[Yoondo]

As glennser mentioned, I’ve been able to import mp3’s directly. My question was basic as far as its intent is concerned (no error before and error now thing).

I realize that mp3’s cannot go back to the wave quality much like jpg can’t go back to psd or targa. I just hope that my question did not convey lack of my knowledge in file formats.

Thanks for your input, glennser. You said the mp3’s might not be genuine, but I tried dozen other mp3’s and they all resulted in same error. By the way, I am on a PC.

The basic question was more of a technical one regarding the error message.
I appreciate the feedback and the advice.

[Yoondo]

One more question, Steve.

Since mp3 is compressed, when exporting to .wav, does it decompress?

[Yoondo]

Thank you for the reply, Steve.

I was able to import, but only after opening the mp3 in quicktime and saving that as .mov.

Are you saying that I need to import the mp3 in quickime to save it to .wav or .aif then import in AE?

My main concern is why suddenly I cannot import the mp3 directly (I won’t anymore after your advice.) because when occasionally getting error messages bothers me a bit. I’ve been enjoying errorfree AE for a while.

Thanks again.

[Yoondo]

[serge] “I don’t know why your blades come in “separate” Do you mean offset?”

Hi Serge,

I meant that they all come in together, but they are separately selectable. So, there is no problem there.

I think I found the problem though. My fan did not center because I had gotten rid of the ring around the whole fan. This threw the whole thing off center because without it, the center of the fan would be off-center due to the triangular shape overall.

Thanks so much for your attention.

[Yoondo]

Hi again, Serge.

As I import the fan, the blades and the center are separate. In the Invigorator setup window, I can move the round shape to the center, but when I select the 3 blades together, I can’t move that to the center to line up with the round object’s center.

As I mentioned in my original post, the blades are bounded in a square but the actual center is not the center of the square boundary due to the triangular shape of the 3 blades together.

This is the part that I need clarification on. It could be something so minor, but at the moment, I am not finding an answer.

Thanks again.

[Yoondo]

Hi Serge,

Thank you for the reply.
I forgot to mention that I’m on a PC.
I will try as you explained and let you know.

[Yoondo]

This question is for Mr. John Dickinson.

When you have a 3 bladed fan like in this case, and using the 3D tracking method in AE, how do you anchor the controller to the fan so that the z-axis is exactly in the center of the round part of the fan?

As you know, thinking in terms of the fan in a square, the geometrical center would not be in the exact center of the fan because of the triangular shape.

Your help will be appreciated.

[Yoondo]

Looks like the fan is not placed exactly 90 degrees perpendicular to the ground.

[Yoondo]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Agree, agree and agree.

[Yoondo]

Hi Serge, thank you for the video tutorial.
The mask was the answer I was looking for in order to avoid text wrapping to the backside.

I really appreciate your taking the time to explain this.