Trapcode MIR, not Form.   Mylenium ... View more

Without exact info on the encoding of the file and things like footage interpretation nobody can tell you much. You need to be more precise.   Mylenium ... View more

Turn off the "Keep mask vertex count constant" or whatever it is called exactly these days off in the preferences. That said, your workflow makes absolutely no sense. Such stuff is usually revealed using a "spine" path and applying a stroke effect, either directly or as a track matte. Any old "handwriting text" or "logo reveal" tutorial can teach you these techniques.   Mylenium ... View more

Nope. You can try Trapcode Form and bend it along a 3D path to create the look.   Mylenium ... View more

The shots are probably multi-exposure shots with multiple cameras on the same rig. One with very low aperture to only capture the LED strips against a black background, the other(s) with more regular exposure to capture the people and environment. That's than all munched together with heavy color grading and other tricks. That and of course it's heavily doctored, regardless. I can see tons of  Trapcode Particular and 3DStroke in there. The whispy "walls" could be created that way, but also just by using a frame accumulation/ feedback effect like CC Force Motion Blur and similar offerings in packages like Sapphire and then further blurred with a smear-based motion blur like AE's Timewarp/ Motion Blur or RevisionFX' RSMB. All of this is perfectly doable without any actual 3D tracking or scene reconstruction (aside from a bit of camera stabilization perhaps). You just need to put in enough effort to sell the illusion. That's the real trick here. Each shot must be tweaked quite a lot to keep it consistent in terms of timing and look.   Mylenium ... View more

Live layer styles are only translated when importing as a composition. What's not there in the first place simply does not exist in AE's mind. You can try to replace the layer on the timeline by alt- dragging from the project window, but that's as good as it gets. You may still have to redo stuff, be it just the anchor point being aligned differently.It's one of those areas where AE simply sucks even after more than 25 years...   Mylenium  ... View more

Without any system info and other details nobody can tell you anything. You need to be much more specific.   Mylenium  ... View more

Expand the appearance in AI.   Mylenium ... View more

You are probably locking on to the wrong features based on wrong assumptions. the clip you reference was likely stabilized by locking onto something that isn't even visible in the final output or it employs the planar tracker in mocha AE and masks. Could also be an averaged shot with multiple trackers. Either way, such extreme close ups don't track themselves just by hitting the stabilize button. It#s much more work than it looks.   Mylenium ... View more

Your workflow is not making a lot of sense. Given that AVI is a dead format and even Microsoft have dropped it more or less there's only a handful of options are available, including the default uncompressed one. Rendering to ProRes, DnX, Arri, RED XDCAM or whatever alternate CoDec would be much more efficient and at the end of the day even image sequences with compressed TIFFs and EXRs consume a lot less disk space than a chunky AVI file.   Mylenium ... View more

You would probably involve some string.replace() somewhere with a suitable regex inside the parenthesis to filter the characters, determine the word count and word boundaries or whatever. Similar could be done with an expression text animator set to per word mode. Apparently this could go as far as running everything in a complex loop and determining the sourceRectAtTime() on some dummy layers to figure out the actual dimensions of the rendered text. There is per se no elegant way of doing it, though, since you're basically trying to re-create the auto-scale paragraph text found in classic page layout programs, but don't have access to all the necessary parameters for the calculations due to AE's fixed evaluation and rendering order. That's why you have to construct nested loops and do it recursively, i.e. figure out the displayed text lengths first with a generous margin on the dummy layers, then in a second loop scale them down to fit within your criteria on the output layer where you re-assemble the individual lines.   Mylenium ... View more

I have no idea what you are even asking. 90% of this has nothing to do with AE, but rather the actual planning of the shoot. If you already have footage you can provide lips and screenshots and people can advise on how to spice things up just like we can give tips based on a script/ storyboard, but otherwise this is way too broad and generic a question.   Mylenium  ... View more

It's simply about creating pre-comps and stitching them together in a main comp, then animating the position and scale of the layers.   Mylenium ... View more

Nothing fancy about it. You simply arrange the images and then animate their positions, which of course is going to be a laborious process. No shortcuts, no magic buttons, no simple "Which effect must I use?".   Mylenium ... View more

That's pretty much useless without any system info. That said it simply sounds like an operating system/ file system issue. Perhaps you renamed a drive/ volume or changed some setting.   Mylenium  ... View more

Expressions cannot see groups, so indeed having as unique a property name as possible is a good idea. That said, of course people can always use the property index just as well and therefore identical names aren't the end of the world. Plug-ins like Element 3D or Particular are good examples for this, since they are too complex to entirely avoid duplicate names across different groups.   Mylenium  ... View more

Unfortunately no. Parameters of custom controls are defined in the effects thmeselves and cannot be manipulated outside what the developer coded in there. If you struggle, feel free to rig it up with expressions and linking the pins to small colored solids or whatever graphics that are set as guide layers/ have their visibility turned off for rendering.   Mylenium ... View more

At worst, you can check if the name of a layer in the composition contains an image extension, and in that case, return 100 or 0.   Won't work if you rename stuff, though, whether that's the layer or source item...   Mylenium ... View more

You can't. Expressions cannot check whether there is content in a sub-comp or not. Only scripts can do that. Whwtever you want will require a different approach like always having a layer in the pre-comp and checking its visibility state with isActive() or similar.   Mylenium ... View more

No, of course not. In order to even "edit" an AI file you have to convert it to shape layers and masks and then there are limitations and a lot of stuff isn't supported. It would be a much better strategy to actually think beforehand what can be created natively in AE instead of endlessly wasting time in AI and finessing stuff that won't carry over to AE.   Mylenium ... View more

AE ist einfach ein großer Misthaufen und der ganze Quatsch mit der Hardwarebeschleunigung funktioniert bei ungewöhnlichen Formaten nicht. Also den ganzen Kram mal checken und ausschalten und nochmal probieren.   Mylenium ... View more

More keyframes? Not sure what you're asking. Your rotation only has two keys, so of course it won't follow your motion and just stop after the second keyframe.   Mylenium ... View more

Without seeing the font nobody can tel lyou much. From simple linear wipes to a bit of masking this could be anything, including of course Write-On and other effects.   Mylenium ... View more

Not with this method. You would have to use valueAtTime() and write your own loop code.   Mylenium  ... View more

Sure. Could be as simple as a multiplication with the scale factor or a linear() function following the pattern of linear(scale,startScale,endScale,startValue,endValue). That said, none of this will work for Roughen Edges or Fractal Noise since the effects change appearance when you scale due to how the fractal pattern is calculated. A nicely tweaked effect can get completely lost when scaling down or look too crazy when scaling up. So for what it's worth, rigging this up with expressions would be a waste of time. It would be more useful to create reusable track matte elements at a fixed scale and use those instead of applying the effects directly.   Mylenium ... View more

It helps to post questions in the appropriate forums...   Mylenium ... View more

There is no magic fix. MP4 is always compressed 8bit. You can only improve the results by using a proper conversion workflow involving color management.   Managing color in After Effects   Understand Photoshop color management   Mylenium ... View more

Convert the files to a WAV in Audition and check their consistency.   Mylenium ... View more