Is it possible to export a 3d mesh created in Photoshop CC into After Effects CC?

December 3, 2014, 10:25 am

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Is it possible to use a 3d mesh created in Photoshop CC and import it to After Effects, completely intact?

 

I created a single-plane, 3d mesh from a 2 dimensional photograph in Photoshop CC and want to incorporate it in an animation in After Effects.  I'm aware of the extrusion options offered in After Effects CC, but I wanted to retain the particular style of the 3d mesh from Photoshop (also, is it true true that extrusions in After Effects CC are only available for vector based stuff?).

 

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

 

[a side question: can one create a 3d mesh from a 2d photo in Cinema 4d lite and then perhaps use this in After Effects CC?]

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I want to stop the particle flow?

December 3, 2014, 11:23 am

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Hello, i'm making a particle system with 'Particular' but i got a question, when i play the particles the particles start from nothing and then they continue to be animated until the end (as a default) but i want to somehow 'freeze' the particles to be able to animate them manually, because i want it to move the particles slowly since i'm doing a ashes simulation, i need to use only those particles so i want to know how can i mantain the particles still (not with freezing the frame) so i can be able to change parameters along the timeline.

Please help!

Element 3D errors when exporting to Media Encoder

December 3, 2014, 8:08 am

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Hi there,

 

Again apologies in advance for the beginner's question.

 

When exporting to Adobe Media Encoder for rendering, I get unresolvable errors from Video Copilot's Element 3D. Not really sure where to start to fix it...

 

Thanks!

Angela

Upgraded to Mac Yosemite, now AE doesn't work at all. What can I do?

December 2, 2014, 7:08 pm

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I own the Master Collection for Adobe CS6 on MAC. I upgraded to Yosemite before realizing that it would cause many of my Adobe purchases to stop functioning. I need After Effects to work so that I can complete a project I've been working on. Does anyone know a solution?

constant warp stabilizer crash with CC AE

December 7, 2013, 12:44 pm

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I have used warp stabilizer a lot in the past, and don't recall it ever crashing. Today, it will does nothing but crash. I have warp stabilizer with 4 different pieces of footage, and every attempt results in a crash. On two occassions, immediately after completing the analyzing process (1st step) AE went into auto-save mode, but the progress indicator never started. Activity seemed to cease for 3+ minutes, so I assumed the worst and chose to force quit. Other attempts simply crash immediately after the analysis step.

 

The footage I have tried to stabilize is 1920 x 1080 MTS and MOV files. I have worked with the files before, and they play back fine, showing no sign of corruption. FWIW, I tested one of the video files in CC Premiere Pro and warp stabilizer worked without crashing.

 

I rebooted my Mac, cleared all AE caches, rebooted AE a second time, tried to stabilize new footage, but same results.

 

My machine is a Mac 5,1 with 32GB RAM, OS X 10.8, CC AE 12.1.0.168

 

Any suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated.

Comp viewer becomes flat blue at certain zoom levels

December 3, 2014, 1:20 pm

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This is a problem I've had with several different versions of After Effects, and on more than one computer and I haven't been able to find any information about it.

Sometimes, especially after RAM previewing, my comp viewer will turn blue and I can't see my work unless I'm at a different zoom level. Sometimes after a while another zoom level will turn blue also.

I've tried purging, which solves the problem in the short term, but it tends to come after a short while. Thoughts? Thank you!

No Refreshed Interface Design in After Effects CC 2014

December 3, 2014, 3:06 pm

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Sort of an odd question, but how do you change the interface design in After Effects CC 2014 to be the new "Refreshed Interface Design"? Like with the blue text color, borders, and different look panels (as seen in the first image linked). I updated to Adobe After Effects CC 2014 yesterday, and for some reason, my interface design has not changed at all. Is there somewhere in preferences where I can change this? I would appreciate any help, thanks.

 

What it is supposed to look like:

http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/whats-new/_jcr_content/main-pars/image_1.img.pn g/ae-interface.png

 

What my After Effects looks like:

http://puu.sh/dfYbm/aa366e60fd.png

Dynamic Link Aspect Ratio

December 3, 2014, 4:38 pm

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I have a dynamically linked AE composition in Premiere. I've done all my effects in AE and want to preview it in Premiere.

 

It looks great but whenever I select my AE composition and click Sequence > Render Selection it makes the footage from the comp look like it is squished and in the wrong aspect ratio. Is this a known issue?
I can't understand why when I render it to watch it back it squishes the image but when the bar is red the image looks correct and as i see it in AE.

 

When I originally exported my AE comps my footage was squished so I changed my AE comp to Square Pixel, could that be the problem? Although I did a test of sending a clip to an AE comp making no changes and rendering the comp and it did the same where it squished the image.

 

Any workaround would be great or if anyone has had this issue and knows how to fix it that would be awesome too.

 

Thanks in advance.

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WHY AFTER EFFECTS STILLS SO SLOW IN THE NEW MAC PRO?

May 11, 2014, 4:40 am

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I have the new mac pro with this settings:

 

3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5

64 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC

AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB

Software OS X 10.9.2

 

And the AE performs slower than in my old mac pro. I have set the preferences as seen on all those tutorials on this site, I have an SSD external disc for cache files, memory and multiprocessing settings correctly...and previews are very very slow, and I can not even render a single comp without waiting 10 minutes. I am very disappointed and frustrated with this situation...

Am I missing something?

 

Importing Blender to After Effects

July 23, 2010, 10:20 am

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Not that it much matters, but I'm running AECS3 on Win XP. Anyway, what I'm trying to do is find a way to import 3d files I created in Blender 2.5 into After Effects. I've spent quite some time trying to find a script or something that will work, but without much luck. The scripts I've found are for earlier versions of Blender and may not be compatible with 2.5.

Does anyone know of a script that will either:

• (from the Blender side) Export a Blender 2.5 scene/object in a format that AE will be able to import; OR
• (from the AE side) Add a Blender export format* to AE's list of file types it can import?

One other thing: Why can't AE import .obj files? That's an extremely common (from my experience since I also do some work in DAZ, and have played around with Cinema 4D which is way out of my budget) format for 3d....

 

* The formats that Blender 2.5 exports are:

• Collada .dac
• 3D Studio Max .3ds
• Autodesk .fbx
• Lightwave .mdd
• Wavefront.obj
• Stanford .ply
• X3D .x3d

 

Thanks

How to import image sequences which were rendered in layers from Blender to AE?

December 3, 2014, 7:42 pm

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Does anyone know how to How to import image sequences which were rendered in layers from Blender to AE?

I've been trying to render foreground & background in separate layers in Blender & bring them over to AE as separate image sequences but have failed so far.

I've used .png, targa, .tiff & even openEXR Multilayer but none has worked for me so far.

AE CC 2014 Export to C4D not saving any file

December 3, 2014, 8:41 pm

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I just got into CC (was using CS6) and today I wanted to export a C4D file from AE, like I have done always with AE CS6, but there seems to be a problem. I click on export, Maxon Cinema 4D Exporter, then select the folder and type the file name, click save and it closes like normal, but the file I supposedly saved, is not created anywhere. Anyone has the same issue?

After Effect errors with GeForce GTX 860M !!

April 11, 2014, 11:49 am

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Hello everybody,

 

I have tried the trial version of After Effect on my brand new laptop MSI GE70-2PE048FR with Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M CUDA v6 - Mobile QuadCore Intel Core i7-4700HQ, 3300 MHz (33 x 100) and Im getting errors while trying to render a test composition using the GPU... First the GPU was not recognized so I modified a file in After Effect diretory and then it get recognized. Even before that, I tried to force the use of the GPU (with checking the special checkbox to force it in the GPU INFO PANEL of After Effect CC) and it was getting the sames errors anyways !

 

I have been using and testing MSI factory NVidia drivers v332.35 that are not even available on NVidia web site and I have been teting with NVidia BETA drivers v337.50. Got same results.

 

 

My configuration :

 

Thanks for any advice.

 

I would like to know if after effect is planning to support this GPU ? When ? Or anyone have any clue resoving these errors ?

 

 

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how did they do this?

December 4, 2014, 12:32 am

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Hi all,

 

 

In this link you see a paper changing in shape. I know the creator did this in AE (Not in a 3d programm)

I tried everyting with no result:

test - YouTube

 

I have to do this also with another paper (and I can't contact the creator about it :-(

 

 

I made an .ai file and import this in AE. Make shapelayers of this .ai file. But then I get so many 'groups' in my shapelayer. I like to get one layer where I can change the path of the whole .ai file.

 

 

Or is there a better option to achieve this? I hope someone can help me...

 

 

Thx

Ed

Help file correction

December 4, 2014, 3:45 am

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Just to prove that some of us do read the manual

 

I think there is a correction needed as follows:

After Effects Help > Expression language reference > Layer Space Transforms methods

 

[Intro paragraph, Second sentence]

"...The “from” methods transform values from layer space to the named space (composition or world). The “to” methods transform values from the named space (composition or world) to layer space."

 

I think should be:

 

"...The “from” methods transform values from the named space (composition or world) to layer space. The “to” methods transform values from layer space to the named space (composition or world).

 

 

Mike A.

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Why my AE CC looks so ugly?

December 4, 2014, 3:19 am

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Hello,

 

I saw a tutorial on Youtube and AE apperance was like that.

Mine is so ugly like this.

 

I'm using windows. Is it the reason for that? 

How to change stacking order dynamically in AE?

December 4, 2014, 3:20 am

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Say, I simlpy want an image to stretch and cover the one below.

It seems to be a simple task but cant find the workaround.

Thanks, TP

Camera Tool isn't working correctly

December 4, 2014, 2:15 am

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Hello, i have a question about the camera tool. I just started to work with Ae and i'm confused.

 

I want to make Textanimation. The first scene works good, i have animated the camera movement and set all the keyframes.

But now i can't move the camera anymore. No matter what camera tool i use, the image stays the same?

 

I assume it's just a little error, one checkbox maybe, but i can't figure out how to fix it!

So, can you help me please?

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December 3, 2014, 2:04 pm

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i am having a similar problem with Mavericks. ( I have AE 11.0.2 on a MBP Early 2011)  I followed your advice and the link led me to a file that says it's a trial version update (AfterEffectsTrial-11.0.4-mul-AdobeUpdate.dmg.)  Downloaded it anyway and ran the AdobePatchInstaller.app . Received an error msg:  Update Failed.  Update could not be applied.  This patch is not applicable for you.  Please check for updates from the Help menu in your product to see a list of latest updates available. ..."  Since I cannot get AE to open, it is impossible to check for updates from the Help menu.  I then tried to upate to 11.0.3 ... with the same result.

 

I opened one of the other CS6 apps (AI) and ran the update manager from there and was told everything was up-to-date.

 

Please help!

how do i import a aec file in after effects cc?

August 23, 2013, 7:08 am

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im having problems with the object buffers not working correctly when a i extract them from the C4D file. Not liking this work flow at all. Is there a way to import a AEC file into After Effects CC?