Tim Kurkoski
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Often if you hold down the CTRL key while using another tool, you’ll get the move tool.
Otherwise, if you’re using the text tool, you have to get out of a text entry field before using keyboard shortcuts. The text tool is designed to take input from the keyboard, after all.
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Yes, AE has some effects like those in Illustrator and Photoshop. Look under the Stylize category in AE7 (they rearranged the categories in AE7, if you’re using an earlier version they might be in a different place).
If you have Illustrator CS or CS2, you can create an action to apply an effect and then batch process a still image sequence rendered from AE.
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Easy way- double-click on the rectangular mask tool, which creates a mask around the outside of the selected layer. Then apply the Stroke effect, and assign it to the new mask.
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You can’t. That’s built into Photoshop and Illustrator. Hopefully something they’ll add to the next version of AE.
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That’s correct, FLV export is only through File > Export, and not accessible through the render queue.
The difference is that AE only shows QT plug-ins through the Export menu, and the FLV module bundled with AE7 is the same QuickTime plug-in that you get with Flash 8 Pro.
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VOB/VTS files are MPEG-2, which isn’t the best format for editing. It’s always best if you transcode to a format suitable for editing.
That being said, if you rename the file to .MP2 or .MPG, there’s a fairly good chance Premiere Pro will read it fine.
What version of Premiere Pro are you using? Prior to 2.0, playback of MPEG-2 can be troublesome if you have multiple MPEG decoders installed on your system. It’s something to watch out for.
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Masks are 2D only in AE, so you can’t control Z-depth using a path/mask shape alone.
You’re going to need to animate the Z position property. If you have a specific path for the Z depth you want to follow, you can paste the path on it and it will add the appropriate keyframes.
There’s probably some other ways involving parenting to a null with the animation that are a little more dynamic, but I can’t come up with any good examples off the top of my head.
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Are you rendering the timeline? It could just be poor real-time playback. It should be smooth (or at least as smooth as your chosen stretched speed allows; 5 fps is not smooth) once rendered.
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Well, yes, you can turn off audio export from the render queue. And by default, many of the preset render settings options do not have audio enabled. Make sure that you are using a format that supports audio (AVI, QT, etc.). Some of the default presets render an image sequence, which obvious will not have audio.
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You’re using Option + the brackets ([ and ]), correct?
No problem on my dual G5 2.5GHz. Are you using a different language for your OS, or launching AE in a different language? Sometimes that throws off the keyboard mappings.