OBSTACLE: I couldn’t figure out how to convert my 16:9 footage to 4×3.
SOLUTION: I want to thank God–and Mr. Temple, of course–that I was able to IM Mr. Temple last night so he could lead me, step by step, in converting my 16:9 footage to 4×3. I am grateful that, even though Mr. Temple was in Indiana, he was willing to take the time to help me out! The video rendering was taking so long, I decided to hit the sack and check on it in the morning.
OBSTACLE: The audio was missing after I rendered the video. I thought I’d checked something to include audio. (It was in the switches submenu.) Unfortunately, it wasn’t the right thing. I clicked on everything I could think of to try to find how to make sure the audio would export. I tried to preview the audio to see if it was enabled, but I got an error message saying there wasn’t enough memory to render it. I went to BestBuy and bought a bigger external hard drive, because my current one had only 9 and some gigs left. That wasn’t it. I still got the same error message about memory.
SOLUTION: Prayer. I should have started there first. Praise the Lord! I had a book on After Effects that I’d purchased a long time ago (with unrealistic intentions).
Thank You, Jesus, the Lord led me where in my After Effects book as to what to click to get the option to export the audio. I would never have figured it out without the book. It might be easier to figure out the control panel of a B-52.
The book told me to go to the Output Module, and gave a picture of where it was on the bottom screen. Hurray! It’s mixed in with a number of other render settings, like all the signs at Home Depot. When I clicked on it, the popup menu finally appeared. That is where I saw that the Export Audio box was not checked. The video is now rendering. I guess you can say that I’m taking a “rendering break.” I’m going to work on projects for my 524 class.
