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Is After Effects Good for YouTube-Style presentations?
Hi! I'm about to start a new channel where I'm going to make educational videos about mysterious/strange topics. I'm thinking of using an animation program for brief and simple short animations, that...
View ArticleAfter Effects CS5 hangs on startup
After Effects CS5 (MAC, german trial version) needs 5-10 minutes to start up, hangs on the message "MediaCore wird initialisiert". On another Mac (small macbook!) it works fine. I did a reinstall, no...
View ArticleAfter Effects CS6 copy paste from other apps is broken
Hi there, After Effects just recently stopped accepting copied text from Microsoft Word (and many other applications incl Photoshop). Although it does allow me to copy into the AE GUI search bars, but...
View ArticleTo Much time in 0. Massive layers of Typography
Ok this may not be massive to some folks but i have a 1m37s infographics commercial. I am at :40s and i have about 53 precomps in a main comp. I am using the ram preview to time this to the voice over....
View ArticleJerky and "Not In Real Time"
Why is my footage in AF 5.5 jerky and why do I get a message in red saying"Not in Real Time"? Any ideas please?
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Can't import AI files as vectors-- help!
Hi all, This may have a simple solution (and probably does), but I can't find it. What I'm trying to do is to import an AI file into AE 5.5 as original vectors. I need to be able to scale up to about...
View ArticleAfter I import a .swf's into After effects the content disappears!
I have been using this work flow for sometime. I hand animate a sequence or a still of a character in Flash Pro on a single timeline, no scipts, etc just clean keayframe animation or a single frame....
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Exporting a video, but it comes out the wrong size
When I export a video, i am trying to have it come out 1280 X 720 (720p) but when I export it, it comes out 720 X 480 (480p) Any ideas why? I am using After Effects CS6 and here are the settings
View ArticleIs this possible???
I am doing a intro for someone and he wanted the laser buring text which i know how to do. Now he is asking if I can laser trace a picture for it also. Im kind of new at this and wondering if given a...
View ArticleGraphic card NVIDIA K3000M?
Does anybody knows how AE works with NVIDIA Kepler Technology (NVIDIA K3000M)? Any known incompatibilities - especialy Mental Ray?
View ArticleError when using aerender
I am getting this error randomly when using After Effects with our render farm. We use Deadline as our render manager Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): aerender Error: After...
View ArticleAxis Mode Bug
Hello, Just recently I noticed that after switching my axis mode, I can no longer single out a particular axis. Example: Create solidMake 3DRotate on Y-axis any amountswitch to world axis modeswitch...
View ArticleWhy some layers are missing in After Effect CS5 when I imported PDF which...
Cannot figure it out, Please help!!
View ArticleSway 3D object on Z-axis using slider?
Hi there,I have multiple objects (side by side) which I would like to sway on the z-axis as if the wind is blowing them. I already have their anchor points at the top of each object. I have a few...
View ArticlePoint Light and Glow not working
I have ran into a strange issue recently. For some reason, certain built in features aren't working for my CS6 AE. When I try and use a point light or the glow effect nothing happens. No matter how...
View ArticleBest way to shoot this scene, stitch together plates, or green screen?
I have a shot where I am walking in front of an actor, with him framed on the right side of the screen, "Actor A." Then over "Actor A's" shoulder, (on the left side of the screen) another character...
View ArticleAfter Effects CS6 will no longer load past Splash Screen
Recently been using AE CS6 more frequently. Used it today for about 3-4 hours. Restarted my computer when it started to get slow to free up space from temp/cache files. Now AE does not load past the...
View ArticleStroke mask sequentially...with time intervals
Dear all, I recently learnt how to use the stroke effect, for example to give the impression a logo is being drawn. I usually stroke all the mask sequentially but I was wondering: is there a way to put...
View ArticleScaling anomolies on render that aren't appearing in timeline
Hi,Just preparing a live job for client preview tomorrow and AE has thrown me a curve ball. I have an object that scales from about 200% down to about 70% and it changes position at the same time. On a...
View ArticleAE CS6 crashes at startup - indicating GPU problem
Hi, I am new to the Abobe suite. Using a MacPro running 10.7 Lion, Intel based processors. Using a Radeon ATI 6xxx video card (2 monitors connected via mini-display, HDMI not used at the moment)....
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