[Tim Bios]

… hm after I reseted the preferencies, it worked. But now again, I am having the same problems. I was still in the same project / com; then again I wanted to use the rectangle-tool and then again there was the pop-up which said, that the roto-brush and other painting / drawing tools shall be used in the layers window. weird, isn´t it?

[Tim Bios]

Great!! Now it works again. Must have been something with the preferencies … !! Thanks a lot!!!!

Best,
Tim

[Tim Bios]

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[Tim Bios]

Hey John,

thanks again. I am using cs5.5. the rest of ae seems to work right. To get it right: you want me to save the project-file? Can do that …

t.

[Tim Bios]

Hi John,

thanks a lot for your advices. So I already watched the tutorials. But unfortunatly it doesn´t solve my problem. E.g. in the video “shape layers 1” he is creating a shape-layer simply by using the rectangle-tool. If I use the rectangle-tool (not for masking, I know the princip of masking quite well from fcp´s motion!), nothing happens. No shape-layer is created. Same when I create a shape-layer manually – I can´t use the rectangle-tool (well I can, but nothing happens …)

Like I said in my previous post – the only possibilities for me are either to double-click on the rectangle-icon or to use the pen-tool. After the screen-filling rectangle is done automaticly (or the 2nd point with the pen-tool is done) I can draw some manually as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Tim

[Tim Bios]

Hey Mark,

now I´ve got! Just played around – and realized it! Thanks a lot for your comments! Really appreciated it, that was really helpful …!

Best,
T.

[Tim Bios]

Hey Anders,

many thanks for your explanation! I guess, I do now understand the problem. So this means, that – given the case I want to dolly the cam – I only can do that in a curtain range. Otherwise I have to live wiht pixelation ….

Thx again,
t.

[Tim Bios]

Hm …. probably I´ve got (a stupid) question: Does it make a difference, whether I zoom in or scale the object? If I zoom, the edges are getting jaggy. If I scale, everything stays crispy.

Is that right so far? If it´s right, the problem is solved….

t.

[Tim Bios]

Here are two screenshots which will help to explain the problem …

3610_screenshotfcp.png.zip

3611_screenshotfcpii.png.zip

Thanks again ….

[Tim Bios]

ahhh! It sounds like, it should work. When I am home again, I will try!

How much time did it take you to get that good into motion? And is / was motion your first animation programme your working with?

Thanks again,
Timo