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Steve Roberts
April 20, 2008 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Crystallizing frost

Have you searched the COW for “frost”? Try searching farther back than 3 months.
Steve Roberts
April 20, 2008 at 6:58 pm in reply to: New PC – Suggested spec?

[Grant Swanson] “In my opinion, and I can speak from experience, the component you don’t want to skimp on is the graphics card. I highly recommend any of the Nvidia Quadro FX cards, the higher up in the product line the better. These are absolutely amazing. “

For AE, just go for a midrange card. AE’s implementation of Open GL is not very good, so most of us just switch it off. As long as the card is supported by AE, it’s good.

As for the drive speed, it’s not as crucial with AE as it is with an NLE that has to access footage in real time. Since AE has to render every frame, processor speed and RAM is more important than drive speed. 7200 is fine for AE. Put your money into RAM and multi-processors.
Steve Roberts
April 20, 2008 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Text transforming into other text

Sometimes the block dissolve transition can be useful here.
Steve Roberts
April 20, 2008 at 12:46 pm in reply to: What’s this curious effect seen in old Technicolor…?

You could Google “technicolor” “dissolve” and “shift”, leading to a link like this.
Steve Roberts
April 20, 2008 at 4:15 am in reply to: Video “stutters” during motion sequences

AE uses sub-pixel positioning when at high (not draft) quality. You’d notice draft quality — it’s in the Render Settings. So that’s not the problem.

Are your videos compressed or not? If compressed, what is the codec?
Steve Roberts
April 18, 2008 at 7:10 pm in reply to: AE won’t export QT

Which version of QT?
Steve Roberts
April 18, 2008 at 4:16 pm in reply to: export for web

High quality = high data rate
high data rate = long loading times on the web
long loading times = lost audience

So:
short loading times = low data rate
low data rate = lossy compression (quality loss)

Currently, the format of choice is generally FLV. You can compress your video to FLV in Flash, Squeeze, or After Effects CS3.

You will lose quality — there’s nothing you can do about it … at least until codecs improve, or everyone has fibre-channel networks or something like that.
Steve Roberts
April 18, 2008 at 4:10 pm in reply to: final render settings: field render or not

… also the projector/monitor would need to have a high refresh rate, if you are seeing tearing on the video.
Steve Roberts
April 18, 2008 at 3:15 pm in reply to: final render settings: field render or not

Maybe uncompressed 8-bit is too much data to push through the hard drive?
Did you try Photo-JPEG?

BTW, if it plays on a computer (not a TV), don’t go interlaced.
Steve Roberts
April 17, 2008 at 10:07 pm in reply to: Setting up a HD AE Comp

That sounds familiar — I stand corrected. I concur that Option 2 was preferable, if I recall.

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