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| | | | | Happy Birthdayby Roger Burton 4 months agoHi chaps I've been lurking around here since '99 when I found myself in the graphics department of a regional TV station in southern England, I'd worked for the company before, in the late 60s, but af | Re: Happy Birthday After Effects
by Dan Nocera 3 months ago
After Effects will always be my favorite piece of software because it is the one piece of software that has vividly shown me the effects of Moore's law through a simple render test. . . I have been us
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| | | | | Global illumination ... where ?by Roger Burton 8 months agoSorry me again, I don't know if this is because I only have 'Prime' R14 but I figured the help files would relate to my version where it says : To activate GI all you have to do is: Open the Edit Rend | Re: Global illumination ... where ?
by Roger Burton 8 months ago
Thanks Adam ... I did have a quick look at the feature list but didn't notice that bit, especially as it is there in the help system of 'Prime' - oh well - it's such a pity I can't justify the expendi
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| | | | | Gouraud shading with lines white or blackby Roger Burton 9 months agoHi chaps, I've just got the demo of R14 and am watching a tutorial and the lines in Gouraud shading with lines (in the tut) are white, in my window they're black and a little more difficult to see aga | | | | |
| | | | | Cinema 4d exchange plugin and AE CS6by Roger Burton 9 months agoHi chaps I've just downloaded the C4D demo and have put the correct plugin into AE but when I open AE I get "after effects error opening resource file "C4Dformat.aex" - bit of a problem really - anyon | | | | |
| | | | | R10 and After Effects CS6by Roger Burton 9 months agoHi chaps, I hardly ever use C4D but have a small project that I might try and use it for but wish to use it in AE CS6 - I've tried to export a project from C4D to AE but AE doesn't recognise it ... OK | Re: R10 and After Effects CS6
by Roger Burton 9 months ago
If anyone comes across this and they're having the same problem, I think I've got the exchange plugin working using the one at the top of this page: http: www.maxon.net en support updates plugins.html
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| | | |  | Exchange plugin for CS6???by Ryan Kehn 9 months agoSo, Am I missing something or did Maxon not release a CS6 compatible exchange plugin I've scoured the internet as well and can't find ANY reference to an updated plugin, not even another forum post or | Re: Exchange plugin for CS6???
by Roger Burton 9 months ago
Hi - can I jump in here ... I've just downloaded the C4D demo and have put the correct plugin into AE but when I open AE I get "after effects error opening resource file "C4Dformat.aex" - bit of a pro
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| | | | | Layer name doesn't always text enteredby Roger Burton 1 year agoOdd one this and I've tried everything, it's not the end of the world as I can get around it but it intrigues me. Generally when I dupe a text layer (to add a layer with different wording) I d clk the | Re: Layer name doesn't always text entered
by Roger Burton 9 months ago
Yes Ross I think you're right, I've learnt to live with it ... life's too short. I just get it in my head sometimes and then spend hours trying to work out why there's a glitch ... I fail and then com
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| | | | | Media cache testingby Roger Burton 9 months agoHi chaps, so in an attempt to improve performance I followed lots of advice and decided on getting a fast (ish) external drive for my disk cache, thinking that as a 'light' After Effects user it was a | Re: Media cache testing
by Roger Burton 9 months ago
Thanks Keith and Walter, as ever, great advice and thanks for the links, I had watched and read those before so please don't think I just post without doing some research but I hadn't really got my he
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| | | | | Any comments pleaseby Roger Burton 9 months agoI've been making a virtual set and am pretty happy with it - and thanks to the generous help from John Cuevas have solved a problem but wondered if anyone felt they could make some suggestions for imp | Re: Any comments please
by Roger Burton 9 months ago
Thanks Walter, such good advice ... yes I think making the ceiling a little smaller than the set is an excellent idea. I'm going to rebuild it any way and actually concentrate on 'real' sizes and prop
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| | | | | Warps within Invigorator 6by Roger Burton 9 months agoHi - I know there's a Zax warp plugin but in Vers 6 Invig pro there are warp controls that can be applied to a set ... very nice but I have created a curved glass "wall" and the lighting hasn't been a | | | | |
| | | | | Media cache files ... delete ?by Roger Burton 10 months agoHi chaps - I've just noticed a load of cache files in my library ... I clean (or thought I did) these out using the "Clean data base and cache button" in prefs but there are loads still in the folders | | | | |
| | | | | Materials confusionby Roger Burton 10 months agoSorry I seem to be filling the forum at the moment, I'm a little confused ref. materials workflow. I have duplicated a material in the 'swatches' window renamed it 'logo', changed it a little and drag | Re: Materials confusion
by Roger Burton 10 months ago
Thanks Matt ... that's the source of my confusion, I've been duplicating the material in order to 'protect' the original swatch, I'll stop doing that and start to rename the dupe that Invig generates
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| | | | | Create a tubeby Roger Burton 10 months agoWhilst I'm waiting to get my swatches back I thought I'd try and create a 'cylinder' ... this is probably so easy when someone explains it I'll almost certainly shoot myself, in older versions of Invi | | | | |
| | | | | Crashingby Roger Burton 10 months agoAgain I'm pretty sure Edward will get back to me when he can but you guys have loads of experience, is there a routine check list for establishing the cause of 'crashing' - I'm Invig 6 ... AE CS6 on a | Re: Crashing
by Roger Burton 10 months ago
Thanks Edward, I'll contact my ISP but am not aware that anyone else is having the probwlem ... I'll let you know. Roger
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| | | | | Duplicated objects taking the same colourby Roger Burton 10 months agoSorry it's me again, I managed with the the help of Robert, to create a tube ... I then needed two more tubes of different sizes so duplicated the original (in the "set' window) and altered the sizes  | Re: Duplicated objects taking the same colour
by Edward Wu 10 months ago
Hi Roger, Duplicated Objects are "Linked" with the same color. To remove the link, select the objects you want to unlink. Then, go into the Object Styles Swatches Panel. In the "Swatch..." menu toward
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| | | | | All swatches missingby Roger Burton 10 months agoHi chaps ... I'm sure Edward will be along shortly and I did mail him but it's probably a different time in Zaxwerks world and I'm in UK and busting to try out the new Invig 6 but cannot find my swatc | Re: All swatches missing
by Roger Burton 10 months ago
In case anyone else is watching this, Edward kindly suggested that my original download of 6 may have been corrupt, I re-downloaded and now all is well !
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| | | | | Reload workspaceby Roger Burton 11 months agoNot a biggie but is it possible to load my workspace from CS5.5 into CS6 (ie is it stored somewhere) Regards Roger | Re: Reload workspace
by Roger Burton 11 months ago
Thanks John - excellent, bit of a panic though, Apple have hidden the 'Library' in 'users' in 'Lion' - found it now and copied to to CS6 ... thanks again. Roger
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| | | | | Dotted PATH CS6by Roger Burton 11 months agoHi chaps, I'm aware of the new stroke features of VS6 but I want to apply the same dotted effects to an OPEN PATH -if I have a 'path' selected and have the path selection tool or the 'pen' tool select | | | | |
| | | | | Virgin user best export settingsby Roger Burton 1 year agoHi chaps, seasoned After Effects user here but have a project made in motion handed to me, I bought motion so that I could render out a movie with alpha channel, it's of a semi transparent ribbon like | | | | |
| | | | | AE opens with wrong workspaceby Roger Burton 1 year agoHi chaps .. I am finding AE has just started opening up in what it has decided is a default workspace and on occasions DURING a job (ie AE is open and I'm working if I (for example) do a 'collect file | | | | |
| | | | | Cursor odditiesby Roger Burton 2 years agoHi chaps ... I have been using P shop for years, never had a problem, I'm on a mac using CS4, today when I pick the brush I get the eye dropper cursor when the cursor is hovering over the image (mouse | | | | |
| | | | | Softer edge brushesby Roger Burton 3 years agoHi chaps- I've been using pshop for years but rarely for 'painting' - I now though have a project and I want to paint some thin very soft lines ... let me attempt to explain ... if I wind hardness dow | | | | |
| | | | | Overprint textby Roger Burton 3 years agoSorry chaps another problem ... when I try and run a print off my ID document I get a message "There is overprint text on page 2" - what does this mean, I just have a couple of columns of text .... Re | Re: Overprint text
by Roger Burton 3 years ago
Typical isn't it ... I try and replicate the error this morning to check and it ran perfectly, no problem ... thank you so much for your help ... I'll keep an eye on it ... Roger
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| | | | | Table strokeby Roger Burton 3 years agoHi chaps I have built a simple table and now want to get rid of the strokes (the lines that outline all the cells) how do I do this please, I'm sure I have tried everything ... (CS5) many thanks Roger | Re: Table stroke
by Roger Burton 3 years ago
Good of you Terry, I struggled and struggled with this but have now managed thanks to your help ... Roger
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| | | | | Cannot burn in Toast (sector unreadable)by Roger Burton 4 years agoHi chaps, I am having a real problem here and really don't know what more I can do I have a video ts folder built in DVDSP, I've tried several versions of Toast I've tried burning to my iMac internal | | | | |
| | | | | Panic - dvd sp project too bigby Roger Burton 4 years agoHi chaps, I've been handed a project to complete (the guy that built it has left the company) - I was asked to change a couple of the elements that had been built in After Effects, I'm happy in AE but | | | | |
| | | | | Image corruption after "distort"by Roger Burton 4 years agoHi chaps, I have an image that needs reducing and "distorting" a little to fit into a tv screen in another image, the first image has a logo and some text in it - when it's scaled it looks reasonably | Re: Image corruption after "distort"
by Roger Burton 4 years ago
Thanks Richard, I cannot believe it, I don't seem to be able to repeat this phenomena now - I know I would have checked it out at 100% and there's no reason why the pixel aspect ratio should have chan
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| | | | | Disappearing layers windowby Roger Burton 4 years agoSorry, newbie to illustrator here, CS4 on a mac - I like to work, in Photoshop, with the layers window visible all of the time, but when I call it up in illustrator, work for a few minutes and suddenl | | | | |
| | | | | Video: Roger Burton's News Graphics Demo Reelby Roger Burton 4 years agoRoger Burton's News Graphics Demo Reel A reel made up of clips from my time working in the news graphics department of Meridian Television the ITV region in the South East of England watch demo reel+1  | very nice
by Mike Cohen 4 years ago
nice creative ideas to display mundane information - a common task both in news and education.
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| | | | | After Effects to Flash without flashby Roger Burton 5 years agoHi chaps, due to a change of circumstances I do not have access to Flash, I only ever used it to put open up movies I've made in AE and make them swfs and add playback skins and resave them to make th | | | | |
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