um, IF clean is a euphemism... whatever trail of internet bread crumbs led me to cleaner, it was because something suggested that the fix for acrobat being unable to deinstall might be using cleaner... My point is that something like 'Are you sure you want to delete your apps' might be a useful guardrail ... View more

My puppet has all sorts of handles but I can't see them in the rigging panel   any thoughts? thanks!!     ... View more

Yes, a whole combination of issues has me seriously reconsidereing Premiere... ... View more

THIS solved it for me -- Why Adobe, why so many bizarre little roadblocks...? ... View more

Has this been resolved at all? The way I noticed it was that I'm going through a long clip, dropping selects into the timeline, using a shortcut to reactivate the source monitor and my in and out points are gone...so I have to match frame from the clip I just put into the timeline.   I have to say the level of bugginess I'm experiencing trying to finish a project on a tight deadline has me really packing my bags on Premiere...stop adding features if the fundamentals are not rock solid.   Weirdness with multicams , etc. etc....if you can't trust that your work is safe, it's an incredible added stress.     With Creative Cloud we are literally SHOVELLING money at you.  150 years ago AVID was rock solid...I am SO ready to drop this. ... View more

The situation I find myself in is that I have a lot of flying videos of talking heads. The client wants talking head number one to talk longer.   So all my other talking heads have to start flying later...so I'd like to be able to add however much time to the head of each of them so all their key frames when they start flying don't need to be moved.   Am I misunderstanding your workflow?  Because what I'd like is to be able to only move the keyframes of my talking heads pre-flight earlier by however extra long talking head number one is talking?   The workaround I am imagining/about to try is pre-composing my flying heads and then duplicating it, then having the pre-flight section on one of them start earlier... ... View more

Thanks.  When you duplicate a scene multiple times, do you end up renumbering the older versions? like second version: Dsty_4.3-1 * newest Dsty_4.3-2 * original   third version Dsty_4.3-1 * newest Dsty_4.3-2 * second version Dsty_4.3-3 * original, renamed from Dsty_4.3-2   and the situation that prompted my question today was that I'm replacing a shot that was called:   sc 9_thworp_WS_branch_impacts_catwalk_20220831_ vers4.mov   and I *think* I want to be able to track that the source of my new version was from a project dated 20220831, but it will now be in a project dated 20221208   so for the time being I'm keeping a spreadsheet where I have    TYPE DATE PROJECT NAME SEQUENCE SOURCES OUTPUTS   NOTES     DB_sc 9_WS_branch_impacts_catwalk_20221208.aep sc 9_thworp_WS_branch_impacts_catwalk_20221208 DB_sc 9_WS_branch_impacts_catwalk_20220830.aep         Which may be overkill, but in my animation I've got essentially a 3d 'set' that over the course of the project has been modified 'to camera' sometimes - so my fear is discovering down the road that I've had some glaring inconsistency in an old iteration and need to be able to track back where the mistake originated to be able to weed it out of all the subsequent shots... ... View more

Thanks! I came across this: app.project.activeItem.id from a 2013 post and there was also this post from premium beat about opening assets in original project using 'edit original' - though now it seems to just open my clips in Quicktime... I think I'll just have to get (more) disciplined with a naming convention protocol like Rick's...mine is *close* but perhaps can be even more rigourous.   thanks John ... View more

That made me look up how cosine works...which funnily enough has been a semi-goal for awhile "relearn high school math"... oh the rabbit holes these expressions open up! ... View more

Maestro!   I'm going to pore over it to see if I can make sense of it - already I was able to semi brute force a result by making a controller with sliders for each segments rotation...while I was still doing the initial position manually, it let me play with the pitch yaw and roll until I got a semi passable result.   But your project is far more interesting...   thanks! ... View more

Thanks again!   It looks like a VERY elegant approach...that I don't quite understand all the pieces of.   All the best John ... View more

I got part of the way.  At least far enough that the expression didn't have syntax errors...  I've attached the sequence if you have time to look -- the catwalks are basically just rectangular prisms. I didn't try the rotation - probably why my catwalks just 'stacked' thanks again       ... View more

Thanks That may be beyond my pay grade unfortunately... but I'm going to try it...     In the meantime I tried to brute force it.  I can sort of see where the trigonometry comes in as I had to calculate my x and y displacements after positioning the first one manually...   The best I have come up with is to have an original 'neutral' element duplicate it  orient it along z 20 degrees (so my catwalks go 'up') slide it along x  raise it along y  then rotate on y so it curves inwards   then repeat with the added step of parenting the previous layers to the 'new' one after I duplicated it and oriented it...   but I'm off to learn how to set up sliders and controllers!  Thanks! ... View more

Is there a way for the selected tracks in the timeline to override the source tracks patching?   i.e to just be able to select where you want the video and not have to line up the patching?   ... View more

Thanks!   Another thing I learned since posting this is how each view can have it's own view options - which seems pretty useful.  And that you can open another viewer if you want more than 4 views. Sort of a follow up question : is there a way to have more than 3 custom views?  I've been using different cameras as a kind of work around... thanks ! ... View more

Is there a way to selectively hide layer handles?  I'm trying to get a handle on a composition that has layer bloat... ... View more

Thanks! I'll try that. I remember it happening months ago, and then I'd not run into it for awhile, so it became one of those frustrating things 'have I figured this out already?' John ... View more

Did you ever resolve this issue?  I'm having something similar.  My old Animate 2018 seemed to handle this kind of thing better, but the updated one seems way more lossy.   ... View more

Has this issue been properly resolved?   The workaround I'm playing with is to treat 'Scene 1' - as an export tool. I make all my individual scenes as symbols with multiple layers etc, and then just drop it into an empty scene 1 when I want to export.     ... View more