Add clip notes comments, Import clip notes comments – Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual

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Stream Video

Posts the rendered movie to an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server and includes a link to the movie

in the PDF. The size of the PDF is smaller than it would be if you embedded the movie, but you and your reviewers
must have access to an FTP server that is also a web server.

Password

Requires the reviewer to enter the password to open the PDF.

Instructions

Instructions to reviewers. You can edit this field. The contents of this field will be presented to

reviewers in an Instructions dialog box when they open the Clip Notes PDF. If you leave this field empty, then the
Instructions dialog box will not be presented to reviewers.

Return Comments To

E-mail address to which reviewers’ comments are sent upon export.

Add Clip Notes comments

1

Open the Clip Notes PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Professional, or Adobe Reader (version 7.0.5

or later).

2

If prompted, specify your preference in the Manage Trust For Multimedia Content dialog box. If prompted for a

password, enter the password and click OK. If prompted with an Instructions dialog box, read the instructions and
click OK.

Note: You can view the instructions at any time by clicking the View Instructions button

.

3

Enter your name in the Reviewer Name field. This name will appear in your comments.

4

Navigate to frames and add comments to them:

To navigate to a specific frame, use the media player’s playback controls.

To move to another comment, choose it in the Go To menu, or click the Go To Previous Comment button

or

Go To Next Comment button

.

To add a comment, click the Add Comment button

and enter your comment.

To save your comments, click the Save Comment button

.

To delete a comment, go to the comment and then click the Delete Comment button

.

Clip Notes prefixes your comment with the current reviewer name and timecode automatically. You can add your
own comment at the same frame as other reviewers; this is especially useful for responding to questions entered in
the comment field of a marker.

5

When you finish adding comments, click the Export button. The comment file is an XFDF file. (When this file is

imported into After Effects or Premiere Pro by the person who initiated the review, the comments appear as
markers.)

6

If prompted by your e-mail client software (such as Microsoft Outlook), edit and send the e-mail message that has

your Clip Notes comments file attached.

Note: You are prompted by your e-mail client software if an e-mail address was specified in the Return Comments To
field, when the Clip Notes PDF was created.

Import Clip Notes comments

1

Select the composition into which to import the Clip Notes comments.

This should be the composition from which you rendered the movie that was sent for comments. If you have
modified the composition since you rendered the movie for comments, the imported comments may not be
associated with the appropriate parts of the composition.

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