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Todd Kopriva
July 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm in reply to: XDCAM EX import

Here are the details of exactly what is supported with regard to importing XDCAM EX files:

“After Effects can import Sony XDCAM EX assets stored as essence files with the .mp4 filename extension in a BPAV directory.” (from “Supported import formats”)

Are all of the conditions in that sentence met?

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Todd Kopriva
July 9, 2009 at 4:53 pm in reply to: vanishing point problem

Have you tried replacing the source for the layer by Alt-dragging the movie footage item (in this case a precomposition) onto the original screen layer?

(In case you didn’t know… “To replace the source footage item for a layer with another footage item, without affecting changes made to the layer properties, select the layer and then Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the new footage item onto the layer in the Timeline panel.”)

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Todd Kopriva
July 9, 2009 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Two AE CS4 Issues… RAM Preview Warning Msg & Camera Focus Distance indicator

Make sure that you’ve installed the After Effects CS4 (9.0.2) update. It fixed an error that sounds an awful lot like the one that you’re seeing.

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Todd Kopriva
July 8, 2009 at 8:44 pm in reply to: Importing Premiere CS4 into AE issue

from “Import a Premiere Pro project”:

“Transitions and titles (except for dissolves) included in your Adobe Premiere Pro project appear in the After Effects composition as solid layers with their original location and duration.”

You might have better luck using Dynamic Link, rather than importing the Premiere Pro project into After Effects. See “Working with Premiere Pro and After Effects”.

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Todd Kopriva
July 8, 2009 at 8:40 pm in reply to: Washed out footage

Yes, there have been a few related problems with QuickTime and gamma. There’s some information and links in the “Gamma and tone response” section of After Effects Help.

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Todd Kopriva
July 8, 2009 at 8:29 pm in reply to: Free Motion Vectors Plugin?

> it never really said, “to achieve RSMB-like effects, do this” (which was expected)

“To achieve a result similar to the result of ReelSmart Motion Blur, apply the Timewarp effect, set Speed to 100, enable motion blur within the effect, and use the manual shutter control features to adjust the motion blur.”

(from “Motion blur” page of After Effects Help)

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Todd Kopriva
July 8, 2009 at 7:23 pm in reply to: how to: view comp and precomp side by side

One of my favorite shortcuts:

To lock the current viewer, split the current frame, and create a new viewer of the same type in the new frame, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift+N (Mac OS).

This tidbit and more are in the “Viewers” section of After Effects Help.

There were a lot of little improvements in ETLAT (edit-this-look-at-that) functionality in After Effects CS4.

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Todd Kopriva
July 8, 2009 at 6:52 pm in reply to: H.264 color/saturation conversion

This is just a guess, since I can’t see what you’re seeing, but I bet that you’re seeing a commonly known problem with gamma (not saturation) problems with QuickTime movies encoded with the H.264 codec.

There’s some explanation and some links to more information about this Quicktime/gamma bugaboo in the “Gamma and tone response” section of After Effects Help.

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Todd Kopriva
July 8, 2009 at 6:46 pm in reply to: Wire/Rig Removal and Motion Tracking

Carl Larsen does a good job of showing how to use mocha-AE to remove a rig from a shot:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/larsen_carl/simple25d_rig_removal.php

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Todd Kopriva
July 6, 2009 at 6:07 pm in reply to: replacing video footage in Comp

If your goal is to apply the same settings to a bunch of layers, then you could save a set of properties as an animation preset and then apply the animation preset to the various layers.

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