[Lillian Young]

I initially asked (before posting here) and they said “cinematics,” not animatics. If it’s as simple as this tutorial from YouTube where you mask out an image and animate stuff behind it, fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBS13MFIv40

But if it’s more complicated than that, well..

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[Lillian Young]

Thanks, Walter. I meant cinematics. And actually YouTube wasn’t very helpful in this regard. Of the two tutorials I found, one was very poorly instructed, and one covered so little that I didn’t grasp it.

Fortunately Lynda.com just came out with a tutorial on animating characters in AE, and I ‘think’ it’s the closest thing to what I need to know.

[Lillian Young]

Thanks, Greg. I had this identical problem and didn’t know why. So I did what you said and set the Depth to 16 bits per channel. Problem solved. *whew*

[Lillian Young]

I received support from them years ago (about 2 years ago) after purchasing a DVD set and having problems. I haven’t purchased anything else though recently.

Have you tried the blogs on Video Copilot? Not that you should have to. They should respond to your email.

[Lillian Young]

I am holding the pen completely still. I tried dragging a psd file into the window three ways:

Dragging and pressing the pen onto the tablet screen

Dragging and holding the (programmed) right-click button on the pen

Dragging and holding the (programmed) middle-click button on the pen

I know it’s hard to help with this online because I can’t demonstrate how I’m trying it, so I thank you in advance.

[Lillian Young]

It seems that I failed to find the right option in Soundtrack Pro, and my Soundbooth crashes upon open, so I exported a wav file from QT, and it worked. Your file also worked.

Thank you for going above and beyond in helping me. I appreciate it!

[Lillian Young]

The wav file was given to me. So no, initially, C4D wasn’t responding to it. However, I exported it out of Soundtrack Pro with 44.1 kHZ and 16bit as a wav file. I don’t know how to control the bit rate to make it conform to 11, 22. Nor did I se a way to make the file 44 instead of 44.1.

As-is, C4D’s Frequency Graph DOES respond to the file now. However, it’s just noise with no distinguishable beat or melody.

I assume this is because the file is still not at the proper specs. The audio bit rate alone is way over 11, 22. It’s past 1 million! I think that if I can figure out how to change the audio bit rate, it’ll work.

[Lillian Young]

Thanks, but it seems that the file fits those specs. Yet it’s not playing in C4D.

[Lillian Young]

I am having this exact problem. I’m following a Digital Tutors tutorial on the Sound Effector, and their included wav audio file worked, but my own wav file did not. I have addressed this in their forum, but thought I’d seek help here, and it looks like someone else has the same issue, but no solution is posted.

I’m using a Mac, so if anyone knows an answer, or if I get one on DT, let’s share.

Thanks!

[Lillian Young]

Yes, I saw that one. Thanks. It was almost what I needed, but it’s a Final Cut tutorial, so by the end, I didn’t know how to use the shape data in After Effects until I did some research on my own.

At the end of the day, my final solution was to use the new CS5 roto brush. That way, I could adjust my mask within the comp instead of roundtripping to Mocha.