[Todd Kopriva]

Start here to learn After Effects: https://adobe.ly/AE_basics

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[Todd Kopriva]

More and faster CPUs are always better.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

> a) 32GB is overkill? 16GB enough with the 4 cores?

More RAM is always better. If nothing else, the additional RAM will be used to keep more information in the RAM cache for the global performance cache. Also, RAM previews can be longer and you won’t need to worry about RAM previews getting cleared just because you switch back and forth to, say, Photoshop or some other memory-hungry application

> b) 660 Ti 3GB better option than the 760 GTX 2GB?

The 660 Ti has more CUDA cores, too. The only downside is that the 660 Ti hasn’t been tested by us; the GTX 760 has: https://adobe.ly/AE_CC_12dot1_GPU
So, if you want to use the GPU acceleration for the ray-traced 3D renderer with the 660 Ti, you’d need to choose the option to use untested, unsupported GPUs.

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[Todd Kopriva]

If you want us to consider changing the behavior (e.g., by adding an additional blending mode that behaves the way that Nuke’s Add does), let us know with a feature request:
https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

> I’m EMMY Nominated for Boardwalk Empire. There is nothing whacky in my project settings.

I didn’t realize that an Emmy nomination conferred infallibility. 😉

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

where to get started with text animation:

“Animating text”

“Examples and resources for text animation”

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After Effects quality engineering
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[Todd Kopriva]

Here are the basics of using stereoscopic 3D in After Effects:

https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/04/stereoscopic-3d-in-after-effects-cs5-5.html

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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[Todd Kopriva]

Is this still not working for you?

Here is the best place to go with Creative Cloud issues:
https://forums.adobe.com/community/creative_cloud

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
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[Todd Kopriva]

> There is not a way to individually have a keyframe for each individual point on any given mask…

At least not that I know of…

There are some handy scripts that add this ability.

Here’s one:
https://aescripts.com/bao-mask-avenger

… and some here:
https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
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[Todd Kopriva]

The Change To Color effect is what you’re looking for.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

This is made much easier with the new “property link” feature in After Effects CC (12.1), due out next week:
https://adobe.ly/AE_CC_12dot1_details

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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