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Hello @The New Dawn
Thanks for posting about the issues you are seeing. We would need a bit more information to determine what the issues are.
- Expressions: Do you have an example of expressions that should have worked that were not working for you? Could you upload an example project with the issue and either share it via DM or here in this post?
- Animation disappearing: you mention it disappeared and had to be recreated. In what way did it disappear?
- Rendering to media encorder/render queue - c
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I was trying to follow this video first and it wasnt working which I found strange, because I followed it when I was really new at AE and I was able to do it. I then was relying on ChatGPT and we know it makes mistakes so I hope the codes above are correct.
Here are the expressions:
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * rotationFactor
[value[0] + thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider"), value[1]];
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * 10;
[value[0] + thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider"), value[1]];
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * time * 10;
time * effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * time;
time * thisComp.layer("Car Controller").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
time * effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * 10
As for the disaperaing animation, I dont see how I can capture that. A very large ending animation disapeard that I ha to recreate in my 15 second video and then the body of the car disappeared, but this could have been me and my frustrated state.
Video Url: https://youtu.be/wn6NoF-iB5c
This is of the Media Ecoder Render and AE Render
The AE render won't upload, it like a second long.
I started over and will not be using 2025 for awhile.
Hello @The New Dawn,
For the expressions, what was the error you were seeing? It would probably be benificial to rewatch the tutorial as some of these expressions I would expect to work in the context of what the video was demonstrating and others don't make sense. Example, if your project has a null layer named "Null 1" that has a slider control applied to it, your first expression would work. For your second, rotationFactor would have to be switched to a value or defined in the expression.
If you are newer to AE, people sometimes loose their animations when they click on the stop watch expecting to add a keyframe. If the stop watch is blue for a property, you are in a state where there is at least one keyframe. Clicking the stop watch again to make it go grey would remove any keyframes on that property which would require you to reanimate it.
For your export, it looks like you are creating a video based on your workarea. See the bracketted area in this image example:
Which results in the start and end values shown in the render queue when twirling open render settings:
You can adjust the time span by clicking on the blue text to the right of "Render Settings." In my example case that is "Best Settings."
It will show the following dialog where you can adjust the "Time Span" to "Length of Comp" or a custom subsection of your composition.
There is a very strong community for After Effects both here in the forums and in other locations like social media, reddit, etc where people are often more than happy to help people further their work in After Effects. Hope this has helped you a bit today, and happy animating.
All the best,
Jessica
AE Engineering
Hello @The New Dawn
Appologies for miscatogrizing your current experience level in AE, that was not my intention. We help folks of all backgrounds and not knowing exactly where someone is at, I try to make my responses accessible regardless of your current experience in the application.
Sorry you are still experiencing those issues with the update and that we couldn't resolve them here.
For the render output issue, perhaps this site will do a better job explaining than I did for how the work area affects your render output. The reason I believe it is your work area causing issues, is because in your video that you recorded, the work area looked like it was a very narrow slice of your composition. When you send the composition to the render queue, it is just rendering that defined slice instead of the whole composition.
How to Render Work Area in After Effects | aejuice.com
I can see where the phrasing for new version vs update can cause confusion, I will bring your feedback back to the team.
For After Effects, we continuely update the application, adding features and bug fixes, throughout the year. Years ago, our application would only push out bug fixes inbetween the major versions which were released in the fall. With our beta program, and pushing updates to release every few months, the style of bug fix only releases are rarer. The only time a version is a bug fix only update is if it is major_version.minor_version.dot_fix. Recently we pushed out the 25.0.0 release, which is what you have unfortunately experienced issues with. Generally, project file changes are restricted to this major version change, but all other changes could happen during and of the updates done throughout the year. For this most recent release, we did unfortunately have some bugs that we felt required a hot fix, so a 25.0.1 was released earlier this week. That is an example of a bug only version/update. Ideally we would never need to have a bug fix only release.
Once again, thank you for taking the time to post here. Hopefully some of this was helpful and/or informative, even if it didn't fully resolve the issues you were seeing in the new version.
All the best,
Jessica
AE Engineering
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