[Tony Kloiber]

Your anchor point is not right in the middle?

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[Tony Kloiber]

[Ron Lindeboom] “”prenounce””
I like that. Prenounce. 😉

I too like the more open attitude toward letting users in on what is coming up in the new prenounced products. Like Mylenium said it helps me plan me purchases. Now if we could just get a look at what AE has in store and what is going to happen to Shake/Motion and FCP Studio I could decide if I should get off AE and start on what ever Apple calls their “possibly” new Mograph/Vfx software.

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[Tony Kloiber]

Grim is my middle name.

[Mylenium] “What could Adobe care what Apple does and what does Apple care what Adobe does? They are both monopolists and have a firm grip on their parts of the market”

This is part of what I’m saying, but it’s only ok if you want to work all Apple or all Adobe. If you want AE to be able to read a FCP timeline you need The Duck. Why? Because of –> [Mylenium] “What could Adobe care what Apple does and what does Apple care what Adobe does? They are both monopolists and have a firm grip on their parts of the market”

I’m sure Premiere will be great for some people but why not open up all the individual products to working with other applications outside of the Adobe group (same goes for Apple too).

On another note… you new it was coming. What happen to Adobe not taking about future products and releases. Now it seems they’re leaking like a cruiseship on an iceberg.

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[Tony Kloiber]

There is the problem. As Adobe and Apple develop more and more tools their willingness and need to work together gets less and less.

Btw How does the serial number/licensing on AdobeMedia’s packaged products work?
Currently if you have Apple’s Production Suite you can’t use one application on one computer while using another (suite) application on another computer. Is this the same situation with Adobe’s packaged products?

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[Tony Kloiber]

Check the AE Render output with Quicktime player. Is it ok?

Check you render settings In FCP. Make sure the clip (w/Alpha) gets rendered in FCP and it is not just adjusting the rez on the fly (RT).

Oh just re-read your post.

Is the Black background be interpreted as an Alpha?
Are you using the Alpha Channel?
If this clip is not going over something else inside FCP don’t use losses animation, use the DV settings.

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[Tony Kloiber]

I may have describe it incorrectly because it has been a while for me as well but all the layer should come in and remain lined up.

Less mograph more Vfx lately as well as doing a lot of the text right in AE.

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[Tony Kloiber]

Paint strokes could work as a matte layer, or shoot some high contrast element that looks like the type of wipe you want and use that as a matte.

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[Tony Kloiber]

Make sure that your saving the AI file as pdf compatible. Place cropping layer at the edges of you AI file.
In AE import file as composition – cropped layers.
Make sure to put anything you want to animate separate from the other objects (on it’s own layer) as everything on a layer is one object in AE.
If your not going to scale the image up you wouldn’t need to set continuously rasterize, if your are then use it.

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[Tony Kloiber]

You could by one from me for a couple a hundard bucks or… make one yourself in five minutes.

Ok no money?
White layer
Mask in shape od star burs with feather
Scale and rotate
Set to add

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[Tony Kloiber]

If you don’t have a camera you could use a particle generator like foam to create your b/w matte.

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