Steve Roberts
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Thanks, Carl!
Steve
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Then there’s effect>distort>CC Page Turn, which comes with the non-educational version of AE 6.5.
It’s one of the Cycore effects, installed from the AE CD.
(It used to be part of the Final Effects package.)Steve
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Try applying the shatter effect, rendering, then reversing the playback of the rendered clip.
You might want to look for the COW tutorial that lets you blow away text like sand … to get ideas on how to make tiny particles.
Steve
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You need more RAM. AE stores image frames in RAM for a RAM preview. If you find you need more frames at a given resolution, you need more RAM.
Use Task Manager (Windows) to determine how much RAM is being used up when AE isn’t open. Add 2GB to that figure to max out your RAM for AE alone. Feel free to buy more RAM to handle other apps and unexpected overhead.
(Why 2 GB? AE can only use up to 2GB of RAM until everybody gets online with 64-bit Operating Systems, including Adobe.)
Let’s say your overhead is 250 MB of RAM, then your 30-second RAM preview uses 750 MB, then you’re full. If you then add 1 GB of RAM, maybe you’ll get another 40 seconds out of your preview.
But there’s no way to RAM preview 4 minutes at full res. Such is not the nature of compositing, at least on the desktop. There just isn’t enough RAM to store the images. If the program is too long, you have to view less of it at full res, or more of it at lower res.
If your show only has a few effects shots, you RAM preview the shots until they’re good enough, render them, then drop them into the show in an editing app. If you want, then view them in the context of a larger part of the show in the editing app, then go back to AE. In other words, do a shot at a time. Watching the entire show full-res in RAM preview is a luxury.
Besides, even if you could do that, you’d probably do it once or twice, then get tired of waiting for the loooong preview to build, so you’d just preview each change and move on to the next. At least I would. 🙂
Bottom line: RAM preview is limited to the amount of RAM in your machine, up to 2 GB for AE. Get more RAM and/or preview at a lower res & magnification (match them: halfres=50%mag)
Hope that helps,
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Recode your OS to 64-bit, then recode AE to make use of the new OS.
Sorry to be flippant, but until everybody’s on 64-bit OS and apps, AE can use no more than 2 GB of RAM.
Steve 🙂
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No problem, Carl. I hate having things sent back. 🙂
I have another question: The stills will be numbered, but they’re not a sequence — they were numbered for organizational purposes. Will the Avid automatically assume they’re a sequence?
If so, can I head off this undesired behaviour, or is there something that the editor should do on import?
Thanks again,
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There’s a baseline shift control in the text control (bottom left). If you set it to whatever it takes to center the anchor point vertically, all subsequent text will be offset by that amount.
Doesn’t quite answer your question, but it might help.
Steve
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There’s a baseline shift control in the text control (bottom left). If you set it to whatever it takes to center the anchor point vertically, all subsequent text will be offset by that amount.
Doesn’t quite answer your question, but it might help.
Steve
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You need to specify which property gets the new keyframe. Those shortcuts are also in the list.
e.g. position is “P”, so to add a position key, you choose alt+shift+P.
Steve
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Hmm …
CC effects are also called Cycore effects.
If it really were an upgrade, you wouldn’t be able to use it without a serial number from a different version.
For more info on Invigorator, contact Zaxwerks (there’s a COW forum) or call Adobe Customer Service. I’ve never qualified, since Invig comes with new seats, and I’ve only bought upgrades since 3.1 and 4.1. I’m not sure what you have there.
Steve