Adobe Magazine Q&A Archive - Premiere & After Effects

Do you have questions about Adobe® Premiere® or Adobe After Effects®? Click an After Effects or Premiere Q&A column from a past issue of Adobe Magazine to get answers.

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Questions in this issue:


•	(After Effects): How can I create the effect of a flashlight illuminating a dark scene?

•	Is there an easy way to create a video slideshow (with a dissolve between each picture) in Premiere?

(PDF: 280 KB / 2 pages)

Questions in this issue:


•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.1): How can I make changes to the settings that get used in the RAM Preview?

•	Win/Mac: Can I render a project into different formats at the same time?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.1): Is there an easy way to save a composition in After Effects 4.1 so that I can use it in another project?

•	Tip: Add a Comment column to your After Effects project window to include notes, directions, or short descriptions.

•	Win/Mac: How can I use Premiere to obscure someone's identity, the way they do in crime shows?

•	Win/Mac: Why is my still image pixelating when I scale it up with the Zoom setting in Premiere's Motion Settings dialog box?

(PDF: 171 KB / 2 pages)

Questions in this issue:


•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0): Is there a way to use a spiral or a sine wave, for instance, in a Path Text effect?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 3.1 and later): When I'm resizing an Illustrator file, is there a way to use the Continuously Rasterize switch while applying effects to the layer?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 3.1 and later): What does the Set Poster Time effect do?

•	Win/Mac (Premiere 5.1): Can I use Premiere to edit effects that I created in QuickTime Pro or QuickTime's MakeEffectsMovie utility?

•	Win/Mac (Premiere 5.x): Why did I end up with clicks and pops in my audio after converting a QuickTime movie to the Video for Windows (.avi) format?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0) TIP: Handy shortcuts.

(PDF: 251 KB / 2 pages)

Questions in this issue:


•	Win/Mac (Premiere 5.0): Can I separate left and right audio channels?

•	Win/Mac (Premiere 5.0): How can I make titles roll like credits at the end of a movie?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0 Production Bundle): Can I make the Particle Playground effect run backward?

•	MICRO TIP: Getting free technical updates via e-mail

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0): Why can't I get previews to display on an NTSC monitor?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0): Is there a way to automate the creation of keyframes for the Write-on effect?

(PDF: 249 KB / 2 pages)

Questions in this issue:


•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0): How do I use the different grid systems?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0): What should I do if I keep getting a message that says I'm low on RAM?

•	MICRO TIP: Saving on RAM with the Caps Lock key.

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0): Why do gradient fills from Illustrator appear banded?

•	Win/Mac (Premiere 5.x): Can I make movies that will stream over the Internet?

•	Win/Mac (After Effects 4.0): Why doesn't my second color appear and softness settings not work when I use the Beam effect?

•	Win/Mac (Premiere 5.x): Why do I get poor quality after editing a project with MPEG clips and then exporting in a different format?

(PDF: 155 KB / 2 pages)

Questions in this issue:


•	Win/Mac (After Effects Bundle version only): Is there a way in After Effects to simulate the effect of a camera lens shattering?

•	Win/Mac: Is there a way to add a few empty seconds to the beginning of my After Effects project without shifting all my layers?

•	Win/Mac: Can I use a gradient wipe in After Effects to make a transition between two layers?

•	Win/Mac (Premiere 5.x): Is there a way to use a "style" in Premiere to automatically apply several settings to one or more clips?

•	TIP: Learn five more Premiere keyboard shortcuts.

(PDF: 138 KB / 2 pages)

Questions in this issue:


•	Windows® (After Effects 3.1): Can I use Photoshop 4.0 and 5.0 effects in After Effects?

•	Windows/Mac (Premiere 5.0 only): Do I need to do anything special to be able to work on the same Premiere 5.0 file in both Windows and Macintosh environments?

•	Windows/Mac (Premiere 5.0 only): Can I use Premiere to remove background noise in an audio track?

•	Windows/Mac (After Effects 3.1): How can I create the effect of erasing one layer to reveal another?

•	MICRO TIP: Learn a quick keyboard command for temporarily reducing clutter in the Time Layout window.

(PDF: 215 KB / 2 pages)

Questions in this issue:


•	Windows: In Premiere, how can I get a file to open in the folder of my choice?

•	Win/Mac: How do I make sure the footage items in the After Effects project window contain the most recent changes made to the original Photoshop files?

•	Win/Mac: Can I use the same Adobe Illustrator® file for print and for work in Premiere and After Effects?

•	MICRO TIP: Learn a shortcut for replacing a layer with a new item while preserving the keyframes.

•	TIP (Win/Mac): Learn how to make sure your Illustrator files are properly imported into Premiere and After Effects.