Tim Kurkoski
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Use an adjustment layer with a mask. Probably want to precomp the adj. layer and the keyed layer (either that, or your mask has to be animated and really accurate).
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You didn’t say what version of Photoshop you have.
However, I’ve seen this problem plenty, and it only happens with Photoshop 7.
Go here: [Mac Hard Drive]/Library/Application Support/Adobe
Delete the Web folder.Problem is that the automatic updater software is getting stuck while trying to download a file. Best thing to do is just kill it. It’s not going to find any new updates for Photoshop 7 anyway (there were a couple in the past; you can download them manually from Adobe’s site if you don’t have them already).
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Upgrade to the newest version of QuickTime. This was a known problem with QT 7.0.2.
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Yes.
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Make sure that you’re clicking on the layer’s thumbnail in the Layers Palette, not the layer name. Because of the new way layers can be selected in Photoshop CS2, there’s now a distinction between choosing the thumbnail and choosing the name.
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Use the Write On effect.
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The RAM allocation is a limitation imposed by the OS. The maximum amount of memory that a 32-bit OS (like the non-64-bit version of Windows, or Mac OS X) can address is 4 GB. Since the OS requires a certain amount of that memory and needs to keep some more protected, they limit how much RAM individual applications can use. On Windows it’s 2 GB (as duffbeer911 pointed out, you can increase it to 3), and on OS X it’s around 3 GB.
More RAM will make your work faster, yes, and also allow multiple applications to run at the same time more efficiently.
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After Effects can not create interactive programs. There’s no way to program buttons or menus into AE, that’s not what it’s for.
You could certainly make the movie LOOK interactive, like someone were pressing the buttons and you see the result. AE can make graphics and movies that dance around in every way imaginable. But there’s no way to make said graphics respond to input. Not with AE alone, anway. You definitely need another application. (For example, many people use AE and Photoshiop to make DVD menu graphics, but they assemble the pieces and put the button functionality on with Encore.)
The big question here is: How are you going to be presenting this project, or whatever it is you’re doing? That will really determine what application you use to build your interactivity.
If you’re making a DVD, use a DVD authoring program like Adobe Encore or Apple DVD Studio or iDVD. There are some free or cheap alternatives out there, like DVDLab.
If you’re making a web-based project, use Flash. Or if you’re experienced with the web you could do it in HTML/JavaScript.
If you’re making something that will be played on a computer, such as at a kiosk, you could use Flash or Director or a DVD.
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Yes. AE 6.5 and 7.0 (and 6.0, and 5.5, and any other version I know of) can co-exist on the same machine without a problem.
7.0 doesn’t overwrite project files from earlier versions. When you open an earlier version’s project in 7.0, it’s opened as an untitled project. You’ll get a warning about this. As long as you don’t save over the original you’re fine. (You can’t open a 7.0 project in the earlier versions, of course.)
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You need to import your images as an image sequence.
In the Import dialog, there is a checkbox in the lower left that will say “Targa Sequence” (if you had Photoshop files selected, it would say “Photoshop Sequence”). As long as your image files are numbered, AE will import all of them as a single sequence file, which it treats like a movie file.