[Ned Didry]

I’m getting the same message. Anybody have any ideas what’s causing this?

[Ned Didry]

I solved it by selecting “Exact Frame” instead of “Exact Second” in the material’s Animation tab—in case anyone else wanders this way who has run into the same problem.

[Ned Didry]

Dave LaRonde: You’re confusing the traditional notion of keyframes with AE’s very different notion of keyframes.

Hi Dave. Thanks for your response. I don’t think I was confusing any disciplines or notion; just wanting to bend AE to my will. 🙂

Dave LaRonde: There is NO SUCH THING as automatic in-betweening of still images. in AE.

Hm. Well, as it turns out, since my original post I’ve discovered that by using Effects/Distort/Corner Pin in AE, and keyframing each major “pose” that I want of the logo graphic, AE is doing a yoemanlike job indeed of “tweening” (by whatever notion), and making that sucker dance very fluidly. In fact, it’s more “organic” than what I originally had created in Photoshop, and I like it better.

I took the vintage rock audio into Digital Performer and added kick and snare parts using MIDI, then adjusted the tempo measure-by-measure to match the original audio, then exported just the added kick and snare and pulled those into AE. Now with their waveforms I’ve got very clear markers of the major beats, which line up perfectly with the original audio file, and currently am in the process of animating the logo in AE to those beats using Corner Pin distortion. So far, I’m very pleasantly surprised with the results I’m getting.