Purposes of collapse transforms on Nulls?
I notice that Nulls have a collapse transform switch. Just trying to imagine when this would be useful. Something related to the nifty "Scale Z" precomp trick, maybe?
View ArticleNo keyframe values?
When I launch my AE and start to make an animation, I find it much more difficult then it used to be, as my keyframe values have randomly dissapeared. What I mean by this is not that it won't animate,...
View ArticleAfterEffectsCC error messages
At the start of loading the program "AAE CC" three messages are displayed; 1)After Effects error; internal verification failure, sorry! {Unexpected FunctionBlock5 flags for FunctionBllock4} ( 5027 ::53...
View ArticlePrevent motion blur outside of a mask?
Hi, is it possible to prevent the motion blur effect from being seen outside of a masked area? I am creating visual storyboard/references for slot machine programmers. I have created my reels symbols...
View Article1080 25P Projects
How do I start a new Project in 1080 25P in After Effects 7. Thankyou.
View ArticleAfter Effects CC - output module – codec settings not responding
I am trying to render a clip in AE CC. When I want to change the codec settings for Prores or DNxHD, the menu appears for a second an then disappears again.It is impossible to make changes. Any help...
View ArticleWhere should the Debug Database.txt file go for AE CS6 on windows 7?
Hi, I'm trying to use this work around to get cuda working when using aerender from the command line. It says to edit the Debug Database.txt, but I have searched my whole computer and it doesn't exist....
View ArticleSetting the blending on a 3D layer
I want to set the blending mode on a 3D layer so that I remove the layer but keep the shadows. How do I do this?
View ArticleVideo and picture on AE
How hard is it do something like this on after effects? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvgmC3DQTsM I know my way around AE pretty well so I think, just curious if this is easy or pretty hard to do.
View ArticleFTP Connection with backslash in username
Hello, I am using Peter Torpey's FTPConnection.jsx to upload rendered movies to a server directly from After Effects. Works great on my server! Now, I have to use Microsoft's Azure for hosting this...
View ArticleUnable to import a 4K MP4 file - but other works ok?
I've got 5 BIG MP4 files from a gopro camera. Each one is 3.9 GB (because the camera is polite and automatically splits the video into sub-4GB chunks) I'm trying to load them into AE CS6. When I open...
View ArticleScrubbing through cached comp very sluggish
I have a comp that has been RAM Previewed and consequently, the entire status bar above the timeline is green. However if I take my playhead and drag through the timeline, the screen updates very very...
View ArticleEvil Dead: How Do I Stabilize?
I use After Effects CS5 for Mac (Version 10.0.458) and I am needing to add some stability to a 4 minute clip that is essentially an Evil Dead ripoff where we see the POV of the evil 'force' that is...
View Articlecorrupted project
After energy drop, my After effects project became corrupted. When trying to open it, I see error: Missing data in file. (33::4). I`ve tried to copy it to another disk drive, tried to import it to a...
View ArticleCan't preview video by dragging timeline
Hey. So one of my computers my After Effects doesn't seem to preview the video when I drag the "Current Time Indicator" in the timeline. If I drag it, it will only show the changes when I actually...
View ArticleTracking Motion picture disappear
Everytime I´m near finishing my project the image that should be tracking motion disappear. I have a clip, and then I want to paste a picture into it that have a moving mouth. I think I'm on the right...
View ArticleAe-Won't open normally
When I launch AeCC, a page with the Render Queue opens and nothing else. It is responing but it won't let me do anything.
View ArticleGreen screen issues
I'm using Adobe After Effects CS6 and used Keylight to do the greenscreen. There are parts where my subject has random parts of his body being cut off for one frame, and I have no idea how to fix this.
View ArticleHelp understanding a linear scale
I need to create a project that continually zooms into radial artwork, or more specifically, artwork is being continually scaled up so it appears that the "camera" is zooming into it. For reference,...
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