Download ProcessMonitor from Sysinternals, set it to filter on AfterFX.exe, then watch. Whenever something goes wrong, it will be labeled with Fail and pop up in red. This wil ltell you exactly at which file or registry key it crashes and for what reason. Provide that info and we may be able to tell you what to do... Mylenium ... View more

Trash the prefs! You have enabled MP rendering and for some reason it's busted... Mylenium ... View more

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[insults removed by moderator] open up the icon image, hit Ctrl+A to select everything, copy to the clipboard then go back to your other document and paste. if you want to keep things editable, create a new layer vbefore pasting - those old versions didn't do that automatically. Mylenium ... View more

Can you be more clear as to what exactly you are looking for? As an vector drawing application, AI does not deal with bitmap imagery in such a manner, but it has a ton of ways of breaking apart vector shapes/ paths... Mylenium ... View more

Assemble everything in InDesign... Mylenium ... View more

I concur with Noel, this is an external application inetrfering with teh clipboard. Could even be some security stuff blocking the clipboard. Also, in case you are using OpenGL, such issues could indicate a configuration error, where the graphics card and driver are unable to deal with color space and color sampling conversions to provide acceleration... Mylenium ... View more

You need to find the middle yourself by dividing the time span between the keys and then use if()else() to determine the preceding and successive key. The timespan itself can be determined by comparing the marker/ key times with the current time nad compansating for the flip-flopping, i.e. at one point the current key is the nearest key index and when it passes beyond the half it is nearest key index -1 or +1, depending on the situation. A bit of overhead, but manageable. Mylenium ... View more

Yes, that may happen. Different Windows versions use slightly different sub-versions of NTFS plus allocate different hidden sectors on the disks. That may indeed cause weird side effects in the physical drivce mapping, if no reformat is done on install. Anyway, glad you resolved the issue. Mylenium ... View more

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What exactly makes up your E: drive? Have you already checked the user privileges and file ownership settings? I tend to agree with you asessment, but that realyl is something you must fix in the operating system... Mylenium ... View more

PS simply expects them to be saved as PSD and be properly prepped (due to the transparencies). That's all there is to it. You cannot simply load any random JPEG from the web... Mylenium ... View more

1. I can paint directly in the comp window, meaning I can easily trace directly over another layer in my comp You can do that with normal paint just the same by painting on solids on top and setting the brush to paint on transparent and layer and comp windows side by side. You can even get that functionality in the layer window by adding effects like CC Composite before the paint to enforce rendering of the current frame. 2. Vector Paint has a built in wiggle engine which enables me to wiggle my paint strokes - this makes the images I draw feel dynamic and alive. it suits the simple hand drawn style of the animation. Yes, it's been much lamented but it's not coming back - for a while, anyway. Get yourself a "paint" plug-in liek Video Gogh or learn how to work with displacement effects to get similar results. Occassionally also consider shape layers - there's a Wiggle Path modifier there, after all. Mylenium ... View more

See the reply to your other thread. And please do not revive threads from the grave when you open duplicate threads. You're only wasting tiome and confusing people. Mylenium ... View more

Mylenium, why would you think there should be no shortcut for this? You are forgetting, that pre-comps in themselves can contain any number of pre-comps inside pre-comps inside pre-comps.... You would have to find a way of taking care of those scenarios which is a major logic challenge and effort. that being so and to avoid potentially risky user operations that might ruin entire projects, it is much safer to not allow this. I would agree with Rick that a simple script that mimics the manual steps and tied to a function key is probably as good as it gets, but still, even there the underlying deeper problem still exists, so you have to work very controlled. Mylenium ... View more

Are they actualy vectors? You know, one can embed pixel graphics in AI as well plus AI uses bitmap effects for drop shadows and that... Just because it is an AI file doesn't mean nit has infinite resolution... Mylenium ... View more

Is there a shortcut for this? No. Nor should there. Doesn't really make any sense to have it that way... Mylenium ... View more

But how exactly do you want it to work? While masks may be an option, there may be several other, simpler or at least more structured techniques then animating a path from hand... Mylenium ... View more

PARs are stored in the image meta data/ header, so the behavior is more or less correct. PS simply assumes that it needs to correct for a square display if it encounters such info. I'm not aware of any way to turn it off, but there may be some key to press to suppress it when openeing the files... Mylenium ... View more

File --> Save for Web and Devices. Requires slices for working links and such. Regardless of these features existing, it's a futile exercise. The HTML generated this way is in no way compliant with any currently accepted standards or best practices for web design, so it will fall apart and you have wasted your time for nothing. or straight answer: Leave it be, hand such tasks over to a web designer. Mylenium ... View more

Check the threshold settings in the Timewarp effect and the motion sensitivity. You may even need to animate those parameters or split your clips. Also consider spending the money and using Twixtor, which allows to do this even more selectively using masks and tracking data as guidance. Mylenium ... View more

I think we are talking about different things. Increasing fps is pretty meaningless, if the clip is never played at that exact framerate, which applies to a lot of video. You only change the content of the frames for no sensible reason by smooshing in "wrong" pixels. Furthermore, I really don't see the point in adding inbetween frames at the cost of reducing overall sharpness and getting that floaty feel. The resulting frames are never physically exact, anyway, as neither their direction sampling nor their timing mimics a true shutter. Call me old-fashioned, if you will, but I truly don't see any use case for this. In mixed media projects, there may be conformed clips, but nobody would treat all footage just at whim. If this is some requirement for a specific delivery system, then okay, but even then I would assume that just doubling frames looks better than interpolating them. Anyway, your issues are very likely due to not obeying pulldown cadences, which naturally occurs when going from 24fps to 30fps/60fps. Check your footage interpretation on that one. Also verify, that your cam actually shot 24fps, not something else, including possibly "fake" 24fps based on 60fps with tagged frames... Mylenium ... View more

Where there is nothing, there can be nothing. If the difference in motion between frames is below the threshold, of course there is nothing to interpolate. I think you have fallen victim to an urban legend. Video will not automatically look smoother just by doubling the frame rate. You probably are just wasting your render time. I'm really not sure why anyone would even do that unless you need to do a slomo... Mylenium ... View more

I guess Apple beat them to it and unlike PS, AI is probably too unimportant to justify cramming in such last minute features.... Well, one can always hope for the future... Mylenium ... View more

XnView, ACDSee, Irfanview or any image viewer/ converter via their File --> Save as... options or batch processing. If you have Photoshop, you can do this by adding the GIF as a video layer and exporting to an image sequence (TIF, PSD etc.). Mylenium ... View more