Mike Procunier
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Notice all of the shots with VFX were locked down. They shot each shot twice. Once with the actors & once with the “Frozen” objects. Then masked out the frozen objects and composited over the original footage.
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I believe if you open AE with Rosetta (Right click – Open with:) it’ll be able to use non – UB plugs. However it will run under the same constraints that AE7 has on an Intel Mac, mainly the 3GB max RAM issue. I haven’t tried it, but I’ve read about it on a couple forums. It’s worth a try.
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What kind of system are you running on?
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I’m with you Patrick. I’m getting tired of the “will be addressed in a future release” mumbo jumbo. Depending on who you speak with at Blackmagic it will either “be in the next release” or “It probably won’t get fixed” (Someone actually told me that). I’ve got 4GB of perfectly good RAM just sitting on my shelf gathering dust. With AE CS3 coming out & it’s multiprocessing RAM requirements I’m going to need to find another solution and it will probably be from AJA. It’s a little more expensive but I haven’t heard too many complaints. I would have bought the Extreme HD had the problem been pointed out in their System Reqs, but now I’m stuck with $2,700(I have 3) of nearly useless cards.
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Try tweaking the “secret Prefs”. Hold shift when you select prefs, then click general & you should see secret at bottom. Set it to purge every 10 frames. If it still crashes reduce the number until it works. It slows down your render a bit but it might help. Also how much RAM do you have?
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Are you working on an Intel Mac?
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Andrew Kramer did a great Keylight tutorial that’s available here on the Cow. Just search the Tutorial section by author & you’ll find it.
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AE CS3 has layer styles. Note that its not the full release & doesn’t include Cycore, Keylight of Color Finesse.( It will in the final release.) You can download it at Adobe Labs. If you do this please, read thru the CS3 Forum on that site. They have workarounds for several bugs.
I can’t think of a simple way to do it in AE7 but here goes.
a) You’ll need a stroke outline of the layer you’re working with. If its text just create a Stroke only layer. If its not text, use auto-trace or create outlines to get a path then use the Stroke effect.
b) add fast blur to your stroke layer.
c) use your original layer as a track matte for for the blurry stroke layer.
d) with this matted blurry stroke above your original layer you should have something close to an in inner glow. -
I think I understand. Just undock the Pre-comp window and drag it to a new spot on your screen. I don’t have 5.5 to test it on, but i think you just grab the Pre-Comp’s tab in the viewer window and drag it to a new location.
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Auto-Save can also get you out of trouble sometimes.