[John Isaacks]

I have a mini mac connected to a few in store tv screens to show promo videos. It is for that.

[John Isaacks]

thanks I’ll try that.

[John Isaacks]

its pretty complex, I use 4 of the same .jpg to create a 3d box tunnel for the camera to tunnel through and pass objects….I have rendered this before but now I have changed the ended to have particle-fireworks and particle-glow at the end, and I added a glow to the text to make it sand out more with the particles behind it….and now it wont render. but I tried rendered another scene, with no 3d objects just the particle systems and it did the same thing.

this effect is important because it symbolizes our grand opening sale…the video is to today in 6 hours from right now…

What should I do?

Please help!

[John Isaacks]

@ Brendan Coots

Thank you very much I was using CamStudio not Camtasia, I downloaded the demo for Camtasia and it works much better.

The quality in After Effects was superb, I did lose more quality than I would like though after exporting the flv from After Effects.

Thanks!!!

[John Isaacks]

should I be using a different program than “CamStudio” to capture my screen video?

[John Isaacks]

I believe it was “Microsoft Video 1”

[John Isaacks]

Hi am not offending by your questions, i have used after effects before but I am not a professional.

the video reolution is 1680 x 1050 (the same as my screen) its 40 seconds long. The original .avi is only 30MB so it must be really compressed although it looks great, I import the video into a new after effects project, drag it into the composotion button to create a new compisition, I then render the movie without changing anything, my render settings are set to “Best Settings” and my output module is set to “Lossless”. after rendering the video the new video size is 40GB and looks terrible, its very jumpy and appears as if pixels from different frames are mixing in together and overlapping.

as far as pixel aspect ration, I have not changed anything so whatever the dfault is, but after its rendered that shouldn’t matter anyways right?

THANKS!!

[John Isaacks]

I have Adobe CS3 Master Collection, but it didnt include Audition CS3….I thought ‘CS3 Master Collection’ implyed every CS3 product was included?

[John Isaacks]

thanks alot I had to adjust alot of settings to get it to flow out just like I wanted but it looks great now.

[John Isaacks]

thanks Im not at the office right now but I believe I was using cc particle system. But ill see if I can use a different plugin you mentioned to get the effect and post back tomorrow.

Thanks.