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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: Agent4054 on July 08, 2008, 01:01:05 AM
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I figured I'd post this problem here, even though no one on the Adobe forums offered any bit of help ><
After Effects CS3 crashes whenever I try to drag any file into it. Images, movies, audio, etc... multiple formats, and everything basically. It just crashes each time. and not just dragging either. Opening, importing, etc. Kinda sucks. I downloaded the trial version a bit ago, and I get this. I can, on the other hand, open pre-made project files with images/movies/audio in them already and play and edit them fine, but that's about it. Really sucky.
Any first hand experience?
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Is it a codec issue? I never personally used After Effects.
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Not sure why it would be a codec issue when images crash it.
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Tried deleting the preferences file? And are you using Vista or XP?
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserAccount\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\8.0 you'll see your "Adobe After Effects 8.0 Prefs.txt" file.
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I suggest you start drinking heavily.
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Not sure if you have seen this already, but I read that sometimes if you disable the OpenGL support, that fixes alot of crash issues.
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Heh yep, I've seen both of those things. I went through All of the topics on the adobe AE forums when searching for "import crash" as well as the same for many other community AE forums. I am surprised that with this problem being so common that there is no info on how to fix it.
For the record, Deleting the prefs file does nothing to help, as well as turning off OpenGL in the options. Another source says to remove the opengl plugin file from the AE folder, which I did do, and still no go.
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I know you can probably get it if you wanted but have you tried the full version? If you can't...get it....I can find it for you.
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Heh no need. I acquired the full version just a bit ago, and it's working fine now... thankgod
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Glad it worked out!
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It figures that they make you get the full version just to get it to work right. They are starting to sound like Microsoft.
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Only Microsoft still doesn't get it right even after they have your money....*cough* Xbox360*cough*
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You know... I've been looking at a lot of the amateur after effects videos on youtube, and they look like Crap. It sorta discouraged me at first. Was thinking, "wow is it really that hard to do the cool stuff?" The answer: NO! Most people just suck at it!
After reading up on some basic program UI control tutorials for about 20 or so mins, I decided to take AE for a spin and see what I come up with on my own. The very incomplete video below is a result of 3 hours of use from a complete NOOB to After Effects (me):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eoEm2X7_tY
Pffft... I know it's nothing special at all and is almost pointless, but even that short 15 seconds is better than the majority of the amateur stuff out there.
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This might give you a little something to work with.
http://www.colbertnation.com/?p=1593
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SWEET. I knew about the one awhile ago where the winner made an ipod commercial, but I thought it was only a one-time thing. Awesome.
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That's pretty damn good for a first try! Looks like a professional commercial.
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Looks hella good. BTW What song is that?
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Simon Mahler - Hipdahop
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Uploaded my progress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D-QAbR3MMI
Lookin' better!
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Hmmm, I may have to get into some after effects. I like the blurred text look! Is that a built in effect?
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Yup. It's called motion blur lol. All you have to do is flag the layer to accept motion blur. And that's it. quite nice.
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Before, when I thought of After Effects, the first thing that came to my head was an extra add-on for Adobe Premiere. F*ck that! AE is wicked powerful.
One of the coolest things about it is it's not actually 3D. It's more like 2.5D. You can do some REALLY amazing things with it that makes it look 3D... and in a sense, it is. Think of it this way:
Photoshop has layers to make up one 2D image. Well what if you were able to rotate those layers and give each of them a Z-axis? You could then create a cube. Cool. After Effects does exactly that + animation. You can even import a photoshop document and manipulate those layers. It's awesome!
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Haha, I saw you try to sneak in "beer" and "sex" there at the end and have it whiz by real quick so we wouldn't see it. You can't fool me, I know what's on your mind! ;)
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Haha I actually tried to slow them down some, because they are pretty hard to make out, but I wanted to have the varied speeds in there too, so I left them as is
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Well since you are venturing into After Effects; try this out:
http://www.videocopilot.net/index.html
The tutorials are pretty sweet.
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Wow, Tibs has actually contributed something quite useful. I'm impressed, those tutorials seem very well done indeed and the price can't be beat. I did notice, however, that I had to disable AdBlock in Firefox to let the tutorial play properly.
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I just noticed in Tibs' signature he OC'd his 2.4ghz AMD 4000+ to 2.5ghz....do you need water cooling with that? I mean 100mhz is pushing it to the extreme! j/k
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Wow, Tibs has actually contributed something quite useful. I'm impressed, those tutorials seem very well done indeed and the price can't be beat. I did notice, however, that I had to disable AdBlock in Firefox to let the tutorial play properly.
Funny I didn't have to. It just played outright, and it is active.
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Well since you are venturing into After Effects; try this out:
[url]http://www.videocopilot.net/index.html[/url]
The tutorials are pretty sweet.
Already knew about it, but thanks anyways hehehe
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Wow, Tibs has actually contributed something quite useful. I'm impressed, those tutorials seem very well done indeed and the price can't be beat. I did notice, however, that I had to disable AdBlock in Firefox to let the tutorial play properly.
Funny I didn't have to. It just played outright, and it is active.
I'm using AdBlock Plus with the Filterset.g Updater add-on, so my AdBlock settings may be a bit more aggressive than yours.
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http://www.theblight.org/Jordan/hipdahop.mp3
^^^ music used
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See, this is the kind of stuff I want to get to do:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_v5_ZmQmkIc
Done completely in After Effects, except for a couple of complex 3d objects that were done in Maya.
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Video not there for me.
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Oooooooooooh. I got a wicked sick idea. Anyone here know how to use any 3D modeling program and animate with it? If not... I guess I'll have to learn to do it myself :P
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Alright... new render. I figured I can use this name to base all of my videos under. Spent about 4+ hours on it. Done completely from scratch, though I tried my best to emulate some of the video copilot stuff that I saw in their promo vids. Has sound fx this time! Looks pretty good, IMO. Adding depth of field and lens blur effects tacks on like 20 mins of rendering ><
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbk-Ejhedrs
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Ooohhh nice.
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http://www.fotone.net/audio/hipdahop.mp3
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Yep, that's where I got mine :P