Hey flabbie, is the object jumping in C4D too? ... View more

Actually when I overclocked the 6800k from 3.4 to 4.2 I really did notice a good improvement. I wonder what would it be to have the 7700k overclocked. I can't find any useful information in Internet though. ... View more

What if you put your solid layer on top of your footage? ... View more

Never used a Render Farm for After Effects sorry. A new drive wouldn't slow down anything I think. If you have a slot in your pc for an extra drive and if you think you need it just go for it. ... View more

Just leave it open yes. There are lot of stuff there I know. You want to look at 'Utilization' (there you see your cpu cores and the percentage. When you render the percentages increase. One of your core should bump to 100 percent or so). Further down you should have your NVIDIA GeForce infos. Also in 'Utilization' --> GPU you should see how much GPU you are using. Mine usually stays very low. You can ignore the rest. You can see how this parameters change when you render with Premiere, Cinema4D or any other software. ... View more

Hi animationlife, this is what I know. But I'm not an expert! I don't know if you can mix your Ram. I personally have two sets of 16GB. If you want to test your pc and if you have your old pc with you, just try to render the same sequence with your old and the new machine and compare. What are your old pc specifications? AE is not going to use all your cpu cores, so it's better to have a high cpu clock speed (your cpu runs at 4.2ghz which is really good) rather then a lower clock speed but more cores. So the first thing you want to look is your old cpu clock speed. If you download a software like HWMonitor you can see how much your cores work while rendering. You should see there is one core making all the hard work and the other cores working less intensely. HWMonitor also tells you how much GPU you are using. There are some effects that now are working on your GPU (fractal noise, fast blur, levels and others... ). In the features we are all hoping to see AE using more cores and GPU. I bought a pc with the i7-6800k cpu recently, which runs at 3.4ghz. Then I realized the 4.2ghz i7-7700k cpu, which is what you have, would have been better for AE. If you want to test your pc outside AE, I think there are some benchmarks you can do. Don't know very much about this. ( If you want to increase your cpu performance you can overclock your cpu, but here you need some expert help. And I'm not an expert. I overclocked mine from 3.4ghz to 4.2ghz and I really see some improvement here. You could mildly overclock your cpu too. There are some pro and cons in overclocking, so get a lot of information first and help from someone who knows how to do it! Your pc would use more power, it would get hotter and less stable too... so you have to know what you are doing.) Hope this helps you. Hopefully someone else joins this discussion. ... View more

I have the nvidia gtx1060 and I think it's more than enough for Ae,  Premiere and Photoshop. I would go for the 32gb of ram. That processor is perfect. In a custom build pc you could overclock it (to 4.8ghz maybe), don't know if you can do that with a dell pc. ... View more

Mate, you have to use the warp stabilizer first and then the 3d camera tracker. You want to track the camera on the stabilized clip. ... View more

You can find here what the Stroke effect is and how it works: Generate effects in After Effects If you want to draw a line simply use the pen tool instead (you can find it in the top left corner of After Effects between the square and the T). ... View more

Show us the expression! ... View more

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Hi Ann Bens, you mean from a third party plugin I have installed for example? So.. I should just leave the warning there and not worry about it, shouldn't I? ... View more

Hi Kevin, I really appreciate your reply. I'll be waiting for the bug to be fixed. Thanks again! ... View more

This could help: True Comp Duplicator - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com ... View more

Mmh.. If you don't want it to move and rotate, try to link it to the camera. Otherwise if you just want it to face the camera try to use the lookAt expression: lookAt(fromPoint, atPoint) Return type: Array [3]. Argument type: fromPoint and atPoint are Arrays [3]. The argument fromPoint is the location in world space of the layer you want to orient. The argumentatPoint is the point in world space you want to point the layer at. The return value can be used as an expression for the Orientation property, making the z-axis of the layer point at atPoint. This method is especially useful for cameras and lights. If you use this expression on a camera, turn off auto-orientation. For example, this expression on the Orientation property of a spot light makes the light point at the anchor point of layer number 1 in the same composition: lookAt(position, thisComp.layer(1).position) Could be? ... View more

Well you can track the camera with AE, Mocha or Cinema4d. The problem is the 3d object. What about the object tracker feature in Cinema 4d? Cinema 4D R18 Object Tracker Test - YouTube Don't know much about it but looks like it's what you need. Could be? ... View more

You can use Mocha for planar tracking: Videos « Imagineer Systems 'mocha AE CC is licensed by Adobe and ships free inside After Effects Creative Cloud.This free version is launched from within AE and features mocha’s planar tracking and masking functions, limited to support for After Effects Creative Cloud.' There is an out of focus shot there, so you'll probably have to adjust it manually. ... View more

If you're talking about the plugin it doesn't work for me. Render time is exactly the same. I did a test on a 1hour render. I have a i7 6800k 6core cpu. ... View more

No idea. You can try to delete the preferences. Hold these keys while opening after effects: Control+Alt+Shift ... View more

It's great for 3Dmax Maya and Cinema4d! They should ve able to use all your cores! Not so great foe Ae in my opinion, sorry. I did the same mistake when I purchased a 3.4hgz 6cores cpu, instead of buying a 4.2ghz 4 core, which it would have been cheaper and faster with Ae. I hope the software will be more multicore friendly in the future. ... View more

I think you should turn the motion blur off. Turn it on just when you render your animation. It would really help. Then.. Unfortunately AE cannot really use all those cpu cores you have. Most of the time it uses just a single core, which in your case has a 2.8 ghz clock speed. A single cpu like an Intel i7 7700k, which has 4 cores but runs at 4.5ghz, would be mush faster. ... View more

It's probably grayed out because you don't have anything to purge. It's not an admin privilege. Don't know if it helps but sometimes it did work for me: trying to slightly change the particle emission number or the random seed, should force the plugin to recalculate. Try that. Anyway,  what plugin version are you using? ... View more

Hi Blueship, you need first to have an obj object, which you can download from the web or create one using Cinema4D for example. An obj is a 3d object (in your case the deer). Then, import that obj file into after effect and place it in your composition. Now in the drop down menu you can select your obj. ... View more