After Effects CS4 question

Hi,
Is there a patch to install After Effects CS4 on an AMD Athlon 3200?
AE recognises the cpu as a powerpc and won't install.
Thank You,
John

No. The processor is simply too old and does not support the necessary SSE extensions.
Mylenium

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After Effects CS4 Exporting Question

I am creating several After Effects CS4 compositions that will be used in a Premier Pro CS4 project. Right now I am importing the AE compositions into Premiere with out exporting them first. It is real convenient to be able to click into PP and see the current changes take effect. My question is this, once I am done tweaking a composition should I be exporting it in another format or I is it ok to use the AE file as is? Am I suffering any quality loss by not going to quicktime or one of the other choices?
And in PP you hit enter to render. Is the AE equivalant hitting the space bar and playing the timeline? I see the green line above any changes but I didn't know if there is another step to maximize the quality of the finished product.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Cole

R-Cole wrote:
Am I suffering any quality loss by not going to quicktime or one of the other choices?
If you suffered any quality loss, you'd know your settings are wrong. Most commonly people make a mess of field order, which of course you can neatly avoid by using DynamicLink such as you already do. The rest is more or less a matter of personal preference and how much performance is consumed by live rendering the AE compositions vs. how much juice your machine has. You wouldn't use that workflow on very complex projects where rendering a single frame can take up to several minutes, but for straight titles and color corrections it's okay.
R-Cole wrote:
Is the AE equivalant hitting the space bar and playing the timeline?
The green line refers to frames stored in RAM, the blue ones to the disk cache, should you use it. Read the help files on how to generate RAM previews to populate both caches. After you have RAM-previewed each segement of the timeline and use the disk cache, it may be possible to get realtime spacebar playback, but there is no guarantee for that. After all, AE is primarily foicused on compositing, not RT editing. There's one caveat, however. The disk cache will only be used, if AE thinks it could not render the frames quick enough, so in your simple scenario it may never be used. And of course specific chnages will invalidate caches, so you's have to re-render. It really depends.
Mylenium

I've question about " how to remove background on adobe after effect cs4 ! "

hey , how'r you Guys ! i hop everything is okay !
i've littel question !
i'd like to know , how i could remove " background " on adobe after effect cs4
or -
if i'd to download lattest version of " after effect "#cc
i'll found " tool " that's remove background !!
with select !" the body ?!
i hop you understand what i actually mean !
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Start here to learn After Effects:
http://adobe.ly/AE_basics
Fo through these resources in After Effects Help for an overview of compositing features:
http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/compositing-transparency-overview-resources.htm l

Snap function in CS4 After Effect (simple Question)

Windows 7 Ultimate
After Effect CS4
Gentlemen .
A very simple question, since i am more of a Premiere person, it seems like I am stuck with this problem and the problem is
In Premiere its called "Snap" its a tool or function that automatically finds the connecting or starting or ending of a clip.
For example if I have 3 channels of video and I have many cuts, by dragging the edge of a video , it tells or shows me when they are connected
I tried to search , all I find is "Snap to Guides" which in not doing what I want .
If you need more explanation, plz let me know , else hope you can help.
Thanks.
Btw. in Premiere the Snap looks like a "Magnet"

To help you with that we need to know something about your composition settings and the settings you picked in the output module. Anything else would just be a guess. My guess is that you're using some HD footage from a non square pixel aspect ratio format and rendering to the same size. If you pick a square pixel HD format (1080 or 720 both have square pixel frame sizes in the default composition settings) and you put your HDV, DVCProHD, AVCHD, Mpeg non square footage in a square pixel comp it will fit and render out correctly.

Adobe After Effects CS4 Crashes After Reinstall

Hello Adobe Community,
I come to you asking for help, my After Effects CS4 stopped working after reinstalling Leopard, I already reinstalled my Suite and Runned the Clean Up Script and still not working, first I launch the App and shows me the following error: "After Effects has encountered an error: [/Chinchillada/pro/ext/adobe/MediaCore/MedialLayer/VideoFilterHost/Make/Mac/../../Src/AEP luginVideoFilterModule.cpp-107]" then I click continue and then it shows me another error: "After Effects can't continue: An Output contract violation has ocurred!" then it shows another error: "After Effects warning: Failed to initialize mediacore" then it shows this "After Effects warning: Media Core is not correctly initialized" then it launches and freezes and shows that the app quitted unexpectedly, I'm sure that the app is dead but I already reinstalled with no success.
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Mike

Hi Mike,
Sorry you are experiencing problems with After Effects.
I have a couple of questions....
- did you install from a download, or a CD? if from a download, please download again, as their may have been issues
- did you update it to v 9.02?
- did you have a previous beta version on your computer?
- you said you reinstalled Leopard - did you do a clean install? (ie reformatting your harddrive and starting clean)
I have experienced issues on the mac with a variety of different applications is I do a 're-install" vs a clean install.
Finally, are you aware that the minimum RAM requirements for AE CS4 is2GB
So since you only have 1GB, it could be a RAM issue.
If you decided you want to try reinstalling before doing the more difficult task (reformatting Mac OS X with a clean install), I would run the cleanup script first, redownload, install, and then update.
Here's the link: <http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs4clean.html>
good luck,
elaine

After Effects CS4 tips

People have asked for a document that includes all of the After Effects CS4 tips of the day. OK. Here it is.

Bob,
Please ask this question on the main After Effects forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion
Hijacking a thread is confusing for other users, and it keeps you from getting an answer, because it means that almost no one will see your question.
If you start a thread in the main forum with your question as the subject line, people will actually see it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KwzASwrnC0
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Hello,
I'm using the trial of CS6 Production Premium, and After Effects CS6 has a terrible problem with the Wacom. After a video preview with audio or even just an audio preview, the Wacom will become very slow, almost like the computer is under insane processor load, but my CPU monitors don't seem to be doing much. I have a 24-core Dual-Xeon PC with 48GB memory and I am trying to make use of the multi-processor capability (it would be criminal if I couldn't use it).
The Wacom becomes slow with AFX and occasionally unresponsive. It makes it impossbile to work with AFX. I refuse to use a mouse, so that's out of the question. Also, this software should work with a Wacom like everything else does. I don't have this issue in any other program.
I've set AFX to use either 20 or 16 processors with .75GB memory per core. Seems this should work ok but the Wacom is being pummeled into submission, and that's a really bad problem if I can't even move my cursor. Makes me want to close down AFX ASAP, so I hope to find a fix.
I am using the latest Wacom driver and the trial for this software is only days old, so this problems should have been fixed by now according to this thread. I'm not too motivated to spend $1800 for this suite if I can't even use AFX with a Wacom, which is the main reason I'm after the Production Suite.
If I can't get this working I will probably just buy Vegas, even though Vegas is a big old crash monkey. No Wacom problems at all though.
Any ideas?
Also, anyone notice funny cursor behavior when typing in this forum? It seems to jump around on its own and this doesn't happen to me anywhere else. Could be a residual effect of the Wacom weirdness. This fields don't seem to like 'Shift+Enter' either.
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After Effects CS4 - the 9.0 folder

One of the other users responded to one of my questions and I do not think the other people who were helping me have seen my response yet. (Since it is a holiday weekend in the states)
"Quit After Effects CS4, take the 9.0 folder located there and move it to your desktop. Restart After Effects and it will recreate the folders and files. Test the problem. If it's solved, trash the old folder. If the problem is not solved, you can quit After Effects and put your old preferences back."
I know I am being stupid, but where is the 9.0 folder? Which one is it again? Sorry, I know I know this, but I cannot remember at the moment and Google is not helping me.

Mylenium wrote:
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Mylenium
Thanks Mylenium! I was actually able to figure it out. Duh is all I have to say to myself.
Now, I am trying to figure out what caused my original error in the first place so I can avoid it. hmmmm

After effects cs4 not working

Hello i am german and 14 years old so please be sorry for my bad english I have a question to after effects cs4! I installed the demoversio a half year ago but i never used it! Now i want to test it before i will buy the full-version! But if i start after effects it only says accept the lizens and then nothing happens!

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After Effects CS4 and OMF / AAF

My project's sound editor who I recently brought on board asked me for an OMF or AAF file from my film (that I'm editing together using After Effects CS4). I exported the OMF file for a clip that was about 15 seconds and the file was > 1GB!
My questions:
1) Is this typical? Seems like the sound editor shouldn't need anything this massive.
2) I couldn't find any exporting tool for AAF - is there a plugin to do this? Is this a smaller net resultant file?
He said there should be plugins for After Effects to export the kind of thing he needs, so I'm pretty sure these are possible.

Hello, Scireja.
I think there is a very widespread but understandable confusion regarding the nature of two different kinds of OMF files.
From your description, it seems like you want to export an OMF exchange file, which is a common way to translate a video timeline into something you can take to a DAW application like Pro Tools for audio post, while keeping the audio edits as separate clips.
But the OMF export option in After Effects is for OMF essence files. These are video files, in the native wrapper Avid systems use when ingesting or capturing material. It's not a project with embeded clips, but just a video file.
After Effects can't export this kind of OMF exchage files directly. Premiere Pro does export such files, as this feature is more typical of editing applications. Please note that there could be good news: You have the ability to export an AE project as a Premiere Pro project, and once you have this converted project in PPro, you can then export it as an OMF exchange file.

Contact adobe re after effects cs4 license expired

hello,
does anybody know how to contact adobe via email about license expired?
I can no longer launch after effects cs4 due to license expired message.
I've tried the license repair tool several times. it didn't work.
I found an online live chat support on adobe website but it went silent after introducing ourselves.
I've tried the phone numbers on adobe website many many times, but I only get 45 minutes for lunch and this is not long enough to get through to anybody.
I get 6 complementary questions from customer support with my master collection license but I can't find a way of asking these questions.
Also its more than 90 days since i bought it so maybe I can't ask customer support anything?
I would like to revert to my cs4 license as I find after effects cs5 too unstable
thanks in advance
s

my question was if anybody knows if there is a way of contacting adobe via email about license expired?
Your reply was I must be using pirate software or I've fiddled with my system time and date.
I also wrote.
I can no longer launch after effects cs4 due to license expired message.
I've tried the license repair tool several times. it didn't work.
your reply
Adobe's licensing system is a little diva and quite messy - but just bashing it because you are one of the unlucky ones where it went belly up isn't helping in any way.
a simple statement "I can no longer launch after effects cs4 due to license expired message." is not "bashing it"
these forums are great. its a real shame you are on here Mylenium. Every comment I have had from you is condescending or worse.
Please don't reply to any of my posts

Which areas does Motion3 excel over After Effects CS4?

For those who use both, which types of activities would you choose Motion over After Effects CS4?
Which features in Motion are the strongest?

Great reading, Mark, thanks for the links.
I'd say:
1. AE rules with lights and shadows. (We figure this is coming eventually in Motion, has to.)
2. AE rules with the concept of nesting sequences.
I'm totally biased toward After Effects but I am slogging through Mark's instructional materials to get my Motion chops up to the point where I can take advantage of everything it has to offer.
If you have FCS, there's no question you need to become absolutely fluent with Motion. If you are planning on making a living in the motion graphics and special effects niches, there's no question you must be fluent with After Effects to be taken seriously. But you will find yourself using every tool at your disposal to satisfy the needs of your clients.
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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+
2GB DDR2 Ram
ATI HD5870 (500mb video Ram)
Windows 7 32 bit
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.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
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.
I'm a Mac guy, so I like to convert to Quicktime movies in the Animation or PNG codecs; both are lossless. I'll use Apple's Compressor, Adobe Media Encoder or Quicktime Pro to do it.

Adobe After Effects CS4 Third Party Content only installed on one of two computers

Hello,
I installed Adobe Creative Suite CS4 MC on two systems. One system lists "Adobe After Effects CS4 Third Party Content" in Add/Remove Programs. This left me a bit baffled as to what this content is and why it only installed on one machine (i.e., assuming I did not erroneously selected or deselected it during the default install). I thought it would be reasonable to install the missing content on the second machine but I cannot find an installer listing "Adobe After Effects CS4 Third Party Content" in the CS4 default or custom installer.
Could someone please tell me what this content is used for and how I can install it on the second machine?
Thank you...

> It should by no means be shown separately in the install database
That's not true for one case.
If you install After Effects in trial mode, the third party content won't be installed. But it leaves the third party content installer on your machine so that when you add a serial number the plug-ins can be added. This causes a new installer to run, so it will be registered (and need to be uninstalled) separately from the main installer.
Frederick- Verify that both machines have the third party plug-ins that Mylenium listed. If it's not on the second machine you probably have it in trial mode and need to serialize. (If not, try uninstalling and reinstalling After Effects from the Master Collection package.)

"Unable to create font" error when starting After Effects CS4 (Windows Vista)

Hi all
I have read a hundred posts about the "unable to create font" message that appears when running After Effects in both CS4 and CS5 versions.
On MAC, it seems that installing the Verdana fonts family is enough.
On my PC running Windows Vista, i tried unsuccessfully :
- uninstalled and reinstalled After Effects
- installed all the fonts of the Adobe Font Folio v11
- looked for the "AdobeFnt.lst" to delete it, found no such file in my whole hard drive
- changed my system language to English (USA)
Other CS4 softwares work.
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See this page for some additional information about this error.
> I forgot to mention that i also installed the 9.0.2 update. Didn't work either!
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