If you have Windows Media 9 installed and you install the Power Pack for AE 5.5 the Windows Media Output option does not work does anyone have a workaround or patch I can get hold of?
On a slightly different note, if you use XP have you noticed that if you use
the shortcut Shift-Alt-P to add a position keyframe Windows Media Player
(v9) pops up instead and ther doesn't seem to be a way of disabling it -
very annoying
shift-alt-P works fine on my XP pro machine. Adds pos keyframe & opens pos
layer.
"Chris Gannon" <chrisg@no-spam> wrote in message
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> On a slightly different note, if you use XP have you noticed that if you
use
> the shortcut Shift-Alt-P to add a position keyframe Windows Media Player
> (v9) pops up instead and ther doesn't seem to be a way of disabling it -
> very annoying
>
>
I kind of got here the long way... I received an email about an upgrade to Zaxwerks 3d Invigorator. Haven't used this in a while, but I d/l'd the upgrade, and went to test it with a simple New Composition - New Solid, add Effect 3D Invigorator. AE disappeared without a trace. The problem was inconsistent - for example, if I opened existing projects that used 3DI it might work fine, or sometimes crash if I used 3DI's Create button.
After a lot of investigation I found that the problem involved the combination of Windows Media Player 9 and the Power Pack WINMEDIA plug in. Removing that plugin resolved the problem. It occurred to me that I probably updated from WM8 to 9 after installing the PPack.
The original PowerPack install came with a WMFDIST2.EXE for some additional redistributable WM8 files. Rerunning that didn't help.
Surprisingly, it appears that I can render to Windows Media without the PPack plugin. Maybe WM9 includes a codec that AE recognizes innately?
Also, I don't experience the shortcut key problem with WM9. Check your WM9 Windows shortcut files (aka .LNK files, there may be several) properties and make sure none of them define a shortcut key setting.