[Kurt]

Whoa, thats a cool plug-in. Especially since I can use my own bubbles.

Thanks dude, good call on that one.

kurt

[Kurt]

Or you can drag the folder containing the images to the Project window (NOT the images themselves).

[Kurt]

According to the “Genius'” at the Santa Monica Apple store, you need a minimum of 4 gigs of RAM to run After Effects. Oh and only RAM purchased at an Apple store will work.

[Kurt]

My point exactly.

It’s way easier just to buy the songs than to pirate, buy CD, or get from a friend. But once you have the songs, it’s a complete pain in the ass to deal with them.

It’s really galling that my iTunes

[Kurt]

pirate?

[Kurt]

oh

[Kurt]

Don’t listen either of these guys

In the iTunes prefs, under the “Advanced” tab, deselect “Copy files to iTunes Library….”

Then import. iTunes wil reference it from that drive.

*Don’t make too big a habit of this, gets messy over time.

K

[Kurt]

1. Copy/paste the effects from the effect window

2. Copy/paste the keyframes

[Kurt]

The way you are doing it is the most common. Not a great answer, I know.

This type of movement is much easier to achieve in programs with a motion curve editor – which AE lacks, incredibly, to this day. The type of function curve required to make this movement is called Hemite, which allows one side of the bezier handle to be adjusted independantly of the other (like in Illustrator, and many other Adobe products). There may be other names for it, but the concept is the same.

You can write support@aftereffects.com and request this feature, or request a revamp of the motion curves controls. The more people that do, the sooner we’ll be out of the dark ages…. seriously.

K

[Kurt]

interesting.

does auto light automatically come from the render view? or just from the editor camera only

so, in order to achieve a flat light or “lack of directional” light to my scenes, I must set up 4 omni lights from NWSE directions?

thanks fors the tips