Quick Help With Titles Please
I don't use AE enough to remember a lot of this, but please refresh me on how to make the black areas of a title sequence transparent? Also, I'm having a heck of a time importing either the Premiere...
View ArticleFile Not Rendering
I am trying to render a video in after effects and i put the settings as a quicktime file and under format options in "video codec" I put it as an Mpeg-4 video when I click render this message pops up...
View ArticleCompositing Tips
I've been using After Effects for awhile but haven't tackled compositing. I need to compsit the special fx orb over the prop orb that is in the footage, as you can see in the pictures that are posted....
View ArticleNumber values not showing up in GUI
Here is a picture of what is happening, I can change the values such as scale, rotation, postion, in the viewport, but there are no yellow numbers and I can't change opacity as you can see by the...
View ArticleMissing 'Animation Presets' in the Dropdown List
Hey everyone, I'm trying to fix this issue that i've been having with After Effects.After i've made a layer and applied an affect onto it I'd like to use the Animation Presets dropdown list to apply...
View ArticleSmall file size, but still high quality?
Hello, I am filming weddings for clients but I am unable to export them with a small enough file size so that they are able to see it on their slower computer. And it is a pain when it doesn't even fit...
View Articletimeremap nested compo with 3d camera and 2d layer shifting pb
Hi, I've got a composition with a 3d animated camera, several 3d layers and a 2d layer as background ( tga sequence render from a 3d program). i've pre-composed this composition and want to to a...
View ArticleProblems using multi mov files in one AE screen
I've imported three mov files and have created them on three separate layers in my AE comp screen. When I press to preview the files they play but only for about 3 seconds. I need them to play the full...
View Articleliquify makes image blurry
I noticed with liquify tool when doing a ram preview that continuous rasterise doesnt appear to have any effect. So my layer looks blurry. Is there a way to rasterise my layer with this effect...
View ArticleHello Everyone.
I am facing a challenge with the lauching of CS6, it hangs after lauchng at the ExporterQuicktime. i have tried to search for the avi importer codec spoken about in the Library/Quicktime folder but...
View Articleafter effects CS6 fails exports on anything but h.264
working along fine in CS4. update (via cloud subscription) to CS6 and suddenly render queue generates "disk full" errors on any format other than h.264.all of my drives have have hundreds of gigs...
View ArticleAE CS6 Renderproblems
Hi,i render 1080-files in after effects with images (psd, bmp. png) and footages from premiere. therefor i use dynamic link to import the premiere-sequenze.the renderjob goes qick and smooth until the...
View ArticleAfter effects text layer in flash
Hi, everyone! I have a quick question regarding After Effects and the use of Flash Pro CS6. I have a lower third made in After Effects, and I would like to use it in a Flash Pro file. Is it possible to...
View Articleadd an inertia script to mask/shape-path keyframes?
anyone knows how to add an inertia script to mask/shape-path keyframes? OR a workaround that would yield similar results? thanksmanojit
View Article3d format - convert to fbx
Hi all, has anyone had any sucess creating an after effects plugion which converts an after effects file (with 3d camera and other 3d elements) into filmbox (fbx) format? I love animating with the...
View ArticleText Title Effect Zoom Up Past Size and back down
I am working on a title sequence where the words zoom up from zero and stay on screen until the next title. I don't remember what that is called when the word zooms up past the size and then back down...
View ArticleHow do I make an animation on a composition appear in different times on the...
Hey,Basically, I'm trying to make a mobile app overview and I want to add a little "tapping" animation a whole bunch of times for parts where a button is tapped and so forth. I made an animation of a...
View Articletint effect
I have two layers. One is a duplicate of the the other. When I use the tint effect on one it effects both. Is there a way to only effect the copy?
View ArticleCustom Footage Rendering
Hi All, I am looking for some guidance regarding rendering of custom footage. PNGs, BMPs and other type of image footage are simple as they are just pixel data.They can be imported and drawn as pixel...
View Article"Eroded" text look
Hello, I have a project that features a before and after of a website design, and I would like to create an appealing text intro. Ideally the text would be 3d ray traced text, and I would like the...
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