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John Castelli
January 30, 2009 at 8:44 pm in reply to: Tutorial on camera movement?

wow I just watched the tutorial on Sure Target…WOW! That makes life easier. I can get my camera to point where I want it to, THEN manipulate the other properties. Thanks so much!

John
John Castelli
January 20, 2009 at 6:15 am in reply to: “Exception: Failed to Initialize audio hardware.”

Windows XP service pack 3. My last system was XP service pack 2
John Castelli
July 14, 2008 at 2:05 pm in reply to: Heroes opening credits effect

That is exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks a lot. I’m pretty new to AE so I’m always trying to figure out the best way to do something. I thought maybe parenting would work if both objects were 3d but it did not! Thanks a bunch.

John
John Castelli
July 6, 2008 at 9:26 pm in reply to: Avid MC won’t export as a QT reference

Hey all,

Thanks for the help. Mixdowns worked! Never thought to try it because it was simply a master clip with only 1 video layer and 1 audio layer. Is there any other way of solving this problem or are mixdowns essential?

Thanks again,

John
John Castelli
May 11, 2008 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Particle Playground smoke question

Hey, If you want to create smoke with particle playground just drag it onto a solid, change the color to white and adjust the gravity so that the particles go up instead of fall down. Then apply a fast blur, and blur it until it looks smokey. You can adjust the speed of the smoke bith the velocity, both the velocity and the color are in the cannon tab. Also, particles per second and barrell radius will help you creat e how much smoke or dust you want, as well as how spread out they are.

some of this seems out of order, but you probably want to apply the blur before you mess around with the characteristics listed below, so that you get an accurate visual.

John
John Castelli
May 3, 2008 at 11:48 pm in reply to: video card opinions

Thank you for your response,

That makes it an easy choice- I’ll stick with what I’ve got. If I want to upgrade, I’ll save up and get a more recent quadro fx video card.

Thanks so much!

John Castelli
John Castelli
April 23, 2006 at 6:32 pm in reply to: AVID Liquid 7

I don’t know the exact differences but I did research it a little bit when I decided to buy an avid for my home. Basically there will be a learning curve. No JKL playback, and some other features as well. However they have some cool features like exporting your media straight from Liquid to MPEG 2 for DVD burning. Since Avid bought it halfway through production, I read the interface still seems a bit prehistoric, but the program itself is pretty good. Again I don’t know that much about it, I’m just telling you what I’ve read on the same pages you may have looked at already. Hope I helped a bit.

John
John Castelli
April 23, 2006 at 4:26 am in reply to: Avid Installation question

2 GB of ram, i dont have any HD footage on my drive but it is avid HD so I dont know if that would be the problem or not?
John Castelli
April 22, 2006 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Avid Installation question

My OS is SP2, I have 160 GB hard drive although I save all of my media, OMFI Files, and renders to an external hard drvie of 250 GB. When I quit Avid nothing out of the ordinary happens. The computer runs perfectly normally except when I shut down the entire computer. Then it brings up the sign that says that the memory is not readable.