David Johnson
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The only ways I know of to address banding are to either work in a higher color space (16 or 32 bit instead of 8), add a small amount of grain/noise to the image, or some combination of both.
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Just select all those layers in your timeline and find “precompose” in one of the menus (only my fingers remember exactly where it is, not my pea brain). Then, you can either duplicate that precomp layer as many times as you need or pre-render it, bring that back into AE and go into the “interpret footage” window (by selecting the file in the project panel and choosing “interpret footage” from yet another menu I don’t more specifically recall) and enter the number of times you want it to loop in the “loop” box.
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Not sure if this is still true with recent versions of AE since I always have QT installed, but if I recall correctly, early versions of AE required QT to be installed on the system first for AE to install at all … I would guess so that AE could recognize its presence during install and link to the necessary QT components. So, you may have to reinstall AE after getting your QT properly installed. If you work like I do, with a very very customized AE, reinstalling can be a major hassle so I’d exhaust other possibilities first.
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Your link didnt work for me … just got “0 items found to display!” so it’ll be tough to determine the issue with certainty, but it sounds like the text layer has a mask on it … select that layer in the timeline and hit the letter “M” twice on your keyboard that’ll show the mask if there is one and you can just delete the mask.
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Dave & Mark make very good points so I’d only add that, whichever version you go with, being that you’re looking for cheap online sales, you might check that you’re buying from a legitimate reseller or risk your software not working properly or at all … and having no recourse with a phony reseller.
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I doubt this will work (or that there even is a way to do that), but the first thing I’d try is doing what Todd said and set the start timecode to a negative value.
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Sorry … read to quickly the first time. I don’t recall if that will flip the mask with the layer, but if not maybe put guides on both sides of the mask and free transform it in the comp window snapping each side to the opposite guide. I don’t have AE open and only my fingers remember (not my brain) which key to hold to constrain proportions. That’ll work for a complex mask and, if it were a simple mask, you could just switch the left and right numbers in the mask shape window.
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Can’t you just make the X width of your layer -100 instead of 100?
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I experience this, but only on one of the Windows XP machines I work on (at work). What I’ve observed seems to indicate some sort of conflict between Adobe and either Office 2003 or the Firefox web browser, both or some combinations thereof since I have all the same on my XP machine at home and don’t have the problem. There’s nothing I can do about it in my work environment so I just work around it as you’ve described … hopefully a new machine and fresh start soon.
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If you’re talking about a normal office type network, it may just be that the throughput requirements (read/write speeds, consistency, etc.) for video and graphics work are much more demanding than most networked computer functions so multiple video/graphics computers need a shared storage solution designed specifically for video/graphics work … i.e., fibre channel or one of the other solutions that can handle networked video/graphics work, which a video engineer or video savvy IT technician can speak far more proficiently about than I.
FYI, COW member Bob Zelin is a guru in that area, but I don’t recall which forum he frequents most (AJA, Kona, Maxx Digital?).