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First make sure your position line is over one of the mask key frames
Highlight all the masks key frames (simply click on the work ‘mask shape’ on the next to the stop watch)
Now move the mask to where you want it (at that point in time obviously)
Now all the key frames will be similarly offset.
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On the Mac
option P – give you a key frame for position
option S – give you a key frame for scale
option R – give you a key frame for rotation
option T – give you a key frame for transparency (opacity)etc etc…
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Ronaldo said it !
Or why not just save everthing to the folder that photoshop chooses (the one with the original .psd in) and at the end of the process simply drag these 200 .png files to wherever you want ?
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Yes you can output iPod compatible movies from After Effects, but they always look terrible, I have never managed to get even a half decent result using the MPEG4 codec even when employing the H264 compresso.r
The best way (from a quality point of view) is to output a uncompressed file animation codec set at full quality (the file will be big but you can later throw this file away) and then use MPEG Streamclip to convert it to a iPod compatible movie.
MPEG Streamclip is very good (better than Quicktime Pro in my opinion) and is free for both Mac and PC ( get it from here >> https://www.squared5.com/ )
Open MPEG Streamclip, drag your After Effects render into the main window – then go…. FILE >> EXPORT TO MPEG-4 – now from the pull down menu at the top of the window that appears choose H.264 or MPEG-4 – don’t go above a data rate of 768kbps for H264 or 2500kbps for MPEG4.
Good luck.
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I thought you were mixing fields and frames (interlaced and progressive).
If all your source material is HD (1080p) progressive then do not interpret to either upper or lower fields, leave it on ‘off’
[although – just to throw a spanner into the works!! – by the time you reduce HD down to NTSC SD – you throw away so much information that your original progressive footage will look much the same whether it is set to ‘off’ – ‘upper’ – or ‘lower’]
I personally would not render the final project to fields either, I simply prefer the look of progressive frames, but that is simply an aesthetic and not technical choice, see what you prefer.
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If it is progressive then you have no choice other than to leave the seperate fields option set to ‘off’ any other choice will simply reduce the vertical resolution by half.
This will have no bearing on your plan to output as ‘lower field first (DVCPro 50 codec)’ other than the section with the HD footage will be progressive and may not match your interlaced footage too well.
If the footage miss-match is obvious and a problem you could de-interlace your interlaced footage or …(now this is where it gets compex for the faint hearted)… turn your progressive footage into interlaced footage by using the time warp plug-in to stretch it to 200% in length (half speed / twice as many frames) then interlace this footage back down to normal speed interlacing every two frames (effectively becoming fields) into one frame.
Got it ?
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What compressor are you using on your original clip ?
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Apply the lens flare to its own layer and then apply the blur plug-in.
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