Since we don't know your capabilities/knowledge level, I'll start off with a basic question: Do you know how to properly set the work area? If your work area is set to 7 seconds, that's what it'll render, regardless of comp length. ... View more

100% in agreement with Gutter-Fish. We're happy to help you try to solve your issue, but we can only work with the information you provide us. Please go back and work through some of the questions I gave in my last post - they will help us assess what's happening with your system. ... View more

I'm on Windows, but I can confirm this working (actual) full-screen on both Win7 and 10. ... View more

I will verify that this will indeed give you an actual fullscreen preview, with none of the AE UI. This only works while actually running the preview though, not while working. ... View more

Is this happening with ANY PSD, or just one specific one? ... View more

Hmmm. Couple thoughts off the top of my head. 8GB isn't much in the way of RAM as far as AE is concerned, but it shouldn't be causing an issue like this. So, you're saying you're having the same issue in an older version of AE as well? Is this happening with one specific image, or any image? Are you able to do other tasks in AE, or is doing *anything* locking it up? Have you previously been able to do things in AE, and now you can't? Or this has been your experience from the beginning? Have you checked to see if your video card drivers are up to date? Do you appear to be having any other display or RAM-related issues? In AE, under Preferences > Memory, what are the settings like in there? It looks like you've only got one hard drive - is it super full? Try Edit > Purge > All Memory and Disk Cache. Any improvement after that? ... View more

Can you post your machine specs? ... View more

The Repeater Shape Layer effector is the same place it's always been - in this little flyout menu. ... View more

Here you go; another opinion from another ACP. Take the advice given above. ... View more

One piece of software can't possibly be designed to handle every possible scenario, particularly when an easy solution already exists in a companion program. If it's such a simple feature to implement, as your post implies, feel free to create a 3rd-party script solution that lets users easily import svg graphics. ... View more

Adam Plouff (creator of RubberHose) just released Overlord, and it is everything. ... View more

Had you been using AE successfully before this project? ... View more

When dealing with 3d layers, you have to pay attention to the Z-position of every layer, as well as their rotation, or else things may start intersecting. You can adjust a layer's Z position to see if that helps fix your issue, as DJ suggested. Since you're just dealing with a simple appearance here, you can then adjust scale to compensate. There is also a workaround to force the layers to render as you would expect them to in a 2d comp. If you insert a 2d adjustment layer between the layers that are intersecting, it should break the intersection. (This can introduce other issues, though, if you're trying to really take advantage of the 3d capabilities.) ... View more

No worries. Hope your project turned out ok! It always seems like these things rear their heads when you have the least time to deal with them... ... View more

Also, per my instructions above, you've changed the wrong thing. This setup will work in some instances, but if you have anything else in your comp, it will often not work as intended. Set the text layer's mode back to Normal. Set the Track Matte (the next dropdown to the right) of the layer with the waveform effect (Black Solid 9 in Luann's project) to Alpha Matte. If you're wanting to see the text as well as the waveform, you could duplicate the text layer and place it below the waveform layer. Using the Set Matte effect will keep you from having the second instance of your text effect, but you then need to be more careful about layer transforms, as those can make Set Matte behave unpredictably if you don't have a full understanding of how it works. ... View more

The AI to AE pipeline can be finicky at times if you don't know all of its quirks. There are a variety of things that don't transfer over, most notably opacity and blending modes. If you imported layers at layer size and made any changes to the original AI file that would alter layer dimensions, the anchor point and position will technically be the same in AE, but will look different. You have to keep in mind that those properties are somewhat relative (position is dependent on anchor point, and anchor point is dependent on the layer size), so changing anything after the fact can lead to undesired results. You said you haven't changed anything in the AI file, though.... If you re-import the original AI file into a new comp (let's go with document size this time, just to be safe), and apply some of the same effects... what happens? If you can get it working as expected like this, you might be able to do a quick rebuild by just bringing in the "broken" parts like this, and parenting them to the old versions (which have the right values, but don't look right any longer - correct?) Do you maybe have another version of the same file (with same name) that AE might actually be linking to? One other thought - if you're using precomps and the Collapse Transformations switch, that can lead to trouble, especially when mixed with certain effects. Is this the case? If so, it might be helpful to turn off all your effects, and troubleshoot one-by-one to see if it's actually one of those that's causing your troubles. If none of these is the answer, would you be able to post some screenshots? ... View more

I'm with Rick. I'm guessing you're running into a problem based on render order, or the specific way the other fx you're using deal with edges. I'd look at stacking things differently, perhaps try moving the Motion Tile to another layer (even just another Adjustment layer) to see if you can find your way around the issue. Try turning the other fx in the stack on/off to see which one is ultimately causing the problem. Also, I see your expressions are still broken? Are you using some kind of preset that you've accidentally deleted the controllers for? This could certainly also have something to do with it, as it may no longer be properly calculating the proper offset, etc. ... View more

FX Console 4 Lyfe ... View more

Which of us are you asking? ... View more

I love using text layers for this kind of stuff, but there are two 3rd party solutions for warping layers along a path. Omino Snake, mentioned above, and then a fairly new plug-in named Bao Boa, which does the same thing as Snake, but is objectively better in every way, IMO. ... View more

Yeah, it's kind of difficult to figure out what you're aiming for. If you can post from screenshots or even your project, I'll be happy to help out. ... View more

Depending on how things are set up, it might also be worth looking at the Set Matte effect. Since you can now specify whether effects with a layer parameter take effects/masks into account, you may be able to solve your problem without precomping. ... View more

Time Remapping is a bit of an oddity. If you have no Time Remapping keyframes, you don't have access to the property. (I assume it's still accessible through a scripting interface, but that's probably beyond the scope of what you're asking.) For what it's worth, it's [otherwise] totally possible to save an expression-only preset, though that creates kind of a catch-22 here. Could you... create the preset using the 0 frame keyframe + expression? ... View more

Is your viewer set to a lower resolution? Are you zoomed way in? ... View more

Heh. Nothing stupid about the question. It's hardly the most intuitive thing.  ... View more