[Jason Demek]

Todd thanks for your quick response. The footage was shot in DVCPRO50, so it should be compatible. The footage looked great through our monitor while shooting but once I take it into After Effects it gets the grain.

Jason Demek
Editor/Animator/Director
WPGH 53: Pittsburgh, PA

[Jason Demek]

Have you tried making some layers into precomps and nesting into a new comp?

Jason Demek
Editor/Animator/Director
CW21 – Birmingham, AL

[Jason Demek]

Thanks Vince, after talking to our IT guy he said the same thing. Thanks for the response.

Jason Demek
Editor/Animator/Director
CW21 – Birmingham, AL

[Jason Demek]

Matthew,

I’m not to sure what your trying to explain. If you could explain clearer I think I could help. But if I was working on this, and wanted the same end product I would:

1. Create each individual character for the word I would like to animate
2. Line up each character to the spacing I want.
3. Set a position keyframe for each character about 2 seconds into the composition.
4. Set a position keyframe for each character at the beginning of the composition.
5. Move the position keyframes according to the speed I would like the text to fly in
6. Set up a new composition, and add the first composition.
7. Effect the old composition that I placed in the new composition to my liking.

Some effects to play with would be ripple, directional blur, wind current, etc.

Hope this helps even if I didn’t quite hit exactly what you wanted.

Best of Luck

Jason Demek
Editor/Animator/Director
CW21 – Birmingham, AL

[Jason Demek]

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Best of luck

Jason Demek
Editor/Animator/Director
CW21 – Birmingham, AL

[Jason Demek]

Try playing around with your memory & cache preferences. Raising your maximum memory usage or lower your image cache preferences, it helps reduce fragmentation. I’m running a Macbook Pro with 4 GB ram. I’m able to create a project at 2500 x 1500. My maximum memory is set at 120% or 3 CB. Maximum RAM cache size is set at 60% or 1.8 GB. Hope this helps.

Jason Demek
Editor/Animator/Director
CW21 – Birmingham, AL

[Jason Demek]

Everything seems to be working fine. I was having trouble importing from Illustrator but the problem was resolved after a restart.