No idea, but since this is an unofficial "hack" anyway, you cannot blame anyone. This feature may have been removed. As a minor, look whether your permissions for scripts in the prefs are set to read and write files... Mylenium ... View more

Determine the angle based on teh difference, then use it to drive sinus and cosinus: Radius=thisLayer.effect("Slider")("Slider"); A=thislayer.Tracker("A").featureCenter; B=thislayer.Tracker("B").featureCenter; DiffX=B[0]-A[0]; DiffX=B[1]-A[1]; Ang=Math.atan2(DiffY,DiffX); X=Math.cos(Ang)*Radius; Y=Math.sin(Ang)*Radius; [X,Y] Mylenium ... View more

Yeah, but I fail to see the differentiation. For such simple stuff it would be just the right thing. For more complex stuff you'd have to define the variables in more complex ways, anyway, so having it in the menu is of limited use at best. I rarely use it except for the odd occasion when someone asks about something that I never use and i need to look it up... I'm not sure. In that regard it would be much more consistent to have custom classes and have the editor work with code hinting, both of which are not really available in AE.... Mylenium ... View more

Yes, they do. Anything from storyboarding to masking to final color corrections and, most importantly, pretty much any of those fancy mock UIs on screens in movies and TV series is either done completely in Ae or at least involved using it somewhere along the way... Also, many opening animations and credits are done with AE... Mylenium ... View more

*woohoo* Glad you could figure it out. Contrary to what you may have thought, I'm not programming in C++, i only thought you were looking for a specific plug-in's internal name. :-) Cheers Mylenium ... View more

You mean the match name? Check redefinery.com for that and make good use of the list provided there as well as the rd_GimmeProps script. Mylenium ... View more

No, not at all. How would you hack it, not knowing the hex/binary offsets it ties into? For your specific needs: Why not use animation presets? Is that too obvious to be missed? Mylenium ... View more

Well, with a conditional statement that separates the time for the ease from the rest: driftDirection = degreesToRadians(effect("Drift Over Time")("Direction") - 90); x_offset = Math.cos(driftDirection); y_offset = Math.sin(driftDirection); driftSpeed = effect("Drift Over Time")("Speed (pixels/second)"); easeTime=2; if (time-inPoint <= easeTime) {[x_offset,y_offset] * linear(time,0,easeTime,0,driftSpeed) * (time-inPoint)} else {[x_offset,y_offset] * driftSpeed * (time-inPoint)}; Mylenium ... View more

Brandon, please understand that nobody will be able to help you on that. W7 may look and feel like Vista, but it isn't. Hence nobody can give you any guarantees that a software not officially developed with it in mind will run on it. If you don't know which buttons to push, you're on your own, mostly. As a minor, try to launch the Adobe Licensing Service manually and unblock it in your firewall. This may help. Also check, whether your Users\All Users\AppData and similar directories are fully accessible. Mylenium ... View more

Well, but are you a student in the sense of being entitled based on Adobe's terms and conditions? If so, the question should answer itself. In that case it wouldn't even matter, if you own a previous version... Mylenium ... View more

No, but probably you are using OpenGL which as of CS4 will also be applied to nested pre-comps, hence there is considerable slowdown, if the number of items exceeds a certain number and they cannot be buffered. Mylenium ... View more

>only have CS3: i can convert to a shape, but can I break this shape >apart? You could duplicate the layer as often as needed and delete the unwanted paths... Mylenium ... View more

Depending on what font you use, you may wish to follow procedures and purchase a different font weight. Most professional fonts come as entire families and provide options from light to heavy... Since you will only need one weight, I'm sure you could afford spending those 20 or 40 bucks... Likewise, you can almost always find a font similar to your current one as a replacement. Mylenium ... View more

Ctrl+Alt+F - Fit All Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G - Fit Vertical Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H - Fit Horizontal Mylenium ... View more

As Toby said - time to do some serious checking or you may find yourself with a completely defunct system tomorrow. I wouldn't go as far as attributing this to a hardware error, but it's quite possible that a system DLL used by the loaders is missing/ damaged. Also, since GIFs and PNGs are web image file formats, for the life of it make sure you create proper rules for your virus scanner and firewall to exclude locally created files. Some tools will make files "inert" (to prevent piggyback malware attacks) by chopping off/ changing a few bytes instead of correctly containing them in a safe vault or they may damage the file structure when deep-scanning... Mylenium ... View more

>Is there a way to measure the total width (and height) of a text >layer, to automatically update the length (and height) of a shape >layer? Nope. You need to apply a sampleImage() to your text layer and probe for its min/ max dimensions. Check Dan Ebberts' collision detection example on his site ( http://www.motionscript.com ) for reference. Mylenium ... View more

OWL is the interface library that draws all those nice buttons and panels. If it complains, then the skin (OWL) looses the connection to the actual function (code) of a button or panel. I could imagine that this would happen if you had a given tool used the last time you ran Photoshop and on startup, without an image being opened, this tool and its associated panel loose their context. It's still a bug, though, so maybe you can provide more detailed info to the devs via the feature request/ bug report form: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish Mylenium ... View more

Check any security tools you may have running and disable them. Also make sure to run a Windows Update to bring the Windows Installer up to the latest. Specific to your case: Get rid of _anything_Adobe on your system, including Flash, Adobe Media Player/ AIR, Acrobat Reader etc. You may need to manually clean out data found in Program Files\Common Files\Adobe, in particular TypeSpt, Updater 5/6, PDFL. Mylenium ... View more

>Mylenium, same thing, as marked bold in my OP, I need to resize the >canvas, not crop the image. Umm, but that's what you do?! I really don't follow your logic. Technically it doesn't matter which method you employ, as long as the layers retain their pixel data, which is what you seem to require. You can even use the Crop tool to expand the canvas size, btw. Mylenium ... View more

You could simply use guides, have them snap to the selection borders (which they do) then use the crop tool with the "Hide cropped regions" option. Gives the same result, just involves a few more steps. Mylenium ... View more

>That's annoying - does it do it to custom brushes too? Yes. It's an issue with how the brush "texture" overlay does not work within a given memory tile. You can also see white fringes on the cursors on systems that show this behavior, as obviously it also affects transparency blending. Maybe some day a patch will give us back the option to do this properly on all cards... *sigh* Mylenium ... View more

You don't need to install PS7, you only need the psicon.dll, which needs to be placed in the proper directory. And no, this function has not been revived for CS4 for very rational reasons. Mylenium ... View more

Some chapter markers may not have ended up on the beginning of a GOP, so Encore moves them by a few frames or you need to do so yourself. Depending on what source footage you use, this can happen after transcodes, but is nothing to get anxious about. Mylenium ... View more

Well, the list is not complete, just covering a few options. Perhaps in your case you created the comp at a different framerate, then adjusted it later after you already had moved keyframes. In that case, they too might have ended up "somewhere inbetween", not being movable. I agree, it's damn inconvenient, no matter what the reason and excuse. Mylenium ... View more

It's a bug in the timebase calculations that happens under a number of circumstances including - time-stretched items - time-remapped items - mixing compositions with different framerates, in particular mixing non-integer (e.g. 23,96fps) with full integer (24fps) ones To cut a long story short: nothing you can do but delete the keyframes and create them again (and wait for CS4 to arrive in the hope it is finally fixed) Mylenium ... View more

>...much the rest of the time telling us that we're uncouth and/or >unprofessional for using an underline in the first place. ... My only >question to those telling us that it's unprofessional to use underlines >is "What if the Customer wants an underline?" Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but even static underlines don't really have a place in motion typography, if only for the reason that thin lines below a certain value always flicker if they are rendered "sharp" (even on progresive displays). I will only concede to the one argument at the core of your complaint: True, the client pays your bills, so he's always right. Still, part of your/ our job is sometimes to convince the client that he's wrong and share at least a part of our aesthetical skill and knowledge, so I still recommend you try that - next time. ;-) Mylenium ... View more

Draft 3D? Any effects that futz with Alpha channels? Insufficient shadow map size to accommodate the fine detail (in which case AE may not generate shadows at all)? Mylenium ... View more

Any layer styles involved in the scene? They affect 3D rendering in the strangest ways due to them being applied post all other stuff... Mylenium ... View more

Did you actually click on the blue text to specify a new directory? Simply shifting around the naming options won't do anything if you don't point the output to a place where there is actually space to write it to... Mylenium ... View more