[Ryan Moyer]

If I use the blending modes, how do I get the texture to only apply to the text and not show up on the rest of the background?

[Ryan Moyer]

Yes, in the render queue and when playing back via a ram preview, or even a regular preview.

If I move the work area past the freeze point all I get is the frozen part. When I said 7-10 seconds I didn’t mean between the 7 and 10 second mark it is frozen and it works fine everywhere else, I meant that at some point (usually around 7, 8, 9, or 10 seconds but not always necessarily within that range) it freezes and remains frozen from that point until the end of the comp.

[Ryan Moyer]

Good info here, but I’m still a bit confused as to what action I need to actually take to fix my problem…

[Ryan Moyer]

What version of Windows are you running?
Windows XP

What version of AE are you running?
CS4 9.0.0.346

Do you have the latest driver for your graphics card?
Yes

Do you have any OpenGL settings on such as rendering with the OpenGL renderer?
I didn’t change any of the original settings in regards to this, but when I go to preferences -> preview the enable opengl checkbox is checked, as are the two checkboxes beneath it.

[Ryan Moyer]

1) yay!
2) It was a simple media player, but when I imported it to Vegas it was doing the same thing.
3) Unfortunately yes, this is on a single drive. I’ve never had problems with Vegas working off a single drive but I guess that’s not true of AE and I’ll need to set up Raid or an SSD?

[Ryan Moyer]

No, it is turned off.

However, my ram usage isn’t adding up. It says I have 3.25gb installed, with 0.5gb left for other applications, but has total After Effects memory usage listed at only 1.2gb.

The Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously box is unchecked.

[Ryan Moyer]

Thanks guys, that makes sense. I’ll probably be doing some other minor affects in AE also that would require me to re-encode the whole thing from there, but in the cases where I just need the text then chopping them back over after using the audio/video as a reference makes sense.

Thanks for the heads up on formats Michael. I’m typically outputting from Vegas in mp4. I’ve been playing around with it in AE a bit and haven’t run into any problems yet, but what should I re-encode it to for AE?

[Ryan Moyer]

For the foreseeable future, most of my work will be in SD or compressed HD, so how much would I lose going with a Macbook Pro over a Mac Pro for editing this kind of source material?

[Ryan Moyer]

For the foreseeable future, most of my work will be in SD or compressed HD, so how much would I lose going with a Macbook Pro over a Mac Pro for editing this kind of source material?

[Ryan Moyer]

I am having the same problem. Unfortunately, I don’t have a standalone version of Quicktime, but rather it’s latched on to iTunes. Is there anything I can do about it? I don’t think rolling back iTunes is an option since I have an iPhone 3Gs and I’m not sure the older version works with it.