Steve Roberts
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Look in the Help. 🙂
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Neither one of those formats is a good choice. Try converting to Quicktime Animation, PNG, or Photo-JPEG.
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Aside from steps 1 and 2 below, animating Illustrator layers is the same as animating photoshop layers, or just about anything else.
1. Import the Illustrator file as a composition to preserve the layers.
2. To keep each layer sharp, hit the “continuous rasterization” button for each layer. It looks like a sun.
3. Read the sections (in the manual) on animation to learn how to set keyframes for the properties you want to animate.
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Search the COW for “secret prefs”. You need to use them to purge your RAM, since you have so little.
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Try searching the COW for “windows” and “3GB”. There is a workaround/switch sort of thing in the OS.
But consider that your OS will take up a big chunk of the remaining RAM — you’ll never be able to use all 3GB on one app anyway.
But search the COW.
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In other words, have you tried “file>export”?
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Color shift aside, rendering to an image sequence is prudent when a) your computer is acting up, or b) you have a really huge and long render, and if you need to re-render because of a glitch, you can just re-do the errant frames, automatically replacing the originals in the sequence.
And re-rendering the sequence to QT is really fast, since there are no effects or animation to slow things down.
TGAs can be uncompressed, so no quality loss. Then, when you have to store the sequence, you can ZIP/stuff it.
But for most stuff, I just render to the QT codec appropriate to the project.
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Does one of your hard drives have non-cool characters such as ()&%!. in the drive name?
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Nope. You can’t just export effects. You have to make a movie or still sequence. You can minimize the loss by rendering to the Animation codec or your Avid codec in AE.
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[david bogie] “You may need to reshoot against blue or green.”
The DP may have thought that black and white are opposites, so it would make a great key. Wrong. They’re both shades of gray. If the talent needed to be wearing black, the DP needed to introduce colour on the background, such as a pure, saturated green, to make the key useable.
This is all well and good after the fact, but hopefully the DP will learn from this so it doesn’t happen again.