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No. Sounds like a graphics card problem. Have you tried changing the color of the indicators in your preferences? Maybe your monitor has not enough contrast and they are simply hard to see…
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[Joe Piazzo] “I have png sequence files that (with alpha) I want to load as animated textures onto simple planes – can’t figure out how to load image sequences – do I need to render movies?”
Load them like a normal image texture. If the sequences are numbered properly, C4D will give you acces to the “Animation” tab for that texture. You can adjust all parameters there. If something is wrong, those options are greyed out and not usable.
[Joe Piazzo] “I want to keep scale and aspect ratio consistant with the original photos – how do I match them with the planes?”
Model the planes in a correspondent ratio e.g. 2000 x 2000 pixels = 2000m x 2000m, 1920 x 1080 pixels = 1920m x 1080 m. With the default UVW mapping everything should work aurtomatically when using the parametric plane object. Otherwise use flat projetions and “the fit to object” obtion in the object manager.
[Joe Piazzo] “Is there a orient towards camera function (must be) that I can apply to the planes.”
Align to camera tag.
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Check your system’s firewall/ security settings. If you have enabled “Allow scripts to access network…” in AE’s prefs, yet your firewall is blocking its port, it may hang. The same could be true without the option enabled, if soem tool is blocking disc access for scripts.
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Always rip to uncompressed formats, du your stuff then re-encode. Watch out for block artifacts from the original compression. You can get rid of them to some extent using plugins or AE-only techniques (search this forum for removing DV artifacts), but you should have no illusions – the newly encoded clip will always degrade in quality and have more artifacts than the original, rregardless how carefully you proceed.
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No, definitely not. Sounds like a problem with your OS and the way it handles your processor.
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There surely has something changed on your system. Either it’s a graphics card related problem as Ben suggested or you updated a CoDec or Mediaplayer.
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Well, many of those screenshots supposedly have elements that are very small (only 1 pixel wide lines etc.), so they are never displayed properly with interlaced out put because any given pixel may not appear on both fields. Your only option to improve the situation is to slightly blur everything or re-build/ retouch the websites, taking care to make sure that those offending elements are thick enough.
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Actually combustion* is very much like Shake, Fusion and Nuke a compositing program. For motion graphics, AE is pretty much the best tool (with a decent collection of additional plugins). I dunno if you really would be “stepping up” with combustion for this kind of work. Their text tools are very basic and what they call “expressions” is simply a joke. It is a good tool for keying and color correction as well as roto work, but at least in the first two areas AE also has some decent tools by means of Color Finesse and Keylight. If you really have the work for it and wanna be extra-smart, use both of them depending on the job.
As for Shake – Shake is dead. Apple giving it away for a very modest price doesn’t change the fact that it’s old technology Apart from that, you always need complementary programs to create content inside it, so as a standalone solution for motion graphics it simply wouldn’t work.
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Maximize the AE main program window to both monitors. Before AE 7, palettes in AE could never exist outside the main program window.
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Sure. Simply undock the tabs. In AE 7 you need to lock the comp viewer so it always shows a certain comp instead of auto-updating when you zap around.
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