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Steve Stone
September 20, 2006 at 7:12 pm in reply to: After Effects Plugin Recomends?

I agree with Aharon, the Trapcode suite is a MUST HAVE for every motion graphics designer. Another one I would recommend is the Sapphire plug-in suite from GenArts. It’s pretty pricey but I can’t live without it.

Hope this helps!

Steve Stone

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Steve Stone
July 6, 2006 at 3:12 pm in reply to: render buffer is for suckers

From what I have found, this is a memory/cache management bug directly associated with Intel processors. The quick fix is to restart afx or your computer, and that is ususlly all it takes. If you are getting this error repeatedly while rendering, the only fix I have found is to render the project on an athlon machine(or something other than an Intel based machine) I am not sure if the some goes for Intel based Macs.

I hope this helps.

Steve Stone

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Steve Stone
May 12, 2006 at 2:43 pm in reply to: missing data in file (33::4)

You can try to import the file into another one, but usually that means the file is corrupt. Sorry to the the bearer of bad news. Good luck!

Steve Stone

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Steve Stone
March 9, 2006 at 5:39 pm in reply to: AE7 much slower than 6.5

Are you still working in 8 bit or have you switched up to 16 or 32 bit. This, of course, will slow down the program dramatically. While buggy, AE 7 seems to run quite a bit faster in 8 bit mode. Hope this helps!

Steve Stone

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Steve Stone
March 2, 2006 at 5:52 pm in reply to: trade show movie – how best to present this?

If you have the resources, I would go with the dvd option. Basically it takes the crash factor out of the mix and you can be pretty sure you will get pretty nice quality. You may end up wasiting a lot of time playing around with the compression of your mov. I use DVD studio pro to make my looping dvd’s. I guess it all depends on the speed of your laptop, weather you go that route or not. I just consider a looping dvd a pretty fail safe option.
I hope this helps.

Steve Stone

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Steve Stone
January 9, 2006 at 5:17 pm in reply to: Custom Pixel Aspect Ratios

Hey Andy, Thanks alot! Is there also a way to make a comp have a custom Pixel aspect ratio? Thanks again

Steve Stoe

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Steve Stone
January 4, 2006 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Custom Pixel Aspect Ratios

Thanks for your response.

Here’s the deal:

This will be used for a large corporate clients’ sales meeting. The main screen is 65 feet wide by 18 feet tall. The aspect of the screen is 3.638:1

The output will be 1080i HD from HDCAM. (1920×1080). This signal is resized on the fly to stretch to that ratio. So, we would like the ability to be working in After Effects at this custom aspect so we can see what it looks like, otherwise, it is a stretched vertical image that is hard to work with.

Photoshop has enabled a user to input a custom pixel aspect since CS. If you want to see what we would like. Launch Photoshop and create a new 1920×1080 image and set the custom aspect to 3.638:1. Draw a circle and then turn Pixel Aspect off. See the result?

There are many situations where the “Drop Down List” isn’t enough.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Steve Stone

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Steve Stone
September 9, 2005 at 4:40 pm in reply to: random skaking and random and erratic, camera movement

That seems to be hand keyed, however you could use The Wiggler or an expression.
Steve Stone
September 9, 2005 at 4:40 pm in reply to: random skaking and random and erratic, camera movement

That seems to be hand keyed, however you could use The Wiggler or an expression.
Steve Stone
July 20, 2005 at 7:03 pm in reply to: exporting position values

Select all pos keyframes, Copy them using (ctrl+c or cmd+c on a mac). Then go into your fav text app and paste. the data should look like this:

Adobe After Effects 6.5 Keyframe Data

Units Per Second 29.97
Source Width 720
Source Height 486
Source Pixel Aspect Ratio 0.9
Comp Pixel Aspect Ratio 0.9

Position
Frame X pixels Y pixels Z pixels
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5 361.678 243.563 0.862239
6.99 364.31 245.633 0.275887
8.99 365.433 246.735 0.572405
10.99 365.673 247.203 -0.141575
12.99 366.47 247.618 0.732017
14.99 369.408 247.622 0.549547
16.98 370.388 248.649 -0.0274667
18.98 370.344 249.441 -0.140263
20.98 372.697 250.466 -0.75222
22.98 374.4 251.586 0.189947
24.98 374.868 252.553 -0.628071
26.97 375.367 252.169 -0.604724
28.97 376.745 252.475 -0.667776
30.97 378.642 253.827 0.408979
32.97 380.755 254.143 -0.609638
34.97 381.18 255.801 0.509262
36.96 382.541 256.576 -0.955718
38.96 382.865 256.391 0.0146794
40.96 384.918 256.413 -0.14481
42.96 386.424 258.219 -0.89523
44.96 387.4 258.653 0.891537
46.95 388.942 258.341 0.259163
48.95 390.752 259.971 0.222327
50.95 392.295 260.138 -0.0310678
52.95 393.661 261.067 -0.240547
54.95 393.908 262.26 -0.311136
56.94 395.102 262.09 -0.150761
58.94 395.952 264.221 0.197668
60.94 397.365 263.166 0.57445
62.94 399.34 265.199 -0.353557
64.94 400.555 265.385 0.687643
66.93 401.316 266.905 -0.0983001
68.93 402.171 266.82 0.21247
70.93 403.569 266.936 0.306406
72.93 405.482 267.637 0.793176
74.93 407.399 269.709 0.893948
76.92 407.799 270.254 0.78811
78.92 410.128 270.123 0.174139
80.92 410.178 271.976 0.00924711
82.92 411.736 271.161 0.863338
84.92 412.239 271.558 0.440168
86.91 414.373 272.391 -0.0185553
88.91 416.083 273.743 0.463424
90.91 417.536 273.746 0.688162
92.91 417.959 275.773 -0.629475
94.91 419.033 275.112 -0.556352
96.9 421.354 277.185 -0.497543
98.9 422.406 276.574 0.363262
100.9 422.438 278.083 -0.580096
102.9 425.394 279 0.381726
104.9 425.101 279.768 -0.922025
106.89 426.385 280.551 -0.731742
108.89 428.804 281.449 -0.345866
110.89 429.982 281.246 0.814203
112.89 430.734 282.126 -0.894467
114.89 431.24 283.066 -0.645039
116.88 433.134 283.925 0.501694
118.88 435.557 283.635 0.371044
120.88 435.737 285.766 0.423658
122.88 436.656 284.753 0.748314
124.88 439.244 286.005 -0.460067
126.87 440.286 286.536 0.8652
128.87 441.717 286.705 0.498581
130.87 443.02 288.069 -0.890347
132.87 443.963 289.122 -0.412275
134.87 444.029 290.646 -0.127628
136.86 445.793 289.679 0.842128
138.86 447.166 291.926 -0.158818
140.86 448.546 290.954 0.895138
142.86 450.74 293.188 0.355327
144.86 452.323 292.973 0.29017
146.85 453.292 294.346 -0.540574
148.85 453.117 295.151 -0.982055
150.85 456.008 295.595 0.0836818

End of Keyframe Data

Hope this helps

Steve Stone

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