After Effects And Soft .pic Help?

[StefanA]

After Effects should read Softimage Pic files without that plugin. At least from version 4.1 and forward.

So remove the PIC plugin that you placed there from Photoshop. If that doesn't work I recommend that you reinstall After Effects.

best regards

.stefan andersson

[Atyss]

Is there a specific plug-in for AE that I need to find? or maybe I'm putting the Photoshop SOFT.8BI in the wrong plug-in directory?

No, because most Photoshop plug-ins work in After Effect just like they do in Photoshop. Place in the appropriate folder and you will have access to then in the Effects menu or the appropriate one. For instance, the Soft.8bi plug-in can be placed in drive:\Program Files\Adobe\Affter Effects x\Plug-ins\Standard\Format\
Then it SHOULD work.


Cheers
Bernard

[marci2001]

hi

are you sure your files are valid? Sometimes xsi does a little trick in saving rendered images. the routine creates the .pic file with a size of 128 k, renders the image and then ... voila... forgets to save it.


Rerender and pray!
Best regards!

M
:buttrock:

[vmpre]

Originally posted by marci2001
the routine creates the .pic file with a size of 128 k, renders the image and then ... voila... forgets to save it.

Never seen that before...ever. :shrug:

I do have a side question.

Does AE also support the zpic format for the zdepth images?

Thanks
Vmpre

[marci2001]

it does do the trick. surely does if a program (f.e.: a viewer) is keeping the file open.
M

:bounce:

[marci2001]

Yes, it supports.

You don't even have to open it manually. If the .Zpic sequence is located in the same directory as the .pic sequence, AE loads it up automatically. You can edit depths by using filter (Extract 3D).

M

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