Fast Preview Mode Fractal Noise

Scrubbing values (contrast, brigthness, complexity, etc--all) of Fractal Noise alters the noise completely while the scrubbing takes place--when
"Open GL -Interactive" is selected. Release the mouse button, and the noise looks completely different than what is shown during scrubbing.

Well, that's between and your NVidia driver. That's all there is to it. Hardware acceleration is tricky and you are running a card that didn't exist while CS5 was developed, so nobody could test for potential issues. I know that's not what you wanna hear, but you are pretty much on your own and between installing different driver versions to fiddling with configuration options it's all your own fun. Even if the card was tested, you could still run a specific configuration that would yield the same issues. It's the nature of the beast. In any case, AE is far from dependent on OpenGL, so simply turning it off is always an option and on a reasonably new processor, there is almost no noticable difference in realtime performance.
Mylenium

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I'm running AE CS4 9.0.2 under Windows XP sp3 with 4GB RAM with the 3gig switch on.
My work around was to use several keyframes throughout the clip every 2 seconds with keyframes for evolution set to 0 then 50, then 0 again and 50 again then back to 0 again...etc. This worked a treat. But am I missing something obvious about how these useful and versatile FX work?
The recipie for the old footage BTW was here:
http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/oldfilmlook/
I made my own vignette, a custom flattened curve to reduce contrast. I added an adjustment layer for brightness with a wiggle, another with a wiggled blur as well scaling up the footage 105%, added noise and used a slight jumpy wiggle on the position. Then I threw on the dirt and slowed down the footage to 16fps. But the scratches didn't work for me and it looks convincing without.

Follow the blurb here:
http://aestuff.myleniumstuff.de/?p=180
Alternate old film:
http://aestuff.myleniumstuff.de/?p=196
Mylenium

Gif file won't animate in Muse's preview mode or in Muse's view in browser mode

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Step one to enable the community to help debug what you're encountering would be to provide the URL for the page where the GIF is being used. My first guess would be there are effects applied to the image (i.e. inner glow, bevel, etc.) that require Muse to re-encode the image and Muse does not support encoding animated .gif. It only supports passing animated .gif files through unchanged. (And to get an image to pass through unchanged it needs to have no effects that require rasterization applied in Muse.)
Given you've stated the GIF file is 7.5Mb I have to question your choice of .gif. At 7.5Mb this single file will take ~8 seconds to download on the average US broadband connection and will be much slower for many broadband users and most cellular users. GIF is a reasonable choice for very small short animations used sparingly, but is seldom (if ever) a good choice for larger or longer animations. Better choices for those are to use a video or a tool like Edge Animate to create a HTML5/CSS3 animation. The end result will be vastly more user friendly in terms of page load performance.
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Report not printing in preview mode

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thanks

hello,
which webserver are you using? did you try to copy the file to your client and display it locally, just to see, if the client-side-acrobat is working fine ?
regards,
The Oracle Reports Team

Images are not loading - but work in Preview mode

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Your Web server is running on an operating system that is case-sensitive. You appear to have uploaded an Images folder, but not an images folder.
You do not have a file here:
images/squeeze-video_425x344_r9_c6.jpg
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Images/squeeze-video_425x344_r9_c6.jpg
So you'll need to either change all your image/<whatever> links to point to Images/<whatever>, or upload another folder named images.
Or, if you want to use a single folder, and if your local file system is not case-sensitive, you might be able to do it in DW's file panel. Here is a method that you might use to have all of them in a folder named images.
BACK UP YOUR SITE FILES
Rename Images to Foo (allow DW to update links)
Rename Foo to images (allow DW to update links)
Upload the images folder and any/all files that DW changed
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I am facing the same issue too. The whole formatting goes off once exported to ppt. The fonts reduce to such an extent that I cannot see the fonts. If I drag the swf component to full screen in ppt, the labels, come over the axes.
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Bridge crashes when hitting spacebar to go into preview mode.

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Deleting prefs manually seems to be OK although I personal would not bother
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> I don't really understand this part you wrote.
"What setting do you generally have for Bridge preview, always high Quality
or on demand or embedded previews
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