Matt Carl
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You will want to use File/ Media Manager. In the Media Manager area you can specify what you are trying to do (in your case it sound like “Copy” would be the desired selection). At the bottom of this window is a “Media Destination” area that allows you to select where you want this project saved. Good luck!
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Thanks for your response. If that is the case though why would After Effects be telling me different aspect ratios for FCP clips that used the same exact capture settings? It has always been my impression that AE reads video data (frame rate, size, aspect ratio) the way it was captured to begin with. Is this not correct?
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Maybe you have done this but I would double check that all of your settings are correct in exporting out of both FCP and AE. Also make certain that both your composition timeline and project settings in AE are set at the correct FPS you want (especially check your AE project settings as this has tripped me up a few times).
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I was just having the same problem and came up with an answer that worked for me. The time reversing idea would’nt work because that would put the trail of my light streak following the motion path ahead of it’s source. Instead I flipped the solid around (-100 on X) so that the motion path would also travel in the reverse direction.
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And the third way to do it would be to make a pre comp. Put the object you want to scale in a pre comp and do whatever scale change/ panning/ whatever you want in it. Then back in your master comp put the mask on this pre comp. This way the size of of you object won’t affect your mask since your pre comp is staying the same size.
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Well I figured this out (kind of) just in case anyone in the future looks this up and is experiencing a similair problem. I am working on a Mac and keep all of my fonts in their default folder located in Mac HD/ Library/ Fonts. The font that was giving me problems “Cosmos” was a new font that I had acquired and put in this folder to use. I also keep a copy of all of my new fonts in a special folder on an external HD. When I originally acquired this new font I got the wrong version (PC I think) that didn’t work on my Mac. I still had a copy of that in my external HD folder. I believe AE was trying to read the wrong font off of the external HD during renders and this was causing the problem. I reinstalled the correct “Cosmos” font in my Mac/ Library/ Fonts folder (to be safe) and deleted the wrong font from my external HD and now everything seems cool.
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Select the composition you wish to preserve and then go to Flie/ Reduce Project. This will get rid of the unused media in your AE project but will not delete them from your HD. If you have files scattered all over your computer and external Hard Drives then use File/ Collect Files and they will all be copied into one central place.
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Yeah, I tried a search for all sorts of stuff but the templates were never installed so it never came up with anything. I was just looking for someone to let me know were the Template projects are usually stored but I eventually found that out by looking on another computer, not something I found from RTFM but I always do appreciate helpful advice thus this is why I am here on the COW.
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Someone else installed AE on my computer so I have no idea if they installed the templates or not? I figured out my original question about where they are stored though by looking on another computer. In the AE applications folder there is a “Template” Folder which contains the AE projects and there is a separate “Footage” folder inside the application folder that contains those projects graphics and media.
I didn’t see that anywhere in the long AE Help post you copied and pasted but thanks for encouraging me to RTFM anyhow. -
No I have not been trying to move or scale my PS logos in anyway inside of FCP(nor have I gone back into PS to edit any of these images). The problem seems to be with FCP linking the PS layers incorrectly when I copy and paste them into other timelines (but like I said for some strange reason the original PS sequence inside of FCP links the correct layers, just not when I copy and paste them). From the advice I’m hearing here (thanks) and from what I’m experiencing it seems that Final Cuts handling of PS files is unstable and I would probably be better off doing my grfx the old fashioned way (making tif files with an alpha). Does anyone else feel this way about FCP mishandling PS files or are people finding it worth the risk for the conveinence?