Spencer Tweed
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Yeah – there is a switch called “collapse transformations”. It looks like this * and is between the quality switch (like this: /) and the shy-guy switch on the layer. When you hit that switch AE will no longer treat the precomp as one footage item, but will actually go in and render it as if it were not precomposed.
– Spencer
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Hah, yeah lets see if we can put the pressure on these guys to crank it out. I could use it!
Anyone know if this will also be a “name your own price” sort of thing? Due to our firewall I haven’t been able to see the video yet.
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Freakin’ awesome! I knew it was possible (take that Walter and Dave)!
This absolutely helps me out, thank you very much for the link. I’ll check it out later today and see if I can contact these guys – Lloyd makes some really great stuff.
– Spencer
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No problem.
The Wacom products have a really cool way of dealing with dual monitors. Basically there is a button on the side that when you hit it you can cycle through monitors. It works out pretty well, but if you don’t like it you can change that setting in the preferences.
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Basically yes, just roto out the parts of the heart and layer them on top of your footage. You don’t even need to displace anything (though this might be a bit cheesy), you can just move your anchor points to the center of the pieces and then animate the scale. The FreeForm suggestion would probably look better though – just depends on the style of your video and the time you want to put into it.
– Spencer
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Yeesh… I have not been able to find a solution to this one yet, though I have had similar questions.
I don’t have time to do it right now (just going home) but I’d suggest looking into the “Report” or “RCF” text files that get submitted with the render. Just set up a simple test: submit two jobs from the same project – one without collecting footage and one with collecting footage. Then dig around in the files and try to spot what is different in them.
I’ll look into this in the next day or two – I’m interested in finding a resolution for myself too.
– Spencer
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The Wacom is pretty accurate, so little motions can go a long way. I have a medium and love it, but think that I’d do fine with a small.
I would go for the bigger if I had a choice, but like I said the small should work great.
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Touché.
– Spencer
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Yeah, I considered that option. I could suggest it, but I don’t think they’ll bite. They have already requested that the files get converted, and I am looking for a more long-term solution anyway.
– Spencer
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Okay, I admit defeat on text-editing the project file. I don’t think that it would be too hard to make some sort of script or applicaiton though that could do this. For example you could just make a program that opens the CS5 (or whatever version) file and the rebuilds the same thing in CS4.
Try this: copy some keyframes on an effect and paste it into notepad (or text edit). You will see that there is nothing esoteric about it: it just says what the effect is called, what parameter you have selected and what the comp data is. Using just this data you could batch-rebuild the same project in another version of After Effects. The only thing you have to make sure of is that all of the plug-ins are the same for the two versions.
I don’t have the time or the know-how to do this right now, but it is something for the future. Not to mention I bet someone could make a nice, shiny, pretty penny off of this one! (hint hint)
– Spencer