Help with effect.
http://youtu.be/YWyHZNBz6FE Can anyone please help me figure out which effect is being used in Adobe After Effects at 2:50 and 2:55. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
View Article"Unknown BIB error", anybody ever actually fix this?
So I haven't used AE for about a year. I have V7 but had installed a trial of CS5.5 and that has expired so I uninstalled it. But V7 is now telling me "After Effects warning: Unknown BIB Error, Invalid...
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create a 1440 x 1080 comp
Hi, I need to create a 1440 x 1080 comp which is the same dimentional size of my video.I tried to create a new comp and dragged my video to new comp icon, what I get is not a 16:9 aspect ratio. The...
View Articleno shadows with gradient
I have a shape with a 4 colour gradient on it but it wont accept shadows unless i turn off the gradient. Is there a way to have shadows on this shape and keep the gradient as well?
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Best way to animate this graphic?
Hi everyone, I'm brand new to AE, though I'm very familiar with other products in the Adobe suite. Attached is an image I'm working on animating, I want each line to draw at a different speed from left...
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Render unlit particles as transparent in Trapcode Particular Shader?
Hi there, I recently followed this excellent tutorial by Harry Frank on creating Trapcode form type effects in Particular - the reason I wanted this effect in Particular is because I wanted to wrap...
View ArticleThe Timeline and You (I mean me).
OK . . . Hacking my way through the After Effects jungle here . . . but don't understand how there's not a main timeline. I come from Flash, which has a main base timeline you throw all your animations...
View Articlestroke width with expression
Hi, iam trying to set stroke width based on shape scale, (to maintain fixed stroke size) so ive used "(1/transform.scale[0])*500;" for stroke width expression, but this only works for either stroke...
View ArticleAfter Effects Comp fps settings
Hi, I have shot some 240 fps footage and When I import it ot After Effects, I have notices that the fastest the Comp can use is 99 fps which makes the footage render our at 2.5 times slower than...
View ArticleFrame transition jumpy in animation
Hi! I am brand new to AE, and desperately need some advice from those in the know regarding my problem. In a nutshell I have rendered all the frames in 3DS Max (30fps) and now using AE to put them...
View ArticleRelease date for new updates
I'm super excited about the new features, especially the integration of C4D and AE, and adding looks in Premiere. I've looked for information about release dates but can't find any details. What's the...
View ArticleOpacity change every 5th frame
I want to create a jiggle animation. I have 3 layers that I want to swap between every 5 frames using an expression. How would I go about setting this up so it would cycle in order every 5th frame?
View ArticleHow can I export speech analysis text with imbedded timecodes for the...
I found a script that allows you to export all your text layers with time codes as a .srt subtitle file. However, instead of multiple text layers, I have only one: essentially the meta data from...
View Articleunable to render projects on the last day of free trial
hi. during my 30 days of AE CS6 trial i managed to render several projects without any issues whatsoever. Yesterday was the last day of the trial. I wanted to export my last project (durationn ~25...
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Can not reduce green spill on edge...help is appreciated :-)
I have some spill on a the edge of a shirt and the hands. I've tried Spill Suppression, but have not had any luck removing it. I was using the Keylight Effect and was just wondering is there...
View ArticleCan I set adaptive resolution to OFF as the default ?
Hi - I turn off adaptive resolution (fast previews) as a matter of course but it seems that I have to do this specifically for every composition window. The default is apparently for adaptive...
View ArticleColors in an image comes out different after rendering comp
Hey guys, having an annoying problem. For a project, I've imported a jpeg file that I made on Photoshop. The colors look perfectly fine on the RAM previews and stuff but after I render it, just that...
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Straightening tracking points?
Hello everyone, I have a leaf that I would like to add into the foreground of a moving dolly shot. The leaf and the shot of the boy (see attached images) were shot on a motion control rig, but...
View ArticleRandom glitches when rendering quicktime animation movs
Hi, I am currently using After Effects CS5.5 on a PC (a HPZ800). For many months now I have noticed random glitches in my output files. These take the form of a distorted/pixelated line from one side...
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After Effects and RED Raw
Hi Guys, The day has arrived: Our Red Scarlet has arrived, along with the Canon Macro and Canon Wide lens. I have taken my first shot with it, and discovered that everything I have learned over the...
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