After Effects CS5
Hi
I have a black "solidlayer"withamask, where I'd like to use"4-color Gradienteffect", butsince I haveused "Feather" in the "Solidlayer" is there ado not wantblackborderaround mymask.
Howcan I removethisborder?
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Solid layer with mask - 4-color gradient - border problems
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missing cc sphere
where is it
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Rendering Machine Specs
I am looking to build a machine specifically for rendering. I have listed the options below. Does anyone have issues with this build? Improvements? Overkill?
Thanks for all input.
Processor: Intel Xeon Processor E5-2620 (15M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 7.20 GT/s Intel QPI) OperatingSystem: Windows 7 Professional 64 English Form Factor: Tower 7x9 Motherboard: D30 Planar - TPM Enabled - Win7 ME8.0 1st MemoryDIMM:16GB ECC 2Rx4 PC3 1600MHz RDIMM 2nd MemoryDIMM:16GB ECC 2Rx4 PC3 1600MHz RDIMM First VideoAdapter:Nvidia Quadro 4000 (Dual link DVI, DP, DP, Stereo 3D) - 2GB GDDR5 - Win7ME8.0
Hard Drive
First Hard DriveBay:2.5" 256GB SATA Solid State Drive (OPAL)
Second HardDrive Bay:2.5" 300GB SATA - Solid State Drive (SSD), 6Gb/s, MLC
First Optical
Device Bay:DVD Burner/CD-RW Rambo Drive (SATA) - Win7 ME8.0
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Saving After Effects CC for CS5.5 use
Hi Guys,
This might be a stupid question, but how do you save an After Effects CC project so that it can open/be used in CS5.5?
I know that InDesign has something called an IDML file, is there something similar in After Effects?
I'd appreciate the help.
Best,
Ronald
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Pixelated square-pixel footage in an anamorphic comp
i have some square-pixel footage that I'm comping into an anamorphic composition. It looks fine at 100%, but when I scale the footage down it becomes very pixelated. It's not just a preview thing as i've rendered out some frames and the problem is still there. Does anyone have suggestions on what to do?
I'm using CS6 and the footage is 2k EXRs.
Thanks.
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Pixel aspect ratio correction problem
Hi there,
So I am having a problem with the aspect ratio nonsense that is surrounding my animation. I have been asked to design an animation by a company for a tv advert. I asked the tv company to give me direction as what sizes to create the design and then in after effects the sizes too (1050x576 for illustrator). I have used the settings listed below for widescreen. I was told to toggle the Pixel aspect ratio but once I do this the vector illustrator files in the project window become blurred. I have clicked the continuously rasterize button in the file and it works fine in the individual comp window itself but the overall composition is still blurred
As you can see the image on the left is the composition itself in after effects and it looks fine but the image on the right is the overall comp and it is completely blurred? The only reason it is doing this is the aspect ratio button being on.
If anyone can help me then that would be great!
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perfect square and circle problem
When I use the Rectangle or Ellipse tool and hold shift, it doesn't give me an even square or circle, but instead scales it as a rectangle or oval. I can only make a perfect shape using grid and snap to grid but that's really not the right way. I also have a similiar problem with the Ramp effect-Radial ramp, it creates an ellipse instead of a circle.
Btw on Ai and Ps shift key works ok.
I'm using AE CS6 on Mac 10.8.5
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how to get dof blur to work with camera
have a simple photoshop file that i turned into 3 layers with a person, tree, background field. imported into ae cc fine and added a 50mm 2 node cam (turned on dof). pushed my background layer back, have the tree in the middle and my person layer pulled forward (z space). no matter what settings i try in the cam (focus distance, aperture, blur level) all three layers stay in perfect focus on my screen. i have 2 view horizontal up so i can see where all the settings are moving things but in my view of what the camera sees, no dof blur at all 
. what am i missing? TIA
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Issues with duplicating a composition and its precomps
I have a composition that contains several precomps of text and images, as you can see below.
"Main Composition" is, like it sounds, my main composition and it is comprised of the other text and image elements. I am creating a video backdrop for an awards banquet, so I have created this sort of "finalists" style video where it plays through the finalists in each category. I am trying to clone this composition so I can simply swap out the text and images for the finalists in each category.
I have tried cloning the entire folder, but the changes I make in one composition are still affecting the other. I'll admit, I am new to AE, so maybe I am missing something, but everything I've read states that as long as I duplicate all of the precomps then everything should remain completely independent, but it's not working as such.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, as I am about to smash something.
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AE CC 12.2.1 crash when window loses focus windows 7 64
I just installed After effects on my dell Precision m6600 with a quadro 4000 card in it yesterday. I've been using premier and photoshop CC successfully for months.
I have the latest nvidia drivers installed on my system. Installed them last night and I keep getting the above error when the window loses focus. i can successfully make a simple project as long as AE does not lose focus, but everytime it does it crashes like this... Has anyone seen this? Any Ideas. My computer has 16 gig ram and an 8 core intel i7 2.4ghz. multi screens are attached. winodws 7 64 bit
thanks for your time,
Bryan
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AE 11.0.4.2 Disc Cache Problem + RAM Preview Error & Crash
I'm working on a project which is 3 minutes length so disc cache is a huge timesaver but when using disc cache and render (ram preview) about 2-3 minutes of the timeline a get crazy After Effects errors (see screenshots).
When disc cache is disabled After Effects works without any problems! So this issue is definitely related to disc cache.
As you can see in the screenshots I'm often not able to see the error text message because the error window is filled only with white color.
Sometimes the error text is visible and I can see the error message.
Error message are:
1. Unable to create image buffer
2. Unable to create drawing surface
Clicking the OK button or pressing and holding the ESC key immediately brings back the error message window so that I get kept in this error message loop.
Sometimes after holding down the ESC key for quite some time (that is the same as pressing the OK button several times) After Effects stops this error message loop and AE is back to normal behaviour.
Sometimes AE crashes after that.
Sometimes when RAM Previewing AE crashes without any error message and without the option to save as a last chance to save the project.
I found these two Windows7 (german os) crash report error messages:
Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: AfterFX.exe, Version: 11.0.4.2, Zeitstempel: 0x52886341 Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: dvaui.dll, Version: 6.0.0.12167, Zeitstempel: 0x52885677 Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005 Fehleroffset: 0x0000000000172d41 ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x1a90 Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01cf211581f7f861 Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS6\Support Files\AfterFX.exe Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS6\Support Files\dvaui.dll Berichtskennung: 73c3efb2-8d0b-11e3-8d3b-002219e0cc81
Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: AfterFX.exe, Version: 11.0.4.2, Zeitstempel: 0x52886341 Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: unknown, Version: 0.0.0.0, Zeitstempel: 0x00000000 Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005 Fehleroffset: 0x000007fef1be1c30 ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x%9 Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x%10 Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: %11 Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: %12 Berichtskennung: %13
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (all security updates)
AE CS6 11.0.4.2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300
RAM: 16GB
Graphics card: nVidia Quadro FX 2700M 512MB Driver: 332.50
What I did so far to solve the issue:
1. Cleaned / deleted AE disc cache files within AE preferences + purged all image cache files and started over with newly generated cache files - no success
2. Cleaned / deleted Conformed Media Cache & Database within AE preferences - no success
3. I trashed AE Preferences file - no success
4. I installed different graphics card driver. I tried driver version: 258.96, 295.73, 320.49, 332.21, 332.50 - no success
5. I tested the same scenario with a different and nearly clean new AE project. - same issues
6. I checked my RAM for errors - result RAM is error free!
7. I checked my Video RAM for errors - result Video RAM is error free!
8. I checked the hard drive (for disc cache) for errors and defragmented it and tried another hard drive for disc cache - no errors and no success to solve the issue
9. I reduced the the RAM size AE is able to allocate and reduced the maximum disc cache size in AE Preferences - no success
Additional info: Render Multiple Frames simultaneous is OFF.
Turning After Effects Disc Cache completely OFF cures all these issues!
Without Disc Cache AE works as expected and without any errors!
I'm thankfull if somebody could help to solve the issue because I really liked the disc cache and would like to use it again but at the moment AE is unusable when disc cache is turned on.
Some comment from an Adobe employee or someone who could forward this thread to the right people at Adobe would be nice.
Thanks Felix
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After Effects CC will not let me stop RAM previews of "heavier" projects
Hello friends,
Sysinfo:
Windows 7 x64 (fully updated)
After Effects CC 12.2.0.52 (fully updated)
Quicktime 7 pro (latest version)
Nvidia GTX 580 (latest drivers)
Intel i7 3960X 3.30 GHZ (latest bios)
32gb RAM
250gb SSD
I'm having an issue where any sort of project with a lot of layers (or simply a long render time per-frame) will get stuck if I let it RAM preview, as in I cannot cancel the RAM preview until it has finished rendering the in/out points. Right now I'm working on a film and so there are some average to high amounts of effects going on in multiple comps.
I will try to click around in After Effects, press num_0, escape, double-click a new project in windows explorer to try to bring up the save prompt, etc... and I just cannot get it to stop RAM previewing. The one thing that has worked, and it may have just been by sheer luck or timing, was opening Task Manager and closing all instances of the following exes:
- Adobe CEF Helper
- Adobe QT32 Server
- AdobeICPBroker
After ending those I have been able to get back RAM preview to respond to clicking (this hasn't been exstenviely tested though)
Here are some screenshots of my Cache and Multiprocessor settings
Thanks in advance for any advice!
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Corrupt QT output from AECC,
Am running AECC for teams on a Mac. Renders from After Effects CC output as Quicktime Prores 4444 or HQ, files are causing "error (4) reading frame from file" issues when importing these files into older versions of After Effects (5, 5.5, 6) or Final Cut Pro 7. Quicktime Pro 7.6.9 can open the files normally and if I export them from Quicktime pro to Prores, they then behave normally in older AE or Final Cut 7. What can I do to generate proper Prores files from AECC!!
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Lengthy Pinwheel after "Undo" (CMD+Z)
Sometimes I get an unusually long freeze for a moment after hitting undo. When I move the playhead, a pinwheel cursor appears and it twirls for approx 5-10seconds. Multiple Undos in a row can cause lengthier pinwheels.
on a more recent Macbook Pro and older Mac tower.
any ideas? preferences settings I could adjust?
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Help with using 3d camera tracker
Hi!
I was using AE for my school project and I decieded to use 3d camera tracker and add text (it would appear like it is stuck to the verticaly standing wall) I did everything and it came out really good. But there are 3-4 places where my friend comes in and a lamp post is hiding the wall. When playing the video, the text appears on the friend's face and over the lamp post. I tried many things to make the text go back of them while they come in front of the wall, but I failed each time...
Can anyone please help me how to move the text back to my friend's face and the lam post when they appear in front of the wall.
Thank you so much in advance 
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Rendered Movies are Jerky after timestretch
Hi,
I'm new to After effects so I accept in advance that I'm doing something wrong with my timelapse movies. Here's the problem.
After importing my timelapse image sequence and interpreting the footage I am able to render out a 1080p video file that runs
nice and smooth. If I try to speed up my footage from lets say 9 seconds to 6 seconds using 'Timestretch', I notice that the rendered
video of that 6 second clip is kind of jerky, it's not smooth like the original length movie.
Obviously I'm missing a step in the process or not fully understand how this works. I suspect it's something to do with frame rates.
My composition is 30fps and so is my rendered video file. I use the H.264 compression in both cases.
What is this newbie doing wrong?
Thanks in advance
Gavin
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How would I create this "tattered" effect?
http://ibm5100.net/steinswiki/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gate.png
Please ignore the red circles. I'm wondering how to create this sort of "tattered" effect shown on the edges of the text. I'd wish to apply this to more than just text however if that is possible.
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Adobe After Effects Disk Cache folder is massive!!!
Hi. My mac computer is starting to get out of free space so I use omnidisk to do some cleaning on my computer and I notice that there a folder in user/library/preferences/adobe/after effect/11.0/Adobe After Effects Disk Cache - user's MacBook Pro.noindex/.... that has lots ofdifferent folders, named with numbers, that hashundreds if not thousands of files that goes from 100kb up to 9mb! The total space taken by these files are 49gb!!!
I did some fast research in here: http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/memory-storage.html#caches_ ram_cache_disk_cache_and_media_cache and it says that after effects store some render data in the computer (ithink 
)... but I'm really not going to open any of the old after effects files so my question is... cani delete that folder??? or is it vital for the program?
By the way my computer has 750gb and 16gb of ram sooo yeah any help will be appreciated...
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Help! My timeline went wierd!
I was using After Effects (CC) yesterday and imported some .AVIs and some .PNGs to make my Outro for YouTube, I then closed out of After Effects (CC) and when I go to make a composition, I choose for example 5:49 as the time and it changes to 6:19 whenever the frame rate is below 60!
Also, when I look at the timeline it says 10f, 20f, 01:00f, etc. Please help!
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How to slip and locate frame?
Not sure how to ask this question with the appropirate terminology so here it goes. Im trying find the correct part of the footage that I want to use in a clip that I imported and put into my comp layers. When I double click the footage it pops up a layer windo where there is a second playhead matching the main one. How do I locate and truncate a clip to the part that I want to use?
I know this probably sounds like a big mess but hopefully someone can figure out what I'm trying to do. Basically, I have this really long clip and slipping in the main window is taking forever to find the piece that I want to use. Is there an easier faster way to do this?
Thanks!
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