Are you using AME for H264 output? Without a screenshot of those render settings, we can only guess what's going on. ... View more

I don't know anything about your project, but I wouldn't copy the project file. Let's assume your client makes a change concerning an asset or animation style which appears in all languages: you'll have to put in the change in every project file. If they are 2 languages to handle, this might be okay, but the more project files, the easier you get confused and the project becomes a mess. I also wouldn't duplicate the comp, because it will end up as same situation. Instead, I would keep all in one place. I would create such a project with a main-comp, with only precomps in it, no artwork, or text-layers, or what else. Following this logic, I would create smaller and smaller logical parts of my animation, up to the point where the text of a certain scene appear as a precomp, too. In this precomp, I would put in all languages for this text and scene only and set the layout for each text individually - as Dave pointed out: there is no layout to fit all. From this point I would put an expression to the opacity of the text layers, connecting them to a control-layer (usuall null object) with checkboxes to literally "click on the language, I want to play out". I would put this control as top-layer of my main-comp for global access. Once everything is set up and all expressions are put in (actual, it's nearly the same expression over and over again, so you can copy/paste your way through), you can playout every language with an ease: If there is a change in one language, just click on it, go down to the scene and comp, make the change, go back up, put the main into render queue and that's it. If there is a change in your timing, animation, or artwork, just change it ONCE. If you need to playout all languages at one another over night, duplicate your main comp, pay attention to naming, click on the language you are referring to and put all into queue. You can delete the duplicates after that. *Martin ... View more

Hi! I'm working with Puppet Tool from time to time but always try to avoid it because of problems like this. Maybe you can drop 3D if you duplicate your creature (put it into a precomp for better handling, if not already) and put it above the layer stack. When you just cut, or switch opacity, when ever you want to be behind or before something. *Martin ... View more

haha - you are welcome! ... View more

Did you used expression or the pig whip before precomping? When you activate collapse transformation (let's call it "sun"), the AE "sees" the individual layers within the precomp. When the sun is of, the precomp as treated as an normal 2D image, like all the layers are merged into one. Can you provide the project file, or an excerpt out of it? It will cut down the time for trouble shooting. ... View more

Check the "collapse transformation" setting on the new comp-layer. *Martin ... View more

In fact, AE uses all CPU cores and even GPU, but it highly depends on the project, fx, plugins and workflow. When I see that you are rendering directly into H265 on the Xeon @2GHz I really wondering what you did expect to happen? Does Xeon CPU support hardware accelerated H265 de- and encoding anyway? I thought that's a feature of latest i-series CPUs only. Also, a 2GHz CPU for AE is completely the wrong piece of hardware. I recommend at least 4GHz, the higher the better. You'll find nice test on https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-After-Effects-CC-144/Hardware-Recommendations#CPU Note that Xeon's are not even mentioned ... Also, rendering into a video file is not very safe or smart. What when your computer crashes right now? What if you have to change a little asset which appears only for 10 frames at the end? You'll have to start all over... ! It's way better to render into PNGs image sequence. You can use scripts like BG Renderer or RenderGarden to utilize all of your RAM and CPU resources. (But in your case, you won't benefit much from all your cores - when only AE is running and 33% are already used, you can start 2 more renderer and that's it. Running out of RAM increases rendering times in large amounts.). And you can easily react to changes and mistakes, without the need of rendering everything all over again. @jebi80938952​ Multiprocess rendering will never come back to AE again. AFAIK it was buggy and dropped for that reason. Also - as you can see with the use of scripts like RG Renderer or RenderGarden - it eats you all your RAM very soon, limiting you in spawning more processes. Every process need its own memory address range and data. But if you have an asset in every part of your comp, this asset will be loaded multiple times into RAM to be available for all rendering processes. This is nonsense. The future will be multi-threaded and Adobe is already working on it. But this is a slow process: Adobe needs to ensure to not break the software, while keeping it alive by adding features. In the meantime, we are lucky and can use 3rd party software to fill the gap, thanks to a wide API. That's not common with major software and I'm missing it in most other programs I'm using. *Martin ... View more

Thank you for clearance. Have you tried to spawn aerenders one after another with a little span in between (10 secs, for example)? I always run into trouble launching them too fast. It would still be helpful to have a look at the node.js code. *Martin ... View more

What does your starting script looks like and where is this output from? I'm wondering about those 3 times repeated lines. Usually, it's only something like this: aerender version 15.1.2x69 Using DXGI: Device: "Microsoft Basic Render Driver" has dedicated video RAM (MB): 0 has video RAM(MB): 0 And this 3 times, in 3 separated cmds. You can check taskmanager to see if there are 3 aerender.exe running and 3 AfterFX.COM (if I remember correctly). It looks like you are starting the same instance 3 times instead of starting 3 instances at the same time. *Martin ... View more

The only way to hold a value is to loop through the frames and calculating the same value over and over again... and this will decrease performance as the for-loop already does. Tricky... ... View more

This won't work, since you can't hold the last calculated value. Sadly... ... View more

Hi Flecoq, that's cool man! I wrote the code for one rig in a short comp, but soon noticed a huge performance drop when it comes to longer comps and more rigs. It's the for-loop - no doubt. I thought of calculating the time from layers-in to current time-position and take this into multiplication with "step", instead of moving the rig frame-by-frame by tiny amounts. One must take care of a keyframed walkcycle - maybe with a if-loop, which switches between the already coded behavior and the described one. However, didn't find the time to write it yet. I also noticed a strange motion-blur issue, where the mb stays on the character, after it's movement. This is also related to the expression, but I don't know in which way (since it's not logic to me). I helped myself so far by using the code to adjust everything and after that, transferring it into keyframes. ... View more

Maybe caps-lock is active? Can you copy/paste other stuff in other programs - like text? ... View more

You mark the old keyframes, CTRL+C, click on the above layer's position and CTRL+V. OR Mark position of old layer, CTRL-C, click on the above layer and CTRL+V. ... View more

Did you checked the auto-save folder? Maybe you'll find a your project in working state there. ... View more

I don't do this much often, but I would go this way: use PS to create a new sign, place new sign as PSD over old sign (if you are on the same frame then the still, it scaling and transform should fit), track old sign, put tracking data to zero, bind new sign to zero, or put tracking data to corner pin, if you can't to this with the zero. ... View more

... or export it as PNG-sequence. ... View more

If you set keys, you can hit "u" to show only key framed properties. I think, that's what you meant. *Martin ... View more

Okay, so it's just the playback that lags. You can lower the preview quality (right clicking into the preview panel, as I remember correctly - not doing much with premiere) and increase performance in doing so. Another thought - and please don't get me wrong - you are sure that the video don't have just a couple of seconds black at the end? ... View more

Thank you for the specs. One more question to the out-of-sync: is the audio track ACTUALLY LONGER than the video track, or do they both start and end at the very same frame? ... View more

It would be helpful to know how long the out-of-sync is? Are we talking about a couple of frames, or seconds? Also, what are your computer specs? Maybe the poor thing nearly dies, when it should playback the video in Premiere... What do you mean by "green screen effects"? Keying? And if, did you tried to make this right in premiere? Let's focus on the video being out-of-sync in Premiere: did you check your audio settings, do they match your video source - especially sampling rate? And vice-versa: did you check your video settings, especially fps? ... View more

Did you allowed scripts to have network access and can read/write data? You'll find this in preferences -> general. *Martin ... View more

The only spreadsheet-to-AE solutions I know are: CompsFromSpreadsheet 5 - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com and Templater Rig - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com But both do target on mass production of videos (so called "Personal Videos") and I'm not sure, if they can do what you want. However, the JSON-way is the built-in solution of what you want to achieve. Maybe you find an easy way to convert your spreadsheet into a JSON file. In general it should be doable to transform CSV data into keyframes with a script. Let us know, if you find something! *Martin ... View more

You can use JSON: Data-Driven Animation with JSON in After Effects - Part 1: Linking Texts - YouTube *Martin ... View more

I addition to Andrew, it could be helpful to create a large precomp containing the landfill in it's overall size and putting the truck right where it should be (at the bottom). Then, it's only a matter of animation the y-position of this precomp. ... View more

Nope, I'm not the OP. I just thanked you for posting the image which I wasn't able to link. ... View more

Thank you! ... View more