[Patrick Mustain]

Hi Roland,

Thanks so much! That worked out pretty well. Also that search function is going to be a huge time save, I wasn’t aware of it before.

However, now when I draw a new line the color reverts to white. So there’s no setting that retains the settings of the previous stroke? That just seems like a huge oversight on Adobe’s part. Is there something I’m missing? Because it seems to me that having to go back and change the attributes for each and every stroke is not something that most animators would want to have to do.

Thanks for your help!

Patrick

[Patrick Mustain]

Hi Dan,

I have the same problem that Sabri had. I tried your suggestion but it doesn’t appear to be working.

I have 32 strokes (shape 1, shape 2, shape 3, etc) all on one shape layer. I can expand one “shape” to reveal the stroke properties, I can change the line cap to Round Cap. That’s great. I selected the word “Line Cap” by clicking on it and it is highlighted. I went to the Edit menu and selected “copy”.

I don’t know what the search function is, but I was able to use the selection tool to select the rest of the strokes I wanted to change. I went to “Edit” and clicked “Paste” and nothing happened. I’ve tried the same thing with Command + C and Copmmand +V key strokes and again, nothing has happened.

Do you have any suggestions?

I’d appreciate the help! I can go in and do it by hand now, but I may have to edit similar number of shapes in the future, and I really don’t want to have to go in one by one to do this. If there’s a faster way that doesn’t involves scripting (I don’t really know how to do that) please let me know!

Thanks.

[Patrick Mustain]

HI Ted,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I’m completely unfamiliar with precomping, but will certainly look into it. Do you recommend any good tutorials?

Cheers!

[Patrick Mustain]

*smacks forehead*

As silly as it makes me feel, it’s always nice when it’s just one simple thing I’ve overlooked.

Thanks Matthew, I appreciate it! That worked. Easy as pie.

[Patrick Mustain]

Thanks Brett!

Hooooly crap that worked! Thanks so much! So simple!

I imported the illustrator file as footage, merged the layers, checked the box, and voila!

Two days of screwing around with premiere, and photoshop, and ginormous files, and all I needed was to check a little box.

Thanks so much for giving your time to those of us who are learning.

Patrick

[Patrick Mustain]

Indeed, what did any of you do in the end??

I’m having the same problem.

I am working with a giant file, I’ve spent the last two days just trying to get a 30 second zoom out from a single image.

It’s the simplest thing: I’m working with a single psd image. Granted, it’s huge, 26,917 x 15,354 px, 397.6 MB, but that’s the only way that I could figure out how to get a zoom out without starting out with a pixellated image.

After a torturous time editing this beast, I’ve finally got my zoom. I can preview it in Premiere, but when I go to export it it stops at 42%. The estimated time doesn’t change, it just sits at 15 to 18 seconds, and after 10 minutes or so of nothing happening at all, I click cancel and then I get the evil little beach ball.

I’m working with Premiere Pros CS6 on a Late 2012 iMac,
Processor: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512 MB

I need this thing soon, so if any of you have a suggestion that would be great.

Thanks!

Patrick