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There are known issues on intel based Macs. Search the forum for some answers or check the tutorials section. Other than that, simply ccheck the “secret” prefs (hold down ALt while entering the prefs) and make AE purge every 5th frame or so.

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[Rob] “is there away to set the scene camera as the default under the render settings?”

No. Since you can have an infinite number of cameras, each with its own settings, how should C4D know which one to use? You just have to adapt your workflow.

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Mmh, your settings don’t sound too bad, probably it’s the images themselves. Well, let us know what comes of your efforts.

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Scale it. Drag the handles across the selection center and it will flip, smaller amounts act like any inbetween “rotation”.

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AE does not allow outputting to MPEG directly. You have to use other tools (which shoudl be easy, considering you vcan find free ones).

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[old man in the garden] “Does any body get this mesage?

After Effects: not enough memory to create memory for blurring.
(507204K requested, 257350k available)

I can list my system if needed.
Can I adjust or tweak prefrenced somewhere?
Thanks

A still image man, stuck in a moving picture world.”

How much RAM do you have? What Blur are you using? How big do you set the radius? What is the footage resolution? You can change AE’s mem behavior in the prefs, but it’s not going to do anything for you, if you are working on one layer and get this error. Changing the mem prefs will for the most part only chnege the caching/ buffering behavior which in your scenario wouldn’t be relevant.

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Select the points or the segemnts of the masks, then invoke the transform box by double-clicking. It will only transform your selection, not the entire mask.

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[lackner90] “I was just wondering how do you guys feel about Motion versus AE?
Is it equivalent to AE? It’s just minus the rendering time that makes it so cool?”

Definitely not and your employers are morons to think so. Without complementary apps such as FCP, Shake or AE, Motion is nothing more than an extremely fast title and particle generator (something, which you can get in other apps like particle Illusion just as well). I’ve only played with Motion on and off on machines of other users (since I myself ma not a Mac guy)and on demo days, but it’s more frustration than fun. The entire keyframing system is completely ridiculous. I can already see your boss complaining about your slowness when he requests you to implement his wishes for changing something. Like you said yourself, to me Motion is nothing more than a tool to get some ideas and build some rough templates, but I never would entrust a serious moneymaking project to it.

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Any even multiple of the composition framerate is a safe bet (e.g. 50, 100, 200 for PAL) as is any setting of the framerate minus an even number of frames/ fields. It’s not written in stone, but it certainly helps if you have as many original frames in your modified footage, even if you use the best quality and motion estimation. Minimizes smear and ghosting.

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Sure. It all hinges on your compression/ data rate. You’re going to have to work with something like 4.5 Mbits/sec. Whether you export your MPEG-II from Premiere or let Encore do the transcode, is pretty much a matter of personal preference. If you have the Production Studio, just watch the tutorial DVD that comes with it to get you started.

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