Steve Roberts
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The grid layer should be twice as wide as it is high, and really big. For example, if it were a globe, and you wanted Australia to fill the screen when you zoom in, the map layer should be so big that Australia is the size of your TV frame, or thereabouts.
Steve
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If you’re importing a project from another computer without having the effects on your current computer, the effects settings won’t show up when you import. You need the effects installed on your computer.
At any rate, the masks should be there, applied to the appropriate layers within the appropriate comps.
So what do you see within the folder named after the imported AEP file?
Steve
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Are you sure you imported the AEP file?
When you import an AEP it appears as a folder in the project window. All comps and sources appear within that folder, just as it did within the original project. Everything is editable.
Steve
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Please read the AE manual regarding masking and keyframes. Sorry, but the COW is no substitute for the manual.
If you want to do it to a picture, import the picture and drag it into the composition. Then do everything after “create a new solid”.
Steve
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Use the adjust>levels effect to reduce your whites to 235.
The broadcast safe effect is best applied after the levels effect in the effects palette, set to “key out unsafe” just to check that the levels effect has done its job. Switch off the safe effect when ready to render.
Steve
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… and don’t release the shift key until you see the dialog box.
Steve
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Which window is open? The composition window or layer window? You should be seeing the comp window.
Do you have a layer soloed? A solo layer can affect the visibility of others.
Steve
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No, it is not possible. You need an editing app or similar utility. AE does not capture from or print to tape.
The animation codec is the best codec for preserving image quality. Perhaps “best quality” playback is not enabled in FCP?
Steve
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You can drag any file into your AE comp and make an SWF out of it. However, it might not be a small vector-type SWF. It could be quite large because not all of AE’s fancy effects can be vectorized.
To find out more, search the AE help under “SWF”.
Steve
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dpi also applies to scans of transparency material, since the transparencies exist in the real world of inches. The dpi figure is the intermediary between the real world and the digital world.
When scanning anything, the higher the dpi, the more pixels will exist in the digital image.
2″x3″ image scanned at 72dpi yields a 144×216 pixel digital image.
2″x3″ image scanned at 300 dpi yields a 600×900 pixel digital image.Start with your TV frame size. Often 720×540, in your case it sounds like 1280×720.
Determine how much of each image will fill that frame. If you don’t want to zoom in, then you want to scan your image so it ends up as 1280×720. If, however, you want to zoom in so half the image fills the TV frame, scan at a dpi that will give you a digital image which is about twice the size. With a print, you would measure the zoomed-in area in inches, then find a dpi which would give you the TV frame size for that little area. For example:10″x8″ photo, fill 1280×720 frame:
1280/10 = 128 dpi, 720/8 = 90 dpi. Pick larger dpi.10″x8″ photo, zoom into area 4″x3″ to fill 1280×720 frame:
1280/4 = 320dpi, 720/3 = 240 dpi. Pick larger dpi.Hope that helps,
Steve