Michael Szalapski
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The distance between the fish is not increasing as AE sees it. The distance between the anchor points remains the same so, to AE, the fish look to be the same distance apart. However, since we humans see the whole fish image – not just an anchor point – the fish look farther apart.
How is the comp set up? How are the fish getting smaller? How are they placed along the path? Perhaps somewhere in your setup we can find a quick and easy solution.
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The previous posters are correct that AE is not necessarily the best tool out there for this, but as was previously mentioned, it could do it.
If you want the camera to be moving, it will make things much more difficult. You can do this in AE with a camera on a tripod relatively easily. You take a shot without the skateboarder in it, have him do his thing, then using rotoscoping, cut out the skateboard. However, depending on the trick he does, you may have to paint in the bottoms of his shoes, his shadow, parts of his legs/trousers, etc..
If you want to do a shot with the camera moving, it will take quite a lot of work and swearing or a motion control rig, work and swearing.
It also takes a lot of planning
– The Great Szalam
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Anytime somebody has problems with type not showing up, I always suggest checking your text palette for adjustments to the leading or baseline settings which could have been accidentally altered from the defaults.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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heh @ revealing pun
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(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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What Dave said. Also, if I understand your question correctly, you might look into using track mattes. Make your rectangles in a precomp. This tutorial which emulates the opening of CSI: Miami, shows how to create and use rectangular track mattes. Perhaps you will find an idea in there somewhere.
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#1 The tutorial to which I linked you also covers effects, not just moving circles things around. (Effects are on the second page)
#2 The principles behind keyframing the lightning effect is the same as keyframing anything else in AE.
#3 Read the manual. Seriously. It will help you.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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That depends on the country in which you plan to broadcast as well as what the format for which the end product is intended. HD? SD? PAL? NTSC? There are lots of broadcast options. It depends on the requirements of the station/channel for whom your product is being made.
Standard Definition (NTSC) in the US is 720×480, 29.97 fps with 0.9 pixel aspect ratio. However, many stations prefer other formats. Some want 720×486, many are now HD, and tons of other considerations.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is, ask them.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Try trashing your preferences on startup by holding Ctrl+Alt+Shift while AE is starting up. I’ve seen that fix several a crash.
It’s possibly something with the way the discs are set up that changed somehow.– The Great Szalam
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AE is not like Flash where you set one keyframe for everything; in After Effects you set keyframes for each parameter. It’s much better and easier to edit this way.
Next to (almost) every element in the effects panel and the timeline there is a little stopwatch. Click that stopwatch and it’ll turn keyframing on for that parameter and set a keyframe for that parameter.
To learn about it for free check out this article on Adobe’s website.
Here’s a tutorial that will walk you through some of the basics. I know it’s for an older version, but almost everything is the same as far as basics like keyframing.– The Great Szalam
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Are you pressing spacebar to play your video? That’s not a good way to do it in AE.
AE is not an editing application, it treats video in an entirely different way. It has to render video first, no matter how unaffected it is.
Press the 0 on the number pad (not at the top row of the keyboard) and it’ll start to render your composition (you’ll see a bit of green start showing up at the top of the timeline.) Depending on the speed of your computer’s processor and the complexity of your animation it may take no time at all, it may take a few minutes. Either way, you will soon have enough of the video cached in your RAM to view some of it. How much it can cache at once depends on the complexity of the animation and how much RAM you have.
Check out this article on playback in After Effects from the AE help files.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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