Jim Kanter
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There are many factors that determine rendering speed. For example, you didn’t specify what video card and if you are using OpenGL or any plug-ins or whether or not motion blur or frame blending are on. Is hyper-threading on and are you using Gridiron software’s Nucleo to take advantage of it?
Short animations might take seconds, minutes or hours to render.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Depends on the settings of the Avid project. It may be compressing it when editing.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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We offer a 3-day Intro to After Effects class every month. Based in Atlanta, GA. Adobe Certified Instructor who has been using AE since 1994 and teaching it since 1997.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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The magnification effect can be achieved by changing the scale of the video clip and masking it to reveal only a portion of it..
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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I took a look at a couple of them and they were in full color.
Are you sure that you have all 3 color channels active in the Com window and that you’re not looking a just one channel?
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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The black lines on the left and right are normal. As I understand it, they contain vertical interval blanking information for CRT televisions. Cropping them in a couple of pixels is standard operating procedure when scaling a video clip to create a picture-in-picture effect.
Are you sure that the comp and the clip have the exact same horizontal dimensions and matching pixel aspect ratios?
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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You don’t. A filter is what’s known as a “destructive edit” in that it is applied to the pixels permanently.
Layer styles, on the other hand, CAN be changed or deleted later.
It’s always a good idea to make different versions of your files as you change them just in case you have to undo a few changes later.
Also, try to get in the habit of duplicating the original layer and filtering the copy. You can always disable the original layer’s visibility if you don’t need to see it, but it’s very handy to keep around.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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The latest CIB for AE7 is a good start. The ones from 5 through 6.5 were not.
Chris and Trish’s books are much more useful to people with a certain level of experience with AE already but can be overwhelming for someone brand new trying to teach themselves.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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You have to make the text layer a 3D layer to add a light to it.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com -
URL?
Am not familiar with this set of tutorials.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com