[Fran Hartnett]

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Ok, I found the solution/problem…

Show/hide edges : Ctrl+H …. right beside Join : Ctrl+J … thats how i accidentally hit it…

Now i feel a bit stupid, but hey, I never use hide edges, so forgive my ignorance!!

Peace =)

[Fran Hartnett]

Hi Dave…

Still no joy… =(

I’ve now tried playback at 25% screensize and 1/4 resolution… no difference.
i really don’t think its the RAM.
I’m running AE7pro on a 3GHz Dual-Core Pentium with 2Gb RAM…
should be enough juice for what i’m doing
with this animation anyway.. it’s not THAT heavy!

I don’t know..

Thanks for all your help anyway. Much appreciated.

God, I really don’t want to build this up from scrach again… theres a good 20hrs work in it!

[Fran Hartnett]

Hi Dave…

Ok, I tried letting the comp run a few passes, no difference. You see, the audio is not out sync with the visual – in fact, keyframes from the audio tracks are animating the visuals via expressions, so I know the audio is running in sync with the animation.
The problem is – the whole lot is running slowly – a few wierd things:

1. the comp settings say the fps is 25, but when the preview is running, the info box says running realtime ram preview, fps 15…. ?

2. i timed the time it takes for the timeline to play 15 seconds, and it takes 25 seconds for 15 seconds timeline to pass… ??

3. the audio is actually sloooowed down, but other than that it is playing fine, as i said, its perfectly in sync with the equally slowed down animation….

something wierd, but i’m sure its something simple i just can’t see….

Any ideas???

[Fran Hartnett]

Thanks Dan – you the man!

=)

[Fran Hartnett]

Thanks Mark and Mylenium,

will have a go at both methods. Will post again and let you know how I got on…

regards,

Fran

[Fran Hartnett]

the easiest way to do this is to make sure your logo is cut out in Photoshop, so when in photoshop you should be able to see the chequerboard background around the artwork, indicating theres no pixels there.
Save the file as a PSD, and import the layer into Premiere. Place the artwork layer in a video track above the track you have your video footage on. Now you should be able to see your logo on top of your video. If you can’t – try scaling down the artwork layer (in Premiere)..
Now, for the watermark effect, you just need to adjust the opacity of the artwork layer, which you do by double clicking on the artwork layer and the controls for basic attributes are accessible on the left hand monitor…

Happy Christmas! =)