Grant Swanson
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In the Time Controls window, click the arrow in its upper left corner and choose Previews Favor Active Camera.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Did you apply any sort of color correction in 8 bpc?
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Keylight can only key out primary colors such as blue or green. For black or white use the Extract Effect.
Grant Swanson
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Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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When you’re working in AE you almost always want to work deinterlaced. So for you, you should have picked “lower-field first” in the interpretation dialogue.
Grant Swanson
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Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Why you’re welcome. I should mention though that they can get a bit long-winded… If you follow along with the project files and stick with it though it will be well worth the effort.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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I created a tutorial on how to do this a while back available here.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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You need to enter your product key for the Cycore Effects (what version of AE are you running?) They come pre-installed with CS3, so I’m guessing you’re on an older version. The green X will continue to render until you enter your product key.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Try going to Edit–>Purge–>All. If that does not work, try turning off Enable Disk Caching in the preferences (Edit–>Preferences–>Memory & Cache).
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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I would look into some of the included distortion effects for something like this (without creating the entire thing in a 3D program). Perhaps playing around with the AE Puppet Tool would give you some results you’re looking for.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Nothing beats Trish & Chris Meyer’s books on After Effects. Check out Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. It’s a great place to start for beginners and intermediate level-users; it provides a very thorough explanation of the entire program.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.blogspot.com