Aetuts Has a very nice article for new AE users that breaks down the lingo i found allot of this confusing when i first started out and i hope it will help you out guys.

Adam Everett Miller has it broken down for you [here]

Found This Amazing Tip on How to Make This in 10 seconds I used to do it in Illustrator by manually copying lines in a radial path or in AE by drawing masks and copying them over and over

This was originally posted on AE region of interest as a written tip so i decided to make a short video to speed things up View Original [here]

I came across this problem a couple of times before and its always hard to find an answer how every after some  pro googling i found this tutorial on the issue itself and how to fix it hope this will help you guys as much as it helped me.

[illustration courtesy of VideoCopilot.net]

View Tutorial on VideoHive [here]

Hello to all,

If you have been using after effects for more then 20 min you probably ran into an out of ram issue on your windows xp 32bit box. As i have and so many people before me.  there are two solutions you can enable the 3gb switch on your xp system or you can switch to a 64bit system witch i do recommend. When i was having this issue i had to look for a solution for about and hour so to save you guys some time i decided to write this

Windows Xp 32bit -

Step 1 :

Click Start and Go to Run

Setp 2 :

Type “C:\boot.ini ” and Press Enter

Step 3:

Once Notepad opens locate the last line in your operating system list and add this to the end of the line ” /3GB” Save and reset the Computer

Step 4:

You have just Enabled your XP system to address more ram when next you start AE it should take effect

Here are some useful links for troubleshooting and Information

[Microsofts Help Files on the 3gb switch]

[AE CS4 Help Files on Multiproccesing]

Windows Xp 64bit -

If you did switch to windows 64bit then you have no problem. xp64 can address much more ram then its 32bit brother so put in as much ram into your pc as your mother board allows and go to school. AE is still a 32bit App so to address more ram then it is capable of AE lets you open instances of itself So on a 4 Core System with 16GB or ram

you can ran 4 instances of AE with 4 GB of Ram per instance and that makes life sweet you can read up on the instancing and multiproccesing futures in AE [here]

Hope this Helps and saves some one time cheers Guys