[Riccardo Sinti]

I figured it out- you must have the cast shadows turned on for the layers in the pre comp.

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[Riccardo Sinti]

I’m editing a grfx reel. Need to do lots of RAM previews to synch vis to an audio track.
Footage is mostly ntsc lossless and photo jpg compression.
It’s not that the previews are taking long to generate, it’s just that, for instance, if I change the work area after doing a ram preview I can’t just hit ‘0’ and get a new preview, it locks into the frames of the previous ‘0’ hit and I have to purge.
Or if I am working at 1/4 res then want to see full res, the preview wont load until I purge.
Is there something that will tell AE to purge with each new preview or some such?

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[Riccardo Sinti]

In the output module of the render que change the video format to animated GIF.
You may have to optimize it further in
Image ready or some such app.

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[Riccardo Sinti]

Photo JPEG works pretty well

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[Riccardo Sinti]

You know, that is what I discovered. I didn’t need shadows so I thought it didn’t matter if casting was off.

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[Riccardo Sinti]

I had to do a digital clock type thing using Dan’s expression and used

LCD MonoMacTT

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[Riccardo Sinti]

use a monospace font!

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[Riccardo Sinti]

Corner pin doesn’t need rotation frames and the null object wont have the same corner pinned corners as the freeze framed still. Masked area are just masked but the layers original corners will be the ones pinned not the corners of the mask. You may need to precompose the freeze frame, crop it down to the edges that you want for the “picture” and then corner pin track that comp after the picture frame “grabs” the image.
If Corner pin tracking of the frame is sketchy you could just key frame the first corner pin frame and then just do a single point motion track on one of the frame corners and keyframe the cornerpin manually as needed.

[Riccardo Sinti]

Well, I trashed QT pref and now no crash on imports. Going to try a hardware test to check for bad ram.

[Riccardo Sinti]

Any codec any size movie, I use QT 7.0.1 on the other machine and it works fine.