Jason Milligan
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I know the exact tutorial you are mentioning.
Here is the trick:
Make your solid square (for instance 480X480).
Once you have used the mask tools to create your rounded square, stretch the solid to 720X480 to get the rounded rectangle. -
You need to select multiple layers.
Align works by aligning the layers based on each other’s position not by aligning a single layer to the composition window. It is a bit confusing if you are anticipating a feature similar to Flash or Illustrator’s “align to stage/artboard” function. In Flash and Illustrator, you can align to stage/artboard or align based on other objects. Unfortunately, I’ve never found AE to have an “align to stage (comp window)” option. -
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I doubt anyone can configure their machine to always max out its resources for every render. Some renders aren’t going to need as many resources to compute their data. Processors and RAM aren’t the only variable when rendering either. Your hard-drives can only spin and write data so quickly (keep in mind your system is also probably using hard-drive space as a scratch disk also). There will be a threshold where one (be it RAM, processors, hard-drive, graphics card, etc.) cannot keep up with another.
That being said, I imagine someone may have some tips on maximizing your settings to get the most out of your resources. I’m still trying to figure out the best configuration for my computers also.
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Do you have auto-orient turned off for the camera?
If not, it can make cam animation very difficult because it gives unexpected results if you aren’t aware it is aiming at the point of interest.You can find it under layer>transform>auto-orient
or hit option(alt)+command(ctrl)+oHope this helps.
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Is there a reason you are using a particle generator instead of scaling a solid with a circular mask?
Are there a multitude of points or something?