After Effects & Newton

[frankmaherae]

Hi there,

This is probably a silly question and I'm still learning but I wonder if anyone could help me with saved settings on Newton in after effects.

I've noticed that if I save settings within Newton (after doing a bit of work with joints etc.) but if if you then later change something within the AE composition it seems it won't recognise those changes and so you have to reopen Newton again from after effects and redo the work on joints etc. Is there any way around this such that Newton would update in any way to recognise the changes subsequently made in AE or do you just have to make sure that everything in AE is perfect before you start tinkering inside Newton?

Any help much appreciated,

Frank

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

This is nothing you can change. There are simply limitations on how plug-ins and scripts can work in AE, even more so ones like Newton that use their own custom UI. Arguably this could be worked around by storing some custom data in expressions, layer markers or invisible property streams applied with a dummy effect, but that's entirely up to the developers and until such features are implemented you have to adapt your workflow to indeed optimize your setups to the final layout before entering Newton and letting it do its thing.

Mylenium

[frankmaherae]

Thank you Mylenium! Appreciate the help