Which update are you trying to get? If the company has purchased CC, use their login info or have your IT guy take care of the install. ... View more

Biaia wrote: if this update doesn't works on trial, what's the point of a trial version existis? i can't use, and i'm trying so hard for a few days. First of all, the trial works on every current OS except Mavericks which was just released. The point of the 12.0.1 update is so that paying customers wouldn't have to wait. Paid customers have a working version and tomorrow Adobe will be releasing an update to AE (12.1.0) that will make the trial work for Mavericks too. Please have some patience; it is coming. If you're going to be an early adopter of a brand new OS, you have to expect there to be some issues here and there. It is the price you pay. If you're on the cutting edge, you will sometimes get cut. This is why many professional post houses are still running old versions of software on old operating systems. The current setup works and they don't have a break in their schedule that will let them test a new setup. ... View more

In order for this to get fixed, all of you need to file bug reports so that Adobe can figure out the problem and fix it. Please go here and file a report, giving as much information as you can. ... View more

PeterLanister wrote: Why Adobe has decided to put the codecs out of AE??? It´s kinda anoying to cue it on AME. I would like to do the rendering in AE and not have running another Program (AME) The render wont get faster and the ram is melting down. First of all, you can render h.264 out of AE - instructions for how to bring those codecs back are in the link already given in this thread. Also already given in this thread is the answer to your question. AE is NOT a good choice for making h.264. This has been mentioned several times. You would save yourself time and frustration if you were to read the thread before posting in it. ... View more

You'll note that Todd said that previously in this thread - in fact, it's sitting up top as the CORRECT answer to the original poster's problem. ... View more

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and it only works with NVIDIA cards. Installing CUDA drivers when you have an AMD card is only going to cause you problems. If I recall correctly, there was a thread about this exact situation causing a crash the other day. Edit: in case anyone didn't get it, the thread I mentioned is actually this very same thread. In fact, the answer to the question you just asked is the post that's marked "Correct" RIGHT AT THE TOP OF THIS THREAD ... View more

I think you're right. It was a great tool and I'm still mystified as to why it got ignored. I also agree that it's likely not an easy thing to bring back. With them pushing out new tools like the Roto Brush, Refine Matte, and the (in my opinion less-than-stellar) Ray Traced renderer, I can see how they wouldn't have time to bring back the old things. Again, this is an example of being made to push out cool new shiny things to try to entice us to upgrade rather than giving us the tools we actually need. I look forward to the new changes the subscription model is going to bring us where they will start focussing on keeping us happy. ... View more

How did you install them in the first place? ... View more

Should they have neglected the full functionality of Vector Paint in the move to 64-bit? Possibly not, but if they had received more feature requests, it would have recieved a higher priority to be reintroduced. the remote controller wrote: Whilst I'm quietly proud of such a long running thread, it is in fact a sad indictment against the a development team who pride themselves in being responsive and tuned in to the needs and feedback of their users. This forum thread is hardly an indication that Adobe is not listening. For one thing, this is a user-to-user forum, not an official way to contact Adobe. Secondly, this thread has had very few posts over the years compared to the vast size of Adobe's AE customer base. Thirdly, despite all of this, we're told that the AE team is working to re-introduce this functionality to a future version of AE. One bonus of this new subscription-based model is that they are now incentivized to make stuff that their customers need to be productive instead of shiny new features to try to woo us into upgrading to yet another new version every year. I believe the new features in the imminent update are a good example of this postive new move and the comments in this thread that they are bringing the functionality of Vector Paint in a future version is another good indication that they are listening. ... View more

dwh75 wrote: The issue is that Mavericks has been around in developer form for months -- plenty of time for Adobe to ensure basic compatibility. When it hit GM stage, that's like a gun going off at the start of a race. You should have been good to go by that point. What? No. Software for an OS only needs to be ready for the OS when the OS is released. There is no reason whatsoever to have it ready before the OS goes live. The whole purpose for the development stages (and GM is still a development stage) is for software developers to test their software and rewrite as needed to prepare for the new release. When the development versions of an OS are released, that's the first time Adobe gets to see it too! It takes time to write code! They have to make it work with the new OS without breaking the compatibility with old ones. So they are taking the time to test their software with the OS to make sure it works well. Also, there is no law requiring them to be ready the exact moment it goes live either. That's just a nice cherry on top. Good heavens, people! They have an update out for an OLD VERSION OF THEIR SOFTWARE that makes it compatible with a brand-new OS. We should be thanking them for going above and beyond instead of whining at them. ... View more

I don't quite understand what you're asking. Are you saying you want the hands to move relative to each other, but you want control over the speed at which they spin? If so, just tie the rotation of the minute hand and the second hand to the hour hand and keyframe the hour hand's rotation. ... View more

H.264 has decent audio codecs. What were the settings in the Adobe Media Encoder you used in the audio section for your final video? (You're not rendering the H.264 from After Effects, right?) ... View more

Well, something must be screwed up somewhere in your settings, but until we can see what your settings are, it'd just be guessing. I do know that rendering H.264 out of After Effects is not the best thing to do. You should render an intermediate (lossless) file out of AE and use the Adobe Media Encoder to make your H.264. That way you can use multi-pass encoding to get better-quality video. ... View more

Todd_Kopriva wrote: This is addressed in the After Effects CC (12.1) update, coming in October: http://adobe.ly/AE_CC_12dot1_details And I'm very grateful ... View more

Since you have a new problem, it would be best to make a new thread but link to this old one if it has relevant information. What, exactly, are you trying to do? ... View more

I was intrigued watching you guys track this one down. I nearly got popcorn. Satisfying ending too. Seriously though, thanks for all your hard work on bugs like this. ... View more

I'm looking forward to hearing about your experience with this process. My full-time job is in a similar situation and I'm considering pushing for us to get CC at work. ... View more

Glad you got it working. ... View more

trusso wrote: I see the 8 handles that surround it. If I click and drag, it is not maintaining the aspect ratio. Holding the shift key prevents me from doing anything. Well, then something is screwy on your machine. I tried applying that exact preset to some footage and grabbing one of the corner handles and using shift allows me to constrain the proportions. What exact version of AE are you running? 11.0.0? 11.0.1? Wait, 6GB of RAM? Why so little? ... View more

Instead of wrestling with a preset that you don't understand, simply mask your footage and scale it down to the size you want and use Roughen Edges to get the edge to have the frayed look you want. ... View more

What version of CS6 are you running? If it's anything earlier than 11.0.2, update it and see what happens. ... View more

Have you perhaps updated your graphics driver since the summer? If so, try rolling back to a previous version or install the latest version if you don't have it. ... View more

Please also file a bug report, Jumpymonkey. The more they get for an item, the higher priority it gets. ... View more

wolfpuncher wrote: In fact what does this "MVP+++" badge even mean? Mostly Valueless Post? The badge is given by the forum system based on the number of posts a user has made that have been marked helpful or correct by other forum users. Note that Mylenium has over 27,000 posts on the Adobe forums, many of which (especially dealing with very technical things with After Effects) are extremely useful. I know of nobody better at troubleshooting program issues. And, in this case, his post is a workaround we have to use until Adobe gives the option to disable scroll wheel zooming. It is not unhelpful or insulting; it is the only solution (besides sending in a feature request, which everyone with this issue should do). The AE team is very small and therefore has to prioritize fixes based on number of users effected and the severity of the fix. wolfpuncher wrote: The joys of a lazy company running the monopoly on creative software. Should Adobe put more resources to the After Effects team so that they can deal with issues like this? I think so. It's atrocious that the Photoshop team is so large compared to the After Effects team, considering that After Effects does most of the same stuff as Photoshop with the added complexity of video standards, codecs, animation, etc. I'm amazed that AE works as well as it does considering the small team that's working on it. While you may consider Adobe lazy, please don't think of the AE team as such. Whenever I've dealt with them, I've found them to be very passionate about their work and dedicated to making a quality product as best they can. ... View more

The value in X is just whatever value the layer already has. You'd just put it where you want it on the x and let the expression move it up. ... View more