JasonDD210
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‎Aug 27, 2024
04:29 AM
Thanks. Yes, but did you use an external file from disk to play inside the graphic? I managed to do that also, but it's not ideal.
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‎Aug 26, 2024
02:41 PM
Thanks, can you show me how to make that into a mask, with a border also, the flippin' fast and easy way? Because that is where I used the paint bucket. I did take a look at the mask option in the EG, but it appears you can only use elements within the EG with it. There is a "file" option which kind of works, but it would be much more powerful if you could use an imported asset or subsequence in there. Then I can continue with a project with some consistency.
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‎Aug 26, 2024
03:26 AM
It's infuriating that you removed the paint bucket effect like that. That was part of a workflow I used for making borders around graphics and images, together with a mask. And now you just take it away when I'm the middle of project with a deadline. So now you guys actually take away our options with new updates actually, which translates into you taking take away our value. That's rich. Yeah I'm sure there's another long and complicated solution for getting rounded corner windows on images, but I really feel like I do not have the time or energy to solve a problem that Adobe created for me.
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‎Feb 09, 2024
11:52 AM
It it were "simple", there wouldn't be an issue. That's the whole point of good UX design. You should not have to think. I mean, I could take the door handles in your home, remove them, and put them on backwards. Then you'd have to lift them to open the doors, instead of pushing them down. Simple, right? Or may be we could move the light switches around in your home, while you're at work. Just for the hell of it. I mean, it wouldn't take you long to find them would it? It's...simple, they' re just here, instead of there. I guess it bothers some of us.
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‎Feb 09, 2024
10:41 AM
When the end user is no longer the primary consideration in UX design...happening everywhere. Just look at what they are trying to do with Acrobat.
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‎Dec 20, 2023
02:20 PM
2 Upvotes
Thanks for explaining where they hid it.
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‎Sep 12, 2023
11:02 AM
What would be good is if we could remove Acrobat from CC and get a reduction in the subscription fee.
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‎Sep 12, 2023
10:58 AM
1 Upvote
Why does Adobe completely redsign Acrobat's GUI every few years? The only effect it has on me is to slow down production. Now, instead of getting on with my work, I have to spend time looking for things and thinking about the interface. Like figuring out what's behind the rich tool tip (or whatever it is) that just popped up, hiding important content. Or figuring out how to turn off these things off in the preferences which are equally confusing. And wondering why you just decided to swap the positions of the pages and tools. And so on. A complete waste of my time. One of the basic tenets of UI design is "Don't make me think", but it seems the Adobe has gone out of its way to do just that. I shan't swear, because I'll get into trouble for doing so...but that's how frustrated I feel right now. I already know what you're going to say in response, so don't bother responding, Adobe person. This is a rhetorical whine! Also, if this product wasn't included in my subscription, I would not buy it. I'd look at alternatives. Seriously. I might just do that anyway. I mean, if I'm going to invest my time in learning a new inteface, I might as well do so with a product from a company who doesn't jerk its customers around with impunity.
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‎Jan 01, 2023
11:26 PM
Where was this hidden setting? I just discovered 90 GB of trash on my SSD this morning.
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‎Jan 01, 2023
12:02 PM
I exported some button graphics from an Illustrator drawing of a UI. These buttons use a rounded bevel. There are six transparent PNGs to go on top of them with differnt icons. I put these together in XD to make six button components. They look like this:
Now all I want to do is set the all of them to 60% transparency, and go to 100% when I hover over one, just so we can see something interactive happening. However, it seems we can't set the transparency for just the hover state. When I change transparency, it's changing the default state also.
I have researched this problem, and followed the advice of selecting the elements inside the component and not the component itself, to no avail. It's a pity, because so far I have not had to think using this app...and it allowed me to get quite far quite quickly. All that is progress is now undone by being stuck for hours on what appears to be a poor implementation of something that should be simple.
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‎Dec 31, 2022
07:58 AM
1 Upvote
I've noticed it too. My guess is that those who are rude and arrogant don't help out of kindness, but out of a need to boost their egos.
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‎Dec 30, 2022
09:10 AM
I know it doesn't matter. I was just curous how this is generally done professionally, especially since Adobe have been stripping features like this out of Premiere. At one time I used to be able to add vector shapes and arrows and so on in Premiere but it seems they are moving away from that and want you to do it all in After Affects now. I don't see my suggesion as making the workflow as complicated. To make a dynamic link to an existing Premiere project, then add all the text in After Effects with presets, then render, strikes me as being a good separation of tasks. I don't work with this professionally, but this approach was what I came up with.
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‎Dec 30, 2022
06:00 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks. I guessed there'd be something like that.
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‎Dec 30, 2022
05:45 AM
Excellent thank you.
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‎Dec 30, 2022
05:25 AM
It seems that I need to use opacity to fade text in and out in After Effects. Since this is something I'm going to be doing a lot of in the same video, what's the best approach, so I don't have to keep repeating myself?
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‎Dec 30, 2022
05:23 AM
Say I want to add text to video, like credits, titles and then text inside the video etc. I used to do this in Premiere, but now I want to do it with After Effects. What is the recommended workflow? Should I use a dynamic link from After Effects to the completed Premiere Pro document, and then add everything needed? If so, what is the best way to render everything?
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‎Dec 30, 2022
04:37 AM
Thanks. I actually thought of doing that, but didn't because I assumed that was what Basic Paragraph was for. Can you explain why we shouldn't use Basic Paragraph?
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‎Dec 30, 2022
04:23 AM
So did someone decide to go back to 30 fps because it's a round number, and because old broadcasting systems and televisions are no longer used much?
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‎Dec 30, 2022
04:20 AM
I think what may have happened is that I didn't inherit Basic Paragraph style on all of the paragraph styles when I made them. If I had done that at the start I could have just made the change in the Basic style. Is there a way to remove any overrides at this level?
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‎Dec 30, 2022
02:59 AM
Thanks for the help. No I didn't try the script. However, the fact that you actaully may need to use a script for this gave me clue as to what the problem was. In the end I went through every paragraph style individually and force the language setting to be English. All the styles inherit from [Basic Paragraph], but I guess this language setting had been overridden at some point. Anyway, it took about an hour of my time to figure all this out. It should be a simple task in my opinion. This put me in such a bad mood that I stopped working for the day. In future I'll have to make sure I approach language in a way that is easy to change.
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‎Dec 30, 2022
02:56 AM
I notice that amongst the presents offered for making a new composition, there is a category called social media and they are all 30 fps. Why is this? Thanks.
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‎Dec 29, 2022
08:32 AM
None of the options work for me. It is stuck in another language, even though it's written in English. Whenever I check the spelling, it goes back to Swedish which I was using before.
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‎Dec 29, 2022
08:30 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks. But what a convoluted mess just to change the language!
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‎Dec 27, 2022
07:52 AM
Thanks. As an example, I have an animated bouncing ball, going from left to right across the screen, that deforms as it hits the ground. So far this is trivial. However, if the ball has a pattern on it, it needs to be shown as spinning. There is where I am stuck, as I do not know how to approach this problem in After Effects. In a 3D application, I'd put the spinning ball in a container, then deform the container by animating its scale as it hit the gound. What would be the best way to do this in After Effects?
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‎Dec 27, 2022
07:11 AM
Thanks. I guess a way round it would be to just add a layer done in another application, such as Photoshop.
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‎Dec 27, 2022
06:47 AM
I often find myself wanting to sketch on top of a composition with my tablet so I know where things are going to be before I animate. This sketch would then be discarded. Is there an easy way to do this in After Effects? I have a simplwe Wacom tablet.
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‎Dec 27, 2022
03:25 AM
1 Upvote
Some animation programs allow you to put an animation in a container, then animate the container. For example, in 3D Studio Max, this used to be called Xform. Is there anything like this in After Effects?
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‎Dec 20, 2022
06:20 AM
Double-sided means a spread. I've edited the question.
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‎Dec 20, 2022
05:54 AM
Is there a way we can automatically make an interactive PDF display a spread on desktop but just single pages on a mobile?
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‎Dec 13, 2022
09:42 AM
That's exactly what I wanted. Thanks. It's for a ships telegraph dial.
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