Ridley Walker
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He’s still justifiably revered. His work on Vertigo, North by Northwest, Cape Fear, The Man with the Golden Arm etc still holds up and inspires. Thanks for the link Walter.
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The polls I’ve seen don’t represent large numbers of people. The The Toolfarm poll has been running since January and hasn’t attracted large numbers – only a few hundred responses. The poll at change.org is currently around 2,000.
If Adobe’s numbers are accurate, 500,000 current CC subscribers, those 2,000 petitioners represent fewer than .04% of the subscribers who have already voted with their wallets.
There are grumbles on other forums (https://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/applications/index.html#d08may2013), but there are also many advocates for the CC model. Walter Biscardi, among others, is happy with it. Seems like its the one-and-two person shops that are most upset.
I’m not happy about this change in policy either, but it would appear that Adobe has the market on its side.
Compared to the FCP firestorm, this looks like a tempest-in-a-teapot.
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You might like to look at these 2 scripts:
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I’m pleased to read some reasoned discussion regarding the change to Adobe’s sales model. Its understandable that many users are concerned, this is a substantial change to the way we’ve done business with Adobe over the last few decades.
I’m not entirely comfortable with the idea that I won’t own the software I use to create my own work, and therefor need to connect to Adobe for authorization to modify my own product. Though in practice this may not be a real issue as long as we can connect and Adobe maintains a policy of allowing lapsed subscribers to use the 30 day trial version.
My discomfort is amplified when I reflect on my experiences with Adobe’s Customer Service – a real oxymoron. I’ve been on hold for hours, been disconnected, misdirected, done the on-line chat for hours-at-a-time without resolution. Customer Service doesn’t talk to Sales and passes the buck. Sales don’t talk to Customer Service so you’re stuck in a loop transferred from pillar-to-post and back.
Todd and Steve’s presence and contributions to these forums are the exception, they are open, responsive and very helpful. Todd and Steve, you should try contacting Customer Service and learn what most of us experience.
I’m sure I’ll subscribe eventually, perhaps a bit reluctantly since I do feel Adobe has left us no other option for moving forward with their products. It does seem as though we’re being corralled and prodded to work the way Adobe wants us to.
I’ve got my Illustrator ’88 disk still and have purchased (and budgeted for) every upgrade to the CS Suite. The cost is not the issue for me as I’ll likely save a few dollars, not owning the tools I work with every day – that rubs me the wrong way.
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[Casey Mattheus] ” I’m actually using a text layer, so it’s not technically a sketch, but I think you get my point (If the effect is even possible with a text layer)
“Matthew Fuller knows whereof he speaks. The technique he recommends will yield the best results.
There is a quick-n-dirty method I’ve used for text or shapes that have a stroke.
1) Convert the type to shapes and remove the fill, add a stroke in the colour you want.
2) Add a group to the shape layer and move all the type into it.
3) Add a wiggle paths and tweak the values to taste.
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[Genero Lundgren] “so that it isn’t sortov stripy. “
It looks like your footage is interlaced. You need to select the footage in the project panel set the field order correctly.
See:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f42a.html
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[Dave LaRonde] “I may not be the brightest candle in the chandelier, but that “use system shortcut keys” workaround sounds like a easy way to get into trouble very quickly.
Just for my own enlightenment, I’d be curious to know about the advantages of using it. I presume it would be useful under limited circumstances, I just can’t think of any.
“Its not as dangerous as it sounds.
This only disables the Mac OS Keyboard shortcuts when After Effects is the application with keyboard focus. For example, Command + M on the Mac minimizes the foreground application – the system shortcut key = Command + M. If you wish to assign Command + M to After Effects “Add to Render Queue” then you would disable using system shortcuts in favour of using the shortcut you assign to After Effects.
And Dave, your candle burns brightly here, you’ve saved my bacon many times with your advice.
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Since you mention Command and not Control I’m assuming you’re on a Mac.
Using the Keyboard Preferences on a Mac you can assign any keyboard shortcut you want.
Just make sure you disable “Use System Shortcut Keys” in After Effects General Prefs.
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The most common problems that occur with Mocha Tracking are a mismatch between the frame rate or the pixel aspect ratio.
Ensure that both the frame rate and the PAR match in Mocha and in After Effects.
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You can download this preset which applies the expression automatically:
https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials/after-effects/amortype
Be sure to watch the video tutorial first so you can see how it is used.
The expression above is from this preset, notice that the variable names are in French (eg: tempsDebut for start time), the language of its author Mathias Peresini aka Mattrunks.
