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| | | | |  | My new PCby Denis Stefanides 10 months agoHello, here is my new PC for working in CS5 AAE, PREMIERE, CINEMA4D... What you think :) b MB b : MSI P67A-C45 b CPU b : Intel Core i7-2600K, 3.40GHz b CPU freezer b : Coolink Corator DS b RAM b : Kin+1 | Re: My new PC
by Brendan Coots 9 months ago
Need MOAR RAM! Also, I tend to prefer having 3 hard drives - the OS drive with proggies, a fast and large drive for media and project files and a third for disc cache and rendering to. This prevents a
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| | | | | about my pcby ali khoshdouni 9 months agoHi i want to buy a pc for editing and after effects , 3ds max is this fine CPU:Intel Core i7 2600K M.B:Asus P8Z68-V Pro RAM:Corsair Venegeance 16Gb 1600 CL9 (4x4Gb) VGA:EVGA GTX460 768Mb SSD:OCZ Verte | Re: about my pc
by Brendan Coots 9 months ago
That rig will work just fine. You can, after all, use After Effects on a wimpy laptop if needed. As for the graphics card, AE doesn't really take much advantage of your graphics card anyway so anythin
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| | | |  | Cant renderby drake vortin 10 months agoSimply put, Ive only encountered this problem in the past 2 weeks. I used to be able to render files fine with little to no problems. But now no matter what render settings i use, uncompressed to xvid | Re: Cant render
by Brendan Coots 10 months ago
When in doubt, trash your AE preferences - next time you start up After Effects, hold down the Command + Option + Shift keys (Mac) or Control + Alt + Shift (Windows), and you are presented with an opt
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| | | |  | frame rate problemsby franz lorentzon 10 months agoHi there, I am very new to frame rate workflow in after effects. I have footage shot on red. 48FPS and 24 FPS. I edited everything in premiere using the 23.976 preset for RED. so far so good, everythi | Re: frame rate problems
by Brendan Coots 10 months ago
"It seems like it skips some frames for the performance part." Do you mean just the audio skips, or both audio and visual Also, when you say you "do your exports" what do you mean Are you rendering it
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| | | | | Flickering playbackby keith vickers 10 months agoI am creating an animation. I am moving between a couple of 3d layers. when I playback my movie sometimes I get flicker other times there is no flicker. I am playing back in WMP. Does any member know | Re: Flickering playback
by Brendan Coots 10 months ago
This may not end up being your problem, but it's a good start - before you render, in After Effects select Edit Purge Purge All. This will clear all preview frames out of RAM. Sometimes, as you change
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| | | |  | Irremovable Interlaceby James Murphy 10 months agoI ripped some footage that was shot by my company before I arrived from a DVD. It looks like the footage was shot at 24p, but on the DVD itself, there's a really bad interlace problem on occasion. Aft | Re: Irremovable Interlace
by Brendan Coots 10 months ago
May sound obvious, but did you rip it in a way that would preserve the interlacing If you just ripped to, say, animation codec, the interlacing would be baked into the file instead of being preserved
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| | | |  | Licensing questionsby John OBrien 10 months agoI've been contacted by an overseas research company having a client with an interest in using (parts) of a nine minute web video I did a couple years ago on the subject of gambling addiction. They hav | Re: Licensing questions
by Brendan Coots 10 months ago
Everything is worth exactly what the buyer will pay for it. In my opinion there is no formula here, I think it all comes down to how valuable the media is to them, and how good of a negotiator you are
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| | | | | Article: FCPX: What Pros Find Missing in Final Cut Pro Xby walter biscardi 11 months ago Apple FCPX - Final Cut Pro X FCPX: What Pros Find Missing in Final Cut Pro X June 21st, 2011, was met with the news that Final Cut Pro X was finally available and what a thrill ride it has been! Prof+31 | @Chad von Nau
by Brendan Coots 11 months ago
"The era of "decks, xml, edl, broadcast monitors, and deliverables outside of youtube" is over. They're still important right this second from a business perspective, but the world is shifting." The d
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| | | |  | Bad Pay Clientby Ty Ford 1 year agoThe British Museum called me LD a few months ago and had me go down to the Walters Art Museum and record two experts, one from the Walters, one from the Met. These recording are being used by them for | Re: Bad Pay Client
by Brendan Coots 1 year ago
I agree with Mark's comments, except that I wouldn't worry about legal costs. This is strictly small claims court material so there shouldn't be ANY costs outside of your time and energy serving the d
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| | | | | Client Digital Asset Storageby Richard Kuenneke 1 year agoI'm looking for advice about what to do with a former client's digital assets. Am I obligated to store these assets even though they're not generating income Should I pack up the hard drive and forget | Re: Client Digital Asset Storage
by Brendan Coots 1 year ago
Your only (legal) obligations with any client are those spelled out in your contract. If you don't have a contract with this client, then you have no (legal) obligation to them. As a business, you DO
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| | | | | The need to render interlaced?by David Frisk 6 years agoI understand how interlaced footage works and all that, but there's just one thing I don't understand. Let's pretend we set up a 30fps comp with nothing but stuff made in After Effects (shapes made by | Re: The need to render interlaced?
by Brendan Coots 6 years ago
Rendering to fields WILL affect the resulting motion of your animation graphics. You can test this by animating a colored box moving from left to right across your screen. Do one moving fast and anoth
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