[Rob Kahn]

I’ve had wierd issues with my RGB inputs (in OSX 10.3.9). What I had to do was toss my preferences file (User>Library>Prefereces>Adobe After Effects 6.5 Prefs). After Effects must be closed when you do this otherwise it will rewrite the existing file when it closes. When you reopen everything will be set back to factory default so any preferences you want will have to be reset. What you could do as insurance is just move and rename the Prefs file as a backup.

Hope this helps

Rob

[Rob Kahn]

Thanks
I’ll start playing with reshape. Unfortunatly these are corpaorate logos with images and graphics so they wont be quite that simple but hopefully reshape will do the trick.

rob

[Rob Kahn]

I studied this lesson by Jim Tierney and found it very useful when I applied variations in an underwater sceen. I would think animating a mask for the water and working a stroke would create the water surface in front of the lens.

https://creativecow.net/articles/tierney_jim/caustics/index.html

Good luck.

Rob

[Rob Kahn]

Thanks you got me half way there. So they are talking about a hardware Quicktime device. Nope don’t have. But did try digital cinema desktop and got a preview on my second monitor. Close but I need it on the third. If you know a quick answer great. Otherwise its a display set up issue and if I play with enough settings I might be able to figure it out.

Thanks

rob

[Rob Kahn]

It’s been a while but I do remember you had to make sure that AICB was checked in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences. You might have to play with some of the other checks as well.

good luck

rob

[Rob Kahn]

Steve,

It has been said many times but I’ll voice in as well.
Ive been on the upgrade path for a long time in individual products and only recently bought packages because it seemed the best economic choice. However, now the packages are overlapping more and more. I also owned the Macromedia products particularly Flash. As I understand, in order to stay on an upgrade path to protect my video package rights, I now have to purchase a second copy of Flash 8, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, Bridge CS2, and by the licencing agreement have 2 licenses for them but only be able to use them [4 second licenses] on one machine. That feels like … well, not right.
What is needed is a way a customer to be recognized for supporting your products in what ever packaging configuration; especially with the Macromedia merger, a way which recognizes existing rights ownership, to in order to remain in or repackage into an video bundle upgrade path.

Might I suggest the ability the ability to receive rebates for current version licenses?

Rob

[Rob Kahn]

interesting thought and I tried a bunch of places with the -, and multiplying by -1. the best I got was a cyclops smile in the expression.

Rob

[Rob Kahn]

interesting thought and I tried a bunch of places with the -, and multiplying by -1. the best I got was a cyclops smile in the expression.

Rob

[Rob Kahn]

if you have 6.5 it’s pretty easy using the text animation preset “Current Time Format” in the expressions group. It shows Hours:Min:Sec:Frames. You can always mask out the hours and frames (the rapid frame numbers only counts down from 30 in my experience). It will count ascending so make a pre comp it, enable time remaping and reverse the begining and end keyframes.

I’m not an expressions expert but it looks like all the preset does is enter an expression into the Source text atribute of timeToCurrentFormat()

Maybe there is a better expression but this worked for me

Hope it helps

Rob

[Rob Kahn]

if you have 6.5 it’s pretty easy using the text animation preset “Current Time Format” in the expressions group. It shows Hours:Min:Sec:Frames. You can always mask out the hours and frames (the rapid frame numbers only counts down from 30 in my experience). It will count ascending so make a pre comp it, enable time remaping and reverse the begining and end keyframes.

I’m not an expressions expert but it looks like all the preset does is enter an expression into the Source text atribute of timeToCurrentFormat()

Maybe there is a better expression but this worked for me

Hope it helps

Rob