Simon Bonner
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Hi Denis,
You might need to go into your precomps and extend them there first.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Ahhh! Well, glad you got it figured out.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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I wish! If there is a way, I’d like to hear about it too.
When I’m doing something similar, I save the precomp into a project of its own. Then, when I have another project open that uses it, I import the procomp project and – in the final comp – replace the older precomp layer with the newer one. Then I delete the older imported precomp project folder.
A bit round-the-houses but the best way I’ve found so far.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Anamorphic refers to the say the picture is stretched from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio, which might be why you are having problems.
You need to know how you will be presenting your video. If it’s on a dvd or tv, it will need to be 720×480. If you are going to present it on the web or some other method of viewing on a computer screen and you want to preserve the 16:9 look, make sure you are using a preset with square pixels.
Toggle the aspect ratio switch at the bottom of the Comp panel to see how the image is stretched with non-square pixel comp settings but not with square pixel settings.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Hi Tim,
Sorry – can you SEE the alpha channel in AE (when you toggle the show transparency switch at the bottom of the Comp panel) but can’t render it? Or can you not get the alpha to work inside of AE before you render.
You might want to look up Aharon’s AE podcast tutorials on straight vs premultipled to make sure you are choosing the correct render.
Tried moving assets to the new comp when you precompose, rather than leaving them in the current comp?
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Hi Nicolas,
You could parent null 1 to null 2. If null 2 doesn’t move until null 1 is finished, parenting objects to null 1 will mean they follow null 1 until null 2 begins, after which they will effectively be following null 2.
This what you meant?
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Hi Sam,
Are you talking about installing new fonts on your system? If so, just drag the font file into the folder C:WindowsFonts.
If you’re having trouble with adding text to your comp in AE, please provide more info.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Third (possible!) solution:
You could try adding a simple choker effect to the text layer below the stroke effect. Set the value into negative numbers. Now when you animate the stroke’s start/end properties, you should see the text plus a border being revealed. We don’t want to see the border, so duplicate the text layer and, on the bottom instance, delete both effects and set the track matte to alpha.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Hi Mark,
If you precompose your image (check “move all attributes into the new comp”), then apply CC page turn you will be able to animate the fold position so that the image flies off the page (and doesn’t get cut off at its edges). You’ll need to precomp all the images separately of course.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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Hi David,
Ok, you have some images that are big – do you mean big in terms of dimensions (e.g. 4000 pixels by 6000 pixels) or in terms of disc space (30mb)? If both, which is the one that is bothering you, and why? Is the image too large for AE to handle without crashing? Or do you just want the image to be smaller so that it’s the right size in the frame?
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx