[Todd Kopriva]

The spatial interpolation mode for your keyframes is Auto Bezier (the default). You can change the behavior that you’re seeing by setting the spatial interpolation mode for these keyframes to Linear.

Some people call the motion that you’re seeing ‘boomerang’ motion.

See “Spatial interpolation and the motion path” for more information, including links to some good videos here on the COW about this issue.

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[Todd Kopriva]

See “Import and After Effects project” for instructions.

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[Todd Kopriva]

There are many project templates in the After Effects Exchange on the Adobe website.

Here’s a After Effects Community Help search for ‘template projects’ that might help you to find some other sources.

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[Todd Kopriva]

My guess is that your file name or path includes some characters that aren’t in the character set that After Effects can work with. Do you have any “special” non-ASCII characters in you file name or path?

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[Todd Kopriva]

Adobe offers free technical support for installation issues.

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[Todd Kopriva]

See “Preview video and audio”.

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[Todd Kopriva]

I like Dave’s answer.

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[Todd Kopriva]

If you want to do your design work in After Effects and then prepare the image for print in Photoshop, consider creating a PSD file from After Effects. After Effects can directly output to other still image formats, too. That’s essentially what is done for each frame of a movie that’s going back out to film. See “Rendering and exporting still images and still-image sequences”. You’ll just be rendering and exporting an extremely short composition.

I do know people who do their print work in After Effects. When I’ve asked why, the response has usually boiled down to either familiarity with After Effects or a preference for the non-destructive nature of all of the effects.

Regarding the dpi issue: After Effects has no sense of dpi. There are no inches in video, just pixels. So, just make sure that you’re working in After Effects with a composition that has the pixel dimensions (width and height) that you need. So, for a 300dpi output to A3 size (11.7inx16.5in), that’s about 3,500×5,0000 pixels. That’s a reasonable size for a single plate for After Effects to work with—on the same order as a 4K cinema frame. So, yeah, you should be able to do this.

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[Todd Kopriva]

Though you’re still going to have some tedious work ahead of you, Jeff Almasol’s Scooter script might help. It creates a little panel for moving multiple keyframes, In and Out points, and other things in time.

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[Todd Kopriva]

> The tutorials here are really cool but relatively advanced. I was going to go lynda.com for the first 15 hrs. of tutorials, unless you have a better suggestion.

For video tutorials, you can’t do any better than those here on the COW, especially those by Aharon Rabinowitz.

Adobe also provides a lot of basic material. I recommend working your way through the stuff under the “Getting started” heading on the After Effects Help & Support page.

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