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Phi.Def
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Phi.Def
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May 01, 2024
11:06 AM
I've just purchased the plugin on your recommendation. So how does this work? You rename the comp (breaking the expressions temporarily), and then use the Global Renamer to search/replace the new comp name into all the expressions?
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Apr 28, 2024
01:28 PM
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Is it just me or does it seem absurd that they discontinued the service, but didn't provide an automatic removal of the sidebar icon to the non-existent cloud folder??
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Sep 29, 2023
10:39 AM
Translated from English: 1) Abra o modelo no After Effects. 2) Remova os códigos de expressão das propriedades de cores. 3) Defina as cores manualmente 4) Exporte um novo modelo.
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Mar 16, 2023
11:55 AM
It took a bit of exploring, but I finally got it. The answer (for anyone else with this problem in the future) is turning on "Disable Environment" in the main object settings (screenshot below).
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Mar 16, 2023
10:58 AM
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I'm using VC Element to add a virtual environment to a green screen shot. I want to control the lighting on the 3D scene to match the studio lighting set up, but I can't seem to get rid of some ambient light on the 3D objects even with all my AE comp lights turned off. I've got the element settings: use comp lights (on), add lighting (none), shadows (enabled). In the Element scene set up, I've turned off any object with an illumination value, and turned the "ambient" material value to 0. I've tried with both the Classic and Cinema 4D renderer. No matter what, the object never gets completely black when I turn off the AE comp lights (although they do increase the light on the object when turned on). Any ideas on what I should do? Thanks!
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Feb 28, 2023
02:00 PM
I've looked around for an answer to this one, but I can't find one. I want to use two text animators on one piece of text, usually no problem. In this case I want the first animator to make the characters to fly in individually, and the second to make the words dance around on screen. To get the characters to animate in, I need to use character-based anchor point grouping, but to have the words dancing around I need to use word-based anchor point grouping. Unfortunately, the setting for anchor point grouping is outside the animators and applies to all animators on the layer universally. Is there a way around this? Thanks!
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Jan 19, 2023
01:00 PM
@DaciaSaenz Thanks for the response! That's interesting. So with your workaround, I could add any needed camera/light/background properties to the essential graphics panel in order to do the many versions needed (as is the whole point of using the essential graphics panel to begin with). The only problem is that, what I need to do is not simply create multiple versions with a single instance of the precomp in each, but I actually wanted multiple instances of the precomp (the 3D objects) appearing simultaneously and casting their shadows on each other in the same main comp (each with a variety of individually adjusted and animated properties). So this would only work if my precomp contained the maximum number of 3D objects I wanted to use at any given time, and I added a lot of controls in the essential graphics panel to control and animate the many parameters of each. I guess it's still theoretically a workaround, but it's much heavier, more complex, and more labour than would be needed if this functioned as expected. Please update me if you get any more information about this. Thanks!
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Jan 13, 2023
09:01 AM
Anyone? Is this a bug?
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Jan 13, 2023
08:59 AM
Anyone? Is this another bug?
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Jan 13, 2023
08:57 AM
In case anyone's interested Adobe has now identified this as a bug. No timeline on when that's expected to be fixed.
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Jan 12, 2023
08:44 AM
I created a mogrt in After Effects, which needs to be used by an editor in Premiere. The media replacement works fine when used as a comp with essential properties in AE, but doesn't work properly when imported into Premiere. Keyframed motion I apply to the replaced footage (such as increasing scale over time) is not rendering properly in the main sequence. The animated motion either begins and stops, or jumps around. The mogrt file uses protected regions in order to preserve the durations of the start and end animation, while allowing the editor to change the total duration. I'm unable to attach a mogrt file type to this message, so here's a download link. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Thanks!
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Jan 12, 2023
08:38 AM
I have a mogrt imported into Premiere which I created in After Effects. Keyframed motion I apply to the replaced footage (such as increasing scale over time) is not rendering properly in the main sequence. The animated motion either begins and stops, or jumps around. The mogrt file uses protected regions in order to preserve the durations of the start and end animation, while allowing the editor to change the total duration. I'm unable to attach a mogrt file to this message, so here's a download link. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Thanks!
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Jan 11, 2023
03:38 PM
That's a lot of folders to memorize and click through whenever I need a mogrt. I don't use mogrts myself, they're always being created to send to an editor. That would be a very awkard place to have to go get them.
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Jan 11, 2023
11:45 AM
I managed to get a good mogrt export again. I don't know what fixed it, but I restarted my computer, kept Premiere closed, and export the mogrt to my desktop (instead of a folder which was constantly syncing with dropbox). Then I closed the AE project before opening Premiere.
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Jan 11, 2023
10:37 AM
I was working on exporting a mogrt so that I didn't get the "media offline" when importing into Premiere. I simplified it significantly, export it and on V3 it worked. Then I didn't change anything in AE except the mogrt name (from "V3" to other names) and I started getting the media offline screen again!
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Jan 05, 2023
08:53 AM
As an update, I've recreated the problem with no rigging at all, so I don't see how this can possibly be a rigging issue. The project file is attached. This project file simply has one (3D) shape layer in a precomp by itself. The rectangle path size property is an essential graphics property of the precomp. That's it - super simple. When this essential property is adjusted in the main comp, the shape is affected as expected, but the shadow is not. (Project file of above screenshots is attached.) I need to understand this problem and figure out a workaround in a much more complex project. Please help!
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Jan 04, 2023
01:28 PM
If you need anything else, please let me know. The most recently attached project file is extremely simple. The functioning of the two essential properties are very obvious. You can recreate the problem in four easy steps: Create a new comp (1920×1080, name “Precomp”). Add a new shape layer with a centred, 400×400, blue-filled rectangle (turn on: 3D layer checkbox, "accepts shadows" in the material options, and set layer Z position to -400). Drag the rectangle path size property to the essential graphics panel properties for "Precomp". Create a new comp (1920x1080, name "Main"), add: a camera a point light (casts shadows: on, Z position behind camera) the precomp (turn on collapse transformations and 3D layer checkboxes.) a red solid background (turn on 3D layer checkbox and "accepts shadows" in the material options) Adjusting the rectangle size essential property changes the shape of the blue box, but the shadow does not correctly reflect changes from the default values. Thanks again, I really really appreciate the help!
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Jan 04, 2023
08:18 AM
Thanks for your response. I have created a new, extremely simple version of the project file (attached) with no roughen edges or posterizeTime(), and only a single precomp with a single shape layer within it, so it is extremely easy to see what's going on. Adjusting the "dimensions" essential property affects the box as expected, but the shadow doesn't follow suit. Adjusting the "Scale" and "Z Pos" essential properties seem to work fine though. It may have something to do with the way it's rigged, although with this simpler project it's harder to imagine what that could be. If I can understand exactly why this isn't working, I may be able to figure out a workaround and alternative rigging. If you could take a look and help me make sense of it, I would be very grateful. Thanks again!
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Jan 04, 2023
07:17 AM
I spoke too soon! Changing the render engine solves the one problem but introduces another! Now the essential properties of the precomp don't adjust individually. If I change them in on one instance of the precomp, it changes them in all instances. Still need help! Anyone?
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Jan 04, 2023
06:53 AM
For anyone who encounters this thread in the future, I've got a solution. It took a day for Adobe tech support to come up with it, and I'm not sure why it fixes the issue, but it does. Solution, switch the renderer (dropdown in bottom right corner of the composition panel) to Cinema 4D. (Doing so changes the way the lighting looks, so re-adjustment will be necessary.) That's it! Anyone have any idea why this works and why the problem exists using the classic renderer?
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Jan 03, 2023
02:36 PM
I've attached a solids-only, media-free, reduced version of the project. Adjusting the scale property works fine, but the dimensions property changes only the object, not the shadow. Please take a look. Thanks!
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Jan 03, 2023
11:51 AM
Help please! I'm really stuck with this one. I've put a lot of time into building this monster template. Thanks! I've added a screenshot of what's inside the top precomp.
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Jan 03, 2023
06:22 AM
Does anyone know why this is happening? Should I contact Adobe support?
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Jan 02, 2023
04:17 PM
This may be a bug, but I'm hoping someone has a solution. I have a precomp with 3D layers using essential graphics (so I can create multiple versions). In my main comp, I have the camera and light. The shadow cast by the object in my 3D layer doesn't change accordingly when I alter some of the essential properties from their original default values (although, oddly, it does change accordingly when I change other essential properties). Here are some screen shots to illustrate. My main comp is "Opening Title Animation" and my precomp is "Ripped Paper Generator". Here's the main comp with the problem essential properties ("dimensions"and "random seed") set to default, but other essential properties adjusted ("paper scale" and "main paper z pos"). Here the shadow has correctly adjusted along with the parameters: Here's the comp with the problem properties adjusted from their defaults ("dimensions" and "random seed"). The shadow has not changed. Also, here's a shot of what's inside the precomp: Attached is a solids-only, media-free, reduced version of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Dec 28, 2022
10:54 AM
Awesome! Thanks again!
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Dec 28, 2022
09:12 AM
Hey again, I'm needing this same kind of expression again, this time to generate a feed scrolling up a phone screen with a wiggling speed (ie. smoother than new random speeds on each frame). Since, as you noted, specifying the random seed at the beginning of the expression means the same random results are generated on every frame, I assumed the following code would generate the correct results with the scrolling always moving upwards and never downwards. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case; it seems as though the wiggle returns different results on every frame. Any idea why? seedRandom(effect("Random Seed")("Slider"),true);
t = 0;
count = effect("Scroll Start yPos")("Slider");
while (t < time){
pps = effect("Scrolling Animation Speed")("Slider").wiggle(3,effect("Scrolling Animation Speed")("Slider")/2);
sec = 1/pps;
t += sec;
count++;
}
count
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Dec 20, 2022
08:53 AM
I see. So that means the sequence of random numbers generated by the while loop must be the same every frame, is that right? I was assuming that the random numbers would be different each time, which would mean that on frames when the while loop happened to generate a series of high random numbers (after previously having generated a series of low random numbers), characters already on screen in the previous frame would disappear. I guess I just don't know how random number generation works.
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Dec 20, 2022
06:14 AM
Hey Dan, Thanks for that! It's great. I've just been analyzing it to figure out how it works, and it appears that the expression must remember the count value from the previous frame, is that right? So, it doesn't re-execute the count = 0 with each new frame, right? I'm surprised by this. Is there a simple way of understanding which parts of the code are run fresh at each new frame, and which aren't? Thanks again!
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Dec 19, 2022
02:09 PM
I thought maybe this would work (getting the value from the previous frame and adding one), but it doesn't. The resulting character index never gets above 1.
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Dec 19, 2022
01:46 PM
Hi, I'm trying to have my text type on, but I want it to seem more natural with the appearance of each next character taking a different amount of time. I want this same effect across many different versions and pieces of text (of varying length) in a large project, so I want to do this using an expression rather than keyframes. I wrote the following expression on the start range selector of an opacity text animator (set to character index rather than %), but as soon as I leave the expression editor, After Effects crashes. I've got a slider with a wiggling speed value, and the idea was that an additional character would appear on screen if the speed value at any time would require it. I think the problem is the while command. Unfortunately, I can't just multiply the speed value by time, because then as the wiggling speed value decreases, some characters that have already appeared disappear. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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