This has to do with the size of your object in Illustrator and the way you bring the illustrator layers into AE. If you have a path in AE on a layer that is not scaled you can copy and paste the path to a motion path and maintain position. Simple as that. Copying from Illustrator can be problematic unless your Illustrator document is set up exactly the same as your Comp in AE. ... View more

If you have created paths then you can transform the path. Do not use scale if you are planning to copy and paste vector paths to motion paths. It doesn't work with masks, it does not work with shape layers. Take a quick look at this short video. It explains how to copy and paste a motion path to a camera, you can paste it to any layer. ... View more

Uninstall CC and AE Use the Adobe Cleaner Tool, reinstall Creative Cloud and then AE from CC. Let us know if that does not work ... View more

What does it say when you click Learn More? Is there a Adobe After Effects CS6 folder in you Applications folder? If all else fails run the Adobe Cleaner tool and try again. ... View more

If After Effects is not showing up in the Creative Cloud app then your system is not compatible. Try using CS6 ... View more

I'm not surprised. Run Warp Stabilizer on one shot, let it finish, render the shot and then stabilize the next shot. You're expecting a very complex temporal process to run multiple instances at the same time and not get fouled up by running out of memory or overlapping calculations. I would not expect AE or any stabilizer to run that many instances at the same time and not run out of system resources. ... View more

An animation preset would do the trick... You can call one from a script. ... View more

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If you want it, submit a Feature Request. The more requests the more likely it will be implemented. You should be able to save a curve profile and load that, you can also add an animation preset for an animated curve effect. ... View more

I don't think so, but I am not spending a lot of time on scripting right now. I'd check the Adobe Scripting forum... You'll find a link on the home page of this forum on the right side. ... View more

Of you hare having problems with a clip crashing your system for any reason load the clip into the Adobe Media Encoder and then transcode it to a frame based production codec like QuickTime Jpeg and make sure the audio is either set to 16Bit 48Khz linear or turned off. Try again. Your problems are most likely caused entirely by the codec used to record the movie. ... View more

Adobe products are installed in the programs or applications folder by default. Look there. You find the version by opening the product and clicking on the About item from the menu. ... View more

http://www.shutterstock.com/s/%22animated+cartoon%22/search.html Among hundreds of other sources ... View more

I would do the animation in AE using Illustrator files imported as a comp. Simple as can be. Then just position the cartoon on over your video. If you expected animating cartoons to be quick it isn't, never was, never will be. There are things you can do that speed up the process of using the pupet pin. Check out this tutorial from my good friend Angie Taylor. ... View more

AE is just layers... Put your cartoon on a new layer and your video on the layer below, then adjust or animate the position as needed. If you have camera moves in your live footage then you are going to have to do some camera tracking or motion tracking to keep things lined up. If your cartoons have been created on an opaque background then you'll have to re-do them so the background is transparent. This is no different than overlaying text on video as shown here in the first video:  Basic Workflow ... View more

You have to install the program from the install disks or download. Simple as that. Then you have to enter a serial number. ... View more

Try dropping the ram to even numbers. You should be able to get 4 or 6 cpu's for AE and 4 or 2 for other apps. Todd has a link to an article on setting up MP for your machine, but I have to say again that if you are using temporal effects or codecs or 3rd party plug-ins that are not MP aware turning MP on will slow down your render and could cause lots of other problems. I keep it off 95% of the time, use AM to do 99% of my rendering, and seldom if ever stop working and let AE grind out a render. Every time I stop creating or editing a project in AE to push out a render I'm loosing productivity. Finish a shot, load it into AME to render, start the render, then move back to AE to work on another shot, or to PPro to edit, or somewhere else to be productive. Hopefully you can get to the point where you will not need to see a full rez, full length ram preview of your project to know what it will look like when rendered. ... View more

On your first point, a frame of video is only as big as the frame. The power of processors and the availability of ram have far exceeded the system requirements for a frame of video. Any codec or 3rd party plug-in that is not fully MP aware will kill the MP process so this inefficiency is not all on Adobe's shoulders. A 3D app can more easily utilize all system resources because 3D rendering is just math and you can stack up and multi thread math operations as much as you would like. Rendering 3D objects, calculating polygons and light rays is completely different than looking at all of the pixels in an HD frame and running calculations on that frame until the calculations are done so you can move on to the next frame. MP for AE is a good idea, there's just too many pieces of the puzzle that are not created by Adobe to make it work yet... ... View more

Notice anything wrong with your MP settings? 8 cores, 2 for other apps, 4 for AE. What happened to the other 2? Set your ram allocation so that all cores are displayed. If you have 8 then you should see 4 and 4 or 2 and 6. Also, only about 1 out of 10 of my projects work well with MP turned on. Any codec or plug-in that is not MP aware will kill the render times and can foul other things up. I keep it turned off almost all of the time. A better way to diagnose your initialization process is to watch the details and see what is hanging things up. It could be fonts, codecs, or display drivers. ... View more

We need more info than just the os version? What is the file structure? What is your version of AE down to the last decimal point? What changed? ... View more

OS? System specs? You have not given us much to go on. ... View more

Uninstall, run the Adobe Cleaner Tool (Google it and you'll go there), uninstall the CC app, then download the new CC app and you will get the latest version of AE when you install. If you do all that and still have troubles search this forum because there are a couple of dozen threads on install and update problems and different solutions to the problem. ... View more

What version of OSX? What version of AE? Looks like CS6 but I may be wrong? What else changed on your system since the last update? Where did you get the download manager? Lots more detail is going to be required to come up with a possible solution. ... View more

A quality freelancer would take a look at your site, talk to you about the scope of work, set a price and a timeline, do the work on a duplicate server if possible, get your approval, and then send you a bill. When you paid the bill he would upload the changes to your sige. A freelancer you would want to watch out for is one that would say sure, that will be $500 down and the balance when I'm done. ... View more

System info? Are you sure your system is compatible with AE CC? You have not given us very much to go on. ... View more

I had this happen a long time ago and it was some 3rd party software that was fouling up permissions all over the place. I can't remember what it was, but that's the first place I would look. ... View more

The Camera tracker plug-in must be selected in the Effects Control Panel for the tracking marks to show up in the comp window. You can show or hide layer controls with the Composition Window settings found in the upper right corner of the comp window. ... View more