After Effects can’t continue: unexpected failure during application startup
Hey.I really really need you help. i get this error message everytime when i start AE CS6 ... i dont know why because PS, AI, Pr works fine.what i tried was: 1. reinstalled AE and Master Collection2....
View ArticleIs there an AE equivalent to Ai's "expand function"?
Im placing multiple instances of composition A into composition B. I've applied various filters to each instance of composition A. I would like to "expand" each instance of composition A within...
View Articlecreate new comp using image sequence name
How do you create a new comp that uses the name of the image sequence you used to make the comp? Or, how can I add a bunch of image sequences to the render queue or media encoder? The final outputs...
View ArticleBlinking Cursor
I have been using an expression for blinking cursor text but wanted to see if it can be enhanced. Here is the expression that I used Apply to the Text Source of a text layeradd a slider controls to...
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"tracking error" effect - V/H/S movie
Hey there, I'm looking for a way to achieve the "tracking error" effect used in the segment "Tuesday the 17th" of "V/H/S" but I am not a AE pro at all, could someone give me a hint on how to do it? TIA!
View ArticleRay-Traced 3D text dissapearing
Same problem quite a few people have. Can't find a solution anywhere. Have a MacBook Pro Retina Display with the Nvidia GT 650M GFX card, anytime I make text ray-traced 3D it just dissapears and only...
View ArticleCan't Save on Hard Drive on a Mac
I'll open After Effects and everything will run fine. I can do what I want accept for saving. I can't save to my hard drive on my Mac, but I can save to the desktop...why is this? Help?
View ArticlePick Whiping a Lense flare Center.
Hi there. I have a knull object that has tracker movement applied to it and I am parenting a layer to the knull object so it follows the trackers movements. I now would like to apply the knull object's...
View ArticleFirewire Output for Video Preview Intermittent
I'm experiencing a frustrating problem with After Effects these days. We're producing some video to be projected, so to see what the final output will really look like, I'm doing video previews using...
View ArticleSubtracting the stroke outside the rectangle.
I've got a stroked rectangle and I want only the stroke inside the rectangle to show. The bottom layer has the stroke over the fill. The top layer is a duplicate of the bottom layer, except that the...
View Article"after effects unable to open file 1610153459"
Every time I try to render in AE I get this error message " after effects unable to open file 1610153459" I'm stuck until I find a solution. I've tried some of the solutions I've found on the web,...
View ArticleKeyboard Shortcuts for Effects
How can I assign keyboard shortcuts to effects? Like command-L for levels or cmd-M for curves (like in Photoshop). I can't seem to find the effects in the preferences shortcut file.
View ArticleWhat codec to convert .MXF and MP4 files into to use with alpha channels in...
When I import .mxf File, shot on a Canon C300, into after effects, the alpha channel options are greyed out, when I look in, interpret footage, main. This also is the case importing .MP4 files, shot on...
View ArticleAfter Effects 5.5 rendering audio issues
I am using After Effects 5.5. I am using Mac OS X snow leopard 10.6.8. I was trying to render but was having problems with the audio. I installed QT 7 but the problem is still happening with message...
View ArticleWhat makes a Compositor?
For my final year project I am looking into Compositing and what is needed to succeed. I have looked at starting out as a rotoscope artist, trying green screen, the difficulties of compositing and what...
View ArticleWarp Stabilizer Alters The Speed of My Footage!
I exported clips at 23.976 from FCP 7. Imported them into AE 5.5. Ran Warp Stabilizer to fix shake. Exported the clips individually at 23.976. When I play them in Quicktime or in FCP 7 again, they are...
View ArticleAudio clip desync issue
Hello everyone, Been having a bit of a problem with one of my video clips. All of my footage was filmed on the same camera, and then converted to FLV with media encoder. I'm just trying to cut and...
View ArticleFiles Randomly Deleting (Repetitively)
For some reason when i am editing clips (COD Clips) and other gameplays, files sometimes randomly delete on me. I go to the file and it's not there. Its basically like After Effects is deleting my...
View ArticleScript Warp Stabilize
Hi there,Currently, our workflow within our business is taking large numbers of JPEG stills (50,000 and growing), and stitching into a lossless video, to then be stabilised and deflickred in order to...
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