[Ron Coy]

don’t you need to set another keyframe for when you want the motion to start back up though? I’ve used hold keyframes a few times, and they do just that… hold the position until the next keyframe. This can cause jumpy animation, which is what I was going for last time I used them, or be used for other effects… but if you toggle a hold keyframe, you’d have to have another keyframe to move from to the next, or else the hold keyframe will hold the camera in the same place until the timeline gets to the next keyframe with a different position.

like this

K———-H———-K

the hold keyframe will cause the position to “jump” when you reach the next keyframe

vs.

K———-H–K——-K

which as long as the next non-hold keyframe is the same position as the hold keyframe is, you’ll get smooth motion from K to K.

Or am I way off?

[Ron Coy]

although I don’t think legally it’s cool to run the old software after you use it to upgrade on another machine, since the license is supposed to follow the software, the software isn’t going to expire all of a sudden just because you bought the upgrade.

I also don’t think that using it on both machines for a couple of weeks is going to bring down the wrath of the lawyers on your head, but I wouldn’t use it for longer than you have to. I also don’t think it’s a big deal if you keep the 6.5 version on the same machine as the CS3 version, but I don’t know the legality of such a thing. I would imagine though, for developers who are writing plugins to work with older and newer versions of AE, that they probably would do just that. But I could be wrong.

[Ron Coy]

make sure your temporal AND spacial keyframe interpolation is set to linear.

[Ron Coy]

I don’t know if Premier would be the best editor for you, so I can’t say that. I used Vegas for a couple of things, and it seems like a decent editor as well.

I think you should try out a few demos of editors for Windows, and see which one you like.

One of the best things about Premier is the integration with After Effects, and the fact that it comes as part of the Production Premium suite along with After Effects and the rest of the tools necessary to produce things in After Effects (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)

[Ron Coy]

the technique I was talking about before with splitting the video into four pieces and pinning each of those is the only way you’re going to achieve this effect.

[Ron Coy]

you’re gonna have to split the video into as many pieces as you have windows, then corner pin each of those pieces.

for example, you will have to crop the video and render out 4 custom sized videos to fit those windows, then corner pin each of them. If the video is 720 pixels wide, divide that by four, and that’s how large each piece needs to be, or you can make one smaller and the rest bigger, etc.

[Ron Coy]

huh?

got an example, because I don’t follow. I get that you have multiple panes and you want to track them…

Are you trying to get one video on every pane, or one video for the entire window?

If you’re trying to get one video on every pane, then duplicate the video for as many panes as you have, and apply corner pin to each one and pin the corners to the corners of the panes.

If you’re trying to get one video for the entire window, then you need to corner pin the entire window with the one video layer. You don’t need more than 4 corner pins for that. If you are trying to see the pane edges on top of the video, then you need to mask them out. You could also do a layer for each pane and use a color like blue for every layer, then precompose those into a single matte for the video to be applied to, and corner pin the whole window to get the perspective right.

[Ron Coy]

no. You’re pretty much screwed there.

You could, however, let the transition happen in realtime, and slow down everything before and everything after that transition.

[Ron Coy]

What’s so hard about AE’s text animation system? The only weirdness I’ve seen comes due to the pivot point being in a weird place in some instances. That’s fixed usually by setting the paragraph to centered, or whichever way you want the pivot point to work…

Also, there are text controllers and layer controllers, which can get confusing, but allow for all kinds of control.

How does it work how you think it shouldn’t, or how does it not work the way you think it should?

just curious. Not saying you’re wrong…

[Ron Coy]

Sorry if I’m ignorant here, but what exactly are you trying to do?

I understand painting on moving footage, and if that’s all you’re trying to do, I don’t see what’s difficult about that… If there’s something else you’re trying to do, I’m not following.