[Peter Van der zee]

Didn’t know tween, but for motiongraphics I like to visit http://www.motionographer.com.

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[Peter Van der zee]

You can create and save render settings templates to anywhere on the system and load it from within any other machine, no? on the bottom of the rendersettings and outputmodule templates there’s save and load buttons…
But in a watch-folder I think these setting come along with the project, so created on one machine, the others just get the same settings (if the used compressor is installed on that system)

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[Peter Van der zee]

I think it’s much easier;
at maximum randomness just change the sourcetext with a keyframe

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[Peter Van der zee]

to work quicker there’s a beautiful plugin from image lounge, real shadows
(currently unavailable for CS3) But worth checking for the update if you need this effect regularly.

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[Peter Van der zee]

With after 7 on intel, memory issues were a dissaster, CS3 is a lot better but I find a lot of times
RAM “fills up”. Do you Purge the memory? (since you’ve said to be new) edit-purge-all, normaly does the trick. Another thing is the size of the comp; a big comp cost after a lot to preview, you can pre-comp in a smaller one, size down and enjoy full-length previews.

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[Peter Van der zee]

just accepted a job with editing various videoformats and compositing in after
I’ll give it a try and I’ll let you know, thanx in advance…

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[Peter Van der zee]

“numbers” will do that; get the font you like, check off the decimals and put keyframes for offset value; 1908 etc.

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[Peter Van der zee]

You could render your 4 quicktimes direcly from AE by putting the big comp (rotated) in small (dvd) comps. I did a similar thing with 3 screens horizontaly projected, the dificulty in that case was the safety area since it had to look like one screen. DVD-sync wasn’t a problem, they work good. calculate well and do some tests, good luck!

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[Peter Van der zee]

Think you should have a non-interlaced version for computerscreens
render from after in best quality (none) with fields set to off
and then the best mpeg2 compressor at max. settings and double pass

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[Peter Van der zee]

Nice video.
I would put hold keyframes in the time-remap on the frames you’re interested in and then
pull them together like 3 to 5 frames from eachother…

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