After effects cc - no timeline

I have no timeline. I can get a timeline if I import a lynda.com excersise file. It shows time line in the left column and the time line shows correctly. How do I turn on the timeline so I don'nt have to do a backdoor approach. Help

Reset your workspace. Create a new comp. If that doesn't work then delete your preferences file or re-name it and then restart AE. If that does not work uninstall and re-install.

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I am curious if upgrading to a GTX 260 will make any difference in RAM
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And can this card be
used to speed up PP CS5?
See this page for a list of Nvidia cards that can currently make use of the CUDA support in Premiere Pro CS5:
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/
For questions about Premiere Pro, go to the Premiere Pro forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_current
> Is a faster CPU really the only way to speed up the after effects
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We need to know a lot more to help you. Please provide answers to the questions listed here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/961743

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Update your graphics driver and/or simply turn off OpenGL in the preferences.
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I am using After Effects version 10.5.0.253.
I have tried several troubleshooting steps such as updating my display drivers, disabling OpenGL in Preferences > Previews, Moving the Extensions folder out of my install, Recreating my preferences, Purging the cache, and even just uninstalling and reinstalling After Effects all to no avail.
Additional Details:
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40Ghz
RAM: 8.00 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 with Driver ver. 320.49
Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated. I'm usually good at being able to research and resolve my own issues by this one has me stumped and my boss is on my case about the deadline.
Thank you.

While I did have OpenGL disabled in Preferences > Previews its seems I still had Fast Previews set to Adaptive Resolution - OpenGL off. I've switched this to just Off and now seem to be back on track. I believe I didn't have an understanding of what all "turn off OpenGL" truly meant. I'll continue working and report back wether or not I have any more issues related to this.
What would have causes this issue to appear in the first place? I've been working in AE 5.5 for about 2 years now doing a multitude of different projects but this is the first time I've run up against this issue. Is my hardware just simply underpowered?
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Video: Can photoshop timeline be exported to Premiere or After Effects?

I love the video ability. Other than just rendering out, can the timeline be exported in an editable way to Premiere or After Effects for further work?
If not, it would be a very useful feature.

There are lots of different tips to create timelapse with difficult footage, but my images have always just been pretty smooth. Do not frame blend or try to get fancy. The goal for me is just to make sure that when I shoot, I don't try to change the exposure. Set it yourself, do not use auto. When I shoot sunsets, I start overexposed and end up way underexposed. But it works better than trying to adjust in the middle.
I shoot with a Panasonic GH3 which shoot s much larger image than 1920X1080. That allows me to pan around the image, making it look like I used a slider or zoom lens.
For example, this was show with about 170 images. An image taken every 5 seconds and played back at 24fps.
The original frame looked like this:

No timeline showing in after effect cs5.5.How Can I get it manually?

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In your toolbar at the top of the screen, click "window", then workspace, then standard.
Calvin

Pixelated Font out of After Effects and in the FCP timeline

I've posted this questions before, but I'm still having trouble. I create an animation is After Effects that is composed of a layer Photoshop file. Looks fine in AE and when I play the exported movie on my desktop. See below.
I put it on the timeline in Final Cut and Voila! this:
The font pixelates. In addition, I'm getting pixelated font in my layered photoshop files in my timeline. This is an issue I cannot recall having in the past.
I was advised on my last post for this issue not to use the DV-NTSC codec to export from After Effect but no matter what I use I get the pixelation once I put it in the Final Cut timeline. So is is possible that the issue lies with something in my layered Photoshop file? This is ultimately going to play on a 12 foot high screen so there no hiding even a minor lack of quality. Help!
My After Effects is version 6.0
Thanks for anything you can do!

What are the properties of the clip from Ae?
These are my export choices and I've tried DV-NTSC which matches the final cut settings and under advice from this forum the Uncompressed 10-bit and H.264. Same pixelated font but only in the FCP timelime. Plays fine in Quicktime on the deskstop with no pixelation on the font
What are your Sequence settings in FCP?
DV-NTSC
Did you render the clip on the FCP Timeline?
Yes, didn't make a difference
The Final Cut Pro canvas shows you a low res proxy. That conserves resources and should not be what you use to determine quality. Export the clip and view it in QuickTime Player 7--Play beautifully....no crappy font.
(not QT X). Make sure QT7 is set to use Hi Quality Playback (in the Preferences dialog). Better yet, view it on a TV set.
Views on the TV as pixelated.
The typeface that you are using. While elegant and pretty, it is very unsuitable for television--Yes, absolutely agree, but it's a client produced photoshop file that matches the invitations for the Gala. They may allow me to change the font to something close, but even those fonts would probably create the same problem.
Considering using text font in Final Cut to solve the issue, but I just don't want to "say Uncle" just yet. I would like to figure out the problem. I feel like I exist in a constant learning curve...just commentary of life in today's world there.
Once again, any suggestions would be appreciated. Plus I don't understand why my photoshop files look terrible in the timeline as well. I just haven't had that problem before.

I can't import After effects composition into sequence timeline

Hello everyone
I am using CS5.5 Master Collection and I have Premiere sequence which I have imported into After Effects via Dynamic Link; I have added some effects etc... Now I am trying to pull the sequence back into Premiere which I have done via Dynamic Link (import after effects composition), which imports the composition fine, however it wont allow me to add the composition to the timeline. It will however play the composition in the source window.
Has anyone else come accross this and how do I fix it?
I have tried looking on youtube and I can see it working for others and no one specifically shows or does anything different to what I am doing.. Please help me.
Kind regards,
Milan

I see what you are saying. I tested that scenario, and you are correct, it doesn't let you:
- create a premiere pro sequence
- open after effects
- import that premiere pro sequence
- make changes to that sequence in after effects
- open premiere
- import that after effects sequence
which is essense, would be a link back around back to a premiere pro sequence, so it's been dynamically linked twice.
It would be interesting if it did allow it, you could do some weird looping stuff, or probably blow up the software .
Remember, whatever you send over to AE in this method is "replaced with after effects composition", you aren't going to be able to "edit" it back in Premiere. You replaced that edit with an AE composition. You have to work with that in mind.
The main thing about dynamic link is it elimates exporting & importing to get to another program, by just using the project file itself instead as a clip.
Hope that clarifies things a bit for you,
- wb

Using the timeline in After Effects CS3

Hi everryone
does anyone know how to use the timeline in after effects, is it the same as flash, as it seems to be different (more complicated!) anyone got any tips or ideas which may help me,
thanks
I appreciate it
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> They are different in their approach but are both keyframe-based timelines.
I use both programs daily.
I bow, Steve.
Just having the Flash icon on my Mac gives me the creeps.
It's an irrational emotional issue for me, much like my loathing of Photoshop.
About six years ago, ten of us attended a two day immersion Flash class. These are filmmakers and and Photoshop geeks. In 16 hours of instruction, exercises and tutorials, no one ever said "Cool." Not once. it was monstrous.
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