Jayse
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Hey thanks Chris – always good to hear. 🙂
And – after lots of talks with Kathlyn here – looks like I might do a little video tutorial fer da Cow on a few ‘growing’ variations. If people would actually watch it. 😛 – So look for it soon if you’re interested.
Cheers,
// jayse
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hmmm – sounds like ur hard drive might be full – RAM error – Video Card error – or other processes running in the background. If you check your processes does it show other things taking up all the resources? (ctrl/alt/del>processes)
just kind of stabs in the dark… but maybe it’ll land on something.?
// jayse
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This is something I do a lot.
It typtically involves lots of masks (brought in from AI or PS) that I do one of three things with:
1. Animate their expansion (be careful that you’re not using OpenGL preview with this – but adaptive – it’s buggy) I animate it from a negative value back up to it’s default.
2. Animate the points on the mask it self.
3. Animate a new mask on top set to intersect in order to get the reveal on (this is the quickest way – but less elegant)
I wrote tutorials for it in Rich Harrington’s new books AE @ Work and Broadcast Design on the Spot and some examples at http://www.xeler8r.com
hth!
// jayse
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And always include a credits sheet with what you did, along with what other team members did (shows you can work in a team)
// jayse
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Yes – any website tutorial would help – was there something specific that was troubling to change? Maybe we could help better with a specific question. I haven’t seen any tutes specific to editing the templates. But if you had some interesting suggestions – I’m sure either Rich or I will come up with one! 😉
// jayse
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Like Rich, I’ve also ran it on multiple PCs and a MacG5 with no slow downs, other than the Bridge slower than Browser – but that’s a different thing altogether.
CS2 does have its requirements tho – have you checked that your hardware/software matches the specs?
// jayse
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Did you change your AI prefs? AICB? Preserve paths?
jayse
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often people don’t even save when they have a chance because they say the file never opens and it just crashes AE again.
The secret is to turn the Caps Lock key on. This will prevent AE from trying to process whatever it is that is crashing it – and allow you to turn the effect off – switch OpenGL off – or simply move the Timeline indicator.
Then take the key off and you should be set to go.
This may work in your case – tho I’m not sure ‘how’ ur file is corrupted.
// jayse
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Yes – on shots where the viewer won’t know that anything’s been done on it (compositing) this is a must. I’m actually surprised more people don’t do it. I think maybe they just don’t have the time.
If it’s done good – it’s impressive.
I also do this for my print portfolio. And people sending me reels have done this with design as well – which helps me get an idea of just what they’ve added to the piece. So I’m in favor of it.
The only ‘don’t’ I can think of is if you have too much of the before to the point of being boring. Also – if you add text like ‘BEFORE’ – make sure it ain’t ugly. 😉
hth,
// jayse
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I’ve had this problem if I’m sourcing an MP3 file and then rendering out –
The guys at adobe told me a work around long ago – but I’ve just kept everything in my workflow as wav files and the problem has not returned.
I don’t know what your source file is – but maybe that helps?
cheers,
// jayse