[Thomas Mcmurry]

Thanks for the fast reply. Boy! that Trapcode is cool. Still trying to figure out how to use it.

I think your suggestion of “pickwhip Expressions for mask properties, such as expansion after converting an audio’s amplitude to keyframes.” is closer to what I’m looking to do. If you can shed some light on where I’d begin on something like this? What I’m trying to do is: I have a track of music that I want color bars (like a Bars & Tone) to individually bouce up and down like a VU meter. Thought it’d be easier than it is to get it to feel smooth and look real. I’m not hands-on with “expressions”, but always willing to give it a go. If you (or anyone) wouldn’t mind telling me the best way to go about this, or tell me I’m wasting my time if I don’t already know “expressions”… can’t be done with out it!

appriciate your time!

[Thomas Mcmurry]

Thanks for the fast reply. Boy! that Trapcode is cool. Still trying to figure out how to use it.

I think your suggestion of “pickwhip Expressions for mask properties, such as expansion after converting an audio’s amplitude to keyframes.” is closer to what I’m looking to do. If you can shed some light on where I’d begin on something like this? What I’m trying to do is: I have a track of music that I want color bars (like a Bars & Tone) to individually bouce up and down like a VU meter. Thought it’d be easier than it is to get it to feel smooth and look real. I’m not hands-on with “expressions”, but always willing to give it a go. If you (or anyone) wouldn’t mind telling me the best way to go about this, or tell me I’m wasting my time if I don’t already know “expressions”… can’t be done with out it!

appriciate your time!

[Thomas Mcmurry]

[Thomas Mcmurry]

yes. archive install. I’m a knuckle head thinking all this was safe on an external drive. I read somewhere, after installing I should do something with my “permissions”, update or trash or something?, can’t find the thread now. Any idea what that does, and should I do it?

thx

[Thomas Mcmurry]

just wondering, are you running Tiger? (if so, Clean Install, Upgrade, ?)

I have the same problem with a big project and get that error too. I resorted to starting from scratch due to a time crunch.

[Thomas Mcmurry]

just wondering, are you running Tiger? (if so, Clean Install, Upgrade, ?)

I have the same problem with a big project and get that error too. I resorted to starting from scratch due to a time crunch.

[Thomas Mcmurry]

michael

thanks for your help today, under the gun, so spent the day recreating what i could of what didn’t open and rounded up what I could from dackup discs. Once I get to a good place, I’ll have to revisit that drive and find out what’s up. I’ll go out tomorrow and pickup Disc Warrior and see if that helps.

I really appriciate your time today!

Thanks.

Will write back and keep an update incase someone else has the same problems.

[Thomas Mcmurry]

I have had a few wierd things go on since Tiger, but I did have this file open since.
I do not have Disc Warrior. I will buy a copy. I think in the mean time I may need to start rebuilding some of this stuff! Ouch!
Would Disc Doctor possibly fix a file that can’t open.

Thx again for your time a speedy resonsees.

[Thomas Mcmurry]

I did run DU once. Not sure if I used it correctly or not. I did a VERIFY and a REPAIR and it said “NO REPAIR WERE NECESSARY”.
I had it open and was working on it yesteday. I have a couple other projects in the same folder that open fine (these are prior incarnation to this specific project, just save and renamed every few weeks). It’s just this last file have alot of work done to it and for some reason, gives me an error when openning. The error says “AFTER EFFECTS error: file is damaged. (33 “some symbol that looks like a 5 or S” 7).

Thanks for your time. If you have any suggestions. I guess the main thing is to find a way to copy these files to another drive and go from there. But when I try to drag files to another drive I get this message “The finder cannot complete the operation because some data in “file name.mov” could not be read or written (error -36). What’s even weirder is other files not part of this AE project on this drive CAN be moved.

G4 450DP running AE 6.5.1
LACIE 400 and LACIE 400/800 plugged in via the 400
The media and projects are on the second FW drive in the chain. I’ve gone from the computer straight to this drive to see if it was a FW chain thing, but still no go.
OSX/Tiger