Todd Kopriva
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Check the list of what’s supported for SWF output, and check to see whether you’ve set After Effects to ignore or rasterize unsupported features.
You might want to consider outputting to FLV, F4V, or XFL rather than SWF, depending on what you’re doing in and with your movie.
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When you are changing a property value, After Effects has to render the image with the result of the change. Sometimes, this takes a relatively long time. There are different preview modes that you can use to deal with this lag—each of which provides a different way of “keeping up”. Adaptive resolution drops the resolution of the image while you are making your changes. Turning off Live Update, on the other hand, tells After Effects to not even bother trying to keep up with the changes while you are dragging. Hopefully, all will be clear whn you read the preview modes page.
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I second what Steve said.
Consider—as he suggested—that you have input formats, intermediate formats, and output formats. Each has its own principles that govern which is best. The last of these three (output formats) is sometimes constrained by things like bandwidth to your audience or client demands. You can usually choose intermediate formats based on what works best for you. Input formats… well, sometimes you just take what you get.
I cover this at a high level in “Planning your work”, which links to a great article by Aharon back here on the COW.
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I found this with this After Effects Community Help search for ‘move a project’.
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Does the Optics Compensation effect do what you want? It was created to add or remove camera lens distortion, but it could also be used to compensate for projector lens/mirror distortion. I haven’t tried it, but it seems that it should work.
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> It’s a real hassle to replace a piece of animatied gfx 42 places i 4 different comp
If you’re just trying to update footage items (as opposed to adding/importing new ones), I’d think that you’d be able to accomplish what you want with this:
“To refresh footage items selected in the Project panel to use the current versions of the source footage files, choose File > Reload Footage.”
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> I want to move the point
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> why have adobe made this impossible?You can change a Bezier shape path.
You do have to select the vertices (path points) first.
One thing that might be tripping you up is confusion between shapes that are defined by Bezier paths (for which you can move and modify individual vertices) and parameteric paths.
from “About shapes and shape layers”:
“Shape paths have two varieties: parametric shape paths and Bezier shape paths. Parametric shape paths are defined numerically, by properties that you can modify and animate after drawing, in the Timeline panel. Bezier shape paths are defined by a collection of vertices (path points) and segments that you can modify in the Composition panel. You work with Bezier shape paths in the same way that you work with mask paths. All mask paths are Bezier paths.”———————————————————————————————————
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Check your render settings. There’s an option in there for enabling or disabling motion blur for final output.
I found this with this After Effects Community Help search.
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> If any of you have time, again, what does the “alpha” truely mean in regards to color, etc.
from “About alpha channels”:
“Color information in After Effects is contained in three channels: red (R), green (G), and blue (B). In addition, an image can include an invisible fourth channel, called an alpha channel, that contains transparency information. Sometimes, such an image is referred to as an RGBA image, indicating that it contains an alpha channel.”
Also, Aharon has a good explanation in “What is an alpha channel?” here on the COW:
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