[Kevin Knutson]

This is taken straight from the install disc readme:

“Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Adobe After Effects CS5 32-bit vs. 64-bit support

Windows versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Adobe After Effects CS5 require a 64-bit edition of Windows Vista or Windows 7. This applies to both the standalone versions of the applications as well as the components of Production Premium CS5.

You cannot install or run Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 or After Effects CS5 on any of following operating systems:

• 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP Home or Professional
• 32-bit editions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or
Enterprise
• 32-bit editions of Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate
If you are using a 32-bit operating system, Adobe recommends that you upgrade to either:
• 64-bit edition of Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise
• 64-bit edition of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate

To ease the transition to a 64-bit operating system, Production Premium CS5 and Master Collection CS5 include a support package that contains 32-bit versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4.

Until you upgrade to a compatible 64-bit operating system, you can install and use the 32-bit support package included with your purchase. After you upgrade to a qualified 64-bit operating system, you can install and use Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5.”

[Kevin Knutson]

And just to clarify, is the problem showing after a full render from AE, in a video file, or is this happening during a RAM preview inside of AE?

[Kevin Knutson]

Brush up on blending/composite modes and displacement maps. If you intend to use hand held footage, brush up on motion tracking.

What kind of tips are you hoping for?

[Kevin Knutson]

How are you rendering in AE? Are you rendering lossless? Which codec, etc?

How about composition settings? Do they match the footage you brought in from FCP?

[Kevin Knutson]

I agree with Dave. Your render times are probably pretty much on par. It kind of goes to the ol saying “Good things are worth waiting for”. If you’re a self proclaimed novice in AE, then CS4 is plenty machine right now. It still has great features, and will get most jobs done, and done well.

Plus, it never hurts to download the trial, and see how it works out for you.

K

[Kevin Knutson]

Thanks Craig,

I’m running Flip4Mac 2.3.3.3 (and all software updates are current).

Indeed you can access quicktime components in AME, but even when exploring the full spectrum of custom settings, WMV is no where to be found.

[Kevin Knutson]

So I worked with motion tracking the subject’s earring, and applied it to a small matte layer underneath the keyed out footage layer. Seems to work well, and takes dramatically less time than key framing a mask.

Once again, the cow rocks. Thanks for your time and suggestions everyone.

Still seems like a horrible oversight on Adobe’s part to not have a contiguous key, considering the technology is present in photoshop already.

[Kevin Knutson]

Thanks Chris,

unfortunately we dont have the $500 for primatte keyer, but good to know its there in the future.

Time to brush up on my motion tracking.

[Kevin Knutson]

Thank you Walter, this will probably be my best option.

Seems like a tragic oversight. You can easily do a contiguous color select in photoshop, so one would imagine you could in AE as well. Two people in the same cave inventing different wheels.

[Kevin Knutson]

Well sometimes its nice to see my hack fix workarounds arent as hack fix as I thought they were, but still bad news.

The chromaflex performs well, but yeah, definitely a small set back with the reflections. Save hours from lighting, add hours in editing. There’s no free lunch.