[Todd Kopriva]

Are you using After Effects 7 Standard or After Effects 7 Professional? The Standard version can’t import HDV footage.

BTW, After Effects 7 is the last version to have a difference between Standard and Professional. After Effects CS3 just have the single Professional version.

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[Todd Kopriva]

> Ya know, I told my partner when I made this post this morning that Adobe would defend their position and this post could start a fire storm.

My response was not intended to be a defense or any part of a firestorm. I was just trying to direct you to a place where the conversation would be more productive: the blog of the product manager—the person who actually makes the decisions and who is already having this conversation on that blog.

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[Todd Kopriva]

According to this document, version 5.6 of the Camera Raw plug-in might not be compatible with After Effects CS3:
https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408941.html

I’m not 100% certain of this, but you may need to use the older version of the Camera Raw plug-in if you’re still using AFter Effects CS3.

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[Todd Kopriva]

You can specify the color bit depth of exported items in the output module settings. Note that many formats impose limits on color bit depth.

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[Todd Kopriva]

I recommend that you have this conversation with Michael Coleman himself. He’s the product manager for After Effects.

Here’s a link to his blog post about the 64-bit version of After Effects:
https://blogs.adobe.com/keyframes/2009/10/our_next_release_64-bit_native.html

In Michael’s responses to comments on that post, he addresses some of the concerns that you’ve stated here.

FWIW, I daily see many instances of the After Effects team working hard to do what’s right for you, the After Effects customer. I hope that when you read Michael’s blog post and responses, you’ll see that the goal is to make something that will help you the most to get your work done as effectively as possible.

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[Todd Kopriva]

Aharon Rabinowitz shows how to do something like this here.

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[Todd Kopriva]

There are some tips on this page that may help:

“Best practices for creating text and vector graphics for video”

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[Todd Kopriva]

There’s information about frame rate here. If you want to know the frame rate of a footage item, just select it in the Project panel, and you can see the frame rate for the selected item at the top of the Project panel.

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There’s more information about the Convert Audio To Keyframes keyframe assistant here.

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[Todd Kopriva]

Yep. That’s enough for basic work. (It’s close to what I have on my lap right now.)

Don’t expect screamingly fast renders, and don’t try to use Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing for any but the simplest compositions.

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