Michael Szalapski
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Making your composition smaller would cause you a lot of work because you’d also have to resize all of your elements. The easiest thing to do would be to make a new composition the size you wanted for your final output and put your composition in the new one. Then scale it down to fit. That way, all of your animation remains the same, only smaller.
As far as which format you should export it as, that depends on what you want your final output to be. Is it going on a DVD for an SD television? Is it going via a laptop to an HD screen? Without knowing your intended final copy, it’s difficult to suggest a file format.– The Great Szalam
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Adobe wants to sell their new software. Very few companies will sell an old version of their software. Sometimes Ebay can work to find older software, but there is the issue of legitimacy. There have been several threads on this forum about it in the past; you might check them to see if anybody else had any ideas.
– The Great Szalam
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You might check the leading in your paragraph text settings. It’s possible that it’s on an extremely low setting.
– The Great Szalam
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Ohhhhhhhh! I understand.
Projection is just adding light to a scene; it’s not going to darken it. So add or, more likely screen; as previously mentioned will do it.
However, there are too many different variables in different situations to know how to properly simulate it. Levels of light reflection of various surfaces, level of ambient light in a room, and the power of your projector are all going to be a factor.
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Seriously? There aren’t that many different blending modes that it would take you that long to try it out. It took longer to type your response and wait for an answer than it would take to go through all of them.
Nothing wrong with asking how to make something look projected, it just sounds funny to ask a question that you could answer yourself it, like, two minutes.
Don’t forget, when compositing something, you want to make it match. If the wall’s not razor sharp in your source footage, make sure to blur the projection slightly. Adding a bit of flickering with some sort of wiggle on the opacity wouldn’t hurt. It really depends on the type of projector you want to emulate.
– The Great Szalam
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NO!!! Don’t convert to MPEG and expect it to work in AE. Read Dave’s Answer!
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following — Native HDV, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, H.261 or H.264 — you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
– The Great Szalam
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Have you tried the different frame blending modes? Sometimes they’re good enough.
– The Great Szalam
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Well, you said it worked “as it should” with the graphics, but when you add the video it gets slower. The complexity of the graphics then, don’t really matter.
As Dave said, those times don’t sound that unusual. Is this different from what it normally does? How often have you used that machine for this?
– The Great Szalam
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Feel free to experiment; you’re not going to break it.
As for which project to open; that depends on what type of video you’re planning to make. If you’re in America, it’s NTSC. Europe is PAL.
Remember, for future questions on AE there is a forum for beginners that is staffed with people who are just as good as those here, but are more prepared to answer basic questions.
– The Great Szalam
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Horizon is great.
If you have Particular, there is a preset you can look at that puts a bunch of stars way off in the distance and it works with AE’s camera too.– The Great Szalam
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