Erik Waluska
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If it’s just dark shadows on white the easiest way is to just switch the blending mode to multiply, which will drop out all of the white while keeping the soft edges. Dave’s suggestion would be best if you need to use the shadows as a matte for another layer.
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That’s the one “gotcha” of the replace footage function – it doesn’t work on text layers. I would suggest just copying/pasting all of the effects and other properties you want to keep to the logo image.
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My work Mac is a quad-core xeon 2.66 intel, OS X 10.6.6, about the same age as yours or a little older and it only had the original 4GB of RAM installed, which worked fine with CS3 Production Premium. But when we first installed CS5 I was getting constant hang ups and the beach ball of death and just generally crappy performance. It was horrible. Several other people here with similar machines were experiencing the same problem after installing CS5. Adobe recommends 4GB per core with a 2GB per core minimum so we installed another 4GB (8GB total) and it’s been running pretty good since then, although I imagine that more RAM would be even better. I’m not sure about the corrupted renders though, that may be something else, but I suppose it could be caused by the hang ups due to lack of RAM.
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Good to know. Thanks for posting the solution. It will probably save someone else a lot of headaches down the road.
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Usually that “cannot parse the file” error is due to an incompatible format, not a lack of system resources. I would check if that 3D file format is supported in your version of Photoshop. And you may also have better luck in the Photoshop forum.
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Yeah, it seems pretty stable so far. We’ve been running 10.6.6 for several months with CS5 and haven’t noticed any significant problems. The OS itself seems to have some issues with permissions, especially on windows share servers but if you don’t have any windows servers on your network then it shouldn’t be a problem. We use After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator for the most part and I’ve never even opened Premiere on this system so I can’t vouch for its performance but the other apps seem as stable as on previous operating systems.
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No problem. Glad I could help.
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OK, got it. The reason it’s doing that is because you have bezier interpolation on the keyframes…
…which is fine, except they are in the same position so they are sort of folding in on themselves, creating that weird loop.
To understand what’s happening, select the second keyframe and grab it with the selection tool in the comp window and move it to the right and watch the loop unfold…
You can fix it by breaking the handles and making the inner handles zero length, but if you’re off just a little you’ll get some movement or jittering between the keyframes so the best and the easiest way to fix it is to just make the first keyframe a hold keyframe…
To create a hold keyframe, either right-click and choose “toggle hold keyframe” or ctrl + alt + click the keyframe.
HTH
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The link to your image was block by my spyware program. Could you post it directly on the Cow instead? (use the image upload button when you post)
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A good way to get some practical experience is to try to recreate effects from movies/tv, etc. that you like or want to be able to emulate. Or make up a scene with a special effect and try to do it as if you are really working on a movie. I do motion graphics and when I started I used to record TV commercials and try to reverse engineer them or I would make up a product or something and create a fake commercial for it. It’s great practice and forces you to work towards a goal and figure things out that you wouldn’t have even thought of otherwise.