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Actually your biggest problem is your unfocussed approach. In a way you already answered your own question – yes, you need to break down your stuff, both in terms of the timing as well as merely technical aspects. You need to atomize and simply have a clear vision of what combination of which effects will give a certain result. Just like when you edit, you need to know when to use hard cuts, flash cuts and simple dissolves in a manner of speaking. You are possibly simply overwhelmed without realizing that many “cool” effects are pretty simple if you have a tiny clue about which tools were used. Or when you program – do you always look at the big picture when you are optimizing just a function? Most likely not. You should employ a similar approach in your work. Work at one layer/ sub-comp/keyframe at a time and optimize it. When it looks good, move on to the next one. The more “optimized” stuff you have, the more likely it is that your entire project will fall in place and still look good.
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Why are you concerned? When you render the file, it will use the correct framerate and timing, so effectively nothing will be screwed. Other than that I can’t think of much. There’s too many potential factors. You may have enabled a layer switch somewhere that you are not aware of or whatever, but like Dave said, you definitely did change something, if only unintentionally.
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Like Jeff I’d also suspect that you forgot to use the correct interlacing options when transcoding. This would at some point bring the control stream/ time code out of sync. and cause problems.
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[sophiegallo] “i have been looking for “after effects shortcuts.txt” but i cant find the file to modify it.”
It’s definitely there. It should be under “Documents and Settings/Application Data/Adobe/After Effects/7.0” By default this directory is invisible since it is a system directory and under Vista additional security measures may prevent you from finding it. So check your folder view settings first.
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Nope, AE 6.5 brought us this “revolutionary” feature. ;O)
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[anetmedia] ”
Hi, I can’t import the .m2v video files that were shot and edited in anamorphic video 1064×576 PAL. The project-transcode-menu and the help-manual inform me, that Encore 2.0 only supports 720×576 Pal. Is this true?”Incorrect resolution. 1024×756 is the square equivalent of a 16:9 widescreen video (720×576, 1.422 PAR) and only meant for compositing work 3D animation and that stuff. If you encode it directly to MPEG-II, you get an invalid stream because it isn’t compliant with the specs of the DVD (Video) format (wrong block allocation etc.). Of course everything else that Jeff said also applies.
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Umm, bitmap footage? Even if the matte is continuously rasterized, this does not change the rules for bitmap layers themselves, meaning they would still get blocky and soft near the edges when zooming in. Keep in mind, that the matte is calculated first, then the rest of all features kick in. AE uses a fixxed rendering order and you can’t change anything about that.
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Make the sky much lagrger than the comp, then counter-animate its position in the oposit direction when you move the camera. This is good old 2D parallax, regardless whether you are using a plugin or stock footage.
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In addition to the simple Choker, you may consider using Roughen Edges and Minimax to Erdode/ dilate parts of your art. for more organic “Flow” also consider morphing by means of Reshape or Revision FX’ RE:Flex suite.
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Most likely it’s the filtering of the 3D layers. You could only minimize this by using much longer layers, so instead of 100 px length use 10000 or so.
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