[John Cuevas]

Just open up AE(or any adobe program) go to help and click “Deactivate”. I’ve never had a problem moving plugins from one computer to another.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Don’t invert your add mask, instead make it a subtract mask

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Do you really need to render, you can dymanic link in CS6 to Premiere, open Premiere and import the AE project.

If you really need to render out, I use Avid’s Codec DNxHD codec, it will create a quicktime file. Otherwise, if you are going for lossless, Quicktime Animation—large file size though.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Twirl open your text, add a text animator for Color Fill. Another method would be to duplicate your layers, set one to fill only, one to stroke only then add your effect to only the fill layer.

Check out this example project: 8135_fillstrokecolor.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Multiple ways to this but here’s one method. Create a layer of text, press “Y” to activate the anchor point tool, grab the anchor point and move it to the center of the text layer. Enable 3D for the layer. Press “A” to open up the anchor point and move the anchor about half the height of the layer(in my example I moved it to -50). Move forward 1 second, press “R” and set keyframe for “X Rotation”, then move forward again for the duration you want your text to be visible and add another keyframe. Now move to the beginning of your timeline and set change the X Rotation to -90. Now move 1 second past your last keyframe and set a keyframe to +90.

Lastly add this expression to your opacity by pressing “T” then “alt+clicking” on the stopwatch:

if (toCompVec([0, 0, 1])[2] > 0 ) value else 0

That expression makes it so when your layer isn’t facing the default camera, it’s opacity goes to 0.

Then just duplicate the text, change it and offset each layer. Here’s an example project demonstrating the technique: 8131_rotatingtext.aep.zip

Also, I would strongly suggest you check out: Getting started with After Effects (CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, & CC)

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Boy that answer is a “just depends”, I’m working on one today that will be about 6 minutes long, but it’s just a product video with the same repeated formula over and over—probably take 8 hours. Worked on an animation last month that took over 80 hours for 1.5 minutes.

Without seeing the video, it’s impossible to tell, but if you only been doing this for 4 months, your speed will undoubtedly improve as you learn the program, familiarize your self with shortcuts(invaluable)…and just as importantly learning what not to do.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You are zooming into your image(800%). AE is showing you your comp, if you zoomed it that large. Go back to 100% size, select your AI layer, press “s” and then increase the scale to 800%, it will look fine.

Zooming in on your comp is fine–I do it all the time to properly align things, but everything will become aliased when you do that—just like it would if you did that with a picture or movie.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Is it a vector image? If it is, post a screen grab of your timeline and composition.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You could add the position animator, change the shape to Ramp Up. Animate the “offset” to move your line in. You can adjust the Ease to change how quickly they enter.

Here’s a quick little project demonstrating the technique: 8121_linestagger.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Try using a luma key, set it to key out darker, then adjust the threshold until you key out the black sky.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.