Tim Kurkoski
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Not really, no. You can create multiple projects and render them out to separate AVI files, then recombine them all in one project. Doesn’t really do the same thing, but achieves the same end result.
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First, if you press the Escape key you should be able to clear out the dialog and return to Photoshop without having to reboot the computer.
Second, check your System Prefs and make sure that your Mac doesn’t think there’s a 2nd monitor there. If you’ve ever had a 2nd monitor connected, it may be getting confused and giving Photoshop bad info.
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DPI depends on your printer. DPI of about 220-250 is appropriate for inkjet printers, for example. If you’re having the poster printed professionally, contact your print service and ask them what DPI they recommend for their equipment.
(Another factor, somewhat less important, is that larger prints usually require less DPI because being seen from farther away, they don’t need so much fine detail. Billboards, for example, use a DPI around 50.)
As for size, there is no single movie poster size. The standard size that’s used for posters in theatre lobbies and for first-run retail posters is something like 40in x 28in. Larger sizes are often used for theatre exteriors and promotional displays, and smaller sizes for retail, promotions, and other types of advertising. There’s no fixed size or ratio, though, it’s just up to the studio and their advertising department.
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Yes, AE has a Timecode effect, it’s under the Text category. There’s also a text preset that uses an expression, it looks quite a bit better: Animation Presets > Text > Current Time Format. (I’m using AE7, I don’t know if the expression is available in earlier versions.)
BTW, the Help files for AE do not require you to be online. On older versions, they do open a web browser, but they’re just HTML files on your hard drive.
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DPI is irrelevant to video. DPI is a relative measure to the real world (inches being a real-world measurement), and since your video should be displayed across the whole screen regardless of the size of display, a real world measurement has no relevance.
All that matters is that your video frame is the correct size for your format- 720×480 for DV NTSC, and 1280×720 or 1440×1080 for HDV.
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You’re probably going to need to convert them to BMP/GIF/JPEG/etc. using a different application. I’m afraid I can’t recommend one, WMF is a really archaic format.
Worst case scenario, if you can get something, anything, to display the WMF, you can take screen shots and paste those into Photoshop.
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Yes it does.
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The Batch works on an entire folder only, there’s no function to select individual images or groups of images out of a folder. Either put the images you want to modify in their own folder, or turn your action into a droplet (File > Automate > Create Droplet) and simply drag and drop the images you want onto the droplet.
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Choose Tools > Batch Rename. Choose the Move or Copy to Other Folder option.
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Rasterized means that the images are turned into frame-by-frame pixel data, the same as a normal video file. SWF files normal describe the images using vector data, which simply describes the shapes and math of the images and thus requires much less data.
Because the SWF format doesn’t support every type of effect that AE can create (or in some cases, AE doesn’t know how to translate what it does to SWF), some effects have to be rasterized, which means you end up with larger file sizes.