Resizing Clip to Motion Track

December 18, 2014, 8:10 am

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Hello,

When I drop my vertical clip into a new comp it creates the appropriate comp size for me to be able to experimentwith basic motion tracking, however, when I try to resize or rotate the comp I loose the tracking. Is there a way to change the original video to register with AE so that I can track and edit it vertically? It was shot on a cell phone, by the way.

The attached photo is the only way I am able to track. Any comp rotating or resizing loses the the track. Any help would be great. Thanks.

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How can i copy an attribute?

December 18, 2014, 10:16 am

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Hello, i gave an effect to a layer in AE, how can i copy that effect/parameters into another layer?

Thanks in regard.

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AE Skips first Second in Ram Preview

October 21, 2014, 11:06 am

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Since I have updated to Yosemite on my MacBook Retina i7 with 8gb of Ram AE (Recent Version) shows me a strange behavior. After the RAM Preview rendering is accomplished the ram preview should start on the beginning but it skipping the first second or so. This happens with every Ram Preview, no matter if i choose a specific zone or the beginning of the composition. The RAM Preview loops perfectly like always. It is really annoying.

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ImporterWindowsMedia.prm plug-in error

September 6, 2012, 11:03 am

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I've been using AE on a Mac for over 10 years, so this Windows error is new to me. I removed the plug-in which gets rid of the error, but in the off-chance that I actually need this plug-in, I'm just wondering if anybody knows how to reinstall this or get this working?

I've installed it on a Windows 2008 Server, which throws the error on AE CS6 startup and 9 render nodes with Windows 7--all of which throw the error in the terminal window when running aerender.exe. The render nodes are specifically to render AE and C4D projects only, so I haven't installed anything beyond the OS, Quicktime and what's needed for those two programs to render.

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Rendering any size video

December 17, 2014, 2:20 pm

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This might be a dumb question but I am wondering what is the best way to render a video at an odd size.

I am making moving backgrounds basically except the resolution is 5760 X 1080 or 1920 X 480. These backgrounds are for Environmental Projection at my church. That is using three projectors to project on the walls in the auditorium to change the environment. I currently render a video as a Quicktime animation but a 10 second motion background is about 4 gigs. Is there a better option that will still allow me to render this odd size?

Thanks,

Grant

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Animating an open mask path

December 18, 2014, 9:12 am

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I am trying to animate an open mask path so that it appears to bend in half. I have a path with the Omino Snake effect applied creating a thick line with some text and different colored sections applied. When I adjust the mask path (from straight with slight waves to bent) over 2 seconds the path first shortens then expands back to the correct length and bent shape. The beginning and end positions are correct, but the actual movement looks all wrong. I have tried going in and keying each frame to keep the path's length consistent but that results in a very jumpy path. If anyone has any tips on controlling a path in between key frames please help!

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depth mattes for use with freeform pro

December 18, 2014, 8:54 am

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I'm in need for an easy way to create depth mattes to be used as displament maps ( still pictures only) in freeform pro

Which is the easiest way to manage this task, photoshop or any other tool ?

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AE Crashes Rendering 3D Shatter With Camera

December 18, 2014, 10:23 am

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I'm trying to render out a 30 second video of a custom reversed shatter matte on a picture. I am using a camera to pull from -1 on the Z axis to a full screen shot of the picture as the shatter flies back into place. I keep getting this error whether I try the Classic 3D or the Ray-Traced 3D engine:

"After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking effect plug-in "Shatter".

"After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking rendering plug-in "Classic 3D".

Why won't it just render out? Doesn't seem like I'm trying to do too much.

Here's the crash report, if it helps:

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i cant find the scroll bars for the composition in after effects i tried to use tha hand tool but it wont work either plz help

December 18, 2014, 12:25 pm

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plz help

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Show Deprecated Formats in Output Module Settings don't appear in my output option!

June 19, 2014, 2:46 am

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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?!

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Lay out after effects is to big, seems not right ... How to fix ?

December 18, 2014, 5:49 am

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Hello !

Since I installed CC some things seem odd in the layout of after effects.

Also Illustrator and Indesign were not ok, but with some searching I found out I needed to change some things in the scale UI settings of my computer.

But After effects is still off, text is to big / even seems unsharp. Also the starting screen is to biggish. I added a illustrator screenshot for comparison, how it should be.

Anyone have an idea to fix it ?

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After Effects keeps changing my computer audio

August 8, 2014, 10:56 am

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Im using AE and every time i click on another program, Safari, Finder etc. my audio cuts off. Help

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Is after effects cc and cs6 compatable

December 17, 2014, 7:06 pm

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I cant open files from after effects cc in after effects cs6. Please help

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unable to allocate enough memory to render current frame

June 25, 2014, 9:09 am

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I am having this similar issue with Adobe After Effects CC 2014 Version 13.0.0.214 where it keeps popping up a message box about not being able to render a frame. I meet the system recommendation of 8GB memory for CC 2014 based on the following page.

http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/system-requirements.html

My RAM fills up very quickly as I RAM preview in AE (Using Control key with scrubbing) and watch my Task Manager performance tab.

I tried enabling that cache checkbox option in AE but it doesn't help. It's really frustrating when AE gets stuck in a constant loop of trying to acquire memory and that message keeps popping up. I have to try and save and then force quit the application to release the memory usage. I have already tried closing background apps that I don't need running.

Here are some screens.

You will see Chrome, SnagIt and a few others running in this screen because I was putting together this post. As I've mentioned earlier, I've already tried closing these background apps previously.

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"Unable to allocate 0.000 MB of memory, Either decrease the memory requirements for rendering of thi

November 9, 2013, 7:10 am

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Why am I getting this message, this is a new computer (MacBook Pro)

2.7 GHz Intel Core i7

8GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024MB

584.48 GB of free space.

"Unable to allocate 0.000 MB of memory, Either decrease the memory requirements for rendering of this frame, or install more RAM...."

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Trapcode Form offsetting "skip vertex"

December 18, 2014, 1:56 pm

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I'm trying to create a Christmas lights effect.. red,green,white repeating pattern. Skip Vertex might be close enough, but is there a way to offset the effect by one particle? Any copies I make for the additional colors just go on top of one another. I don't see any other ways to manipulate the effect.

Thanks for any help.

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Workspace in After Effects

December 19, 2014, 6:00 am

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Hello All

Do you guys know any reason why AE does't allow to import and export workspaces?

I normally have my workspaces neatly set and after an update I lose everything. Since we have updates quite often I have to reset everything as it was.

It seems that this should be a very dumb feature. Is there anyway to keep workspaces or import it from previous versions?

Also would be an awesome feature the ability of download workspaces remotely with the adobe account. For freelances would be fantastic to be able to work in a client and have AE the way we are used to work.

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After Effects 13.1.3 Is Constantly Giving The Error: "Needs 2 or more frames for playback"

December 13, 2014, 11:54 pm

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I have After Effects 13.1.3 and I'm using a 2011 mac pro 17" with 16GB of ram, but I have any project I have I'm not able to work on due to After Effects not being able to render more then one frame at a time. When I go to RAM Preview it says "After Effects Error: RAM Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback." This phenomenon used to happen whenever I had Adobe Premiere open at the same time, but Thats not the case anymore. It just happens all the time. I can open a project, but after a little less then 3 minutes it reverts back to only rendering one frame. Purging the memory does absolutely nothing, in fact purging anything makes the problem come up immediately.

This is frustrating! I have deadlines to meet. Not to mention having to pay out of pocket for software that hasn't worked well since Mac OS X 10.8. I shouldn't have to pay for defective software.

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After Effects - Animation of 2 canvas points only

December 19, 2014, 3:50 am

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Hello to all of you,

I am new in the "After Effects world" and so far I can say that this is great, but still I have some questions and the most important question for the moment for me is:

"For example, I have a shape and when I click on the layer shape, the canvas points appear around that shape. What I want to do ... is to animate just the right side of that shape and the left side of the shape to stay fixed.

Below you can see an url link with a drawing of mine to explain you better what I want to do:

http://cl.ly/image/0B0y1O3x162F

Is it this possible?"

Thank you,

Adrian

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