Thanks. I have a "block" about reading, unfortunately, but
it may be worth a try...;-) Premiere, once I figured out a
straight-forward, intuitive way of setting it up and using
it (www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/premiere.htm), was easy to
learn and use - but AE isn't... My interest in AE is not
for making big "swirly" graphics, but for doing better
the few simple tasks that Premiere doesn't handle well
for producing good output quality, so my commitment to the
learning process is more limited than it might be...;-)
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:03:01 -0800, "Mike Rehmus"
>David,
>
>You just need some training. AE will do all you want and do it better than
>most available programs. But it does take some serious involvement. I
>suggest you get the book, "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" by
>the Meyers. It has the tutorials to take you as far as you want to go. You
>don't need to know everything there is to know about AE. That is probably
>close to impossible. But you can get it to sit up and sing for you after
>some training.
>"Neuman - Ruether"
>news:3e0b9099.5816768@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...
>
>> After Effects has been a total disaster for me...;-(
>> I've owned it a couple of times, and had been unable
>> even to start a project with it. About a week ago, I
>> tried it again, and this time managed to start a
>> project, import material, and figure out the keyframing.
>> There are some things that do not work well using
>> Premiere with DV (without considerable ugly artifacting):
>> simple titles moved/resized over motion-video; stills
>> zoomed/moved; motion-video resized/moved; chroma-keying.
>> My first attempts with an imported still scanned larger
>> than 720x480 and simply moved were a disaster - the
>> results looked worse than if done in Premiere using a
>> transition, the "motion" tool, or the "image pan"
>> filter (and none of these produced acceptable results).
>> Searching various menu items in AE, I was able to
>> specify interlacing characteristics, etc., but I'm
>> missing something MAJOR, unfortunately, if the results
>> I've seen are not the best this program can do (there
>> is too much evidence that AE can do what I want,
>> though, to believe it is this bad...;-).
>> I've given up on it, again...
>> David Ruether