About clip notes comments – Adobe After Effects CS4 User Manual
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Markers and metadata
Last updated 12/21/2009
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creates a panel with controls for moving various combinations of items in time, including layer In point,
layer Out point, layer source frames, keyframes, and markers.
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shows the number of markers on the selected layer.
About Clip Notes comments
Use Clip Notes to submit a movie to reviewers for comments. When you render and export a movie for Clip Notes
comments, a copy of the movie or a link to the movie is included in an Adobe PDF file. The movie can be in a Windows
Media (Windows only) or QuickTime container format.
Composition markers (After Effects) and sequence markers (Adobe Premiere Pro) are included with the movie as
comments, so you can submit questions to reviewers or solicit comments about specific parts of the movie.
Note: When you create a Clip Notes review movie, you can specify FTP settings in the Others tab of the export settings
dialog box to automatically place the PDF file on an FTP server for convenient exchange of files and comments.
When your reviewers open the PDF, they can play the movie and enter comments. Each comment is associated with
a specific time in the movie.
A reviewer then exports the comments to a file and sends the file back to you. When you import the comments, the
reviewer’s comments appear in the comments field of markers placed in the Timeline panel.
To view the PDF, a reviewer must have Adobe Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Professional, or Adobe Reader (version 7.0.5
or later). Adobe Reader is available as a free download from the Adobe website.
Note: To keep comments from being associated with the wrong part of a movie, avoid changing the sequence or
composition until you have imported all Clip Notes comments related to it.
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Rendering and exporting a movie for Clip Notes comments
You render and export a movie for Clip Notes comments using the render queue in the same way that you render other
kinds of movies, though the export options are more limited than for most formats intended for final output.
Note: You can also use the File > Export menu to add a composition to the render queue to create a movie for Clip Notes
comments.
When you create a Clip Notes review movie, you can specify FTP settings in the Others tab of the export settings dialog
box to automatically place the PDF file on an FTP server for convenient exchange of files and comments.
Before you render and export the work area of a composition for review with Clip Notes, make sure that the work area
is not set to begin at a frame other than the first frame of the composition. When you import Clip Notes comments
into the composition, After Effects assumes that the first frame of the Clip Notes movie matches the first frame of the
composition. If the work area is set to begin at a later frame, then the imported comments will be offset in time. (See
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Render and export a movie using the render queue