Simon Bonner
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Check out Aharon’s podcasts on the “boomerang effect” –
https://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/ae-boomerang-effect-part-1–44
https://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/ae-boomerang-effect-part-2–43
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Hi Lucas,
What a pain! I used Andrew’s preset in a film I made last year, and used AE7. I’m not sure what’s going on here, but Andrew made the preset for AE7 and so it mustn’t work in CS3. It wouldn’t be the first thing that didn’t transfer properly. You might have to save the project file in AE7 format and render it from that; forget about CS3 completely.
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Hi Carlos,
As far as I understand it, you would need to have two menus – you can only specify one audio track per menu. Have your user make a language selection first, then send them off to the correct menu.
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Hi Dilip,
If you are running AE7, the CC (CyCore) plugins will not be automatically installed. Have a look on your installation disc.
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Animating the arrow in the first vid wouldn’t be too difficult. Just have a look at Aharon’s podcast on AE’s 3D capabilities. The link to the second video doesn’t work for me.
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As far as I know it will work, but you should check if your company’s licence covers use on multiple machines (Adobe charges more if you want to use its programs on more than one machine). I’m not sure how you would check that, though…
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The best way to go is to give your client several options – there’s absolutely no way of guaranteeing what codecs they will have on their system (and chances are they’ll have fewer than you). File size should be seen as something of a concern, because I imagine your client doesn’t want to hang around waiting for downloads – plus less powerful machines will have big problems playing uncompressed footage.
For some great tips, check out Aharon’s podcast here at the Cow on final delivery: https://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/final-delivery–89
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It would depend on the look you wanted to create. You could track the ceiling of the car and then have the text go along with it. If you are stuck (ho ho) on the idea of having the text jump about as though it is on strings, you could do what you suggest, then remove the string with cc wire removal. The thinner the string the better, obviously. Having said this, there are potentially some problems with this method: the jump of the string will be dependent upon whatever is on the end of the string, and if it’s not heavy then the text might appear too light, if that makes any sense. I would be more in favour of going with the former idea and forgettign the strings because it seems like a lot more work for difficult-to-predict results. If you want to get rid of the tracking references from your footage, you could use the paint tools.
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Hi Bryn,
I’ve uploaded a zip file containing the two presets to yousendit.com. Just follow this link, download the folder, and extract to the presets folder in your AE directory.
https://download.yousendit.com/B255581E7B4507F4
It will be active for the next 7 days.
Your students will, as you know, find everything they need to know about how to use the presets in Andrew’s tutorial, but I would remind them to make sure that the comp and layer motion blur switches are on, or the automatic blur calculations won’t work – assuming I’m not uniquely stupid, this is easy to forget.
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Ok, well, it depends on your footage and how you’re going to deliver.
I’ll assume you’ve imported your footage. Select it in the project panel and look at the text AE gives you at the top of the panel. It’ll show how long the footage is, as well as the pixel aspect ratio etc. If you think AE has interpreted the footage incorrectly, right click on the footage and go to interpret, main.
To make a comp with the same dimensions, length and aspect ratio as your footage, drag the file onto the “make new comp” button, which is situated at the bottom of the project panel.
An important thing to note, which cost me a lot of time when I was starting out with AE, is that if your footage looks squashed or distorted in the composition window it doesn’t necessarily mean that the aspect ratio is wrong. Click on the button at the foot of the composition window that looks like a square with arrows on it (I think that’s what it looks like – writing this from memory). That will toggle the appearance of the comp (but won’t affect how it’s rendered) so you can see what the final version looks like.
If you’ve already made the comp yourself manually, make sure it’s set to 720×576 (PAL) or 720×480 (I think – NTSC), or you won’t be able to write the rendered files to dvd when you’re done.