Motion Tracking Help?? (CS4)
I tracked a shot in Boujou and exported the camera solve to After Effects as a .ma format. I made sure all the frame rates were right and set the export scale to 1000. I then imported that .ma file...
View ArticleCannot make keyframe with 3D text layer
AE CS6. I'm pretty new to AE, but I've seen plenty of tutorials to know what I'm doing. But when I make a text layer, I cannot make a keyframe? Am I missing something? And not only text, but every...
View ArticleGlitchy and extremely poor performance with Red footage in AE on 16 core machine
Hello, I have set up a new Windows 7 workstation for AE CS6 based on: - ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS with dual Xeons, - 64Gb. of RAM- Nvidia Quadro K5000 (also tried my older Quadro 4000 with no difference in...
View ArticleKeyframe sharing axis value? How do I stop it?
AE CS6 I was making a test comp for a project I'm working on; I added rotation animation to a 3D text layer. First I added an X rotation keyframe back and forth to make the text sort of flip down....
View ArticleProject will not open.
I have been trying to open up a project multiple times over the past two hours and am not having any luck. Whether I open the project directly from the file in the directory, or by opening up AE and...
View ArticleNested comp rendering one layer incorrectly
Well this is certainly an odd problem. I'm working on a brief photo montage bit in an After Effects project and I've placed the montage in one comp and placed that comp in a final comp for rendering. I...
View ArticleHelp. "Unable to allocate Memory" error.
Hey all, I tried a search first and I tried google. I have to look at a PC tomorrow that has either CS5 or CS5.5, it's running Windows 7 64 bit with 16 GB of Ram. The error being given is: "Unable to...
View ArticleRenderer: Ray-traced 3D - doesn´t work
MacPro 10.8.2 After Effects CS6 11.0.0.378 CUDA 5.0.37 Hi,I have a problem whith raytrace 3D renderer...3D form/ Objects rendered with raytraced 3d worked without any problems the last month.But now...
View Articleae skips frames playing back
Why is it that AE skips some frames after playing back my comp? Is there a solution to the problem, I'm a new guy on the block...
View Articlecontrolling Key-Value by Point Controller
Hey guys,I have multiple layers, each one has three position keyframes with keyA, keyB and keyC. Now I want to have a small "helper": the value of frame B should be changed by a "Point Control" (which...
View ArticleHighpass
What`s about an Highpass (video)effect in AE like PS has? For me it`s quite a bit anoying to do the workaround with multiple effects and blendingmode. (the way maltaannon does it)
View ArticleAfter Effects CS6 Screen Fluttering HELP ME!!!!
Hello Everyone, Ok so I have seen a few threads about this with CS5.5 but nothing with CS6. First here is my coomputer set up. AMD FX6100 3.3 chipQuadro 20008 gig of ramMSI 870 motherboard Creative...
View ArticleROTATING A CUBE IN 3D SPACE
Hello, I've created my first 3D cube in AE and I am trying to manipulate it in 3d space. I've created a null object and made it the parent of all six faces. Everything works fine, except for one thing....
View ArticleAttaching 6 Different Streaming Videos to the Edges of a Rotating 3D Cube?
Hello, I've created a 3D cube in After Effects and instead of just a solid or a photograph on each side of the cube as it rotates, I'd like there to be a different video stream, like the cube in the...
View ArticleAfter Effects CS6 copy paste from other apps is broken
Hi there, After Effects just recently stopped accepting copied text from Microsoft Word (and many other applications incl Photoshop). Although it does allow me to copy into the AE GUI search bars, but...
View ArticleCS5 After Effects: Fluid motion using keyframes where gravity and momentum...
Can anyone lead me in the direction of a tutorial or otherwise that explains how to keyframe movement so gravity and momentum look very natural and real? Thx in advance.
View ArticleWhich Hard Drive should i use for Disc Cache?
Hey community, So recently I've been using a old slow HDD for my cache and its been bottle necking me too much.My question would be, what would give me more performance? a 1 TB External Hard Drive...
View ArticleHow to change Memory? I only have 16 RAM and it is insufficient.
With After Effects 5.5 and only 16 RAM, 64 bit, WIN7I run out of memory. How can I deal with this? How can I razor a sequence so it is smaller and uses less memory? How can I manage my 16 RAM on my 64...
View ArticleJerky and "Not In Real Time"
Why is my footage in AF 5.5 jerky and why do I get a message in red saying"Not in Real Time"? Any ideas please?
View ArticleIs After Effects Good for YouTube-Style presentations?
Hi! I'm about to start a new channel where I'm going to make educational videos about mysterious/strange topics. I'm thinking of using an animation program for brief and simple short animations, that...
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