Solie Swan
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After Apple switched to Intel chips I made the switch to PC (via bootcamp on an intel mac, so I still had FCP) and have found AE to be surprisingly stable. So much so that I will not go back to AE on the mac side even when CS3 is released and have also started experimenting with PPro2 as a replacement for FCP (the only thing I really miss are the Nattress plugins). There are some tradeoffs like every time I do any serious AE work I disconnect from the internet and disable all antivirus and other misc. processes to speed things up but it only takes a few seconds to do so it is not a major inconvienice for me.
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Learn from others. For 4 years I edited a yearly video for someone that was well received but last year I turned it over to one of the new guys on our staff and what they came up with just blew me away – I would not have come up with their ideas in a million years. As it turned out, it saved me time, money and opened my mind to a whole new way of doing things.
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If you find that primatte works for you and you are on a mac you might want to buy shake – for $300 less than the price of the full AE plugin you can get a full license of shake which includes primatte and keylight. I think there is a 30 day shake demo available as well. BTW, we have UAE and I would echo what has been said – slow, overly complex, no significant work done on it in years and it is exprensive.
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You may also want to take a look at Standards Conversion from http://www.nattress.com which converts between NTSC, PAL and 24p right within FCP. Within AE Magic Bullet (I know it goes from 30i to 24 p but may go the other way too) and Twixtor may do it as well. Andrew Kramer also has a tutorial on frame rate conversions you can look at (videocopilot.net)that does not involve any 3rd party plugins.
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Thanks – I will try reinstalling AE
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Thanks! I just have the 2 individual apps so that could be the problem but I would have thought given that the feature involves PP2 and AE they would enable that feature. But then maybe not.
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peterock – where exactly is it hanging up? You should be able to watch the splash screen and see. I am using ae7 with the latest qt on a pc without any problems. check out: https://generalspecialist.com/ (scroll down to some ae error solutions). There is another blog with information on how to fix a problem where it hangs on cleaning up workplace but can’t find the link offhand – you may want to google it or check adobe.com where they have a support database.
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Check the manual but without ae open in front of me, you right click the clip you want to relink choose the option to replace footage > file … and select the footage you want. I think it will also relink any other files it finds in that path.
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You can use one of those FW to analogue converters like the one from Canopus which are pretty resonably priced ($100 – $200 range I believe.)
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Also, if your card that you are using to capture footage into FCP is setting the levels to 16 – 235 then in AE you need to use a levels effect to get it back to 0 – 235 / 255 (you need to be careful not to clip the highlights.)