Theo Veltman
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What effects are you applying to the footage? Have you applied an effect then turned it off but have “Effects” turned to “all on” in your render settings?
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Just a query but do you have the quality switch in your timeline set to best?
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Right click on the layer and enable time remapping. Time>time remapping.
Then just drag the end of the layer as far as you want. -
When you look at your AI file in Illustrator are all the objects inside the artboard borders? After effects will always crop anything outside the artboard size regardless of what settings you import it with.
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I’ve never had a chance to use a CX card so I can’t comment on them directly in relation to After Effects They seem to be skewed towards helping with compression via premiere from what I’ve briefly read. Quadro cards are a wast of money as OpenGL is widely ignored by most AFX users (Hopefully there will be a noticeable reason to use OpenCL in AFX5?). In my experience your best bet is to go for an upper mainstream “Gaming” card (normal graphics card (ATI 5000 series although there have been display issues with some of these cards so do some research first, or Nvidia 200 series although they’re releasing a new line of 400’s in about a month so it may be better to hold out for them)) and spend the money you save on A. more memory and B. faster processors. Unless you need a Quadro for a specific reason i.e. you will be running flame (in which case you’ll be running linux and won’t be using AFX), or you really want one for a 3D app (also not necessary in my experience) there really isn’t a good enough argument over the extra memory and processor speed you can get instead.
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I’ve tried this plug in and found it to be a little unstable. If you want a simple 3D effect try using the shatter plugin (under the simulation tab If I remember correctly). Create a text layer with the type you want then add the effect and set the force to 0. You can extrude the type as well and allow it to interact with the cameras and lights.
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Editing = Cut a piece of footage and remove/add a bit in the middle.
Composting = Take an object that isn’t in the footage and put it there.
Motion graphics = take an inanimate object and animate it.
About as simple as I can make it. All of these thing are of course far more complex than this.
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If you’re just using solids you could make the cube quite big (2000x2000x2000 for example) so you can get the edges as accurately aliened as possible then put a null in the center parent all the solids to it and scale this down to the size you need it. Then any gap between the solids would in theory scale down to less than a pixel width, hopefully?
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I’ve found After Effects seems to have a few problems with using a secondary monitor for display through one graphics card but try this as it’s how I believe it’s meant to be done. Worked for me but made my AFX unstable and crash constantly
1- Set your secondary monitors display resolution to as close to your production resolution as you can through system preferences (1024×768 for SD or maybe 960×600 for anamorphic although I haven’t tested this one).
2- In your After Effects preferences/video preview set your output device to digital cinema desktop and output mode to raw. Make sure “mirror on computer monitor” and “scale and letterbox output to fit video monitor” are unchecked and try another ram preview. It should now play back in real time at 1 to 1 resolution.
I also had more accurate output quality selected and output during previews, interactions and renders selected. I tried changing these settings around but couldn’t get my AFX to stop crashing so I’ve given up on it. Hope you have better luck than me.
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Yes that’s the first thing I’m doing once I’ve done a reinstall. I think I’ve managed to trace the problem back to the secondary monitor output. I’m using a second monitor for previewing and I’ve noticed that the second monitor looses the video feed just before After Effects crashes. I can maybe perform one or two more actions but then it locks up with auto save. I’ve done some testing and this seems to happen when I have the “Interactions” box ticked in the preferences panel but is fine with the Previews & Renders boxes only ticked. My best guess would be it has something to do with compatibility with my graphics card maybe which causes After Effects to break and shutdown and when it does this it gets stuck executing one of those ***_1 saves it does? I’m running a 4870 on an octo-core mac If that helps trouble shoot this?