[Richard Altman]

Thanks for the responses, I shall try to interpret and attempt your suggestions, thank you.

Gentlemen. Renaming the Folder and placing it on the root, …;]

WORKED COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY. And that is why Apple’s Apple. Too intuitive. Thanks again.

[Richard Altman]

i’d rather put that approach and the editor out of business by having the feature implemented instead

[Richard Altman]

Thank you I wish I checked it yesterday, or earlier, I am going about it in a crazy odd way and I’ll post the results later today, it’s for a class, ok, I will try your way, in the near future. Thanks again for the help, appearently masking is what you may be talking about

until next time,

[Richard Altman]

So how wouuld I do that then? In your opinion

[Richard Altman]

hey thanks for the response, i’d like to drag the clip from the left window right into the timeline, often when i use the dialogue that pops up when dragging certain clips with in and out points from the left monitor to the right monitor (forgive my not technically terming them though i’m surer my point is clear) and the doohickey is on the track of video i want the clip to appear on at the cursor in the timeline, … , … , it doesn’t.

so directly dragging what i want (ala premiere) to the timeline is more accurate. is there a preference function to have that always relate the move as an “overwrite” as you call it?

thanks in advance,

[Richard Altman]

Kevin,

thank you. i got it to work, it seems one rule in after effects is along the lines that, pre composing is never a bad thing when it comes to getting effects to work.

your explanation was perfectly basic, which for me, is like exquisite minutiae.

thank you very very much.

i will post a link to this thing when i finish it for saturday everning.

i still may have some questions between now and then though, so.

alright,

Dwight

[Richard Altman]

thanks kevin,

would it be possible for you to break down how i should do that in this scenario, i seem to not completely understand how one pre composes. this is what i do:

in this case i have 57 layers of photoshop files.
layer 23 i would like to apply the echo to, i highlight layer 23, then go to the layer menu, pick pre compose, select the default option, i then select the echo effect and apply it to layer 23 which is now precomposed? what am i getting wrong here? do i have to take the layer out of the photoshop comp that i’m working in with the other 57? then pre compose it like that and bring it back in like that, then apply echo? excuse my ignorance, I always do,

Dwight

[Richard Altman]

thank you for the response, i am going to try that right now, it seems very clear, which for me is important. thanks again.

[Richard Altman]

hey guys, really appreciate the responses:

it was pretty easy but y’all pointed me in the right direction and that’s why: it was just motion tile, reduced to one line, then copied and placed to tile up screen, and it was staggered from bottom copy in timeline by 16 frames to top, got the exact effect. i will check out that video when i get back from work, thanks again everyone.

cheers,

ds3

[Richard Altman]

thanks guys, chris, your idea sounds good, care to share some obviousness with me, i’d really appreciate it.

first off, a motion tile. where can i find that particular thing?