[Michael Duff]

hi there – I’m getting the same problem now, did you find a solution?

“Turn on the CAPS Lock before start AE, and then delete effect(Advanced 3D)” – the advanced 3D effect is a render plug-in, so you can’t just delete it – due to the design of my project I need it to be in Advanced 3d and not standard 3d….. i’ve tried changing the shadow map size, still no good.

any other pieces of advice?

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia

[Michael Duff]

click the Live update button, in the timeline window. above all the layers, next to the master switches for motion blur etc etc

[Michael Duff]

if you have a legitimate copy of AE then there is an effect called CC Light Burst that is bundled on the disks. It is pretty much like shine. Otherwise I can only suggest experimenting with zoom blur/glow/maybe lens flares/transfer modes

[Michael Duff]

I’m not really sure of an answer, but I’ve got a couple possible work arounds.

maybe you could pre-comp, and select “leave attributes” then scale everything up within the pre-comp?

or instead of using a mask, make a track matte layer – then you can control both layers independently

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia

[Michael Duff]

I’d say most of the time they use Trapcode’s Shine – you could play around with zoom blurs and such, but the shine plug-in will do a good job of it. There are a few other plug-ins that do similar things like “Light Burst” or something like that.

[Michael Duff]

” I interpreted the footage and set Fields and Pulldown to OFF and pixels to D1/DV NTSC (0.9)”

i could be wrong, but shouldn’t the footage from the beta be interpreted as upper? unless you have de-interlaced it before after effects. When you play the source clip in quicktime do you see the fields? if so, they will need to be interpreted

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia

[Michael Duff]

there is an effect called CC Force Motion Blur in with the time effects. It came bundled with AE 7.0, not sure about previous version. Here you can set the shutter angle, and the number of blur levels. And I think you can set different shutter angles for different layers

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia

[Michael Duff]

there is a “hack” that you can do, maybe search the archives or google… But also read this:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=746810&archive=T

[Michael Duff]

an uncompressed .AVI would be much much much better than a wmv. But if they will accept a quicktime, the animation codec will make a smaller file without loss of quality.Your files will probably be a few gig either way.

WMV files are intended as a viewing format, not as a source format. You should really only compress to .wmv as the very last step of production.

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia

[Michael Duff]

if they are compressing it themselves to put into flash then ideally you don’t want to compress it to WMV at your end. If the clip is not too big I’d suggest rendering a quicktime animation codec and providing it on DVD or hard drive. It’s never a good idea to compress a clip twice when it’s not needed.

either that or get them to tell you exactly what they want the finished file to be and you just do it from your end.

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia