[Todd Kopriva]

I just tried with After Effects CS4 on Windows XP, and a simple double-click on a .mov file in the Project panel did open a QuickTime Player window. The same worked for some of the .avi files that I double-clicked. As Help says, the player window doesn’t open for some kinds of files, such as those that are too big or those that are encoded with a codec that the player window can’t handle.

It may be (and here I’m speculating) that different versions of QuickTime Player and different operating systems (Mac OS, Windows Vista, Windows XP) might behave differently.

Please file bug reports and feature requests describing what isn’t working for you and how you’d like to see this working. That’s the only way that the people who can fix these inconsistencies will know what’s wrong and what isn’t meeting your needs. (I can walk down the hall and tell them, but I won’t have the details that your bug reports and feature requests will contain.)

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[Todd Kopriva]

When you have a movie with a straight alpha channel, the RGB data in areas of total transparency is totally irrelevant. It’s undefined, actually. If you play such a movie in a player that is not interpreting the alpha information as transparency, it’ll try to interpret these undefined RGB values as image data. Hence the gobbledeygook.

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[Todd Kopriva]

See “Edit this, look at that (ETLAT) and locked Composition viewers”.

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[Todd Kopriva]

The free trial version of Adobe After Effects software does not include some features that depend upon software licensed from parties other than Adobe. For example, mocha for After Effects, Keylight, some other effect plug-ins, and some codecs for encoding MPEG formats are available only with the full version of Adobe After Effects software. They are unlocked when you enter a serial number after buying the full version.

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[Todd Kopriva]

See “Change time-display units”.

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[Todd Kopriva]

The first paragraph of this page describes when a footage item opens in the Footage panel versus in a player window. Are you seeing different behavior than what is described there?

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[Todd Kopriva]

> Could you explain why you recommend that approach? I’m curious since my default approach is to do things without filters when possible.

I’ve found the Stereo Mixer effect to be more reliable when using expressions on its properties. If you’re not having any problems, then I suppose that there’s no reason to not animate audio directly with Audio Levels; but know that Stereo Mixer is there as something to try if expressions and keyframes on Audio Levels aren’t doing what you think they should.

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[Todd Kopriva]

Here’s a blog post about color shifts when using ProRes footage in After Effects. Perhaps it will help.

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[Todd Kopriva]

The closest that you can come with settings for multiple output modules is to make the changes in a template and apply the template to multiple selected outout modules. See “Change output module settings”.

Here’s a link to the feature-request form.

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[Todd Kopriva]

I recommend animating the properties of the Stereo Mixer effect rather than directly animating the Audio Levels property.

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