Forget it. Your baby blue is exactly one of those colors you just can never match in an MP4 dye to the chroma undersampling and lack of gamut. No magic in the world can fix it.   Mylenium  ... View more

Find a layer management script at AEScripts.com.   Mylenium ... View more

As far as AE is concerened your "clips.mp4" is just one single layer. You have a fundamental misunderstanding there. If you want to control where the effect gets applied you need to split it up into separate layers.   Mylenium ... View more

You can fiddle with all sorts of nonsensical scripts like the one proposed or write complex and slow expressions, but ultimately it's a simple workflow problem. if something doesn't change, you isolate it on its own layer. AE is terrible with complex masks to begin with and it's far too easy to mess up things. Simply use multiple layers and patch your frontlines together.   Mylenium ... View more

You don't use masks, you use shape layers as track mattes. That takes care of half the work. you know, there is a parametric rectangle with rounded corners... Multiple boxes can then be linked with some expressions so they push and pull each other out of the way as one resizes. the only thing you may need to do fully manually is re-centering and scaling the underlying images for a nice zoom-in effect. It's really not that complicated.   Mylenium ... View more

Without any system info nobody can tell you much. Start by checking your event log for critical errors and run Windows Update.   Mylenium ... View more

Export a 3DS, OBJ, DXF or whatever from Inventor with what limited control you have there, convert it via Cinema 4D or other 3D programs if necessary. Again, you cannot open any native CAD format in AE.   Mylenium ... View more

I don't follow. This is not AE's default behavior. It seriously sounds like something is wrong, but with so little information nobody can tell you much. Screenshots, system info and all that good stuff would probably help to clarify.   Mylenium ... View more

Don't bother with AE, use a proper 3D program. Converting the IGES/ STEP files or whatever you have will require that anyway as will grouping the sub-assemblies and whatnot. AE is useless here.   Mylenium  ... View more

Different renderers operate differently. You cannot simply assume it would look the same everywhere. This in particular extends to advanced material channels like luminance. This will never work smoothly. You need to try to make things look good using basic channels liek Diffuse and Specular and then add refinements based on that.   Mylenium ... View more

If it needs to be viewed online, create a PDF or export the pages separately as JPGs and upload it to an online catlalogue viewing service like your weekly super market flyers do.   Mylenium ... View more

It's the usual mix of different factors you will find everywhere at Adobe and personally I think even PS is just as bad. Some of it can be rationalized at an abstract level like development cost and time and not breaking established workflows, but of course they've simply fallen behind in many areas. Regrettably it's not going to change, though. Existing users are loathe to switch software and new users are simply not knowledgeable enough to see this mess. That and of course the subscription is still dirt cheap by comparison even if you only use two or three programs. That's why Adobe has millions and millions of users and as long as they pay their money, they can keep this up for the next hundred years. It would take a mass exodus where hundreds of thousands of users switch to other software in a few months for them to even care and that's just not going to happen.   Mylenium ... View more

Without any system information and other details this is not going anywhere. You need to nbe much more specific. the obvious answer is of course to first try and save to a different location, ideally outside the pre-defined system and document folders.   Mylenium ... View more

Not really. The line is just the rendered effect. You would have to animate the mask/ shape path and then perhaps a plug-in could do something with the animated mask points. Quite generally, why would you, though? This very much sounds like a task you could chew through with a bit of patience and hand animation. Even if it worked with Newton or whatever setting up the simulation, tweaking it, running it over and over again and then still cleaning it up afterwards would very likely consume more time than just animating the path.   Mylenium ... View more

I'm sure there is a "Layer Comps to new PSD" or similar script somewhere out there that either strips unnecessary layers or copies content to a new document. ask in the PS forum.   Mylenium ... View more

It's either handled as two separate screens or the cutout is just a black area that will not appear on a large single screen. We can't know any of that. You have to inquire with the company.   Mylenium ... View more

If you updated the OS, it probably reset the color management. check your system control panel and the AE preferences for this stuff.   Mylenium ... View more

This doesn't pause on the actual commas, it only lengthens the overall time, so I'm not sure what you are suggesting here.   Mylenium ... View more

This is an "all or nothing" scenario. You cannot simply add a line to the preset's expression code and make it magically work. Instead you will have to create a custom expression from scratch using valueAtTime() and string operations. You would check for the commas, count the characters up to that instance of a comma, calculate the effectiver per-character typing duration and then based on that add the delay and remap the timing of the consecutive text. If you have more than one comma, you will have to run it in a loop and then you may need to work around limitations like string and array lengths and everything may be slow due to the constant processing of the retimed typing. point in case: If it's only a few simple lines of text, just animate it by hand with a few extra keyframes.   Mylenium ... View more

Rubberhose and other plug-ins/ scripts on AEScripts will surely help. None of this has anything to do with bones unless you really want it to like setting up complex chains of short bones to mimic elephant trunks or dinosaur. Then again even those these days are often set up with soft deformers.   Mylenium ... View more

There's all manner of scripts to bulk-edit expressions on AEScripts.com. Also the built-in copy&paste functions for property links or expressions only in AE will work on all selected layers. The rest is too unspecific. From setting up clever combos of sliders and other expression controls to parsing text on another layer as script code there's any number of ways to get expressions to respond to external inputs, but of course some of that stuff requires certain prerequisites as well beyond abusing the eval() function or referencing another layer. Without any specific info on what exactly needs to be done beyond your blinking stars nobody can tell you more than that. For me that would be a ten minute project starting from scratch, but of course even adding some seemingly simple requirement could inflate this to spending hours figuring out the code.   Mylenium ... View more

Why not simply buy RevisionFX RE:Flex?   Mylenium  ... View more

That's useless. You have not provided any info about the actual file specifications. VLC will play a lot of things that AE can't handle, so this is not any measure of relevancy.   Mylenium  ... View more

You may want to settle on something simpler. Such stuff would even be difficult to set up in a proper 3D program. Lots of particle animation and driving it with invisible helper objects. With enough time it could probably be done in Particular or using good old Particle Playground, but that kind of is the answer in itself. It still requires experience and knowledge of these tools as opposed to rehashing some tutorial or downloading a preset/ template project.   Mylenium  ... View more

Basic AE stuff. A wobbly Turbulent Displace, a Bulge effect and of course a classic "TV Screen" effect, for which you can find tons off tutorials.   Mylenium ... View more

Probably not much merit to it, since placement of the trims is still relative to the path. If you want specific effects, you still need to endlessly fiddle with the start and end controls of each segment. This basically achieves nothing and has no advantage over just using multiple path groups/ layers.   Mylenium ... View more

Look up one of the comp changing scripts on AEScripts.com.   Mylenium ... View more

Create Nulls for the mask using the respective script function, animate the Null positions.   Mylenium ... View more