Hey all, Izzy here.
Scott and I are in the process of determining when the next meet should be, as this month was pretty hectic for Scott (the new-job-getting bastard!) so it will be sometime in August, not sure when though, so stay tuned!

PREVIEW:  The demos we are sure we will be having so far are:
1. Brian Michael will be demoing the process of getting 3d objects from Photoshop to AE, and maybe a few extra tips regarding that as well.
2. I'll be doing 2 quick 10 minute recreations of a "kinetic type" 3d layer treatment I made for my new reel that I'm releasing tomorrow sometime.
Plus I believe Scott may have something in his bag of tricks as well, so all in all it should be a pretty sweet meet.


--Ok, now for the tip:

As a user of Windows Vista 64bit Ultimate, I keep forgetting that Vista allows you to control audio volume on an per-application basis via the Volume Mixer.

So while doing the final style treatments (time-ramps, sound-synced movement etc.) for tomorrows pretty new reel, I needed to use Trapcode SoundKeys with my chosen audio track to give the reel that extra "togetherness".

Well, after importing the wav file, and running a quick cache, I heard nothing?!
Then I tried importing an mp3 version of the same song, and still.....  nothing.

So, since I hadn't slept in 18 hours, (I was in the ZONE!), it wasn't until 8 hours of well-needed sleep later that it hit me that a long time ago I got TIRED of hearing the loud-ass "BLING" after every render, so I adjusted the per-application volume in the Volume Mixer to MUTE AE completely. DOH!!!

So, I UNmuted the app-volume for AE and BINGO, my audio is back just fine and dandy:)

....now the moral of the story is, you may think that you are in the ZONE for 18+ hours or more when you get a creative burr up your patooty, but every single one of us NEEDS a good nights sleep to recharge. Period.

Don't think you are immune!  Something will, or may already have happened to you due to lack of sleep, and if you have a good "lack of sleep" creative "head-slapper-story", reply to this post and lets hear it!

Ok all, until next meet:)

Izzy - Co-manager
ragecg.com