[Stacey Dunleavy]

I guess I could say as cheap as possible… I’d like to keep it below $1000…

[Stacey Dunleavy]

I got on with Apple. It seems their new Music Player defaults to copying media files to the main hard drive. I changed that Preference, moved the files to my external hard drive, deleted them from the MacHD, and managed to update all the latest Adobe apps and start AE just fine.

[Stacey Dunleavy]

I have the 8GB of RAM with this model. Yes, I restarted, and yes, I purged everything off this hard drive and moved it to the external. I’m trying to run an update, and I’m being told I don’t have enough disk space to even do that…

[Stacey Dunleavy]

did you layer your text over your video and then post it to IG? What format did you export it in?

[Stacey Dunleavy]

I tried following the tutorial as well – and I’m getting the CAP layer as 2D text sitting out to the side …

I’ll try other tutorials, but like Graham said, this may be done more simply…

[Stacey Dunleavy]

I’ll try that on my Mac – I don’t think I have the admin status on my office PC. In the meantime, I did manage to Add To Render Queue, save an .AVI file, and open that in Media Encoder – I saved my animated GIF, and I’ll test other configurations later.

[Stacey Dunleavy]

It doesn’t seem to matter what video profile I choose, it just… sits… there…

Are you on a Mac or PC?

[Stacey Dunleavy]

Still doing the same thing… I’ll try again…

[Stacey Dunleavy]

I’m also trying to figure out a good workflow between the two. I did a short video; stitched my two shots together in Premiere, but exported to AE and added my intro and transition and outro, from which I rendered in its final format… Would it have been better to add the AE elements in Premiere?

[Stacey Dunleavy]

Draft 3D… That was it… Funny how so many tutorials leave out little details like that…

I was just beating my head against the wall, since I followed the exact steps in this (and other) tutorials …

Thanks everyone!