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About Mike_Abbott
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‎Jun 07, 2009
‎Mar 20, 2024
Mike_Abbott
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‎Feb 16, 2023
01:57 PM
AME Beta 23.3 (Build 35) fails to render AE Comp from: After Effects Composition previews fine in AE. After Effects com is one layer: an EXR image sequence, zip compression. OCIO colour management. Add Comp to Media Encoder wirks as expecetd. AME opens and item is added to the queue. On opening the Custom Settings window the visual preview shows as missing - ie: the color bar placeholder. If rendering is attempted the render completes - but with the color bar placeholder for every frame.
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‎Jan 24, 2023
08:38 AM
The export dialog 'Filename' and 'Location' should be one single entry: 'File name & Location' just like the one in the 'Quick export' panel. Reasons: 1. I can reference the existing file names on my system - 'click copying' them and then changing a few characters for a new version name update. 2. At the same time I am navigating to the appropriate save location. In summary: It's (much) easier, much faster, a common workflow and it works well. In comparison the current 22.2.x workflow means I need to: minimise PrPro to check the file names in the finder / explorer, copy them, paste them into the name box and edit them. Then click on the location button and navigate to the save folder and select that... Somehow you thought this new UI was an improvement??
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‎Jan 24, 2023
08:38 AM
It almost leaves you speechless. What a train wreck and what an attitude. Do you think it's a good idea to get your users to have to *manually type* a file name to save *without any way to reference the existing files on their system*?
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‎Jan 24, 2023
08:29 AM
1 Upvote
This is related to: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/41902426-maintain-folder-structures-on-import?page=1&per_page=20#:~:text=Maintain%20folder%20structures%20on%20import Not only has the above request been ignored for far too long, Adobe have compounded the issue with the new Import page. The new import page is useless for anyone who is organized. And that means just about any professional video editor. Why? When importing source material it is very likely the source material will have already been sorted into folders outside of Premiere, or be in a predefined folder structure which should be maintained. Can I do that in the new Import dialog? No. Premiere decides that any imported folder structure is not required and dumps everything into the project panel. If I have an exisiting folder structure that I import, I expect Premiere to maintain it. Let me spell this out: If the folder has multiple files in it - maintain it. If the folder has ONE file in it - maintain it. If the folder has NO files within it - maintain it.
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‎Jan 24, 2023
05:28 AM
Please fix this...
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‎Jan 24, 2023
04:36 AM
81 Upvotes
The menu commands 'Scale to Frame size' and 'Set to frame size' must win the award for the most badly named commands in Premiere Pro. I teach PrPro and they are almost guaranteed to generate a look of quizzical incredulity on any new users face when I tell them that the command with 'Scale' in its name doesn't adjust the scale parameter, but the one without 'Scale' in the name does... It's time to grab the bull by the horns and fix this. In addition... Frame sizes ain't what they used to be. 16x9 isn't the one and only. We have social media: Square formats, portrait formats, whatever format you like. These commands need flexibility for different formats. My suggestion: These commands are grouped under a 'Transform' sub menu as follows: 'Set to frame size' is broken down into three components, named as follows: Scale to Fit Frame Scale to Frame Width Scale to Frame Height and, as a fourth sub menu entry... 'Scale to frame size' becomes 'Resample to current size' ...and this works in a slightly different way to the current version: When 'Resample to current size' is selected, the content maintains its current visual size, but is internally resampled to 100% scale - with 100% showing is the Effects Controls > Motion > Scale property.
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‎Sep 28, 2022
03:08 AM
Running 3 monitors under Win 10. 3x Nvidia GPU's - 1070 Ti's. Main(#1) and #3 monitor plugged into GPU #1. #2 monitor plugged in to GPU #2 All working under Nvidia driver version: 416.34 I can get Mercury Transmit previews on monitor #3, but not on monitor #2.
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‎Aug 03, 2022
04:57 AM
It's great to see this finally arrive! So first of all - thank you : ) I teach AE, and have done so for a long time. One thing that I find new users sometime stumble over is that if the trackmatte is established and subsequently set back to 'none' - eg: the user 'made a mistake' - the matte layer visibility is not automatically turned back on - having been automatically turned off when the TrkMat was initially set. In my experience this quite often leaves the new user scratching their head - thinking, 'where's my matte layer gone'? I haven't fully thought through any consequences of this, but I wonder if setting the trackmatte back to none should revert the visibility of that layer back to 'visible'. Thoughts?
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‎Aug 01, 2022
04:03 AM
Still an issue. This is a very basic requirement for anyone working with image sequences. Please take action.
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‎Jun 26, 2022
12:29 PM
OK - 29 views, no answer : ) So I'll assume this isn't possible directly. However.... I'll try feeding the output of a laptop doing this into an audio interface on another machine and see if I can record it on that second machine.
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‎Jun 25, 2022
09:48 AM
I have a frequency sweep that has has been significantly 'pitch bent'. I want to manually scrub that sound file back and forth in the timeline - in the same way that a foley artist would watch the visuals of a movie and generate sound in time to the visuals on screen - but I want to record that output into a new file when I'm doing so. Possible?
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‎May 10, 2022
02:10 PM
I hope that fix includes combining the 'filename' and 'location' options into one unified 'filename & location' link - as it is in the 'Quick export' dialog. Or is the new Adobe UI approach 'why make it one click when you can make it two?'
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‎May 10, 2022
01:44 PM
I'm sorry to say that the new export dialog is a train wreck. This is one of the major issues. Please add your comment to an existing request here:
Mod note: Edited for content.
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‎Apr 12, 2022
02:31 PM
I'll reply to myself here... This issue persists. When I first posted above I was working on an older system and thought it may be an issue specific to that machine. I'm now on a brand new machine, new drives, clean windows install, latest AE installed - same issue I also have colleagues on other machines with this issue. Is Adobe aware of this bug and fixing it?
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‎Feb 13, 2022
03:58 AM
Thanks Jake - but sadly not. It's actually my posting that started that Creative Cow thread, but I didn't find an answer - hence my later post here. Clearly this is an edge case as it seems I'm the 'only one' with this issue.
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‎Feb 07, 2022
02:29 PM
In AE 2022 / Win10. Guys I have a rather odd situation that I'm getting in AE 2022 - across all projects: When I add an effect to a layer the ‘effects controls’ panel no longer auto-opens. The effect is applied and I can open the effects control panel manually via the windows menu or shortcut and all is as expected – it’s just that the panel doesn’t auto open when an effect is applied. The project panel just remains in focus. Anyone know what is going on here?
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‎Dec 21, 2021
02:36 PM
Nishu, Thanks for the response. It seems like I'm 'the only one' with this particular issue - so it looks like it's something specific to my set up. I am an experienced AE Instructor - and former Community Pro, so I've explored most of the obvious trouble shooting options at this point. I can work around it for the moment. Having established it's not a common issue I'll trouble shoot it in detail when I have time. Many thanks.
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‎Nov 28, 2021
11:34 PM
1 Upvote
In AE 2022.0.1 / Win10: When I add an effect to a layer the ‘effects controls’ panel no longer auto-opens. The effect is applied as expected but the project panel stays in focus. I can open the effects control panel manually via the windows menu or shortcut and all is as expected – it’s just that the panel doesn’t auto open when an effect is applied. I've reset prefs - no joy. I've done a full re-install - no joy, Anyone know what is going on here?
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‎Jan 03, 2021
06:21 AM
Thanks Rick - I have almost exactly the same set up to 'sync' across multiple machines. All my plugins / presets / scripts etc are on Dropbox and linked to the relevant folders. I've used this set up for years, not only with Ae, but other software as well. In fact it was doing a bit of holiday maintenance / cleanup that lead me to discover this oneDrive file path issue. I've now managed to find others with this same problem. It's clearly a Windows issue, not an Ae one. Don't I just love Microsoft...
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‎Jan 02, 2021
05:47 PM
I am really scratching my head over this... See the screenshot of the dialog below - Microsoft OneDrive has hijacked my default preset folder path - and whatever I do I can't get it back to the default - the path without \OneDrive\... I've disabled OneDrive, cleared Ae prefs, uninstalled / reinstalled Ae, used Creative Cloud cleaner... but no matter what I do, when I re-install AE it defaults back to creating the user preferences folders in the ...\OneDrive\... file path as shown above. Can anyone explain what is going on?
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‎May 29, 2020
01:03 PM
In that view you've uploaded you are looking at approximately 12 frames - half a second - of timeline. Are you sure that's not the problem?
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‎May 29, 2020
12:59 PM
1. Check your graphic card drivers are up to date.
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‎May 29, 2020
12:45 PM
1 Upvote
You'll need to do an expression 'layer space transform' here. Does that terminology mean anything to you?
Off the top of my head... try this expression on your magnify effect position:
layer = thisComp.layer("Null 1") layer.toComp([0,0,0])
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‎Apr 07, 2020
08:51 AM
I'm not aware of any - so I always number: 01, 02, 03, 04....
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‎Apr 04, 2020
04:03 PM
With the shape layer selected, click on the word 'Fill' - not the colour swatch itself.
A dialog will open with the various fill options - including one for 'None' - an icon with a diagonal red line through it.
Alternatively, you can twirl open the shape layer in the timeline, twirl open: Contents > 'shape' > and in there you'll find the 'Fill'. This can simply be deleted, or if you are uncertain about deleting it: look to the right of that line you'll find a visibility eyeball which can be clicked on to switch the fill visibility off.
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‎Apr 03, 2020
03:58 PM
In the extreme lower left corner of the interface there are three small icons. These control the visibility of certain sections of timeline controls - layer switches, blending modes, and duration / stretch.
I suspect they are all gray. Click the left or middle icon to make it blue (on).
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‎Mar 31, 2020
01:25 PM
Well, in your top screenshot - where the image seems to be filling the composition window at a reasonable size - your magnification is still set to 800%.
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‎Mar 31, 2020
09:32 AM
No problem - speed control with expressions is one of those areas that sounds simple, but as Dan describes in his pdf, it's anything but! If you're happy to mark the above answer correct, that would be appreciated.
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‎Mar 31, 2020
05:31 AM
Apply the following effect above your Twirl effect in the Effects Controls stack. Adjust the pixels value as required.
Effects > Utilities > Grow Bounds.
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