We recently had a customer experience a very odd bug which only seems to be occurring on some Mac Snow Leopard configurations. This bug has nothing to do with our products, as it is an Encore bug effecting even those who don’t use our templates, but we thought we should mention it here in case any of our customers encounter it. We have also discovered a solution to the bug.
Some of our Pro Motion Menu Kit users seem to be lost when it comes to optimizing their After Effects Memory and Multiprocessing settings.
A fully optimized configuration could cut your render times down to half the time or more. Unfortunately there is no one setting for all our kits or everyones system configuration, however I thought I would point out a very helpful blog post written by Todd Kopriva of Adobe, as he does an excellent job of explaining how to configure it for your system:
Performance Tip: Don’t Overschedule Your Processors
You will also find much more useful information on his blog, such as tips for improving performance in general, and details on RAM usage.
I’m sure many of you have read about the great new features available in the Adobe CS5 collection.
But how exactly do they work? What are the details? The answers are in the CS5 help files:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/CreativeSuite/CS5/Using/index.html
Particularly interesting is how the multi-page Blu-ray menu feature is suppose to work.
Also, the new interface for the Encore Flash export looks very nice.
Again, so many details are buried in the help files… go take a look!
hint: After clicking on the link above, click on one of the CS5 “Related Products” towards the bottom right.
If you are using our Pro Motion Menu Kit products, you are probably familiar with the Encore workflow and the use of the Adobe Dynamic Link feature, which links to After Effects compositions, to avoid some bugs with Encore’s rendering.
We have occasionally experienced glitches with the Dynamic Link feature, and have been working hard to figure out what causes them… and we might have discovered the problem. Our testing is still very early, so it’s possible this solution is just a temporary coincidence, but we might be on to something!
We’ve had several people ask if it’s possible to replace the rose in our White Wedding menu with that of a different flower or even a different graphic element entirely. The answer is absolutely yes, and it’s very easy as our templates are designed to be fully customizable.
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