[Mballom]

Hi Timothy,

I thank you very much. I will try the second method first, cuz the first method will force me to go back in hundreds of pages of reading about masks in photoshop b4 being able to use them. Last time i tried using a mask on the fly in photoshop (based on my experience of masks with AE) it was a real catastrophe lol.

[Mballom]

Thank you Aaron, great answers. In fact most of them were already in the movie, sorry for the extra job LOL. The truth is my listening english isn’t as advanced as compared to my reading of it.

Just one last question if you don’t mind Arahron: I just didn’t catch the purpose of the cartoon_accent footage. I can tell i understand the other two footages (cartton_lines and cartoon_color), but not the accent one.

Again sorry for the extra job. Lemme also thank all of you guys here at creative cow for being very helpful all the time.

[Mballom]

“If I ram test I eventually get memory errors or cannot ram test more than 1 or 2 seconds in a 10 second project.I do not know wether the issue is with ae7 or invig”

Got same problems too, in my case the error message is fatal i can’t even ram prev for 1 sec, and have to quit then reopen project. I am still at AE6.5 so i don’t think it’s relative to AE7.

[Mballom]

“I want to ramp some shots up to around 600% normal speed and quickly back down to 20%. This will give me that sudded speed up and slow down effect.”

Time remapping does this very fine in AE as well as in premiere. Very great feature i can tell.
Unfortunatly i can’t go into the click-here-and-there and other the ABCs of AE. I am afraid you will need some readings in AE help to get used to some basics.

Generally speaking, AE is is not an editing package, thats what premiere does. AE is a good companion for the editing packages tho. Both work together to achieve larger ideas. Each one is specialized in its tasks even tho they sometimes cover same features.

I am not an expert but i can tell usually in AE you work with short pieces of clips where you apply effects, add non real-life elements, composite, tweak color, bring changes on entire clip or part of it, or even portion of frames. Then back in editing packages you join these small clips together to create a longer movie or sequences and do the timing.

Some 30 secondes TV ads or video spots can be done entirely with AE.

Or you can get the idea of the workflow quicklier if you follow CAREFULLY and apply some turorials like there: https://www.xplorerstudio.com/tutorials.html

There was this good book by Stan Carver “AE and premiere studio secrets”. Date from back to AE 5.5, but the basic worklow can be learned efficiently if you read and practice what this book teaches. It covers differentes cases and situations some pro actually do use AE to achieve amazing effects.

Usually to understand a software’s basics you have advantage reading old books on the first versions.

Good luck