going between apps, but not rendering or previewing.”
That’s not entirely true. If you have more RAM available to AE then it won’t have to use page files as often, which should result in increased performance. There is a definite ceiling here however, unless you’re working with AE CS3 and multiple cores then your system won’t be able to take advantage of more than 4GB of RAM (assuming 1GB is being used for the OS).
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
I generally like to apply my track to a Null object and then parent the object I want to follow the track to that Null object, this gives you the ability to offset the position and rotation of the layer in a very intuitive way.
This doesn’t work with perspective tracks, but if you’re trying to track in a ball of fire you’re probably only concerned with position.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
To clarify some:
The Graph Editor in the timeline is for editing temporal interpolation (how quickly or slowly the values change from one to another) and the motion path in the composition window is for editing spatial interpolation (how the values change through space from one to another).
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
[MIke Gondek] “Check your display control panel and make sure you are in 32-bit mode.”
Can you do that in CMYK? =O
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
When FCP says ‘Anamorphic’ it’s referring to 16:9, when AE refers to ‘Anamorphic’ they mean 2:1 (the equivalent of 18:9).
Really both of these can be considered anamorphic, as the term only describes information being stretched from its ‘normal’ resolution by some process.
The problem here is two different development teams using the same term to mean two different things, it’s a headache but a good lesson in not taking things for granted. I learned early on to be cautious about every aspect of my footage.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA