Jeff Mcbride
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If by export you mean going to File–>Export don’t do it. The regular way to render in AE is by using Composition–> Make Movie This gives you a lot more options for rendering. Go uncompressed or using the Quicktime Animation codec is what I typically use.
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Final Cut never plays videos at full res. When you export it from FCP it’ll look fine (most likely).
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If I understand right one of your difficulties is that when you extend something by a second everything else is now a second off? If you do that multiple times it’s a pain. The answer to that is to select everything and go to Animation-> Keyframe Assistant-> Sequence Layers. This will allow you to push everything out to each others in/out points.
As far as extending/shrinking, Dave is right, just use option/alt [ or ] to set a new in/out for a layer. To move the keyframes just grab the end keyframes and drag them to the end holding shift, they’ll lock in place. If you have keyframes in the middle that will get screwed up you can sometimes set them to roving keyframes (Right-Click the keyframe, go to Keyframe Interpolation, then set Roving to Rove Across Time) This will move the keyframes in the middle to stretch to the time. It may or may not work depending on your case.
Hope that helps.
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The comp setting shouldn’t be the issue. The comp setting sounds like you’ve got it right. Duff’s right, but to further clarify… don’t go to File-Export. Go to Composition-Make Movie. The default should be great quality.
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In the Comp window you can change Active Camera to Custom View 1-3. I’m not sure if you can create your own custom view (though it would make sense that you can.) If you don’t like these three views you could create another Camera and turn it off except when you want to view from a different angle, then just orbit around however you please without worrying about it affecting the output.
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Go here and get the createSphere script. Pop it in your AE Scripts folder, reopen AE, go to File–>Scripts and run that script, it’ll do it for you.
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You might be able to do something with the scribble effect that would write on. If you need it to be in a grid sort you could overlay a solid with Grid applied to give a boxey feel to it.
Go here for a tut on Scribble:
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/CC_Scribble_Part_1/index.html
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Setup your null layer in the center of the 7 layers and parent all the layers to the null. On each layer alt-click the Y-Rotation stopwatch and grab the pickwhip and select the Y-Rotation layer of the Null. This will create an expression something like this:
thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).transform.orientation
add *-1 to the end of that expression and it will rotate the inverse of whatever the null rotates. Then just animate the Null Y-Rot and everything will face forward.