[Leor Brenman]

Check out maxon.net -> support -> Tips and Techniques -> Dynamics -> “Knocking Over a Stack of Boxes”

It could give you a starting point for your project.

BR,
Leor

[Leor Brenman]

Thanks again guys. Problem solved!

In the hopes that this will help some other newbie, I will share my mistakes with you. One of the problems I had was with the C4D rendering. For some reason, I did not realize that in order to get the multipass to work, I had to use “render to picture viewer”. I use “render to picture viewer” for still images but for animation, I was using “Make Preview”. This, clearly was not causing any of the multipass rendering to work. Also, when I saved from the “Make Preview” window I was not getting an alpha channel.

When I followed the advise you two gave me AND used “render to picture viewer” then everything worked.

By the way, I am generating QT MOV for the main animation and QT MOV’s for each object (instead of TIFF or JPG sequences as in the tutorial) which I use as a Lume Matte in AE. This seems to work fine. Am I dong this right?

I am able to open the .aec file from AE and it brings in my composition (as an MOV) and the special passes (as MOV’s) just as I wanted.

Thanks again!

[Leor Brenman]

Thanks to coverbee and Chris for quick helpful replies.

They both helped me with problem #1 (quicktime with alpha).

I am still working on this so I will update later with any additional problems I might have.

[Leor Brenman]

While there are a lot of PPT converters on the market, I have found that Techsmith Camtasia works best and is most flexible. However, you should also look into saving slides as stills (either Save As JPG or using a screen capture program) and then importing the stills into AE as Steve mentions above.

Finally, have you considered recreating your presentation totally in AE using AE text tool, etc…?

BR,
leor

[Leor Brenman]

Hi Ron,

Understood.

Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback; I look forward to any GUI enhancements you make in the future.

Take care.

BR,
Leor

[Leor Brenman]

Great tutorial; thanks! However, the link for the project files is dead (cow has lost it’s pasture …).

BR
Leor

[Leor Brenman]

Hi Ron,

Good answer. Reminds of a joke, whose punch line is “Make me one with everything”. It involves a hot dog stand and a Zen Master.

BR,
Leor

[Leor Brenman]

i think i had previous and next reversed in my post above.

anyway, please check the first post in the list and see what happens when you press Next and what happens when you press Next from there

hope I am no too confusing

BR,
Leor

[Leor Brenman]

Hi Eric,

Looking better.

Now I see and can use the << and >> to peruse the posts, ‘however’, when the new post is displayed the page is autoscrolled so that the <> controls are at the top of the page, i.e. I cannot see the advertisements on the top of the page. I hope I am dscribing this properly.

BR,
Leor

[Leor Brenman]

Hi Curtis,

I think you have given me enough suggestions for me to be on my way. I appreciate your assistance. Thanks again.

BR,
Leor