[Gino Guarnere]

yep, the 3d assistants from Digital Anarchy. I just bought the plugins and they’re as good as advertised. A real time-saver for these types of complicated arrangements.

[Gino Guarnere]

Well, I’m here to concur…

Awesome DVD. I’m a newcomer to After Effects, but I achieved these amazing effects on the couple tutorials I tried on the first night. I’m actually shooting productions now around the effects themselves just because Andrew straightens the learning curve so well. Easy to follow, a good blend of humor, and provides a great understanding of what AE tools actually do so you can apply what you learn to other things. For me, being able to finally use Keylight to get a good key from HDV footage opens up a million options!

I’d also advise you check out the tutorials on Andrew’s homepage (https://www.videocopilot.net/). Lots of other awesome tutorials there, as well!

Thanks, Andrew!

Gino (WB)

[Gino Guarnere]

Hey all,

Any updates on this issue? I really can’t use After Effects 7.0 with music when the comp gets too busy. The music just plays in real time and the comp lags way behind it in RAM preview. I’ve turned all the preview settings way down, I’m running 4 gigs of RAM on a Dual 2.5 gig G5 with Open GL turned on as well as turned off.

What’s the deal? This is killin’ my ability to sync audio to my motion in AE, which sort of renders AE useless for music once the going gets tough.

Anyone, Adobe, somebody please advise!

WB

[Gino Guarnere]

Hey folks,

I found this thread, and I’m having the same problem. I have Sorenson Compression Suite and of course can do a “double hop” to get from AE to .flv, but no one has been able to answer the question surrounding AE crashing when trying to export directly to FLV.

Does anyone know about this at Adobe, has anyone else experienced this (besides James and I) and if so, what’s the fix, if any? I’d hate to think the fix was to go buy Sorenson Compression suite…

And by the way, you don’t need flash to work with FLV files necessarily.

WB

[Gino Guarnere]

https://www.wondertouch.com

Not a plugin, but certainly will work in conjunction with AE.

[Gino Guarnere]

not sure what you mean by “compatible.” You can certainly bring footage in from any NLE as long as you render it out before importing it into AE. Regarding the plugins, etc, I’m pretty sure you can’t share those across the applications.

Hope that helps a bit…

[Gino Guarnere]

yep…thanks!

[Gino Guarnere]

make sure you change the stretch footage settings…I use FCP, so composition in AE is rendered as 1920 x 1080, (you’ll have to put the numbers in manually). Then tick the checkbox “Lock 16:9 Aspect Ratio.”

It wasn’t immediately obvious to me either. If you render at 1440 x 1080, it’ll come out 4:3 as that’s a 4:3 PAR.

Let me know how you make out or if you need further help!

WB

[Gino Guarnere]

Steve,

It’s like the clouds parted 🙂

Thanks for making the distinction. Although I was aware the AE is not a NLE, I guess I needed to hear what it IS there to do, which largely answers my next questions around what I’m actually going to do with it 🙂

Thanks, gents!

G

[Gino Guarnere]

Ok, So I check off “stretch” in Output Module Settings, then change the width to 1920 and height to 1080, which gives me a checkbox that says “Lock Aspect Ratio to 16:9”

How do I make that a “permanent” setting so it always outputs that way?

Thanks, guys and dolls.

WB