Hi!
I have a 160 layers that make up a very detailed snow flake.
I want the layers to disperse away and out of frame.
Is there a way of doing this using expressions or scripts?
I've been looking into it a bit and can't seem to find anything like this...
Thanks for your help!
Daniela
hi. i am new in after effects. i tried to run an extention(html5 panel) from a plugin c++ code...
is it possible? if not possible how can i run jsx file instead of extention?
One of the features in AfterEffects I use more than anything, but notice the least out of all of them, was the pinch-zoom and two-finger scroll. I'm not sure if you can use these features on PC but if you've got a trackpad on your Mac, you've probably become just as dependent on this feature as I have. You can not only scroll and zoom on your preview, but you can scroll and zoom on your timeline as well, which is just the stuff dreams are made of.
But for some reason in AfterEffects, this amazing, intuitive feature has been removed/altered in the last 2 updates! I just installed the latest one this morning and the feature remains unfixed. I mean, you can still zoom on the preview but it just zooms in and out of 0,0 rather than centrally and certainly not where you put the cursor like before. And yes, the scroll works in the timeline, but the zooming isn't!
This feature isn't replaceable before you tell me to just use '+/-' instead. This is sacred.
My perfect resolve to this question is for someone to tell me there's a checkbox I need to go tick buried deep in the preferences somewhere.
If not:
ADOBE STOP SCREWING ME
Thank you
I've been wanting a solution for this for a while but haven't needed it until now.
I'm wanting to stabilise position and rotation of a clip.
After Effects however is only skilled enough to track one of the two faint points of the clip, and I'd like to apply data from a track in Mocha to the bad track point in After Effects.
Is this possible, and if so, how?
Hi everyone.
Greetings from Porto, Portugal.
I am in need of some help with replicating the flowing lines seen in this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Kd61Y0cqU ) from seconds 14 to 25.
I can manage to animate the lines using 3D Stroke or manually animating a mask shape but what is puzzling me is the flowing, organic, color changing nature of the line.
Any idea how i might go about achieving this?
Thanks
João Nuno
I was loading up after effects when I got this message, I have looked online for many ways to fix this, but could not find any. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I am trying to make 3d text have shadows. When I point the light to the text, it doesn't cast anything, even with cast shadows switched on. If anyone else knows how to fix this, please let me know what I'm doing wrong??!
Thanks
Can someone tell me why shape layer isn't one solid colour throughout? (This shot is zoomed in - that shape you see is 8 pixels tall, and the top and bottom pixels aren't the same shade of grey as the rest.)
Always, when I ram preview in AE (even if everything is already cached), the audio plays just a couple of frames then there is no audio for a second or two and then it plays almost normal (sometimes there are other audio skips, it seems when starts another audio layer).
I had this problem in AE CC 2015, then there was un update that solves the problem (CC 2015.3 I guess). But when I upgraded to CC 2017 the problem came back again, and now that I have tried to re install CC 2015.3 I still have the same problem.
I'm using AE on windows 10. I've noticed that, if I uncheck "mute audio when preview is not Real-Time" option in Preferences, the problem disapper, but the audio slow pitch is very annoying.
Please tell me how to solve it, I'm wasting a lot of time.
This is strange (or par for the course, I suppose). I have a number of shapes with wiggle expression pre-composed.
In the main composition, when I drag the CTI the expressions evaluate fine. But when i play back, via whatever the preview is called now, the expressions DO NOT evaluate. It's not a refresh issue because when I stop the preview the shapes do not jump to a new position.
I've tried different resolutions.
I've tried with and without rasterization.
& I've tried rendering to a final format.
For whatever reason the expression evaluate when I drag the CTI but not on playback or rendering.
Latest greatest version of After(thought) Effects
Hi there,
I'd been using a wireless Intuos Pro on windows 7 with After Effects no problem until the latest update. Now running After Effects CC version 14.1.0.57 and "click and holding" causes jumping.
For example when trying to scrub on the timeline - the position on the timeline will massively jump. Or when trying to when scrub numerical values - the numbers will massively jump. This happens when the pen movement even slightly pauses (so pen is still pressed but we temporarily pause the scrub, effectively a click and hold). The scrub jumps back to correct position when the pen starts to move again. The effect is all over the place, jittery jumping numbers and timeline position!
I've noticed that it also seems to be registering that change in state of the pen movement in Photoshop when drawing. If I pause drawing a line (but keeping the pen pressed - effectively a click and hold) the cursor disappears as if it's trying to perform another action, until the pen starts moving again. Although this doesn't effect the usability of Photoshop.
It's something that has only just appeared, so I assume possibly during the recent Adobe update. It's making AE almost unusable with a Wacom!
Currently on the most up to date Wacom driver (and we've tried rolling back to previous Wacom driver). Any help much appreciated!
I have applied tracking data to the positions of both clone brush stroke and clone source and then used an expression to offset the tracking data and return the stroke and clone source point to the original position in order to remove an object from the composition.
First attempt (including a line break):
thisComp.layer("
tracker").transform.position-[3027-1615.5, 1509-1663.5]
Result: "Error: Unterminated String Constant"
Second attempt (deleted line break):
thisComp.layer("tracker").transform.position-[3027-1615.5, 1509-1663.5]
Result: "Error: Layer named "tracker" is missing or does not exist" (but it definitely does, and is named properly)
I tried a semi-colon ";" at the end of the line. No luck.
Third attempt:
deltaX = 3027 - 1615.5;
deltaY = 1509 - 1663.5;
x = thisComp.layer("tracker").transform.position[0];
y = thisComp.layer("tracker").transform.position[1];
[x-deltaX, y-deltaY];
Result: "Error: Layer named "tracker" is missing or does not exist"
Why is it telling me the layer doesn't exit when it does? Is this a bug or am I doing something incorrectly? I am using AE CC 2017. Is there a way to fix the error, or do I need to find a new method to use the clone stamp with tracking data?
I continually run into this issue of After Effects "Unable to acquire rendered frame" when using the warp stabilizer while dynamically linked through Premiere Pro. Running off of After Effects CC 2017 and Premiere Pro CC 2017 (Most up to date versions of both.) on a late 2015 iMac (Processor: 4Ghz Intel Core i7, Memory: 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB). I'm working with 6K and 8K .R3D files that are zooming in and out on a 4K UHD timeline (Not sure if that's important to note.) I am able to use warp stabilizer in AE without a problem if I import the files by hand into a new comp, but this is rather arduous when I'm trying to work with a number of clips that I've already cut to size and scaled in premiere that I had hoped to simply dynamic link and do graphics work with in AE. Has anyone else encountered the issue? Any help would be much appreciated!
Why this may happen? When i click right mouse button in any panel in composition i exit from SHIFT+\ mode. But when i don't have composition i only exit when focus in Project panel. El Capitan 10.11.6 and AE CC 2014.2
Hi Recently my Ae And Pr trials have done this please help.
Hey all! I used to be able to have AE and PR open at the same time, my finished render sitting in a Premiere timeline. I'd then go make changes in AE, render and replace the file, go back to PR and it would refresh in the timeline. Now AE gives me the "Baaa!" (I HATE THAT SOUND SO MUCH) and says it can't overwrite the file because its in use. Now I have to go into the exports folder, delete the original and cut and paste the correct name and then alt+tab to PR and it will refresh as expected. Feels like 2012 all over again.
I recently switched to a PC from a MacBook, so is this an OS-level issue or is there an Adobe setting somewhere I've forgotten about?
I've searched the forums, so for clarity's sake: this is NOT an imbedded composition in my timeline. This is rendered footage.
hi
I'm experiencing two possibly related bugs in the render queue.
1. I queue up a number of renders and hit go, but the RQ lists all the items in the queue as starting at the same time, i.e. the time the first render began.
2. When I reopen a project it lists all the previous renders as having taken 0 seconds to complete.
both very frustrating when trying to optimise render times on big comps.
anyone else having this issue ?
CC17 14.1.0.57 on a 2010 MacPro os 10.11.6
I have a clip (layer) which in the end is going to zoom in. The second clip (layer) is overlapping the first layer, but instead of zooming in, I want this layer to zoom in at the same time the first clip is zooming in. The problem is that the camera is zooming in on both of them. The camera is affecting everything in the canvas. So how to I separate this to layers?
I have read about pre-composing, but I don't get it to work. It still affecting both layers. Both clips needs to be in 3D.
hi. my problem is about how to drag an item from extention(html5 panel) and drop it in a Comp or footage or .. . i heard latest version of CEP supports drag and drop... but is it possible in afterEffects to drag and drop items from extention to afterEffects? if possible can u Give me a sample code?
Thanks.
Hi
I have a cartoon spaceship that I want to show in a "cartoony" outer space location.
I have 3d turned on on all layers and am using a camera in the foreground.
In the foreground is earth, with the moon and other planets each on their own layer, going into the distance.
If possible I want that little spaceship to follow a path starting on earth and wandering through the galaxy to Pluto -- attached to a motion parth.
So my question is, can a path start on one Null layer and end on another null layer -- in the 3d "world"?
Using the latest version of After Effects CC.
Thanks!
Rowby