Tim Kurkoski
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My favorite AE books are the Creating Motion Graphics series by Chris and Trish Meyer. They aren’t necessarily written specifically for a beginner, but they cover every detail and work from simple to complex. If you’re a competent computer user and have some experience with computer graphics (ie, Photoshop), you should be fine with them.
The After Effects Hands-On-Training book from Lynda.com looked pretty good for beginners when I flipped through it a year or so ago. Speaking of Lynda.com, lots of people rave about their video training, though I’ve never experienced it myself.
There’s also the Adobe Classroom In A Book, which is a series of lessons. It’s not very good as a comprehensive resource, but it does walk you through most aspects of the program, and is definitely written for a beginner.
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Try playing with the Echo effect and see if that gives you what you want. To get a trail that moves around in a different direction than the original, you might need to put the echo on a duped layer, then keyframe position, maybe apply a distortion. Have fun with it.
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Thanks “other” Tim K., Steven, Kathlyn, and everyone else out there. I’ll be sure to stop in every now and then. My job has become very AE- and Photoshop-centric, so I’m actually spending more time in those barns. And I’ll still be keeping an eye on the bovines-in-training over at the Calf barn.
Have fun, and thanks again!
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What you’re looking for is the Roving Keyframes option. Or sometimes called “Rove in Time”. Look up “roving” in the help, and you’ll find the complete answer. The short answer from my memory says you should right-click on all your keyframes, choose Keyframe Interpretation, and check the rove option.
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You can change the amount of RAM that AE uses in the preferences.
However, there are limits on how much RAM an individual application can access. With AE 6.5, the limit is where you’re at- 2 GB. AE7 can access up to 4 GB, but due to limitations of Mac OS the actual amount used is more like 3 GB.
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Andy- What version of Premiere are you using, and what type of file are you importing.
FYI- In a case like this, where you are asking a different question than what the thread was started with, you should start a new thread.
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Try copying the installer files from the install disc to the hard drive. It could be a problem reading the disc.
If the problem continues, try this (steps 4, 6, and 7 specifically):
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All video assets must be NTSC or PAL resolution for Encore to accept them. The DVD spec doesn’t allow anything larger. (Half- and quarter-res are allowed, but Encore doesn’t support those sizes. No one uses them anyway. For more detail: https://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.4 )
If your content is going on a kiosk, you can either live with the video being up-res’d, or you can use a different delivery format than DVD. If no interactivity is required, just use an MPEG, WMV, or QT file. If you need interactivity, consider Flash or Director.
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No, not possible. Premiere is not a very QT-savvy application. I would recommend you export out of Premiere as an MPEG-2 file. That gets the transcoding step out of the way, thus saving you some time in Encore.
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There’s a setting for this in the preferences. The difference between 6.5 and 7.0 is that it is turned on by default in 7.0
In Preferences > General, uncheck the “Create Layers at Composition Start Time” option.