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To render your avi without sound, simply turn off the speaker icon on the layer in the timeline. For sound only, you can use the default 'audio only' preset from the output module pull-down in the render queue, or use the File/Export... option, or just turn the layer transparency to 0%.

It's a pixel thing - DV uses oblong pixels, so there are fewer of them horizontally. Go back to the Comp that rendered your final output, and change the preset to the D1/DV pixel 720x576 preset. The comp will automatically "squash" everything horizontally. It'll get resized back to...

If your footage looks "right", that's probably good enough. What's more important are your composition settings (command-k). There's a pull-down menu of common presets there, what you choose depends on what you are going to do with the finished output. If you're presenting it on VHS...

OK... You can split your QuickTime movie into layers and apply different scaling per layer. Select the layer, move the Timeline marker to the 1st frame of where you want to make your cut, and press command-shift-d . The original layer is split into two at that point. To scale a layer to fit...

What I was getting at was - say your comp has 3 levels, each with a different image, and say layer 1 fades down to reveal layer 2 while layer 3 pans across the whole lot (Ok, it ain't gonna win any oscars), and these are all hi-res images, perhaps the third image is making too many demands of...

Does seem like AE is having trouble trying to handle too many large images at the same time. Bongo touched on one possible solution - if you can split the movie vertically, ie render out just a few levels on their own, then mix them together in a new Comp or project, that would help, but I know...

Hi panmat A couple of possibilities. If you're using a Mac with OS9 or earlier, could be that you need to allocate more memory to AE (select AE from Finder, then Get Info, then Memory from the pull-down menu. 150Mb is probably a working minimum). If that ain't it, are the pics v. hi-res? If the...

Open the Time Controls panel (from the Window menu) and click the loudspeaker button. Also make sure the speaker box on your audio level is checked in the timeline.

Is the sound preview button on in the Time Control panel?

Not sure about v5.5, but up to 5.0, mpegs aren't supported. Which seems pretty stupid, and if you're listening Adobe, how about a plug-in to support an mpeg output module?

File menu - Import - File... Navigate to the files you want to import, highlight any file in the sequence. Check the targa sequence box. The "Import as..." pull down menu should be on Footage.

I don't know if/how Save Frame... works with fields, and it's a bit lo-tek, but maybe you could save the frame you want to hold (from the Composition menu), then use that file as a layer over the animation?

Two suggestions. 1. First create your finished text, then, when it's a layer in AE, create a new mask (from the Layer menu) - or several if it's easier - and animate it to reveal the text. This can be a bit fiddly, but once the animation is done, you can slide the keyframes around to get the...

If you're only importing your figure back into AE, it doesn't need to be a QT movie - a PICT or Photoshop sequence will work just fine, but you don't even need to do that. After you've added your fx, pre-compose the relevant layers and work with that as a layer inside the main comp.

The same way as importing any format as a sequence - File/Import/Footage Files, goto the folder containing the seq. and highlight any of the files, then check the Import as sequence button and Import.

You can time-stretch Compositions. If your project has just a single Comp with several layers, select all the layers then choose Pre-Compose from the layers menu. This puts all the layers into a new Comp and nests it inside your original Comp. You can then Time-Stretch it to taste. If you've got...