Jonathan Pitzer
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Antialiasing is represented by a jagged line going from left to right in the timeline window. When Antialiasing is turned off, it looks like this \ but more pixelated. Simply click on that for each layer and it will switch to look like this / which will turn on the antiliasing for this layer. THis makes everything look cleaner but also takes a little more demand on your computer. If your computer isn’t well equiped, you can leave this turned off and when you render, render at best settings. This will turn it on at rendering only.
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The Dongle is a USB device that plugs in to verify that the software is in fact legal. If you do have this and it is still giving you the error, it is easy to fix. AVID in their infinate wisdom did not work with microsoft on their product and the Windows Hotfixes that they release sometimes disable the dongle. You will have to look it up on the internet somewhere but there is one hotfix in particular that gives you hell with this. I know that on WIndows XP, it keeps installing the hotfix whenever I run windows update. Start here if you do in fact have the USB dongle. If not, you may be out of luck.
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You an resize it in AE by using transform>scale. After Effects will handle it as long as your video card will handle it. My guess is that your video card will not be able to handle animating it with other layers though so I wolds scale it down to at least half. Keep it big if you are going to zoom in on a fine detail. But, if you are just wanting to see the entire ting, go ahead and scale it down a bit in photoshop. It will save you a lot of render time.
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Mutli Machine Rendering!!
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You can send me an e-mail and I could get with you about it. jkpitzer@cox.net I would just need to know what format you need it in and which plugins you are using.
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THis is definately not due to the processor. It shouldn’t even be anything to do with video memory since this is very basic in the terms of what AE can do. I would check your settings. Also, it sounds like this is an OpenGL type of render which works pretty well in after effects. Does your computer have an OpenGL video card?
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I am interested in what you mean by staggering. Daily, I build comps with anywhere from 30 to 100 layers with just about every effect that you can think of and I rarely have anything take very long to render. And let me tell you, my machine isn’t even close to half of what you have assembled. The problem may be something in your settings or what you are trying to do with it. Please explain what you are doing in more detail and I could help you out.
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if you go to https://www.foxsanangelo.com/addy.html you can see several local commercials for a small market in west texas that are done exclusively in After Effects.
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click on the dquare looking icon at the top of the timeline. This allows you to move the object in 3d space.
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Quictime with alpha or PICT sequence. Either one will work well