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Rob Kahn
October 17, 2006 at 5:38 pm in reply to: capture denied

what I expected. but was hoping not to have to.

Thanks

Rob
Rob Kahn
March 23, 2006 at 2:02 pm in reply to: What is the transition effect used for?

Appoloigies, too early, I read transform when you said transition. Too early in the morning and too late last night

rob
Rob Kahn
March 23, 2006 at 1:59 pm in reply to: What is the transition effect used for?

Chris and Trish Myers book explaned the simplest use to me, and that is the ability to control your render order when used with other effects. Their example was if you want something to rotate and then cast a drop shadow. Normally After Effects would render the drop shadow first and then rotate the whole thing. With the Transform effect you can control which happens first.

Rob
Rob Kahn
March 9, 2006 at 2:35 pm in reply to: Problem,converting Masks to motion paths AE 6.5

check out AR’s tutorial on Scaling Motion Paths.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/scale_path/index.html

Probably what you’re doing is selecting the mask layer to copy. Be sure to open the mask shape property, select and copy that and paste the mask shape into the position property.

rob
Rob Kahn
March 3, 2006 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Render and compression Issues W/ video playback

Sounds like a bandwith issue. The larger file is getting bottlenecked somewhere. If your trying to play from a CD DVD or external drive, the connection or speed of the device is pobibly not fast enough for smooth playback of the large amount of data being played. Compressed as you say, it fits through the pipeline just fine. If it doesn’t play locally, then something in your system can’t handle a file that size. Not a FCP guru but I would guess that FCP does its own compression when it renders for playback (hence the lower quality when looking at twice compressed files).
Rob Kahn
March 3, 2006 at 6:23 pm in reply to: Shatter effect

Did something similar but created a layered file with transparent background. In other words one layer just hearts and transparency. Copy layer and fill heart shapes with white preserving the transparency. Save as PSD (to presesrve alpha). Use hearts layer as shatter and white layer as custom layer map.

hope it helps

Rob
Rob Kahn
March 2, 2006 at 8:14 pm in reply to: Pop-up effects pallet disappearing?

Select the layer with the effect and press F3. That will bring up the effects window.

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Rob Kahn
February 28, 2006 at 5:36 pm in reply to: AE 6.5.1 lost preferences

I don’t know why that could be happening but next time you have your preferences where you want them you can back them up. They are in a text file stored in Users>”your user name”>Library>Preferences>Adobe After Effects x.x Prefs. Make a back up copy of that file. When the program wipes out your current prefs you simply copy that file back to the same location. That should restore your prefs.

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Rob Kahn
February 22, 2006 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Adobe’s email address for future versions request

Right click would be nice but in the meantime remember “ctrl + E” or “cmd + E” which launches the file in photoshop or illustrator. Be sure to save. By Menu is Edit > Edit Original.

Rob
Rob Kahn
February 22, 2006 at 5:42 pm in reply to: creating a logo mosic with images

check this site out

https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae04_e.html

and also look at the example of card wipe

Rob

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