Coming from Nuke, I'm a bit confused how After Effects has so many time remapping methods that as far as I can tell are just reconfigurations of the same processes. For my purposes AE's Time Warp seems the most powerful and best suited for remapping footage time, but can someone please explain to me when the various other remapping modifiers (available under Layer > Time) are more appropriate?
Thanks forum!
My audio was playing and now it is not playing at all, I tried switching from mp3 to wav still no go why is my audio not playing ? Someone Please help ?!?!?
Hi,
As part of our render/build pipeline, we use a custom plugin to process the file. Are scripts and plugins not supported by render engines? It crashes when we try to use a render engine.
I recently installed my Adobe Creative Suite 6, every program works. Except for After Effects. Crashing before the program even loads, even after repeated re-downloads. I fear the disk may be compromised. What should I do?
Hi there,
For a few weeks, we were experiencing serious issues on After Effects CC 2014. Render with multiprocessing enabled was not as fast as it used to be. Worse: it failed to do more than one render without restarting the app.
After a lot of tests, including uninstalling/cleaning and reinstalling Adobe CC 2014 apps one by one... We can say that current version of Creative Cloud Desktop app includes some shared component that kills multiprocessing in AE CC 2014.
We don't know which component is to be blamed... We don't know why...
So we now work with standalone apps, don't install Creative Cloud managing app and won't update any piece of Adobe software.
All we can say is this: after removing this important function in CC 2015... With no information about how CC 2016 will work on multi-CPU architectures... After removing MXF export in AE... ("But you can use Media Encoder" Do you know Media Encoder is SLOW? Media Encoder should stick to what it does well: encoding. Not rendering.)
Do guys at Adobe realize that we use these tools for work? Stop the mess!
Julien
Creative services - Plani (France)
Our workstations specs:
HP Z820 with 2 Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 @ 2,5GHz
64 GBit RAM
Windows 7 Pro SP1
Hello,
I'm quite new to using After Effects etc. I've bought a stock video of a padlock closing, which I want to place over an image. Obviously I want to get ride of the white background. The video is located on iStock here http://www.istockphoto.com/gb/video/hd-lock-opening-and-closing-gm483989635-2466392?st=541 1556
I want to get rid of the white so it will be transparent. I've tried several options such as keying and also roto tool but none of them work properly and leave either bits of white showing or cut off parts of the image. Or it just changes the contrast colour of the image and makes it go a strange colour/ lose transparency.
If anyone could help me I would really appreciate it!
Thanks
Another project, another annoying CC issue. This time it's in After Effects. This has sadly become the norm with Adobe. But enough of that – on to the issue!
I am getting a blinking composition window, wherein every time I do anything (even move things with the hand tool), my composition window goes blank. Not black, but blank, like there's no composition at all (EXCEPT, strangely, my masks stay where they are). I've included a video to show the issue. Strangely this wasn't issue until I was halfway through my timeline.
Now I am running a green screen key (using Primatte 5.1.3, the latest as of this writing) on 6k .r3d Red Dragon files, so it is a bit intensive. Still, rather odd that my images would just drop out. Restarting After Effects so far is the only way to fix this, but now I'm having to restart every minute or so.
I've tried clearing my image cache and disk cache, which seems to help sometimes, sort of. Can't say for sure. I've also deselected "Reduce Cache size when system is low on memory" which helped a bit. I saw on Creative Cow that was causing similar problems.
I'm running CC 2015, whatever the latest build is as of the time of this post, on a 2015 Macbook Pro 2.5Ghz i7 El Capitan, 16GB RAM, 13GB allocated to Adobe stuff.
Much obliged for any help.
I am trying to rotate every rectangle of these around itself ( I created them in illustrator , imported to AE then created shapes from vector layer ) . However when i rotate , the layer rotates as a whole . To rotate each rectangle i have to go to the transform panel of each one of them ( which i have hundreds of them ) and do it . Which is obviously insane . Any ideas how i can apply a rotate effect that will make each rectangle rotate around itself ? And ofcourse creating a layer for each rectangle is not an option !
I am having a very bizarre issue with suddenly not being able to add a mask to a layer. The tool shows up as it should with a plus sign but when I click to create a point, nothing happens. The first time I tried, it left a point but then each time I tried to click a new point, nothing happened. The layer is not locked or anything and I have mask visibility enabled. I am absolutely clueless as to what could be happening.
I've tried every FBX file I could, I've exported FBX files using every version of FBX available to me (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014) but every time I try to import an FBX file into Cinema 4D Lite (launched from AE CC, everything updated and current) I get a dialog with some options, then a second dialog with information about the available takes and animation length (which is must get from the file) and then I get an error message "Unable to read file <filename>". Doesn't seem to matter what FBX I choose. Every FBX file is readable by Autodesk's FBX Review app so I don't think it's the file(s). Maxon's website seems to indicate that importing FBX was supported by the Lite version of Cinema 4D included with AE CC, but near as I can tell that's not true. Am I missing something? Is there some option I need to check or a specific way I should create an FBX file? I'm running on Windows 7 64bit with current drivers and everything is updated. I get the feeling this just doesn't work at all by design.
I've already made my mask... it's set on add and everything should work out well, but for some reason it isn't cut out from the rest of the chip...!
If I put a new clip under it still nothing happens it's like the mask isn't even there... Am I missing out on some kind of setting, cause it's annoying the hell out of me.
And by the way rendering the clip doesn't work either.
I really appreciate help! Thank you!
Hey there! I was wondering how I would go by doing this effect... 'Super 8' Trailer - YouTube 1:24-1:30
The ball and the film reel look leading into the title.
Thanks a lot!
I have a research project where I need to overlay a scrolling graph representing vibrato (sine wave like change of fundamental frequency) of violin performances.
The video below was made some years ago - overlaying was done manually by screen capturing the graph plotted by a frequency analysis program. This was labor intensive because the program could not plot the whole graph in one shot, and I had to capture multiple screens and put them together before importing to AE.
The program can output the time-frequency text data in one shot (see below), and I am hoping to turn that data into a graph plot in AE, perhaps using stroke effect or something.
Time_s F0_Hz
4.993033 238.870532
5.000533 238.933763
5.008033 239.104388
5.015533 239.433866
....
I am trying to find an answer myself, but meanwhile I am also asking gurus for any suggestions/pointers.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Eitaro Kawaguchi, Engineer
College of Music, Florida State University
So, I'm looking to make a preset that allows me to create a dynamic flipbook/spritesheet. It would be a system that could create a grid of duplicate compositions whose time could be controlled independently (linearly, or randomly).
So for example, here's a flipbook/spritesheet with 4 rows (horizontal) and 4 columns (vertical)
Hey Guys, I've started using AE for awhile now and I need some new transitions. I just looked at this video (Extreme Dimensions 10th Annual Charity Car Show - YouTube)) and I wonder where and how can I get transitions like the camera zoom in and camera zoom out (1.12-1.32 in the video) and the fast gentle slo mo (1.32-1.44 in the video) I really need transitions like that guys. Are there any bundle packs out there that has this type of transitions ? Please reply ASAP
Hello Adobe Hive,
Here's the situation:
I have footage that has a house in a field, and the house has to go, to be replaced by a field, which I'll be cloning from another piece of footage (another angle on the same field without the house). So, at the most basic - it's a footage layer on top, the house masked out, the other footage on the bottom layer, allowing the cloned field to take the place of the house.
Here's the issue:
*Everything* I've tried (rotoscope, basic masks, using a still jpg instead of background footage, 3d Camera Tracking coupled with Ground Planing, Camera Projection + Grid Placement, etc) leaves me with a background layer that shifts position up and down. Why, you ask? The camera is a push in on an actor under said tree, meaning the perspective changes as the push occurs, of course. Regardless of any motion tracking I do, I can't resolve this shaking issue.
I'm sure I've missed something basic, but after two weeks of trying and failing, I need your help!
Thank you in advance.
Hello I'm new at using Adobe After Effects CC 2014 and all the help guilds I look up for After Effects say to change your video output to something like h.264 (MP4) out fit I need to click on the check box called 'Show Deprecated Formats in Output Module Settings', BUT will doesn't appear on my options area. Only three options are in that section, but nothing named that. Can someone please help me with this problem?!
Random white dots appear over my text layers when the RAY-TRACE option is turned on
I have tried playing with the anti-aliasing .
And ray Trace quality but dots wont go away unless i go back to classic 3d
my deadline was yesterday and I am stuck on this Please help!
i think it may be something in the material's options I also played alot with them
and the dots did move a little but i found no way to get rid of them
many Thanks Adam
I'm having some trouble with AE CS6. In the above screenshot you can see I have a layer selected that's within view of the composition preview window and the layers panel, yet there's no bar/element in the layers panel. You can still see the position keyframes that mark where the layer bar should be in the timeline, approximately. Anyone know what's going on here? Again, the layer is within view, I'm not the stupid
Hey guys,
I just switched to CC and when I go to draw a mask with the pen tool on a PSD layer, the first point is drawn fine, and the mask is created on the layer but when I go to click the second point it won't draw anything. Also after I click the first point and the mask is created, the pen tool switches to the add vertex tool and I can't get it back to regular pen tool to keep drawing. I drew a shape with the pen tool and it works fine. I drew a mask on a regular layer and it works fine. It only does this when drawing a mask on a PSD layer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks