Darby Edelen
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[JoNuggs] “the “liquid” layer will gradually be “sucked up” into the object.”
CC Blobbylize might be a good effect to use for this. If you use a gradient to control the effect you can achieve a pretty good thawing/liquid vaporizing/sucked into sponge look.
Sorry I can’t provide more details/settings right now but I’m working on a project of my own, only have time to give you a general idea =/
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[Steve Roberts] “If you’re rendering with CapsLock on, just minimize AE then switch off CapsLock.”
Or put your Render Queue window in the same workspace area as your Composition preview… This way when you go to your Render Queue to render, your preview area isn’t visible and will not be rendered as you… erm… render =)
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Install from the disc that came with your computer, do an Archive and Install (if you have the space this would be ideal, you can choose to preserve your users/settings) or an Erase and Install (erases your old system folder and installs a totally new one).
From there you could update using a combined installer from Apple’s downloads section to 10.4.8 (or whatever version you like).
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[JamesC] “I can’t believe people even put up with it…”
I’ve been running AE7 fine on my Mac Pro… under Windows (; I’m looking forward to saying goodbye to boot camp.
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[Chris Huggett] “What does the littel spiral icon mean on the bottom of the composition window. Will this affect my output or just the viewing of it on the monitor.”
This one I can answer… That’s an exposure control that appears when you’re working in 32bpc. It allows you to look at HDR footage in varying exposures, 0 is the default. I actually don’t know if it affects the output off the top of my head, but I’m sure you could do a very quick test render (even a frame) to find out.
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I don’t remember who I helped with this before, but we came up with a way to get around this:
-Apply time remap to your layer but don’t alter the keyframes (this will allow you to extend your layer’s duration in time)
-Apply timewarp
Pretty simple, you’ll have to work on getting the duration of the layer correct (if it’s too long your footage will end up frozen on the last frame of the clip)
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[Dan Ebberts] “I suspect 3D would be a little messy.”
Although I have to admit I had the same thought about 3D IK when I read your awesome little article on IK =) I’m going to sit down someday with some graph paper, a pen, protractor, and pot of coffee and work the whole thing out (say in three years…)
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Unless there’s something I missed the public beta was for CS3 (erm… un-Extended… Contracted?). I’ve been using it a bit at work and it is nice, although there are some new things to learn.
I work in video all the time and from what I’ve heard about the products, PS CS3 Extended is the way to go. I don’t know how well it’s supported, but there’s apparently a feature that allows you to import video directly into PS and edit it frame by frame (I’m sure Adobe knows what they’re doing with this).
I can’t wait! Especially for native Intel Mac support!
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The first thing I’d suggest is to post in the premiere forum, as I’m not entirely familiar with its limitations. However, I can say that a 2.4 gig file should not be a limitation as DV and other formats regularly exceed that.
One thing I have to ask (this is unlikely) is: are you using a legacy file system on the hard drive that the file exists on? This would mean FAT-32 on Windows or HFS (note the lack of +) on Mac OS X. Using a legacy file system would cause problems whenever you’re dealing with a file over 2GB in size.
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Did you try importing as a composition?
It still may not be perfect. A good way to preserve layer styles (although make them uneditable in AE) is by grouping your layer into a smart object in PS. The best way to work is to assume that you’ll need to apply blending modes in AE if that’s the final destination.