[Michael Becke]

The green bar at the top indicates which part of the video has been rendered in RAM, so if you press “0”, you prompt a RAM preview and you should see your “work” area fill up with green. (showing you how much of the work area has been rendered into ram)

If you enable disk caching/scratch disk, you’ll see a blue bar on occasion. (this indicate which part of your timeline has been rendered onto your temporary scratch disk area or your hard drive)

About the choppy footage. To tell the truth I would like to know the best way to use time remapping. At the moment I try to avoid using it, and if I do it will be in mutiples. such as 200%, 75%, 50%.

Hope that helps, and hope you get a more comprehensive answer on the time question.

[Michael Becke]

Sometimes photoshop effects work in AE, but I’m not sure about the heal tool.

I’m pretty sure you only have a tool similar to stamp in AE, I don’t know if that will help you?

[Michael Becke]

If you want the particles to all look the same and look like the original then do this:

In the effects window. (you show this by pressing F3 when your layer with the effect is selected)
Under the section “Particle\particle type\” make sure you choose “custom” and not “custom colorize”.

Hope that helps

[Michael Becke]

Are you saying that sometimes the whole animation works and then other times the whole thing jitters, or in the same animation some of it works and some doesn’t?

And what do the jitters look like? (ie, do they happen every second? does the image jump/tear? does it look like field problems?)

Good luck
Michael

[Michael Becke]

Sorry, been busy.
If it’s all graphics like you say, then you can make the animation… and then afterwards just change the frame rate of the Comp and render at a different frame rate.

Hope that helps,
Michael

[Michael Becke]

Give me some more detail and I’ll be able to help you a bit more:

What software are you using? (ie. make a maya animation and composite in AE)
Are you using any footage or just animating from stills?

The more detail, the more help I’ll hopefully be able to give.

Good luck,
Michael

[Michael Becke]

I recommend 2 renders

25fps, 720×576, interlaced – upper field first for your TV version.
24fps, progressive (ie, no fields) for you Film version

Hope that helps,
Michael

[Michael Becke]

Why don’t you just create a layer that’s bigger than video and paint onto that?