Paul Conigliaro
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In addition to Dave’s comment, I’d add to also make sure “Track Fields” is checked in the tracker options.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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Yeah, that’s going to be tricky. You’re aiming for a 93kbps data rate. You could try doing a PNG sequence, but even that might get too large. The only other thing I could think of to decrease file-size would be knocking down the frame rate to 8-12fps.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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Yes you can. In your comp window, click the lock icon to keep that view active, then switch to your precomp timeline.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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Take a look at OWC. I’ve had good luck with their drives. Their Guardian Maximus drive is nice as it has two mirrored drives in one enclosure for redundancy in case one fails.
Unless you’re footage is reliably stored else-where, I’d stay away from any external RAID-0 drives, like the G-RAID or the Elite-AL Pro. They’re fast, but if one drive fails (and your chances are doubled with two drives), you’re screwed.
Lastly, I’d stay away from Lacie. They’re alright for temporary storage or shuttling footage from a shoot, but I’ve seen so many of their drives fail, I won’t really touch them any more.
Adobe CS3, Apple FCS2
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I’d echo what Michael & Dave have already said.
To add to it, If you’ll be moving edits & shots around a lot and that’s why you want a qt with alpha in FCP, you might be better off just doing a quick & dirty key in FCP, make your edits, then pull your background tracks & foreground clips into AE and pull the key & composite there. That way you can quickly get into editing and not worry about a lot of round-tripping.
Rarely, if ever, do I just pull a key in AE for an alpha. I almost always do the full composite there.
Adobe CS3, Apple FCS2
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I think your best bet may be to try and pull a luma key or extract, then expand the matte with something like the simple choker and a negative choke. This will give you the white border.
The black outline can be done with a stroke layer style. (Layer:Layer Styles:Stroke)
Adobe CS3, Apple FCS2
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What Dave said, but you can also right click on the Composition window and go to the “Select” submenu. This will only show layers directly under your mouse.
Actually, that won’t help much more than just going to your timeline view like Dave said.
Adobe CS3, Apple FCS2
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If you have the original 8-Core (MacPro 2,1) with the two RAM risers, you’d want match pair configurations. So ideally for 8GB RAM, you’d have 2x2GB in each riser. The 3x configurations is only for the newer MacPros that have 4 RAM slots. In the end it’s not detrimental, but it’s not quite as fast as the ideal configurations.
If you have 8GB in AE, I would set up multiprocessing on 6 cores with at least 1GB each and set to leave 1.5GB for other apps. Now, I’ve never had a problem with fewer than 2GB/core like what Walter was warning against, but I might just be lucky.
Lastly, I only us multiprocessing for large renders, never RAM preview.
Good luck.
Adobe CS3, Apple FCS2
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AE is still a 32-bit application, and as such cannot access more than 3GB RAM per process. Key phrase here is “per process.” If you have multi-processing enabled, on an 8-core with all cores dedicated to AE, there will actually be 7 additional processes launched and can use more RAM. However, I don’t recommend using more than 6 cores as the system and other processes need some CPU time.
MacPros also have very specific arrangements of RAM that work best. The older MacPros work best in mirrored risers with matched pairs of RAM (ie, 2x2GB on each riser) in the typical x2 configurations: 4GB,8GB,16GB,32GB. The newer MacPros work in a matched series of 3 on the first three slots (ie 3x2GB) and now use x3 configurations, so 3GB,6GB,12GB work best and traditional configurations (4GB, 8GB, etc) will actually be slightly slower.
Adobe CS3, Apple FCS2
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You want to animate the individual scale of the letters as well as stroke width. (You’ll also have to make sure you have stroke turned on for your text. Just set it to 0px so it’s not visible until you animate it.)
Twirl open your text properties and click on the arrow next to Animate on the right. You’ll want to add Scale & Stroke Width. Then, simply keyframe these properties to get this effect. This will operate on individual characters and therefore not change the overall placement of the text.
Adobe CS3, Apple FCS2
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