Todd Kopriva
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from the “Using 3D object layers from Photoshop” section of After Effects CS4 Help:
“To paint on the textures of the 3D object, modify its material options, change its lighting, or otherwise edit the 3D object itself, you must return to Photoshop. The most convenient way to edit the original PSD file is by opening it in Photoshop with the Edit Original command in After Effects.”
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I did this search for ‘day for night’ and found a few useful tutorials for color correcting footage shot in daylight to look like it was shot at night.
There are certainly many different ways to do this.
In the tutorial by Andrew hosted here on Creative COW, the gist is that you bring the saturation down (with the Hue/Saturation effect) and then change the tone response (with the Curves effect). Andrew also adds some lights to the scene, which really helps to sell the result in a way that the Color Correction effects by themselves can’t.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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It seems that you have the Loop Options in the Time Controls panel set to Ping Pong instead of Play Once.
(See “Preview video and audio”.)
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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You can hide the properties that you don’t want to see by Alt+Shift-clicking them.
Though there isn’t a shortcut for just showing the specific property of SoundKeys that you mention, there are shortcuts for the most common couple of dozen properties.
Also, SS is a convenient shortcut for showing selected properties or property groups.
(See “Shortcuts: showing properties and groups in the Timeline panel”.)
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Sorry for answering a different question than the one that you asked, but this struck me:
If you have used glows, you will know that they work best as adjustments using multiple layers to trigger the glow and acting in an additive way, as would occur with real life blooming.
Why not just work in 32-bpc (HDR) color for “real-life blooming”? If I’m envisioning what you’re doing correctly, then this would allow you to use one instance of the Glow effect to do what you’re currently doing with multiple instances. But maybe I’m misunderstanding.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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The “About alpha channels and mattes” section of After Effects Help lists some file types that you can render and export to with an alpha channel.
How about an FLV file?
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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The web page just shows a preview of the animation presets that are included with After Effects. If you have After Effects installed, you already have these animation presets. Follow the instructions in “Apply an effect or animation preset” to apply an animation preset.
There’s more information about animation presets and text animation presets in After Effects Help.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Do these presets work with AE3?
Do you really mean After Effects 3? Or After Effects CS3? For After Effects CS3, the answer is yes. For After Effects 3, the answer is “Wow, you need to upgrade from that mid-90s software.”
Also I’m having problems saving the presets if you can even save them ?
I’m not sure what you’re trying to do. Instructions for applying, modifying, saving and otherwise working with animation presets in After Effects CS3 are here. If you follow instructions in that document and they don’t work for you, let me know exactly what you tried and how it failed, and maybe I can help.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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There are some stretchy-looking text animation presets on the Adobe website. You might be able to start with one of those and tweak it to suit your needs. For more information about text animation presets, see the “Text animation presets” section of After Effects Help.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Kevin,
No, these are the same numbers as for CS3. I think that people sometimes oversimplify by quoting the 32-bit Windows numbers as the numbers that apply everywhere.
2GB per process is the limit on 32-bit Windows without special (and some say somewhat risky) configuration. And, of course, the OS can only see 4GB, so that’s severely limiting.
Nearly 4GB per process is the limit on 64-bit Windows, with no special configuration required.
~3.5 GB per process is the limit on Mac OS (though the foreground application gets a little less because of the Mac OS UI libraries).
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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