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Render order and how the items are related, most certainly. When you render from the main comp, AE would only request the frame it currently needs for temporal sampling. It is smart enough for that. By pre-rendering in combination with your other effects you may somehow trigger a weird loop that forces AE to request multiple frames multiple times based on how it processes the effects stack. Hard to tell without seeing your actual setup. I...

Yes.   After Effects is used and has been used on many, many feature films.

Both the music video and the song are terrific, Patrick. Congratulations! Great work.

You (usually) output movies in AE by choosing composition>make movie.   This opens the render que in which you can then select wmv as your format by clicking on the word "Lossless" and changing the settings in the window that opens.   When you have the settings you need, just hit the render button.

Import the images into After Effects as an image sequence. If you have "a dozen" images, it sounds you have rather few for the effect you want. You then may want to use the Timewarp effect to smooth out the animation.

I use After Effects to generate material for cinema regularly.? Just make sure the technical requirements of the bureau who does the film transfer are adhered to strictly.

For future reference should anyone else have this problem.   I forgot I had a demo version of AE CS4 that I played with months ago. Apparently I didn't properly uninstall it. You may need to run the Adobe CleanSweep program if you encounter this or do a proper de-install of the software under apps-utilities-adobe installers.

Hey Andrew, thanks for the reply, I'll give that a go!

I did this and it does not work.? I tried all three options.   Time-stretch a layer from a specific time In the Timeline or Composition panel, select the layer. Choose Layer > Time > Time Stretch. Type a new duration for the layer, or type a Stretch Factor. To specify the point in time from which the layer will be time-stretched, click one of the Hold In Place options, and then click OK. Layer In-point Holds the...

Hi andy.   Your method has worked in part, thanks! The movie is now moving (rotationally) in time with the screen. However, the 'corner pin' has made it look off center and when I try to manually adjust the tracking data frame by frame it keeps jumping back to the old position. By off center I mean that the movie is not filling the screen and it is slightly out of perspective.   @ Mylenium   We use...