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‎Jul 19, 2017
08:58 AM
1 Upvote
totally depends on the job. I tend to use camelCase by default. if it's a longer project I try to group things with - and use _ instead of a space. spesifically because you can us option+arrows to navigate around whole words and doing so will skip _ and jump right to -. a dumb example of this is YY_MM_DD-projectName-s010_v001.exr this makes it easier to jump around and rename things.
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‎Jul 19, 2017
08:51 AM
sounds like you want something like this: Animate a line along a path you create in After Effects ✔ - YouTube
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‎Jul 19, 2017
08:48 AM
2 Upvotes
CS6 is a legacy version and is no longer being maintained. at a certain point it just won't work on a current operating system. not sure if that's the case with Sierra but it'll happen eventually.
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‎Jul 18, 2017
06:01 PM
3 Upvotes
first thing I do when there's mystery animation I can't see keyframes for is to hit the "UberKey" with no layers selected, if you press the U key you'll see all keyframes. if you press UU (double tap) it'll show every property that's been modified on all layers. with not much else to go on I'd suggest start there, look for anything weird. EE will also show expressions. if you're working w/ someone else who may have tweaked things this might help find issues too.
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‎Jul 14, 2017
03:46 PM
1 Upvote
it's possible to write an expression that would measure the distance between the previous keyframe and next keyframe on the same property. but you'd have to do this per property.
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‎Jul 14, 2017
02:31 PM
1 Upvote
The key is a locked camera and a clean plate. using an empty background to compare footage too makes difference matting much easier. you can export frames and average them together using this trick to get a clean plate. and then under Effects>Keying you'll find the Difference Matte Effect. set it to reference the clean plate as the background and play with the settings until you get something you like. you may need to do additional masking by hand for tricky "near matching" colors but that'll get you most of the way there
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‎Jul 14, 2017
09:12 AM
1 Upvote
Camera Shake. look under Windows > The Wiggler. play with that till you get an image shaking the way you want it. and turn on motion blur. audio wiggle. apply a wiggle expression to your images position and then pickwip the expression's amplitude to the audio amplitude you want to control the wiggle. RGB glitch is the same as audio wiggle except you do it to 3 different layers and on each layer you put a Set Channel effect, set the value of the layers to Red, Green and Blue respectively, and then set their blend mode to Add.
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‎Jul 11, 2017
12:40 PM
1 Upvote
Like Jose said...particles would proabably work best. if you want some kind of flaming blast you may want to look for stock footage of the kind of blast you want and use that as a layered effect in conjunction with a particle system. is there a clip of something similar to what you're trying to create you could share?
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‎Jul 06, 2017
08:56 AM
I've never seen that bug before. first thing I always do when I find weird rendering issues is to try and isolate them to the GPU. Go to your project settings and under Video Rendering and Effects select Mercury Software Only. See if that does anything.
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‎Jul 03, 2017
08:57 AM
I see the same thing in Mac prefs to. While these forums are monitored by adobe staff, In the future it's better to file a bug report directly at adobe.com/go/wish it get's the issue right in front of the devs who can fix it. I'll be doing the same
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‎Jun 29, 2017
08:41 AM
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First thing first. Which version of AE are you using and what are the hardware specs on your computer? Second, What is the source and format (codec/resolution) of the clips both in premier and exported from premier. Third, assuming you're in a more recent version of AE, have you tried just copying and pasting from your permiere timeline into AE? Lastly, Check the project GPU settings. try turning it back to "MERCURY SOFTWARE ONLY" and see if that fixes things. If it does, submit this screen shot, a version of the project file giving you the errors and a detailed breakdown as a bug report.
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‎Jun 21, 2017
04:04 PM
can't fix the memory issue but I'd suggest you purge all caches and memory and render to an image sequence. If you use Multi Machine output settings it'll skip existing frames and that way when it crashes you at least don't loose your progress and can start rendering from where you left off until your memory fails again. then when you're done you can just stitch the frames together and render w/ audio if needed. annoying for sure but it's more likely to work than your current setup right now.
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‎Jun 20, 2017
08:46 AM
+1 to what Mike said. if you just absolutely can't get a project to open or load properly it's always worth trying to import it into a new project.
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‎Jun 19, 2017
09:09 AM
Are you getting your importer from the latest C4d install? you can find it here on mac /Applications/MAXON/CINEMA 4D R18/Exchange Plugins/aftereffects/Importer/OSX/CS_CC not sure about pc but I'm sure it's similar.
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‎Jun 19, 2017
09:05 AM
2 Upvotes
not the best answer but have you considered updating your OS? I've had this issue in the past but not since updating my Operating System to 10.12 and later. another work around might be to just render a higher quality format (prores/cineform/animation/etc.) and drag those into encoder. it adds a step but that step will for sure be way less time than waiting for a laggy link between apps. furthermore, you could set up AE to render to a Media Encoder watch folder and save yourself the effort of dragging the lossless renders over.
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‎Jun 01, 2017
08:16 AM
here's a couple options. draw the paths exactly as you want them in illustrator and then convert to shape layers in AE by right clicking on an AI layer in AE and selecting Create Shapes from Vector Layer. draw a path with the pen tool to create a shape layer. Use a Repeater and Wiggle Path on that shape layer to get the look and movement you're after. There are 3rd party plugins that may help too such as Nodes or Plexus
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‎May 28, 2017
11:45 AM
2 Upvotes
just to be safe. open up your project settings and click the "Video Rendering and Effects" tab and make sure you're using "mercury software only" If you were using either of the other two options, switch to software only, save a new version of your file to the watch folder and then try again.
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‎May 25, 2017
11:05 AM
1 Upvote
a. have you check that the AI layers have the "continuously rasterize" checkbox ticked? b. is your comp window's preview resolution set to "full"?
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‎May 25, 2017
11:03 AM
if you load the essential graphics panel in Premier you should be able to see samples.
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‎May 25, 2017
10:41 AM
2 Upvotes
you can do this with an expression. paste this on the opacity value. you can control when the fade happens by adjusting the beginning and end of your layers. var fadeDur = 1; var fadeIn = linear(time-thisLayer.inPoint,0,fadeDur,0,100); var fadeOut = linear(time-(thisLayer.outPoint-fadeDur),0,fadeDur,0,100); fadeIn-fadeOut
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‎May 25, 2017
08:17 AM
1 Upvote
not everyone does, so good on ya for getting that out of the way. At this point I don't know what to tell you. in previous occurrences of this situation I was in Mac environments and all I had to do was restart and do a P-RAM dump. Not sure if there's a windows equivalent process. (a quick googling tells me that it's also called NVRAM and it looks like it does exist on PC. You'll wanna research how to clear yours) I'd suggest talking to your IT department.
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‎May 24, 2017
12:38 PM
try right clicking on a problem layer in the project window and selecting "reload footage"
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‎May 24, 2017
12:36 PM
have you restarted your machine since the issue started?
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‎May 24, 2017
09:50 AM
the thread was about saving a project file so I'm assuming that's what you're having trouble with. I've had issues in the past with NAS systems taking a while to save but my local disk being very quick. sometimes it's faster to just save locally and copy up to the NAS. not ideal but if you're in a pinch it helps. especially if the autosave is the big pain.
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‎May 24, 2017
08:34 AM
are you saving to the NAS? have you tried saving to your desktop to see if there's a difference?
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‎May 22, 2017
08:26 PM
yeah that expression won't help you and you're WAY overthinking this. try this: set your comp height to the height of each frame * the number of frames (so 100 frames 100px tall would be a 10,000px tall comp) select ALL layers and set the Position to (0,0) and the Anchor point to (0,0) and all your layers will be a the top of the comp select the first layer and apply the following expression to the position value x = value[0]; y = thisLayer.height*(index-1); [x,y] then select the top layers position, copy, and select ALL layers and paste. your layers will be perfectly spaced out vertically based on their order in the comp.
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‎May 22, 2017
08:09 PM
1 Upvote
yeah Psunami is also very old and in dire need of an update. Have you considered doing it in C4d Lite? you can just make a plane and apply a material with a noise displacement too it to get a similar water surface. from there you just have to worry about getting the lighting right in comp
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‎May 22, 2017
08:04 PM
2 Upvotes
we need some more information to help you out. which version of AE are you using? which OS? any details about the computer you're using? did you try restarting After Effects and trying it again?
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‎May 22, 2017
08:03 PM
ok, there's a LOT to unpack here. so first off, if all you have is video footage of the ocean and sky and the camera moves...that's as realistic as it can be. if you've got 2 stills and you want to be able to perceive parts of the sky and ocean to be nearer and farther away then what you want is called parallax. there's a couple ways to get this. if what you have is a single photo, or perhaps several photos stitched together, then there's 2 ways I go about this. if you want the camera to move forwards or backwards, I suggest splitting the sky and ocean into seperate layers, rotate them on their x access untill they're pointing at the camera, and then animate the camera on the z access. this'll looks sorta like you're flying through space. it'll have issues but it'll get you close. another way is to use mesh warp. I reduce my columns to 1 and rows to 2 and select only the points in the corner of the image. then you animate them EVERY SO SLOWLY from left to right or vice versa. this makes it feel like you're drifting from right to left. if you're getting weird cropping on the edges just use Detail Preserve Upscale to increase the size of the image until you don't see that any more. either that or start w/ an image larger than the final you want and then drop that comp into a new comp the size you want for final render.
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