[John Taylor]

I can’t get it to work?!?!
What I’m working on: PS-CS4(ver.11)on a windows XP workstation.

https://jaykinghorn.com/?p=98

I’m following the that webpage expiation as wells as the one provided on the previous post. I’m zoomed way in and then I press the H and HOLD the H key and my zoom tool quick changes to a hand tool. But it doesn’t jump out or any thing!

I’m almost afraid to ask the next question but if the Birds Eye feature on of the new and in my opinion very unfair “MAC only” upgrades?

Thank you for your additional feedback.

JT

[John Taylor]

Yes sir, it a classic example of when you know something you can’t imagine not knowing it.

As the instructor has clearly demonstrated in this video tutorial.

JT

[John Taylor]

I found out how to turn on the action zone marks and the title safe zone in AE CS3Thx for the help guys. But now I have a quick follow up question:

Now it looks to me like the action safe area is ok for having text in there because I’m building kiosk and there is A LOT of text and pictures to fit in a 720 wide by 480 high areas so I have squeezed the content pictures and text within the Action Zone. When I publish the file in a DVD it looks like only the area outside the action zone is being cropped.

I’m a bit concerned case the help file in AE CS3 says you should place the text in the Safe Zone. So I guess my follow up question is how iron clad is the rule that next needs to go only in the title safe zone and can you get away with having text in the action zone as well?

Thank in advance for the help.

John

[John Taylor]

I’m posting for a regular TV that will be playing off a DVD. The compression I’m using is Uncompressed then I run it throught windows media encoder making it to a WMA that really keeps the file size down and helps with the quality. What I did was find way to make the text stand out better by instead of taking the text elments from PS and importing them as a targa into AE just copying and pasing the text elements in AE directly and making them contrast more with the BG at this point the main thing I would like to know about is render setting that are good for text clarity when I out put my file. This file is being added to a DVD encore so its not going to be posted to the web so size isn’t to much of a factor.

Thx for the support

John

[John Taylor]

Ok i got a bit more info:

1) The video is going to be playing on a norml (not HD) TV

2)The AE project is being rendered with no compression out of AE and then I’m running it throught window media encoder to get the file size down down so it will be a WMA format when I send it forward in the work-flow

[John Taylor]

Wow that was very informative bogiesan thx.

[John Taylor]

WOW thats a really good idea!! and really simple 2 I’m glad you thought of it!

[John Taylor]

No actually what is going on with this is kind of crappy the client gave me a PDF from the last designer how kind of flaked out on then and is now unreachable. They want that PDF to be made into a movie for their kiosk so I have been cutting sections of the existing PDF and placing it in PS files and then bringing the PS files into AE. There is quite a bit of text so I would like to avoid re-typing it if I could I tried using:

Effect > Blur & Sharpen >Reduce interlace flicker

effect on a Pre-comp of my movie but all it did was make things softer and HARDER to read so that didn’t do any good.

Thx U for the quick response!

John