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Photoshop gradient overlays won’t come over to AE (AE’s abilities to re-create PS layer styles are limited to say it mildly). You need to flatten/ rasterize/ create a separate effect layer.
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Mmh, then it’s perhaps just a problem with your graphics hardware? Arial really should be idiot-proof. I’ve only had troubles with more exotic stuff… Sorry I can’t be of more use.
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Documents and Settings/
/Apllication Data/Adobe By default this system folder is invisible, so adjust your Explorer settings accordingly.
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[Filip Vandueren] “All this being said, it looks to me like everything Layerlab are selling is just based on different fractal noise settings, I hope I didn’t put them out of business by recreating one effect here in about 5 minutes time ;-)”
Well, I think few people would miss them… Most of their stuff is so ridiculously simple, it’s really quite impertinent of them to even ask for money for it.
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What’s there to update? Knoll was and is the best LensFlare solution IMO. What feature do you miss? The only thing that’s bothering me is that it’s rather slow with complex setups, but that’s the price of flexibility.
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This might be a problem with the font. Your font might contain illegal characters or is damaged in another way so AE can’t use it properly. Other than that I can’t think of a thing that would explain yor problem.
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Nope, that’s a safety mechanism to avoid having 2 items with the same name. You cannot disable that behavior (unless there’s a secret keyboard shortcut noone told me about???). You could however use a script to create your comps. I think there’s something like that floating around somewhere…
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[Gregg Brent] “one question: you stated “instead of re-rendering everything you can chop together AVI files based upon manipulations of their data structures (very much like quicktime Pro can do with MOVs). Simple things like replacing an audio track are a no-brainer this way”.
Not sure what this means but I think I need too. Can you direct me to where I can learn about doing this? Replacing audio, cutting down on re-rendering intrigues me. And yes, the powerpoint are cheesey!!!”
AVI files are base on chunks not real streams (That’s why they are spo limited). That makes it easy to find the exact position where the audio is saved in the binary file. You can easily replace one such chunk without ever touching the other data. All you need to do is change the header and EOF info. The same works with multiple video chunks – they will play back as one constant clip but internally are treated separate. Quicktime is based on streams, but also has many CoDecs that create the physical structure as pseudo-chunks so you can manipulate them just like that e.g. the Animation CoDec will treat Alpha and RGB separately. On the other hand there are several formats that use multiplexed strems (MPEG 4, H.264, Sorenson)that cannot be treated this way.
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You need to define it as a Custom Particle. If there are any problems, pre-compose it.
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If you’re mainly delivering for Windows, then get the Win version of AE. There are several things to consider:
a) WindowsMedia on the Mac is not very well integrated as well as most AVI formats. There might be some problems due to the limited choice of CoDecs, meta-information might not be embeded properly etc.
b) There are much more tools to create, modify and optimize WindowsMedia or even old shabby AVIs on a PC (miraculous, isn’t it? ;o)) This can be important on a tight deadline – instead of re-rendering everything you can chop together AVI files based upon manipulations of their data structures (very much like quicktime Pro can do with MOVs). Simple things like replacing an audio track are a no-brainer this way.
c) There’s a lot to be gained of you work on a PC in terms of testing stuff that e.g. goes into some cheesy PowerPoint presentation. You can easily see how well your video integrates with the surrounding design and avoid any technical booby traps. This will greatly improve customer satisfaction ‘cos you can guarantee to a certain extend that things are going to work with all that testing/optimized workflow.
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