[Filipe Mendes]

Thank you David. It worked… 🙂

[Filipe Mendes]

Sorry to ask, but I’m not English and most of the manuals are in Englsh. I also am a newby to After Effects. I’m not a Pro (I really don’t know what is the Alpha Channel anyway ). I thought it was only a matter of checking something (such as “preserve transparency”) in the rendering process.

Sorry again,

[Filipe Mendes]

Than you,

Anyway, I’m not sure I understood, however I have some comercial footage shot with a green screen in Quicktime files, and when I import them (with file import)there is no black background, when I clik on “toggle transparency grid” And this doesn’t happens when I render my files. There is, In my composition there is no black background. I render the file to Wuicktime. Then I import them back to the same comp, and it’s not transparant anymore (it is the same result when you don’t save a Image to Gif file. The transparancy is replaced by black). Am I missing some option on the render process?

Thank you,

Filipe

[Filipe Mendes]

By the way, I saw a software called Poser Figure Art. However I don’t think it is possible to animate with motion the characters that it offer, do you know such software? Is based on Poser. Can we export the characters of Figure Art to Poser pro?

Thank you again,

Filipe

[Filipe Mendes]

First of All thank you 🙂

Which one do you think is more intuitive and less complex to learn (I don’t know nothing of 3D)? Poser or Motion Bulder? Are the Human Models precreated in poser? like available in a sort of libary?

Thank You,

Filipe

[Filipe Mendes]

Hi Dave,

Forget the last reply. Thank you very, very much for your help. I exported my MPEG files to MOV using Quick Time Pro, and Bingo!!! Problem Solved. No more gaps, jumps, slowdowns in the final rendered videos 🙂

So thank you very much for your help, now I can make my movies, and its great!!!

Filipe

[Filipe Mendes]

Hi dave,

The problem is in fact with my footage :(. I went to a friend of my place and try to open my footage (MPEG files) with Quick Time Pro. The same kind of problems happened (slowdowns, gaps, jumps, etc). I tryed open with WMPlayer and the files played OK (so strange).Anyway, I tryed to save the file to MOV (with QT PRO) but when I opened that QT file, the errors were the same (sometime the images seemed to freeze). Anyway, I imported (using replace footage) to After Effects and a strange error appeared (decimator…), and the program shut down.

I than Tryed to Export my MPEG files to Quick Time (using Quick time PRO export) and there was another error (something to do with memory). So I don’t know what to do anymore.

Lastly I used some footage taken from the tutorials (in Video co pilot) in After Effects and the movies rendered fine. So the problem is on mpeg files. But they work fine in Premiere (I guess).

Sorry to bother you again, and -thank you for -your help,

Filipe

[Filipe Mendes]

Thank you very much Dave

As I reply you before, I’m a newby in all this. I use my Cybershot P100 to do the clips (mpeg1 640*480, 30 frames). Can you explain me to which format should I convert my movies to? And which software should I use to do that? By the way, is my computer fine enough to work with After Effects? I don’t intend to do 3D, only keying simple things in 2D.

Thank you,

Filipe

PS: I ususaly work with audio, and despite sometimes errors oucured in playback, due to loads of plug ins used by me, and virtual intruments, my rendered files ares always good (no errors).

[Filipe Mendes]

Hi again,

Thank you very much for your help in did :). My footage is in fact in MPEG1 Format. I’m using clips that I filmed using my Sony Cybebershot P100.

So as you said, you think I should convert those files, right? Can I convert them to Quick Time? What Format do I converte them to? Can I use After Effects to do that? Is there any other program to do that convertion?

Thank you again,

Filipe

[Filipe Mendes]

Thank you.

So the problem isn’t on my computer? Nor on my Grphic board? However it is odd that when I mix my movies on Premiere Pro, the problem also ocured. And when I export to DVD the problem also subsist.

On th other hand, If there is only a simpe animation (with 1 layer with a photo + another layer with a movie) I can see the movie well. There is no slowdowns. When there are 2 or more movies mixed together at the same time, with keying effects, the movie almost stops. So strange.

Thank you one more time,

Filipe

PS: sorry about my english 🙂