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Mike_Abbott
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Mike_Abbott
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‎Jul 22, 2017
11:48 AM
In Windows 10 go to: Display settings > Advanced display settings > Advanced sizing of text and other items. In the descriptive text you will find a link: "set a custom scaling level (not recommended)" Make sure that is set to 100%
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‎Jul 21, 2017
06:11 AM
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Awesome reply Mr. GF You are the man I am going to come to for all my future sliding-a-piece-of-a-paper-onto-screen animations!
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‎Jul 15, 2017
09:26 AM
1 Upvote
Perhaps this would be an appropriate point to abandon ship and let the infamous TIF thread die a natural death...
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‎Jul 15, 2017
03:34 AM
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Gutter-Fish wrote I converted one of the TIFFs to a TARGA...They save at exactly the same size. Yes - as expected. They are holding the RGB(A) data in exactly the same way (assuming you've not used any of the available compression options). They should also render out at the same speed. I'm just not too sure about how much support Targa has in other editors. Premiere will import them - but I think Davinci Resolve won't. Curiosity got the better of me and I did a quick test render of a very simple motion graphics piece - just 12 seconds: TIFF sequence (uncompressed) : 24 seconds render time, file size: 443 MB PNG sequence : 48 seconds render time, file size 137 MB Take your pick : ) This was a very simple project - just a handful of stills, one video layer, and a few expressions - so the difference is maximised here. If the project the was taking a minute a frame to render the extra time to compress to PNG would add a very minor amount of time and probably be insignificant.
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‎Jul 14, 2017
10:05 AM
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It would certainly be worth testing - you'd be dealing with much bigger file sizes of course. Good question on the targa files. I think you're right about targa and tiff arriving around the same time. 'Back in the day' tiff was used in the print industry, targa just in the TV world. Desktop video as we know it know didn't exist of course. That TV/video v print background became ingrained - so that's probably why you would have been directed to render targa when learning Maya. Tiff developed into a much more flexible format - layers, alpha, various possible compression options built in etc. while Targa remained a fairly basic - but perfectly good quality format. You can reneder out Targa from AE, but I've not done so in many years. My guess is that the 'better true colour' capability comment is a historical one. When they were introduced I think targa was 'full colour' eg 8 bits per channel, while tiff was not. Tiff rapidly caught up. There would be no difference in quality - so yes, pretty much interchangable in that respect.
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‎Jul 14, 2017
09:23 AM
1 Upvote
Correct. You'll also find rendering an image sequence to PNG is slower than to TIFF - because the PNG's need to be compressed.
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‎Jul 14, 2017
09:18 AM
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No compression - faster processing - but bigger file sizes. You can save tiff with various forms of compression - LZW, ZIP - even JPEG, yes you can save a TIFF with internal JPEG compression! You'd probably find 90% of modern software won't be able to read them. PNG is massively superior in most situations - smaller files, same quality.
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‎Jul 14, 2017
09:13 AM
1 Upvote
Yes - the huge sizes are 'normal'. Tiff is uncompressed, png is compressed - but lossless compression, so you don't loose anything when you open it.
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‎Jul 14, 2017
09:08 AM
I'd love to see a Premiere Pro style shortcut editor in Ae too - and I have requested it : ) What I'd like to see even more is that Adobe get their product teams to talk and work with each other so we don't end up with a different design of keyboard shortcut editor (or any other common feature) in every application...
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‎Jul 14, 2017
08:50 AM
1 Upvote
sometimes you just start a conversation by asking the wrong question... LOL! for me: TIF extension TIFF when written GIF as in gift JPEG as in party... not pharty : ) anyway... moving on... Did you know that TIFF was created back in 1986 by the Aldus Corp for use in desktop publishing!
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‎Jul 14, 2017
08:01 AM
1 Upvote
Here's an idea... As this is the .TIF Files thread - let's make this the repository of all things TIF relating to Ae! TIF trivia, if you like : ) Let's start withn the basics... Should it be TIF or TIFF ?
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‎Jul 14, 2017
02:42 AM
1 Upvote
We could make this the longest thread on the After Effects forum - EVER! : )
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‎Jul 13, 2017
04:08 PM
1 Upvote
The only bar you really need is one in which you can crack open a beer and bask in the knowledge that a 100 or so people are now better off because of your contributions Having said that, maybe we should keep this thread going - ping-pong style. 5 points per post... we could get you there in 600 messages : )
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‎Jul 13, 2017
12:29 PM
Have you got all the solo switches ON? - that is with the white dot showing? ...then I would expect to see that behaviour. In normal use all the solo switches should be OFF - blank.
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‎Jul 13, 2017
06:53 AM
or use BAO BOA...
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‎Jul 13, 2017
03:16 AM
2 Upvotes
Hey Paul - I'm honored that it was yourself that tipped me over the 500 point mark to become a '4 bar general' -ist... ; )
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‎Jul 13, 2017
03:06 AM
1 Upvote
Ps won't automatically convert the tiff alpha directly into transparency on opening - unlike AE, which does. But you can get transparency from the alpha very easily once open in Photoshop: 1. open your tiff 2. channels panel - Ctrl click on the alpha thumbnail (to load it as a selection) 3. layers panel - 3rd button from the left at the bottom of the layers panel (add layer mask) ...but if you've got a lot - I'd just load them into AE and render them out as a PNG sequence with alpha at the reduced scale you want : )
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‎Jul 12, 2017
12:31 PM
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This is actually a little bit tricky to do manually, so I've written you an expression... 1. set up a null - rename it "center" 2. Put your first fruit layer directly underneath the null layer. On that first fruit layer put this expression onto the position property: majorA = 600; minorA = 300; LrTot = 8; nullPos = thisComp.layer("center").position; nullRot = thisComp.layer("center").rotation; LrNum = index-2; angle = degreesToRadians((360/LrTot*LrNum)+nullRot); x=majorA/2*Math.cos(angle); y=minorA/2*Math.sin(angle); nullPos+[x, y] You will need to change the numbers on the first three lines: majorA = the width of your ellipse minorA = the height of your ellipse LrTotal = the total number of layers to be distributed around your ellipse Highlight the position property on that layer. Go to the Edit menu > Copy expression only. Put your other fruit layers directly under the first one. Select your other layers. Edit > Paste. To animate the rotation - Animate the rotation value of the 'center' null.
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‎Jul 12, 2017
09:54 AM
1 Upvote
Just out of interest : what was the 'old' Ae version number - where the file is OK, and what version were you using when it was offset?
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‎Jul 12, 2017
09:42 AM
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An analogy of your situation: You've decided you'd like to take up painting as a hobby. You've been to the art shop, bought a handful of brushes and some oil paint. You're now asking : "How do I paint a realistic portrait?". Start here : Adobe After Effects Learn & Support Do some tutorials, learn the basics and you'll soon be underway.
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‎Jul 12, 2017
01:48 AM
From my (very limited ) experience you can import Art Smart 'imports' into AE, but Art Smart 'Objects' need to be converted to standard C4D objects using 'current state to object' in C4D. You'd need to check this on a C4D forum. Does Cineversity itself have a forum? If so, that would be my first port of call.
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‎Jul 11, 2017
04:07 PM
Glad to be of help : ) PS : Rick Gerard already has more than enough forum points - he doesn't need any more! : )
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‎Jul 11, 2017
06:41 AM
Interesting comment about the timecode shift - noted! Thanks to you both : )
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‎Jul 11, 2017
05:42 AM
Please watch the two videos on this page: Basics of rendering and exporting in After Effects CC
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‎Jul 11, 2017
04:35 AM
I think all of us Windows jockeys must be button lovers... I just wish this worked with after effects... 3Dconnexion : SpaceMouse Enterprise Who doesn't want to pilot the Enterprise? : ) However... back on theme... logitech is generally OK: This is supposed to be pretty good, although it's tiny - a laptop mouse: Ultrathin Touch Mouse T630 - Bluetooth Mouse for Windows - Logitech or you could go balls up M570 Wireless Trackball - Logitech
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‎Jul 11, 2017
04:15 AM
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On the right you have the Effects and Presets panel. within that you have the *Animation Presets folder. Go to: *Animation Presets > Presets > Backgrounds > Curtain. Do not apply 'Fractal noise' to your layer - simply drag the preset to your layer, or double click the preset if your layer is selected.
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‎Jul 10, 2017
02:22 PM
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Everything you need is right here... courtesy of the generosity (and genius) of Mr Dan Ebberts... : ) Expression Speed and Frequency Control Scroll to the bottom of the page - looks like pretty much exactly what you want to do.
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