[Frank Feijen]

Haven’t got AE in front of me right now, but wouldn’t working with the transform-effect make things easier.
If you would use a new (or duplicated) transform-effect for every spin, you would end up with just 1 diamondlayer and no precomps.

[Frank Feijen]

Hi Dave,

the weird thing is: we always export same-as-source/RGB out of the Avid.
And i would think that the renders form different PC’s would be identical – all wrong or all right.

[Frank Feijen]

Where did you download the presets?
.mov-files are in most cases plain quicktime-movies instead of fx-presets. I’m just guessing but maybe you downloaded the rendered example instead of the preset?

[Frank Feijen]

I once saw a script enabling you to change your shortcuts. I believe it was at adobe exchange.
Maybe that would solve some issues for you.

[Frank Feijen]

Same problem here. We’ve even done multimachine renders on multiple identical pc’s, and one frame would come out lighter than another.
Haven’t found the solution, but i was suggested to check color profiles. That didn’t help in CS2 and i haven’t gotten around to testing it under CS3.

However, It only seems to happen when movies exported from of the avid are used in the comp.

[Frank Feijen]

I’m with you Adam.
Since CS3 the behaviour of creating outlines has changed.
In previous versions, you would get a solid layer with masks, now you get a shape layer.

I also hope that somebody knows the answer/trick/setting, cause right now i have to autotrace my textlayers to get the desired effect (and autotracing does give a somewhat different result).

[Frank Feijen]

As far as i can tell, i can only set this “switch” when exporting my footage from avid to QT-same-as-source. Or when interpreting my footage in ae. But since the different computers use the same project to render, they should all use the same settings within ae, or not?

[Frank Feijen]

copy the sourcelayer, put a blur on it and set the transparency to 50%. That should take away a lot of the sharpness without defocussing too much.

[Frank Feijen]

Thanks guys, i haven’t got particular but got it to work with CC particle system II.

[Frank Feijen]

Thanks guys, i haven’t got particular but got it to work with CC particle system II.