[Michael Jones]

Hi, Brian, thanks for your quick response. I checked out the link you sent and forgive my inexperience but I’m not sure how that will achieve what I’m trying to do. Using the link you provided and watching the animation that came with it, the track matte was used to obscure a static grid, but I want my text to animate from right to left. So I was thinking, using the link you provided as an example, I can create a solid next to the grey triangle and place the solid over the text layer in the comp so that the text would move underneath the solid and disappear, but then I couldn’t figure out how to keep the solid from obscuring the striped background. Again, sorry for my lack of knowledge with AE, your suggestion may be the answer, but i can’t figure it out!

[Michael Jones]

I tried exporting it from FCP as you suggested, but it looked like it would take awhile. So I took the previously exported clip back into MPEG Streamclip and set it to export at 1920×1080 (as you had suggested as well). It worked. Not sure why it wouldn’t work at 1440×1080, but client needs this tomorrow morning, so I couldn’t care less right now! THANK YOU!

[Michael Jones]

Thanks for your quick response. Here are the sequence settings: 1440×1080, 29.97 fps, XDCAM HD 1080, pixel aspect HD (1440×1080). WIll try your suggestion now.

[Michael Jones]

OK, now I’m even more confused. When I do a CMD-I to get info, the clip displays properly in the preview window. And it displays properly when I open it in QuickTIme 10.

[Michael Jones]

I just bought the LMP Bluetooth keypad, connected it with my bluetooth keyboard and what I notice is that my Magic Mouse doesn’t track very well. I read on Apple support that it could be due to bluetooth bandwidth clutter? Their suggestion is to turn off the other devices and see if that improves the problem. There has to be another solution. I noticed this problem when I first the bluetooth keyboard but it seemed to clear up after awhile. Is that possible that it could just “go away” after so much use?

[Michael Jones]

It worked. Thanks!

[Michael Jones]

Sorry for not getting back sooner. I ran Verify Permissions and all checked out OK, but I don’t seem to have the issue anymore. Here’s all the specs:

Sequence:
720×480 NTSC DV (3:2)
PAR: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (720×480)
Lower (Even)
DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Render in 8-bit YUV

Hardware:
MacPro Dual-Core Intel Xeon
2.66 Ghz
2 Processor, 4 core
6 GB memory
L2 Cache per processor, 4 MB

I recently downloaded a After Effects CS5 trial and the problem started soon thereafter..?