Realtime Linking C4D Camera With After Effects

November 30, 2018, 7:11 am

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Hi!

So there is this awesome integration called Cineware that allows you to link C4D projects with After Effects. I use it very often, especially the multi-pass function and extracting nulls and cameras.

HOWEVER - Often I create camera animations inside C4D when I do 3D rendering projects and then I extract them using Cineware and use the camera as the main camera layer in AE. The problem is, during the iteration development of my projects I usually have to change the animation of the camera, which means I have to end up re-extracting the camera from C4D to AE.

My question:

---Is it possible to link your C4D camera to AE in real-time and use it as a main camera in AE, rather than having to re-import and re-extract it again?? I am not using C4D's standard render engine. I ONLY need C4D's camera and I do everything else in AE.

I hope my question is clear enough...

THANKS! <3

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Memory leak AE 2018 15.0.1

January 30, 2018, 6:24 am

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I'm having problem with a memory leak in After Effects 2018 version 15.0.1. Had it in the previous version as well and the Adobe support hopped the update would fix it but it didn't.

It's like After Effects is holding up ram until it's nothing left without releasing anything back. Especially clear when working for a long time or for long renders. It just eats up the ram until AE crashes. Restarting the program or purging the memory inside AE helps but difficult to do during long renders and frustrating.

Computer specs:

Windows 10 Pro (latest update)

Inter Core i7-7820x CPU @ 3.60GHz

HyperX Fury DDR4 2666MHz 128GB

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB

Updated all the drivers to latest versions without any improvement.

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After Effects renaming

December 20, 2018, 3:41 am

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Hi there

I updated after effects and I'm having trouble renaming the effects controls, such as the "Slider Control"(normal I would rename it for example "scale offset" etc) which effect the expressions that I type down below in the timeline.

In the past I was able to just click on the effect controls name and rename, this there a new way of doing it? Pic down below.

Kind Regards

Eoin

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Videos nach Rendern ruckellig/ bleiben Hängen/Frameauslassung/etc.

December 20, 2018, 6:18 am

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Hallo,

ich habe wie viele ein Problem beim Rendern meiner Videos. Allerdings habe ich nun schon einige Faktoren als Ursachen ausschliessen können, die in anderen Beiträgen beschrieben wurden.

Erstmal zu den technischen Daten:

Programm: Adobe AE CC19 (betrifft aber auch Premiere)

Grafikkarte: NVIDIA Ceforce CTX 770

RAM: 32

Laufwerk: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series

Prozessor i7-4770K, 3,50 GHz

Dateien im Renderversuch:

Video 1: MP4, 16Bit, 100 f/Sec, 1920 x1080 (Vorschau läuft flüssig)

Video 2: MP4, 16 Bit, 25 f/Sec, 1920 x1080 (Vorschau läuft flüssig)

V3 =Bildsequenz: PSD

Video 4 MTS-Datei, MPEG, 25 f/sec, 1920 x1080, 6 Kanal (Vorschau läuft flüssig)

Rendereinstellung:

Ausgabe-Format: AVI, 8 Bit (habe aber auch 16 Bit ausprobiert)

Ausgabemodul: Verlustfrei

Rendereinstellung: Optimale Einstellung

Framerate: V1:100/sec, V2 nd V4: 25f/sec, Bildsequenz/V3: 25f/sec

Ergebniss: Jedes Video läuft stockend; mal mehr, mal weniger. Anlaufschwierigkeiten beim Abspielen. Dann wieder flüssige Sequenzen, fast zu schnell. Aber eigentlich

hauptsächlich hakend, scheinbar Frames auslassend.

Was ich bisher gemacht habe:

- RAM kontrolliert: ca 28 GB von 32 stehen den Programmen zur Verfügung

- Disc-Cache lehren

- Disc-Cache zur SSD zuweisen, in diesem Zuge Onedrive gelöscht, da dies von Windows 10 automatisch als Cache zugewiesen wurde

- Grafiktreiber Installieren: Führte aber dazu, dass der Bildschirm nur noch schwarz angezeigt wurde und ich das System zurückgesetzt habe

Version ist nun immernoch Version 24.21.13.9924, Treiberdatum 05.09.2018

( Unter Treiberdetails steht noch: Dateiversion:2.1 NVIDOA Build_224 (Von wann auch immer das sein mag; ich konnte es nicht rausfinden))

- gerenderte Videos auch mal in Premiere geöffnet um zu checken, ob es evtl. an meinem Wiedergabeprogram liegt

Ich habe dieselben Videos auch als Test in der Uni gerendert, und dort laufen sie einwandfrei!

????? Ich bin ziemlich am verzweifeln, zumal ich im Abschlussjahr meines Stduiums bin und mir die Zeit davon rennt.?????

Freue mich über gute Tips!

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How can I navigate the position of "scale" in adobe after effect 2017.

December 20, 2018, 7:13 am

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How can I navigate the position of "scale" and "position" in adobe after effect 2017.

Please am having issues locating the position of "scale" and "position " in Ae 2017. The scale is use for tracking.

Was watching a tutorial video about tracking and need to implement it but couldn't locate it.

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Tracker button not working in AE

December 20, 2018, 8:29 am

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I am following the tutorial for After Effects Camera Tracker on the Adobe website. I made sure my layer is selected in the timeline, but when I click "Track Camera" button nothing happens. Running CC 2018 on an iMac High Sierra. Thank you.

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How do i turn off the 'render complete' sound?

March 28, 2010, 1:42 pm

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Without disabling audio?

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Weird edges in my composition..

December 15, 2018, 7:18 am

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I've to re-create the animated logo of Audi for one of my school projects. For that, I made the logo in Illustrator and started the composition in After Effects. As of now, I've just added a few simple circles and applied the glow effect to them. But, now, when I see it, I can see some edges in the composition. Can someone tell me why I'm seeing them and how I can get rid of them. I have attached the screenshot of what the edges look like:

Fit to screen:

100%:

100% (transparency grid toggled):

Should I be worried about those edges? I asked because they're not so prominent in transparent background. Also, I'm anyways going to render PNG of these (or maybe TIF) with the alpha channel and later import them into Adobe Animate.

For reference, I'm attaching my current .aep file (CC 2019). Here it is: https://contattafiles.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/tnt3924/sTSSUDT_1QbXmfW/Audi.aep

P.S.: There are not the edges of composition due to scaling and other factors. I'm aware when it happens. I've never faced this issue before.

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Linked AE comp in Premiere not updating.

December 20, 2018, 9:40 am

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I export a sequence from Premiere Pro using "Replace with After Effects Composition". I create 3D title in AE, save, and go back to the Premiere Sequence. The title is there in the sequence, but I want to change the text. I select the Linked Comp in the Project panel and click match frame. I type the new letters in the Effect Controls AE Editable Text panel and that is fine, it changes the letters. However it is not keeping the text parameters I selected in After Effects.

For example I had ALL CAPS in AE and Acumin font. When I change the title in the Linked Comp in Premiere it doesn't make all caps and it is a different font. What am I doing wrong?

I am running Premiere Pro CC 13.0.2 and AE CC 16.0.1 on an iMac High Sierra. Thank you.

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Auto Select Path Points - Can't Drag Select

December 4, 2017, 2:45 am

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Hi All,

Since I've installed AE 2018, whenever I try to drag-select several points on a path I created from a shape, it automatically selects the closest point/side of the shape and moves it (even when I click outside the selected shape). Does anyone know how can I turn this option off?

Thanks!

Omer.

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Can't get real time playback in 2018 or 2019

December 20, 2018, 11:28 am

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In a light comp with 99% shape layers, no expressions and no 3rd party effects or scripts I can not get real time playback on my PC and the timeline or scrubbing any values has a 2 second delay ish. On my MacBook Pro this same file works fine, what is the issue here or what needs to be upgraded?

Windows 10

Intel Core i7 6850K @ 3.60 GHz

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080ti

64 GB DDR4 Ram

Cache and files are on separate SSD drives.

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After Effects: AEGP Plugin PNGIO Support: PNGIO library error: IDAT: CRC error (5027:: 12)

March 15, 2014, 6:18 am

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After Effects: AEGP Plugin PNGIO Support: PNGIO library error: IDAT: CRC error (5027:: 12)

please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Animating Line with 3D Tracking Help

December 20, 2018, 3:37 pm

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Hey guys, I've searched and searched but can't find an answer to this particular question. I'm trying to animate a line along the path of a flying disc. I regularly do this from stationary cameras and use a solid layer with a pen tool drawn path. I generate a stroke and animate it with key frames along the path. Now, I'm trying to mimic this same effect, but with a camera that is zooming and following the frisbee through the air.

I have camera tracked the clip and have some good 3D tracking points. I selected three of them and created a null layer. On this null layer I drew a path that follows the flight of the disc through the air with the 3D tracking. What I cannot figure out is how to properly animate a line in 3D space that follows the flight of the disc. I tried creating a solid layer from the 3D tracked points, but the more the camera zooms in, the more the solid gets blurry and the generate stroke gets very blurry and doesn't work.

Is there a way to make a shape layer and attach it to the 3D traced path? Can I use trim paths tool to animate the line through the air while the camera zooms. The line will be leaving the frame as the camera zooms, and that is fine. I don't want the line itself to become blurry from zooming, but to just remain locked to the 3D tracked background.

TL;DR - Need to animate a line that follows a frisbee through the air. I 3D tracked the scene and created a null layer. Then drew a path on the null (seems to be paired to the 3D camera). The path zooms with the camera. I need to animate along this path without the animated line getting blurry as it zooms in.

EDIT: Something like this would be amazing. Hole-by-Hole flyover with ball trace animation sample on Vimeo

Thanks!!

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homme invisible avec mouvement de camera

December 20, 2018, 2:55 pm

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hello,

Je cherche a faire une séquence, où l'on voit un homme invisible, assez tradi avec chapeau bandelette etc, qui se désabille et fini nu/ disparu, mais apres avoir chercher des tutos, toute les solutions qui s'offre a moi ne me permette pas d'avoir des mouvements de caméra car elle prennent en compte un fond statique en reférence pour ensuite faire masque ou autre...

Je voudrais pouvoir voir ce personnage se dévêtir en tournant la camera autour de lui etc, que la camera et du coup le fond ne soit pas statique.

any idea ?

merciiiii

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Easy Ease on mac

February 15, 2014, 8:01 pm

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How do I get easy ease to work on After Effects? I am using a mac. I tried things in the system preferences and keyboard shortcuts but I am not able to do it. Please provide clear instructions, thanks.

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Rendering H.264 / MP4 in Media Encoder - Large Output

December 20, 2018, 5:53 pm

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Hello,

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

What I'm trying to do >

I want to render a comp from AE as an h.264 mp4 file (it's native resolution is 7680 x 1080 64:9). I'm doing this via Media Encoder as AE have dropped the codec.

My issue >

When I try to export it media encoder forces it down to 4096 x 1080 (and has unwanted letterboxing) there is no way of manually adjusting this to match 7680 x 1080 64:9 under Basic Video Settings.

Any ideas?

Anybody know what the best way to export this codec at this size and ratio in AE/Media Encoder?

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Grainy Texture Process Help!

December 20, 2018, 7:10 pm

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Hi guys!

I am wanting to animate something similar to this: https://www.giantant.ca/happy-holidays

https://www.giantant.ca/happy-holidays

First, and foremost, is this possible with After Effects? If not, what do you think Giant Ant's technique is?

Secondly, I just really want those awesome grainy textures in the shapes! However, I like to animate sort of frame-by-frame with RoughAnimator on my ipad and then upload it onto AE as a mov. layer. Can I just do a preset to add texture inside my frame-by-frame layer?

Thanks!

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Best way of rendering to an animated png with alpha channel?

May 31, 2018, 11:03 am

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I'm doing a logo animation for someone. They've asked for it in "png" format. At first I thought they meant quicktime with png compression and an alpha channel (doable in CC 2017), but they say they want a "format that will be easy to place into banners, newsletters, website pages etc..

Do I need to render out of After Effects and load it into some other program to convert it into an animated .png (apng format?), and if so is there a recommended program for this? Or is there a better format that will do what is being asked (.gif won't be the best since the logo has >2000 colours).

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