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samtgarner
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September 9, 2020
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Effects Stop working at exactly 22 seconds

  • September 9, 2020
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I really hope someone can help me with this. I'm putting together ananimation and I'm applying a hand-drawn effect to the linework. I'm doing this on an adjustment layer above all the layers I want to change. At exactly 22 seconds (I've tried it on a few Comps), the effect stops working and just freezes, Has anyone else had this issue and fixed it?

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    Correct answer Casey22160605haqa

    This is the best video for this issue: https://youtu.be/AEMuhZINkaY?si=s8pWOn6wf9XTWoh1


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    Casey22160605haqaCorrect answer
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    January 25, 2024

    This is the best video for this issue: https://youtu.be/AEMuhZINkaY?si=s8pWOn6wf9XTWoh1


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      Vincent38344675w18a
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      June 30, 2024

      This is the right answer. "Exactly at 22 seconds" might be different from user to user depending on exactly what your expression is. The real limitation is ± 91 rotations and 8 degrees, or a ± 32768 total degrees. This is due to a limitation of the data type used to store the value of the evolution property (15 bits for absolute value and 1 bit for ± sign).

      Now that you know that, work around that in the way that's best for you. You could use this to make the value "wrap" back to 0 once it goes beyond 32768, which will probably work as expected for most cases:

      value % 32768

       

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      Vincent38344675w18a
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      June 30, 2024

      Also, this is a bug in After Effects. Requiring users to modulo their values by a power of 2 is leaking implementation details (which could change later). The wrapping should be built in.

      nishu_kush
      nishu_kush
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      September 9, 2020

      Hi samtgarner,

       

      Thanks for reaching out. We've got your back.

      It sounds like an issue with a media or an effect applied to a layer. To find out that layer, try turning the layers off one by and see if still freezes when you go to 22 seconds. If that doesn't work, try importing this project into a new one and see if that brings any change.

      Let us know how it goes.

       

      Thanks,

      Nishu

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        samtgarnerAuthor
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        September 14, 2020

        It was how the effect was working. I had put a time expression to a turbulent displace effect on the adjustment layer to create a hand drawn effect effect, I found if I moved that expression to the random seed rather than the evolution it fixed the issue.


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          LeandroMazzochi
          LeandroMazzochi
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          September 18, 2021

          Thanks!

          I had the same problem with that effect and this fixed it!

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