[Realethan]

Have you tried rolling your system back using XP’s “system restore”?

[Realethan]

I just bought a new workstation BOXX technologies, and its really nice, here are the specs:

Dual Opteron Model 275 (2x dual core processors)
8GB DDR400 ECC (8 DIMMS)
2x ATI FireGL V5000
36GB 10,000rpm Serial ATA 8MB Cache System Drive + 120GB 7,200rpm Serial ATA 8MB Cache Storage Drive
750GB RAIDCORE Serial ATA RAID 5 Array (4 drives)
16x Dual Layer DVD

[Realethan]

Strangely enough, if I’m not mistaken, there is a very similar tutorial in the printed manual for AE 6.x.

I cant find my old manual but I seem to remember it being in the “nesting compositions” section (or whatever it was called).

[Realethan]

Are you using vector or raster artwork?

If its vector (Illustrator, etc), try “collapsing transformations” on your vector artwork layers.

If raster (Photoshop, etc), make sure that the layer positions _always_ fall on whole pixels. Press “p” to open the layers position attribute and make sure there aren’t any numbers to the right of the decimal point for the x and y values. Check this at every position key frame.

[Realethan]

Are you using vector or raster artwork?

If its vector (Illustrator, etc), try “collapsing transformations” on your vector artwork layers.

If raster (Photoshop, etc), make sure that the layer positions _always_ fall on whole pixels. Press “p” to open the layers position attribute and make sure there aren’t any numbers to the right of the decimal point for the x and y values. Check this at every position key frame.

[Realethan]

I’ve had problems similar to this in the past. Try deleting your AE preferences .ini file (or moving it to a dif folder) and restarting.

This file is usually located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\{USER NAME}\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\Prefs
(move or delete all the files in the dir.)

[Realethan]

-Open your comp.
-Ctrl-M to add it to the render queue.
-Click on the text to the right (not the drop down spinner) of “Output Module” by default it will read “Lossless”
-Change “Format” to “MPEG2”
-The MPEG2 options dialog should pop-up immediately, click the “Format Options” button. Select “Video” and change it to the codec you’d like to use.
-Hit OK and render.

[Realethan]

Just sharing my experiences Matt, perhaps someone else found the info helpful 🙂

[Realethan]

Windows 64 does nothing to improve your AE6.5 experience.

I just bought a new dual-proc/dual-core (4-core) machine from “BOXX” that has the W64 OS installed, and it’s ridiculously fast. My AE work flow has increased in speed dramatically, but more as a result of the processor horsepower than the OS. The main advantage (at the moment) W64 has is its ability to address 8 gigs of ram. But unfortunately AE still only sees 4 gig on my machine.

Also, the driver situation is a mess right now for W64, I’m searching for and installing new drivers on almost a daily basis.

I’d wait for an incremental AE upgrade from Adobe and/or for W64 to mature a bit before installing it.

Just my 2c.

[Realethan]

Sure.

Create a 2K comp in AE. Import your HDV 1440×1080 footage to the library, and drop into your 2k comp.

Enlarge your HDV footage to roughly 142%, and render as TGA or TIFF sequence using the render queue.

This should work with progressive footage, if not, you’ll need to deinterlace prior to enlarging.

But, any way you slice it, this will take mucho time and HD space.