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Paragraph text anchor point does not update

September 20, 2017, 12:04 pm
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Hi,

 

I'm running into a problem with anchor points for paragraph text in After Effects 14.2.1.34. When the text box for paragraph text is resized, the anchor point does not update, it just stays in the center of the initial text box. My paragraph panel was set to centered text, though I don't think that matters for the anchor point. After Effects continues to report the text position (Transform: Position) as the position of the anchor point.

 

To replicate this:

- Click the Horizontal Type Tool.

- Click on the canvas and drag the mouse to make a large box. (This will create "paragraph text" instead of "point text".)

- Type some text in the box. Click the Selection Tool to end text entry.

 

At this point you will have a text layer with a text box, and its anchor point is centered in the text box. Use Selection Tool, click the text and you can see handles around the text and the anchor point.

AnchorPoint1.png

 

Use Horizontal Type Tool, click the text and you will see the text box (but not the anchor point).

AnchorPoint2.png

 

- Now resize the text box (I made it much smaller). The anchor point stays in its original location, and is no longer centered in the text box.

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AnchorPoint4.png

The anchor point is reporting (0, 0) and the text is reporting its position as the position of the anchor point - which is not the text position any longer. This happens in the After Effects UI and from the plugin SDK.

 

Is there a way to find the actual text position in this circumstance? (From script or from the SDK). Or am I missing something that accounts for this offset between the text position and anchor point?

 

Related post: Getting a box text anchor point after resizing it

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'Shake' in final composition, but not within pre-comp?

September 20, 2017, 12:15 pm
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Hi all,

 

Hoping this will be a simple answer, and apologies if it's been asked before -

 

I have an image sequence (series of photos take in a timelapse) that I've applied stabilisation to. That footage is then pre-composed within another composition, and I've applied another pass of stabilisation to that pre-composition to make sure it's rock solid. When previewing the composition containing the pre-comped original footage, everything is steady, however when I move the same composition into my 'final' composition and preview that, it shakes around! Going crazy trying to work out what's going on! Does anyone have any advice?

 

To map out the compositions:

 

Final overall composition (no stablisation applied to intermediate composition at this level) - when previewing at this level, the footage shakes about?

contains

Intermediate Composition (stabilisation applied - anchor points keyframed) - when previewing at this level everything is steady

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Composition with footage (stabilisation applied - anchor points keyframed)

 

Cheers!

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Start Up of AE CS5 on Windows 10 Crashing

August 20, 2017, 12:49 pm
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Help please! I am not getting past this crash and I've searched for answers everywhere! I get the following when I start up CS%:

after effects error: crash occurred while invoking plug-in "scripting" . "

Does anyone know what I need to do to resolve this?

Thanx

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AE Problema di linguaggio

September 20, 2017, 1:39 pm
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After Effects Workspace

September 1, 2017, 7:07 am
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I am having an issue when I save a workspace in After Effects.  I create 2 timelines stacked on top of each other.  One for Parent Comps and one for the nested (editable) comps.  I have a lot of comps and it makes it easier to edit with 2 timeline panels than just one really long one.  Problem is that when I get it set, save it in my workspace and then close AE and reopen, it doesn't remember the dual timeline panel nor does it pull up when I load my workspace.

 

This is very annoying and time consuming to have to set it up every time I open my project.

 

After Effects Version 14.2.0.198
Windows 10 64 bit

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Unable to execute script at line 1. Expected: )

July 30, 2017, 1:38 pm
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Hi everyone,

 

I'm trying to export from AE to Cinema 4D and keep having the same error ( Unable to execute script at line 1. Expected: ) ).

 

I have done this loads of times and cant seem to find anything online about this issue. I have done this loads of times in the past and it has worked. Only thing that has changed in the past month or two is updating to MacOS Sierra, Could this be causing the issue?

 

 

 

MacBook Pro ( Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014 )

Processor 2.6 Ghz intel Core i5

Memory 8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3

Graphics Intel Iris 1536 MB

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AE 11.0.4.2 | 3D Layer Crash

September 20, 2017, 3:02 pm
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First off, here is my setup via Element 3D System Info:

 

Build: Element x64 2.2.2 (2155.hotfix)

OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 10.0.15063

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor        

RAM: 32720MB (technically 64 but the mobo Bios isn't updated for my DIMMS. Windows posts 64gb with "32gb available" to hardware)

GPU Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

GPU: AMD Radeon (TM) Pro WX 7100 Graphics

GPU Driver: 22.19.161.0

GPU RAM: 6770MB

GPU Code: 0

CL0: Ellesmere (90.9%) (GL Interop)

CL1: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor          (9.1%)

 

Here is my issue:

 

Every time I make a 3D layer out of a solid, After Effects, consistently flickers rapidly and/or becomes completely non-responsive to input while employing between 91-98% of the CPU. This occurs even when the preview is at a third or quarter preview and fast draft turned on.

 

I'm wondering if this is a normal symptom of using a dated version (though I remember when CS6 was hot off the press, I had this issue as well on an Intel/Nvidia rig).

I've multi-processing enabled, an entire drive dedicated to cache, and am devoting 26gb of RAM to AE.

 

I feel like I'm missing something really simple, but have no idea what it is. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

 

Warmly,

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My preview is just staying grey?

September 20, 2017, 5:24 pm
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this problem started last week when I pressed a random button by accident my preview is not going green and it takes about 5 minutes to actually show what I've been working on. I'm in no way experienced for video editing in the first place, I've only started after effects a couple of months back. My friend told me to purge my disk cache or whatever, i did that and it didn't work. I have a project due in a week from now and it's  really irritating that my after effects is somewhat slower than it used to be. please don't try to speak technically to me I'm just a mere teenager trying to make amv's.

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Double Clicking a comp in the timeline doesn't work...

December 19, 2012, 7:57 am
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Just this morning when I tried to double-click a comp in my timeline to open it (like I have a hundred times before) it doesn't open it. Instead it brings it into the window like it was footage.

However, If I right-click and goto "Open Comp" it works fine, it just takes far longer.

 

Any idea how to change it back?

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TimeWarp not extending or remapping length of clip

July 13, 2017, 8:05 pm
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Hi,

 

Since the 2017 update it appears that After Effects isn't time warping clips the way it used to in early 2017.  Did something change? Or am I doing something wrong?

 

Simply, if I had a clip that was 10 seconds long and I Time Warped it to 50% it should become 20 seconds. It doesn't do that anymore, it just changes the speed of the first part of the clip and then cuts it off.

 

I tried enabling "time remapping" this doesn't work either.

 

Please help.

 

Baby step me through this.

 

Also, If I have the clip in Premiere and I then dynamic link the clip to AE, will the same process work or do I have to do something else?

 

THANK YOU! So frustrating.

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After Effect Comp Window Glitch

September 20, 2017, 5:22 pm
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Oki so I've been using After Effects for the past 14 years and never accounted this kind of problem. I believe it may be to do with a PC Laptop / Windows / Sleep mode thing... Although I might be wrong. Just wanted to see how many people out there get the same thing.

 

I recently bought a PC laptop (The strong kind with the latest Graphics card 1080 Nvidia with 16 GB ram and SSD) I set up all of my creative cloud on SSD and been working on it for a couple of week... Lately I've noticed after I finish working in After Effects and turn it off every time I  switch my laptop to sleep mode and switch it back on in like 10 hour or so when I open After Effects I get blank screen (Gray or White sometimes) on my comp window. It is not a zoom thing or anything to do with a mark I've checked... and In fact if I restart my computer everything goes to normal. It is best for me not to restart my computer everyday, as it is very annoying that i have to do the set up every frikn morning... I never had this problem on my Mac Laptop ( When I the exact same thing on it )

 

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Please look at the zoom 1.5% (At this point I should see my screen.)

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Installing a custom effect on a Mac

September 20, 2017, 7:16 pm
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I purchased an custom effect that is in a .txt (text) format and the instructions included in the download apply only to Windows OS; the file required to enter the text into does not exist on my OS. I am unsure how to install this text file as a custom effect.

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Pushing inward in Z space causes 2d layer to appear

September 20, 2017, 9:40 pm
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Hi I'm stuck on trying to figure out why this is happening.

 

So I have a bunch of waves in 3D that I made using Audio Spectrum. When I push the camera in on the Z axis the original 2D layer will appear behind them at a certain point. It does not have it's own layer, it's spawning from the 3D layers.

 

How do I get rid of that?

 

Please and thank you for your help.

 

 

Screens attached.

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I need Ae to show seconds, but my only options are frames and timecode

September 20, 2017, 10:03 pm
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I followed the tip of pressing command click on the left-hand part of the time window. But all I can get are frames and something called time code, which doesn't resemble seconds at all.  I'm on a Mac, and using the latest version of Ae.  Screenshots won't load for some reason, but timecode is a weird number like 00500 which is confusing to me.

 

Please help!

 

Thanks

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Keylight Crashing After Effects

April 13, 2016, 7:10 am
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Hello,

 

For the past few weeks Keylight has been crashing on me constantly while i use Ram Preview. It's a right pain especially when you are working on a green screen heavy project with a deadline looming. Several weeks ago it worked fine, no issues. However recently its just been crashing non stop, after checking my events viewer every error log states 'KEYLIGHT' as the problem. I currently have the newest most up to date version of the the software, have tried uninstalling/reinstalling the software, tried downgrading to previous versions of After Effects and have even re installed windows several times. I even changed my graphics card in a hope that would solve the issue but nope. My new graphics card driver is up to date and I have tried the keylight 1.2v16 update via The Foundry

 

I have contacted Adobe Technical support but they said that it's an issue with Keylight and to take it up with the. I have tried to get in contact with the Foundry numerous times via male and phone... but to no avail.

 

I have noticed several people have a similar issue to me, and I was wondering if they have found a solution to this?

 

I have attached images of my specs and error logs -

keylight error 2.jpg

 

keylight error.jpg

 

Previous Graphics Card

GIGABYTE - Graphics Card - NVIDIA - PCI Express Solution - GeForce 600 Series - GV-N650OC-2GI (rev. 1.0)

 

Current Graphics Card

GIGABYTE - Graphics Card - NVIDIA - PCI Express Solution - GeForce 900 Series - GV-N960IXOC-4GD

 

I would really appreciate any help you guys could give me as this is affecting my job and I really have no idea what to do at this point.

 

Thanks,

Oliver Jones

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Is there any way to make polar coordinates follow a custom shape?

September 20, 2017, 11:29 pm
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I'm trying to follow this shockwave tutorial, and I was thinking it would be great if I could make the shockwaves expand out of a given shape, like a custom mask or something, rather than just a circle.   But I am not able to think of how that could be achieved.  Does anyone have any ideas?  I'll post the video below. 

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

Shockwave Tutorial 100% in After Effects! - YouTube

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Massive Renderproblem with AE 2017.2 on Win10x64

September 21, 2017, 8:27 am
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Hello Folks,

 

I have an HD Comp with 8-10 6k JPGs/PSDs, part of which are animated in precomps. These Images are 3D Layers and the camera is moving around showing different parts of the pictures. Every time I try to render to h264 or any other codec, AE fills up all the Ram (64 gb) and then my screen goes black. The computer is not rebooting or anything it just freezes and is unresponsive with a black monitor. My whole footage bin is around 10 gig so how can it even fill up the ram so much? It is doing that also while working on the comp but it doesnt freeze while working only when rendering.

 

I have another machine with 32 gigs of ram, which can handle the project just fine. Whats the problem with the stronger machine? What can I do?

 

 

Here are my system specs:

Win10x64

64Gb Ram(all checked, no errors)

Asus x99 MB

i7 6900k

Asus GTX 1080 with newest Drivers

 

Thank you!

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Rotate each other particle

September 21, 2017, 8:36 am
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Hello everyone,

 

I'd like to make a particle system in Trapcode Form that looks like this: Ashampoo® Web Upload

If I have a single triangle how can I achieve that every other triangle rotates 180 degrees

and how can I change the offset so the lower particle move to the right/left.

 

I'd still like to be able to change transparency and size of every single triangle sing Fractal Field,

so using a shape that has multiple triangles doesn't realy work.

 

I'm sorry for my bad grammar/spelling and hope you still understood my problem and that you are able to help me.

Thank you in advance.

 

~Hannes F.

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How can i export correctly an animation with AME OR AE?

September 19, 2017, 4:23 am
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Hello!

im trying to export an animation for youtube (h264 / vimeo 1080p hd) with Adobe Media Encoder CC but every time it stops rendering and pops a "failed"note like "The Operation was interrupted by user" and "Encoding Failed".

Can anyone please help me?

Do i have to change the settings?

Thanks a lot

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Need advice on replicating this magma cracks "expanding flow" effect.

September 21, 2017, 2:30 pm
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Currently I'm trying to replicate this flowing magma in After Effects: http://i.imgur.com/u3OsUBJ.gifv

 

What I want to do is have the animation start at the bottom of the composition, with the cracks closer together, then flow up to the top while the space between the cracks expands. Here is a sloppy example I made: https://i.imgur.com/dR7TnVS.png

It doesn't need to be as intricate as this. I would also like to find a way to loop the animation (15 seconds), so the "texture" should repeat.

 

Any ideas on how I could achieve this? I was thinking fractal noise of some kind and simply warping it so it becomes larger at the top, but after messing around for a bit I couldn't figure out how to make the fractal noise into cracks.

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