Todd Kopriva
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The answers that you’ve already gotten here are about the best that you’re going to get:
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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We added alternatives for many keyboard shortcuts that relied on the numeric keypad:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/04/added-alternative-keyboard-sho.html———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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> I use After Effects CS5 for Mac (Version 10.0.458)
First, choose Help > Updates and install the bug-fix updates. You are using a version that is two bug-fix updates behind:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/04/after-effects-cs5-10-0-2-update-a-few-big-bug-fixes.html
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/09/after-effects-cs5-10-0-1-update.htmlI’ll leave it to others to recommend how to stabilize footage like yours with After Effects CS5. My recommendation (like Kevin’s) would be to upgrade to a version that includes the Warp Stabilizer:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/04/warp-stabilizer-in-after-effects-cs5-5.html———————————————————————————————————
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Shape layers can’t be exported as vectors to SWF.
See this page for a list of the very few things that are exported as vectors:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WSB4D8E1B0-5A71-4db3-BBE4-C7921931B6B9a.html#WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79caa———————————————————————————————————
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You can define your own arrays all you want, but the expression still needs to evaluate to a value that has the correct dimensions for the property that it’s on.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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I’d start with the Extract effect, not Keylight.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Press LL (the L key twice in rapid succession) to show the audio waveform.
This shortcuts and all the rest are here.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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There’s an example in After Effects Help for wiggling only along one axis. See the second example in the wiggle section on this page.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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See this page for information about hardware for After Effects: https://adobe.ly/pRYOuk
There are some links from that page to some benchmark test results for the GPU acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer (the only thing in After Effects that uses CUDA).Be sure to read this carefully, so that you know how the GPU matters (and, importantly, how it does not matter) for After Effects:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in-after-effects-cs6.html———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Good work.
Did you do the graphics for the opening, too?
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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