[Fred Matthews]

I am RAM previewing a 1 minute spot. I have the resolution set at full but am skipping as many as 8 frames. I know that it can do it because it often does. But even if I put it at half resolution and 10 frames it still locks up in that one spot. I even “purge all” before trting to preview and it still does it.

Hopefully it won’t do it in any other projects as it seems to be isolated to this one for now.

Thanks

[Fred Matthews]

I am RAM previewing a 1 minute spot. I have the resolution set at full but am skipping as many as 8 frames. I know that it can do it because it often does. But even if I put it at half resolution and 10 frames it still locks up in that one spot. I even “purge all” before trting to preview and it still does it.

Hopefully it won’t do it in any other projects as it seems to be isolated to this one for now.

Thanks

[Fred Matthews]

This was a post by David Garrett a few days ago in the ‘First play video’ thread. I didn’t want to steal his help.

[Fred Matthews]

See if this helps.

look at the timelines in the project window of Encore, there should be a little YELLOW CIRCLE with a BLACK RIGHT FACING ARROW. This indicates what has been set as first play. If there isn’t one showing then right click whatever timeline u wish to use and then select “SET AS FIRST PLAY”.

hope this helps

[Fred Matthews]

Not really. I want the hands to be visible in the turning of the calendar pages. If I have to I will go to something like that but the hands turning the pages is important to the storyboard.

[Fred Matthews]

That is the issue that I am having trouble with. The bottom block will need to bend or look like it is. The blocks further up will be shielded by the paper and thus just need to be wiped off. I thought about using a mask in some way to do the bottom block but the block bends and that won’t work unless I turn the page just right.

I am going to shoot it a few more times tomorrow and see if I can get one that will work. If not I may need to try something different.

Any other thoughts?

[Fred Matthews]

This exact project is done in the Total Training for Adobe After Effects 6.5 training video series. If you do not have it I highly recommend getting the set. I pull from it for various projects as needed rather than watch the shole thing through. It is about 60 hours of incredible instruction from the basics and the screen layout to the difficult and plug-ins.

Totally worth the money.

[Fred Matthews]

After reading your post again I think that I may not have been clear with my intentions.

I shot a desk calendar and then flipped throuhg the pages slowly. This will be my main layer. I then want to take some additional clips of video and place them in each of the squares of the Sundays on that calendar. The additional clips then need to act as one with the calendar.

So placing the clips on the calendar and them making a pre-comp, then doing a page-turn will not work becasue the pages in the video are already being flipped manualy.

What about shooting the individual calendar pages (without flipping), placing the additional clips on that page and then making a pre-comp to put the page-turn on? That might work if I can make it look like the actual calendar pages are being turned.

What do you think?

[Fred Matthews]

Okay I’ll try that. I have been attempting to use the motion tracker but 1) I don’t think that will work, 2) I don’t think I have near enough AE knowledge to muddle through that effect and 3) man is that a lot of keyframes.

I’ll try your suggestion and get back on the results.

Thanks

[Fred Matthews]

I am using the opacity and taking it from 0 to 100. But I don’t think the speed of the transition is going to help. I need to play with it some more.