AE CS4 to FL CS4 becomes Grayscale?

I have an flv created from AE. I wanted this to loop without resorting to the fake loop in AE which basically repeats the same film x times so I resorted to creating a new project by adding the processed flv file twice; making the timeline twice as long; inserting two identical flv files; reversing the second flv file; then shove it a bit so that it's continuous. Everything went out as expected. The only problem is that when importing to Flash CS4, the flv file becomes grayscale for some unknown reason. How can I fix this? I wasted the better part of the day just trying every combination known.
This doesn't make sense. Why is there such incompatibility between Adobe products?

What render settings do you use exactly? Does the issue appear in published SWF file ort only inside the Flash authoring environment? Where were the original source FLVs from? It is highly doubtful that there is a true incompatibility here. eitehr it's merely a preview issue inside Flash, possibly related to Alpha channels or hardware accelerated playback or a matter of your settings. Also the file could be damaged somehow. So please provide more info.
Mylenium

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I hope I'm not duplicating a new topic. I thought I opened this topic yesterday but I don't seem to be able to locate it in this forum. So, I'll try again. This is a pivotal CS4 question re printer set-up for grayscale images with and without b&w profiles.
When setting up print parameters for a Grayscale image in PS CS4 I no longer have the option to select "No Color Management." It seems to be available to RGB images but not grayscale. Which leads to the question as to how I set up print parameters to print grayscale images using Advanced Black & White mode. Can you help?
Regards,
King Dexter

As it turns out my original problem has led into a more serious set of color management changes found in CS4. In my case, for instance, I'm finding it difficult to determine the correct way to print untagged, ABW grayscale profiling targets. Others are having similar difficulties with color profiling. Other forums are buzzing as people migrate to PSCS4: Here are just a few examples that hopefully will attract Adobe attention here:
Excerpt #1:
Sounds like this should be raised in the PS forums where Chris Cox
will pick it up. (I raised the colour mgt issues of Bridge there and
they picked that up.)
Excerpt #2:
The deeper explanation going on here has to do with printing interfaces on OS X changing over time. In the past, some printer drivers (notably Canon, with its older iPF series printers) did not interpret the image data appropriately and thus had incorrect driver settings that could not be reset by the user. Photoshop CS3 worked around some of these issues for specific drivers, but did not conform to Apple's OS X specifications for how to pass image data to the print driver, leading to problems elsewhere. With CS4, Adobe has taken the approach of conforming to Apple's latest print driver interface specifications, so CS4 now has the same behavior as LR with regards to printing on OS X.
However, many print drivers have not been updated to conform to the OS X printing interface, and thus some folks are experiencing printing issues, such as double color-management. This is unfortunate, but it really needs to be addressed by the printer drivers.
Now, back to the ABW situation: I don't know if Epson has a glitch with the ABW driver under the latest OS X release. I have occasionally seen what you've seen: i.e., I hit "Print" in PS CS4 and nothing comes out. But then I mess around a little with the Epson printer driver configuration and then it works.
In particular, I found that if I had an older "saved setting" or preset within the Epson driver that I used to recall a particular ABW driver setting, then it would fail. So I deleted all my Epson driver presets and started again from scratch (manually selecting media type, color mode, ABW settings, paper config, etc.) Then I haven't had any trouble printing ABW images since.
Excerpt #3
I've done some testing of various color management approaches and it is indeed
confusing.
Here's what I've deduced using CS3 and CS4 with drivers printing stepwedges.
CS3 with No Color Mgmt I consider the "correct" result. The driver gets 21
evenly stepped values.
With CS4, only Photoshop Manages Color with Print Profile = Working Gray Space
gives the identical results. (assuming grayscale, untagged file).
Printer Manages Color makes a default conversion to Generic Gray Profile which
is a gamma 1.8 profile. If you happen to use GG 1.8 as a working space this conversion may not hurt but if you use GG 2.2 it'll darken the print. I think this has been true in PS for
several versions.
To make things more complicated OS X 10.5 has a new print dialog pane called
Color Matching which allows you to select Colorsync vs driver based mode and ICC profiles. I
don't know how this will affect things -- I'd leave it alone.
No Color Management is selectable with an RGB file but I just got blank pages
with this option.
-- QTR definitely received a blank page from the system. This is probably
related to your
ABW printing not working.
Note that the CS4 documentation specifically states to use No CM for making
custom ICC profiles.

CS4 becomes non-responsive when I right click

When I go to open a document in CS4 and then try to right click, delete or move files while I'm in the open screen, Photoshop becomes non-responsive and I have to shut it down and restart it, thereby losing any unsaved work. It's been doing it for awhile and I've tried to find a solution, but haven't had any luck. I've deleted my cache and that didn't fix the problem.
Can anyone help, please?

Check the mouse/driver. The functions you mention are controlled by the OS even though you are in PS.

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Does Norton work OK with Windows 7(64) and CS4?

*** PROBLEM SOLVED ***
Taxxem you are a star. Ideed turning off 'disable external service control' and disabling 'self defense' under 'settings -options' does indeed bring Flash back to life. Disabling self-defense had the most impact (and causes Kaspersky to grumble somewhat) but disabling external service control also had an impact, albeit much smaller. I'll post this solution against my Kaspersky forum post and hopefully they will do something about it.

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The problem that I see, ocassionally, is that PhotoShop becomes non-responsive for a long period ie: 1-2 minutes. I have experienced this on both my desktop (64 bit Vista Ultimate and 64 bit CS4) and my laptop (32 bit Vista Ultimate). During this time the disk drive is continuously active as though it is swapping the file to disk. The file size, however, is not large enough to cause this and the utilization factor is shown as well below 100%. After a period of time the disk drive stops and CS4 becomes responsive again.
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Thanks for the replies. The desktop was default to a net printer, however the laptop was default to a local printer. I will try a local printer on the desktop and will let you know the results in a few days.

Waiting for Dreamweaver CS4, OR migrating to another developer?

Hi:
Not long time ago when DWMX came out I got very excited. At
last something real came out. I tried Codecharge, some coffeecup
tools and many many other programs that claimed that they could
help us develop websites with less coding and more thinking. But it
was only DW and just DW which could make things right. Golive was
there, trying to compete with DW but it was a joke comparing to DW.
Golive was just a design tool but DW was a real developer tool.
Many great books about DWMX came out and showed us new ways of
making best websites ever. DWMX2004 came out with good improvements
and then DW8 with some good fixes. But most of the major options
where the same as MX. I got worried when Adobe's acquisition came
out and after seeing what happened to DW in version CS3 I really
panicked. It is going to become a newer version of Golive!!!
I'm not the only one who is worried. look at this open letter
at
http://stringfoo.com/2007/05/08/an-open-letter-to-adobe/
and you will see even PHP developers (I am a CF developer) loved DW
but the new version is so disappointing that we all believe it
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next version of DW (I assume it will be CS4) and go for some tools
that do things 50% less effective than DW and 200% more messy?
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Benign wrote:
> I'm not the only one who is worried. look at this open
letter at
>
http://stringfoo.com/2007/05/08/an-open-letter-to-adobe/
and you will see even
> PHP developers (I am a CF developer) loved DW but the
new version is so
> disappointing that we all believe it might be the end of
DW for developers.
That open letter is full of excellent suggestions. Although I
don't
agree that Dreamweaver is just becoming a newer version of
GoLive, I,
too, would have liked to see more done on the server side in
this
version. The way to influence the direction of CS4 is to
submit feature
requests through the Adobe website:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Now that CS3 is out of the door, the development team will be
drawing up
its initial plans for the next release. Now is the time to
tell the team
what you would like to see in CS4.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

After Effect cs4 export and render issue

When I tried to render or export a video, After Effect(CS4)
become no respond and close,after that, my computer shut down too!
My computer:
Althon 64X 4600+
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Can anybody can slove this problem for me?

Mylenium asked very pertinent questions. I'll make some educated guesses, which may or may not apply.
First thing: 2 GB may seem like a ton of memory to you, but in AE-Land, it's NOTHING. You need to trick that machine of yours out with memory. On a 32-bit system, that would mean bringing it up to 4 GB.
If you're trying to use multiprocessing, turn it off and leave it off. On a 32-bit system, you'll never have enough memory to make multiprocessing work efficiently.
Trying to speed rendering by using Open GL acceleration? Turn that off, too.
Since you're on a 32-bit system, the most recent version of AE you can run is Version 9. Make sure it's fully updated.
But if you shot video on a DSLR, HDV Camera, XDCam or Flip Cam, you could still have problems. Since you can't be running AE 10, which pretty much solved the problem of long-gop footage, here's why:
Dave's Stock Answer #1:
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- footage in an HDV acquisition codec, MPEG1, MPEG2, AVCHD, mp4, mts, m2t, H.261 or H.264 -- you need to convert it to a different codec.
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In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
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Thanks for your reply. In Bridge, ctrl (right) clicking on files gives you the option to Open With...
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Yes this is an undocumented "feature".
By clicking around I discovered you can get the color swatch selections to appear in the New Gradient Swatch dialogue by clicking the right (black) end of the grascale ramp at the bottom of box.
Note to everyone - When someone has a odd complaint it is usually not productive to merely quote from various help docs.

CS3, Epson 2880 - Dark Prints

Hopefully some one might be able to help as I am a tad stumped with a problem of dark prints from CS3 on an Epson 2880.
Macbook Pro with 10.4 Tiger
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Colored Pictures Turning Black and White in Certain Files (PSE 9.0)

Hey guys, how's it going?
I'll try to keep this breif, but it may take a little while to explain. I've been getting a problem with PSE 9.0 where an image or layer that is in color suddenly turns black and white when I paste it into an open file. It's a lot easier to explain with pictures, so here you go.
Figure 1
Figure 2
(Before anything else is said, I would like to point out the reasoning behind relating a middle-finger, a hammer and sickle, and a pony from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic into a single image; it's a parody project I'm working on. It's about 30 times weirder out of context, trust me.)
As you can see, the source imagery with "APPA JAK" on it (figure 1) is in full color, but when I pasted it onto the layer with the hammer and sickle, it turned black and white. This has become the same with a few other images I have found, but I couldn't find any reliable way to recreate the problem. The problem is also the same weather I find the pictures from the internet, copy those to my clipboard, and paste them or simply paste them from my computer.
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Just a guess because I don't have the original images to play with, but the hammer and sickle is a grayscale image so images posted into it become grayscale.
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I've just removed a large number of temporary files, uninstalled a few unnecessary programs (e.g. nero) and have moved the swap space away from the OS drive to being spread over the other drives. I've disabled disk indexing, removed unnecessary windows services and run CCleaner. I also followed (most of) your guide on setting a system up for optimum performance.
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500GB:   255GB free
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