[Filip Vandueren]

And there you have it:

(as we say in Belgium) the exception that confirms the rule.

Trapcode make indispensable stuff, you just neeeed that stuff 😎

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Aindreas,

thanks 😉

It was kind of my point not to use too many plugins, I have almost no 3rd party plugins installed and usually get the job done 😉

[Filip Vandueren]

What kind of image are you starting out with ?
Is the layer you’re applying it to large enought to contain the cricle ?

[Filip Vandueren]

What kind of image are you starting out with ?
Is the layer you’re applying it to large enought to contain the cricle ?

[Filip Vandueren]

there’s an image of 1024×512 pixels here:

https://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html

this is The texture you see practically everywhere.
You can by the higher res files for only 5$

also check out some similar Nasa images you can download for free:
Nasa’s Blue Marble site @ https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

click on the “See related Blue Marble imagery:” links to get other views
Some of them are ridicilously high-res 😎

The trick is that these images are twice as wide as they are high,
just import one of those, drop them in your comp and apply CC sphere.

[Filip Vandueren]

search on apples site for “CHUD tools”, they may also be on your installation disk and be installed if you install xcode and all developper files.

Anyway, CHUD ads a control-panel to the system preferences where you can set a few processor-options like “allow nap” or “use only 1 processor”.

I’ve disabled “allow nap” because if it’s on, I can hear the graphics card whirr with a very high pitch whenever I drag a window in the finder.
(yeah I know, it’s weird)

But it might solve your problem too.

[Filip Vandueren]

Try un/re-plugging the USB lead of your keyboard, possibly even to another USB-port.

[Filip Vandueren]

You can simply “select all”, then crop.
It will cut off all exces graphics on all layers.

If you want to do it on only 1 layer, I think the easiest way would be select-all, then Float the layer with control-J (or Command-J on mac)
It will create another cropped layer above the one you’ve selected, so you’ll have to throw away the first one.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Daniel,

you can also double-click on your background-layer, so it becomes ‘layer 1’.
The background layer cannot have transparancy, but layer 1 can.

Now select your Alpha Channel like before, so you have the marching ants.
Then hit the little “add layer mask” button in the layers-palette.
You should have transparancy now. and You can safely delete the fourth channel.

Since After Effects understands PSD files pretty well, it will see this transparancy as an alpha channel even though it is not explixilty a 4th channel.

[Filip Vandueren]

Indeed it does,

Conoa’s homepage seems to be offline, but you can get to the details via here:

https://www.conoa.com/products.html