Laurie Pepper
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Well, Matt, it’s no particular file. These days it just happens frequently when I quit Quit AE, whether I’m currently working on a Zax comp or not. As long as the project has a zax in it.
When I bring a zax comp into another comp and try to use it as a layer and manipulate it in AE, it generally crashes. So I usually render out the Zax timeline as quickly as I can, either to a .mov or a psd.
This used to happen frequently when the zax comp used .jpg materials which were too big. So I’m very careful about that now.
A couple days ago, it happened when I was applying a boris effect to a nested zax comp. (I solved this by rendering the zax comp out first as a photoshop file). The crash doesn’t interfere with anything when I quit AE, I just get that message in the midst of quitting. I get a bunch of AE crash messages blaming Zax. It isn’t a clean quit, so I generally go and trash prefs after that happens. I love Zaxwerks. Why is it making AE unhappy? -
THANKS. You know, I downloaded a demo of Quickkeys because I used it years ago on my dos machine and I heard Walter Murch mention, at a LAFCPUG event that he uses it. But I couldn’t make it work. Maybe I didn’t give it a chance.
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Thanks, Steve. I have four gigs of RAM and clearly, that’s adequate for the kind of RAM previews I’ve been getting. I’ll check out your other suggestions.
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Yeah. I was actually trying to do it with an invig 3d primitive. Which had no sides. Thanks. L.
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the tutorial is really spiffy, tho. Might give me better than what I’ve done before.
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Thanks, yeah. I’ve done that a few times. But it doesn’t look as much like writing to me.
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I confuse myself a lot, too. No, what I do is write a word, let’s say, “scene.” On a single solid I write S.C.E.N.E. I save the paint layers that work, delete the ones that don’t, move the paint layers around and size and position them to write on “Scene” — letters coming consecutively like they ought, and then use the key. I’m beginning to think this is such a peculiar way to do things that it is the only way to do this particular thing.
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But Dan, when you do that, you don’t get a separate layer for each letter you draw and it’s very hard to manipulate scale and rotation, and position, in order to make a coherent looking word.
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Hey, pal, it’s PERFECT!!! Thanks so much.
Ms Pepper