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‎Apr 03, 2019
06:21 AM
This option need to be checked. If you are a bit into programming: The if can't be processes. The if-condition is that text is not empty AND that files and network access is persist. Both conditions must evaluate as true in order to make the if run. Check the box, should work. *Martin
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‎Apr 03, 2019
05:49 AM
You forget to give scripts access to network connection and to write data - you'll found this in general preferences... or - if you are on the latest version, in the new preferences entry at the end of the list. Have a look at line 9411 - read the whole line - you see? *Martin
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‎Apr 03, 2019
05:44 AM
2 Upvotes
We got update today, so this is not the latest version anymore. You can just reset the workspace - should fix this issue. If not, reset preferences (search for "AE factory reset"). *Martin
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‎Apr 02, 2019
10:01 PM
Check the keyboard shortcuts - not sure, but maybe you can remap the function to another key. You can also get yourself a cheap usb-keyboard to plugin - if the MacBook has USB ports left. *Martin
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‎Apr 02, 2019
07:58 AM
Can you post a part of the video with this high mouse movement?
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‎Apr 02, 2019
07:37 AM
1 Upvote
I thought of this: After Effects Basic Tutorial - MOTION TRACKING - YouTube *Martin
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‎Apr 02, 2019
07:33 AM
Wow, that's a large project! You can put it on the OS SSD and leave the cache on its own. You can also put it on the cache, there is no benefit or disadvantage, except that you'll have less space for cache. Personal, I see the cache-drive as a "trash-drive" which I can format every time, which can die every time ... no matter. It simply don't have any critical data on it. Further reading, if you haven't found already: Hard drive configuration with NVME/SSDs *Martin
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‎Apr 02, 2019
06:37 AM
This was asked several times here. In your case, I would install AE to the system SSD (#1), put the cache on its own SSD (#2) and keep assets and project file on the HDD. Loading and saving large projects may take a bit, since HDD is not as fast as SSD but it should still be okay. Project files are not that huge. *Martin
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‎Apr 02, 2019
06:33 AM
I'm not much into tracking, but try to redefine the tacking area, so it covers the mouse movements better.
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‎Apr 02, 2019
01:01 AM
Okay, just checked and it should be possible to move the handles to the anchors. Hmm... no glue - sorry.
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‎Apr 02, 2019
12:56 AM
2 Upvotes
If you write something like myvalue + "value" you are "adding" a variable with a string (any printable sign, text, numbers). The string is indicated with by "..." If myvalue is 10, the above example will output 10value "0" + myNumber is nothing more then constantly writing a 0 in front of the slider value. When the slider count up to 10 and above, the output will be 010. To avoid this, you extract the last two digits by slice(-2) making 010 to 10. P.S.: I've found the code at stackoverflow after a 10sec google search. *Martin
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‎Apr 02, 2019
12:07 AM
You can switch the graph between speed and value. This is the value-graph and you may search for the speed-graph.
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‎Apr 01, 2019
11:48 PM
2 Upvotes
There is no such thing as "00". The slider is 0 or not zero. The way to produce what you want is to add a 0 in front of the slider value and slice it away, as soon as it get's 3 digit long: myNumber = Math.round(effect("Slider Control")("Slider")); formattedNumber = ("0" + myNumber).slice(-2); *Martin
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‎Apr 01, 2019
11:38 PM
Does this happen in a new project, too? Can you provide a video of the issue - it would be very helpful to see what is going on. *Martin
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‎Apr 01, 2019
12:37 PM
1 Upvote
Hi Leviah, Glad you make it work, but what's the matter with the second code? In programming, you use = whenever you want to assign a value: a = 5; a = b; // value of b is ? When using == you are comparing two values to each other, checking if they are the same: a = 5; b = 2; if (a==b){ alert ("a and b are the same!"); } else { alert ("I understand the difference between = and ==!") }; // what message get's alerted? Next to == there is also <= (less or equal), >= (greater or equal), != (not the same) and finally you also have === with is the same as == but you are not only comparing the values, but also the type (string or integer or boolaen or whatever). You don't need it in most cases, though. Hope you understand now. *Martin
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‎Mar 31, 2019
11:40 PM
Beside writing the script, you can replace the footage with freezed frame. Workflow would be to create video 1, export it and done. Then, for video 2 and all the others, you click on the footage in the comp, press and hold ALT while dragging new footage above the selected layer. This only makes sense, if all your footage has the same length. What about the unique numbers? Are those just 1,2,3,... or something like 3324, 5543, 7521235, ...? Where do they come from? You can link an excel to AE or outsource the number to an slider for easier editing. If you are not into programming in any case (never had) and you don't find anybody, who will write the script for you (for free?), you'll be faster making this by hand. If you have 2 or 3 weeks to spend, learn scripting for AE. It is easy! *Martin
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‎Mar 31, 2019
02:38 PM
If you press SHIFT and cursor keys, you can go through the video frame-by-frame - you'll see that the shake is pretty easy and basic level. It looks like a lot of vector blur and a little position keyframing, when image B comes in (it falls into frame, overshoots a bit and snap into position - 3 keyframes). Easing and timing will be the key - the whole transition is only about 5 frames long. *Martin
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‎Mar 31, 2019
07:44 AM
Not at all! You can change and animate the color of shape layers. Just recolor all shapes which are on the back and as soon as they flip to the front, put in keyframes and give them the front color. You should try lightning, as well. Just add a light and give yourself an hour to play around with the settings. The advantage of lightning will be, that once set up, it will always work, even if you change the animation and timing. *Martin
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‎Mar 31, 2019
07:27 AM
How did you build the shape and folding effect? There are several ways but which one to choose depends on how you created the origami effect. You can separate front and back side with masks, coloring each individually - re-coloring the shapes - using 3D lightning, just to name a few. *Martin
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‎Mar 30, 2019
10:25 AM
The answer is not that super technical, but you forget about all the sensors in your mobile and the two cameras delivering depth information. You don't have any of this when tracking footage. You only have pattern and pixels to look at. Also, AE code is kinda slow - no matter what you are doing. The software wasn't design to cover the possibilities which it has today. The option for tracking was added later, but we don't know how well it was implemented. However, if you want to see Adobe live tracking, check out Character Animator CC. It works with crappy webcams, because it was design to do this. Have a look at Resolve, too. The tracking system is up to date. *Martin
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‎Mar 30, 2019
06:14 AM
Or using time remap - less keyframes to take care of. You need to enlarge the animation to the whole timing (in, stay and out). Right click > time > time remap. It creates 2 keyframes, one at the beginning, one at the end. Go to the point where the in-animation is ended and put another keyframe there. First and second keyframe is now your in-animtion. Copy both and put them into the layer at some point. Right click on keyframe (both still selected) > keyframe assistant > reverse. Now adjust those 2 keyframes in time, until they fit your wish when the lower third is off screen again. You can remove the very last keyframe. If done right, the TC of time remap increased during your in-animation, freezes during the time your animation is present and is going backward during your out-animation. If your lower third is animated all the time, you can use the same concept but remove the "stay" part. You end up with 3 keyframes in this case. It sounds complicated, but follow some tutorials if you don't know time remap. It is actual very handy once understood. *Martin
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‎Mar 30, 2019
06:00 AM
1 Upvote
I see! You are exporting the footage out of AE. Well - the color shift can origin from the codec in this case. What codec and container are you exporting to? Something like H.264 MP4, maybe? What codec and container are you capturing from the VX1000? I suggest exporting PNG sequences from AE instead of any video format, or at least export in the exact same codec and container as the original footage. *Martin
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‎Mar 30, 2019
04:30 AM
It either overlays or leaves a blank frame. Have a check on this, maybe redo the edit and time reverse, because the frame length is indicated with the brighter and darker blocks above your two layers. Except those 2 pixel offset between layer 1 and 2 - which could be just a graphical flaw - everything looks just right in your screenshot. Restarting everything, clearing cache, clearing preferences could be a fix to the issue. *Martin
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‎Mar 30, 2019
03:36 AM
1 Upvote
Is the second screenshot from AE viewer or taken after export out of AE? And where is the first screenshot taken from? You can't open your footage in player A, take a screenshot, pull footage into AE and compare AE view with the screenshot from the player, because the player itself is adding it's own internal color spacing. AE doesn't add automatic color correction. There are color spaces in project setting, which you might check, but that's all. All other coloring and grading is done intentionally by you. Gives us more details about the footage and the camera it was shot with. *Martin
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‎Mar 29, 2019
02:36 PM
About the glitch: You can't hold values with expressions. They are calculated frame by frame. The only way to hold a value is to recalculate everything from start to the present frame. This - unfortunately - is a terrible slow code which slows down AE the longer your layer or animation is. You need (not tested): myframe = timeToFrames(time); scaleX = thisLayer.transform.scale[0]; scaleY = thisLayer.transform.scale[1]; for (n = 0; n <= myframe; n++){ timeback = thisComp.frameDuration * n; factor = thisLayer.effect("Slider Control")("Slider").valueAtTime(timeback); speed = thisLayer.transform.position.speedAtTime(timeback) * factor; scaleX -= speed; scaleY -= speed; }; [scaleX, scaleY]; *Martin
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‎Mar 29, 2019
02:17 PM
It also depends on the project. The best troubleshoot is to open an old project that worked for sure and check the performance. Also, additional scripts and plugins can cause AE to slow down. Sometimes it is enough so reopen them. *Martin
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‎Mar 29, 2019
02:08 PM
Hi Leviah, you should consider this resource : Expression language in After Effects Your code is faulty and to complicated and therefore fails. There are several syntax errors, for example: if you want to address an attribute of an object, you need the whole "path" from the object to that attribute. "position.speed" won't work, because it is "thisLayer.transform.position.speed". Also, you should learn the difference between "=" and "==". Instead of writing all those lines, you can just link the speed one by one to the scale, adding a correction factor for fine tuning. This is the easiest way in most cases, yet not the most sophisticated. To manipulate the factor, the best way is to outsource it on a slider. This is untested code, but from my friday evening logic, it should run. (You need to put a slider control to the layer effects stack and set it to 1 for the beginning!) factor = thisLayer.effect("Slider Control")("Slider"); speed = thisLayer.transform.position.speed * factor; speedToScaleX = thisLayer.transform.scale[0] - speed; speedToScaleY = thisLayer.transform.scale[1] - speed; [speedToScaleX, speedToScaleY]; I don't know the dimension of "speed". You should check the values and bring them into a usable scale. You can use the slider for this, but feel free to add constant correction values to the calculation, if necessary. Also, this code covers individual scales for x and y. If you are always at [100,100], you can skip some lines. Let me know, if this works! *Martin
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‎Mar 29, 2019
05:09 AM
5 Upvotes
You are on the new version of the puppet tool engine. No problem, you can just switch back to the legacy version. See screenshot attached - it's German, but you'll find the corresponding setting in your language version. Workflow was to add puppet pins, then switch to old version, then set up triangle amount. Of course you can work with the new version of the puppet tool, too. *Martin
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‎Mar 29, 2019
02:29 AM
1 Upvote
Hi Jamie, that's a great solution - never heard of DMT. It just felt more fiddly to get the windows to sit side-by-side. No. You just drag a panel on the second screen, press CTRL+# and it gets fullscreen. Press it twice to remove the header (forgot to mention, sorry!). Then you drag the other panels one by another into the fullscreen building up your workspace. By doing this you also make sure that no panel goes over the edge of the screen. Like the comp view being 10px on the right screen ... if this is something, you don't want, of course. *Martin
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‎Mar 28, 2019
07:51 AM
Well, you just animate the lyrics the way you want Since your question sounds like you just opened AE for the first time, start with basic tutorials on how AE is working. Next, concentrate on text animations. If you have detailed questions, feel free to ask. Have fun! *Martin
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