If AE Crashes…

This might be one of the problems.  I just got over a 3 hour dillema of AE shutting down whenever I scrub in the timeline, or for that matter, even click inside the timeline.

It is wierd, because my computer has been fine for the last… well forever, since I installed my Nvidia QuadroFX540 video card like, 3 years ago.  Well, for some reason, it didn’t want to let me work in the timeline.  After about 3 hours of system restore, preference file tweakage, re installing and all that good stuff… I installed a trial of AE CS4.  (I work in CS3) SAME PROBLEM!  But this time instead of just crashing it gave me error messages saying something about OpenGL.

I went back into AE CS3 and went into the preferences, unchecked USE OPENGL… and there ya go.  That was my problem…
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SO MAD right now… but at least I got it fixed and now I can get back to work.

Moral of the story:  Try the easiest solution first, even if it doesn’t make sense at the time.

New Animation…

Courtesy of videocopilot.net and the amazing Andrew Kramer, I have made a new animation that actually includes my son, Brennan acting in it.  I know you’re like “he’s only like a year old”  well… I actually just laid him on the ground and he got really pissed off and started crying… so naturally I filmed him.  haha.  Anyways the animation is that of him “getting his soul sucked out” by a Dementor… one of the monsters out of the Harry Potter novels.   I also did some cool motiong graphics at the beginning… some videocopilot.net stuff… some my own.  Check it out!

So I thought it was pretty cool… I have a friend coming over today and we are going to try to make the Poor Man’s steadicam for $14 so that will be a fun endeavor.  I am also going to have a couple more things coming up like my son and his “Lightning Ball” powers, Boujou motion tracking with 3D text like in FRINGE, and some more videocopilot tutorials.