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| | | | | | Particular Emit Dotted Lineby Jeff McBride 1 year agoI've got a null from C4D moving around which will act as my Emitter for Particular. I'm trying to calculate the null's velocity and translate that to emission rate so that I get an evenly spaced dotte | Re: Particular Emit Dotted Line
by Jeff McBride 1 year ago
That's about the closest I've come so far. I think the problem may have something to do with subpixel particle generation I created a little illustration to help convey where I'm at. The first line sh
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| | | | | Align to Mask Expression?by Jeff McBride 4 years agoIs there an expression that would allow me to position layers on a random point loosely surrounding a mask I'm essentially creating a hedge out of leaf particles and I need to be able to dynamically s | | | | |
| | | | | DOF Problemsby Jeff McBride 5 years agoI'm having some issues with DOF in AE CS3 where it seems to shift layers and create pixelation where images intersect. The images below show what I'm looking at when I turn on DOF. My layer stacking o | | | | |
| | | | | 3D space glitchby Jeff McBride 5 years agoI'm working in a 3D comp and have a small handful of glitches that occur when the camera flies around. If two layers are intersecting they will swap order for a couple frames and swap back. There's cu | Re: 3D space glitch
by Roland R. Kahlenberg 5 years ago
Ensure that you have the Advanced 3D renderee instead of the Standard Renderer - you can check this in a composition's Advanced Tab. Also, ensure that the layer's do not share the space X,Y,Z space. n
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| | | | | C4D 10 Workshop - Car Troublesby Jeff McBride 5 years agoI'm running through the Car tutorial in Arndt's C4d 10 Workshop book and I ran into a snag that I can't seem to figure out. On Pg 255 he creates a grill by extruding a couple of faces and hypernurbing | | | | |
| | | | | Lo Res Vanishing Pointby Jeff McBride 5 years agoI'm having difficulty with creating a vpe file- the output png files are all less than 100x100 whereas my original file is 3000x1500. I've tried everything I could find in Photoshop and searched all o | | | | |
| | | | | Ease Expressionby Jeff McBride 5 years agoI've put together an expression to randomly scale a layer according to the value of a slider. My problem is that I can't seem to get the scaling to ease- instead it acts like hold keyframes. Any sugge | Re: Ease Expression
by Dan Ebberts 5 years ago
You could ease it from one value to the next by adding some code to look ahead to the next seed, like this: holdTime = .2; seed = Math.floor(time holdTime); t = time%holdTime; seedRandom(seed,true); o
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| | | | | Random Scale Expressionby Jeff McBride 5 years agoHey guys- I'm trying to craft an expression that will allow me to wiggle the scale of each layer independently of all the other layers but all connected to the same slider control. I also need the key | | | | |
| | | |  | IMAGE BUFFER ERROR?????by bigboy creative 6 years agoHi, I'm rendering a after effects7 project out... 3 4's of the way through the render this message appears:- After Effects error: could not create 2048 x 1536 image buffer. (7::39). The composition se | | | | |
| | | | | Particularby Jeff McBride 6 years agoIs there a way to set an anchor point for a particle Also can I effect the particle rotation without changing the position. I'd like the wind effect but without actually moving the particles. Thanks. | Re: Particular
by Brian Burgess 6 years ago
Instead of using a static image for the particle, create a comp with the animation and rotation you would like to see. Make sure you build that comp so that it loops. Then select that comp as your par
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| | | | | Centering with Math?by Jeff McBride 6 years agoMaybe there's a different way to do this than I'm thinking. I'm currently running a js code that essentially does what I was asking below. In the script it defines the X and Y positions for a div tag. | | | | |
| | | | | Mouseover Video Playerby Jeff McBride 6 years agoI'm trying to create a video player that will pop up when you mouseover an image. Check istockphoto.com and do a video search for an example. I believe their site uses standard HTML and JS to call up  | Re: Mouseover Video Player
by Abraham Chaffin 6 years ago
I've had a bit of requests for things like this in the Dreamweaver forum so I went ahead and created a tutorial of how to achieve this effect in Dreamweaver CS3. If you have CS3 this tutorial will tea
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| | | |  | Movie effects infoby monkey 6 years agoHi there. Could someone please tell me what effect is used to do this, or even a tutorial. Ive seen it in so many movies and ads but not sure how its done. Heres a sample http: www.youtube.com watch v | Re: Movie effects info
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
Which effect The Time remapping Freeze Frames The Transitions etc Jeff McBrideMotion Graphic Designer EditorLimeGreenChicago, ILwww.limegreenproductions.com
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| | | | | CS3 Activationby Naveen Mallikarjuna 6 years agoQuick question: can you only activate CS3 on one computer at a time | Re: CS3 Activation
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
Far as I know you can do up to two computers at once, the idea I believe is one for home and one for work.Jeff McBrideMotion Graphic Designer EditorLimeGreenChicago, ILwww.limegreenproductions.com
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| | | | | Null linkingby Jeff McBride 6 years agoHow could I set up two nulls so that Null A is a center point and Null B cannot go farther than a predetermined distance from A | Re: Null linking
by Dan Ebberts 6 years ago
Try this: maxDist = 200; p = thisComp.layer("Null A").transform.position; v = transform.position - p; if (length(v) maxDist){ p + normalize(v)*maxDist }else{ value } This assumes neither null has a pa
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| | | | | Animating 3D Cameraby bradyv 6 years agoHi- I am trying to animate a 3D camera that follows along with a a light streak I created. I add the keyframes and animate it just fine. Once I animate it and it is a couple of seconds into the animat | Re: Animating 3D Camera
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
How are you animating the camera Are you using the Camera Orbit Track tool, parenting to a null and moving that, parenting to something else, or keyframing by hand Regardless, make sure that you are k
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| | | | | 3D Stroke Rough Edgesby Jeff McBride 6 years agoIs there a way to soften the edges of my 3D Stroke The edges are really pixelated and it throws off the Glow effect. I'm working in a 32 bpc comp, but that doesn't seem to matter to 3D Stroke, only Gl | Re: 3D Stroke Rough Edges
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
Hey, thanks for the reply. I've done all those things, the closest to changing anything is blur but that backs off the glow effect too much. I don't need to do anything to the plugin to get it to work
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| | | | | Images load externally.by Jeff McBride 6 years agoI know it's possible with text to load externally, I was wondering if it's possible to do it with images, or perhaps an image sequence. It's going to be linked with an external text file that matches | Re: Images load externally.
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
Is there an expression I could use to call up comps I found this script: http: www.creative-workflow-hacks.com 2006 06 08 how-to-use-a-spreadsheet-to-generate-lower-thirds-slates-titles-etc-in-after-e
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| | | | | Audio Frequency and Colorby Jeff McBride 6 years agoI had an idea and wasn't sure if its even possible to do with AE, but I was wondering if it was possible to link the frequency of sound with a color (for something like particular or 3D stroke, etc) S | Re: Audio Frequency and Color
by Kevin Camp 6 years ago
i don't think ae will (atleast not ae7), but i believe trapcode's sound keys can be used to separate frequency range data from audio. that could then be linked to a color effect.Kevin Camp Designer -
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| | | | | Swapping out footageby Michael Tesh 6 years agoOk so I made and animation with a certain still image, I also used that same still image elsewhere in the timeline later on. Same asset used in two different places. How do I swap out that first insta | | | | |
| | | | | Still image lengthby Michael Tesh 6 years agoIs there a way to predefine the length of still images that are dragged and dropped into the timeline for use in videos | Re: Still image length
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
On a Mac click After Effects at the top, on PC it's probably under File and go to Preferences-- Import. The top allows you to define the still image length as comp length of a predefined set.
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| | | | | Centipedeby Jeff McBride 6 years agoI'm trying to create a centipede in AE. I've created 12 body ovals which move at a constant rate on a mask path. Each body section has two legs, each with three sections. It's set up so that as the in | | | | |
| | | | | Layer typesby Dave Jones 6 years agoSorry if this has been asked before, but can somebody explain the layers in after effects, I know the point of layers, and have used them many times, but what is the difference between a solid and adj | Re: Layer types
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
You didn't mention, but a Null layer is also in that list... A null is used to control a group of layers transformations. If you parent layers to a null the null defines things like position, rotation
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| | | |  | pulling my hair out over pixel aspectby goodtimej 6 years agoHey, I did go into the "read this first" section and I really did try to understand. Now maybe if someone could put this into easier to understand terms or just tell me what to do. I filmed some sd DV | Re: pulling my hair out over pixel aspect
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
At the bottom of the Comp window check Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction. Your monitor displays pixels as square, so when you tell your computer that you have pixels that are wider (1.2 aspect ratio) it a
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| | | | | Audio/Sound not there in AEby Anne Lawant 6 years agoSo I'm now in post on a music video I've been commissioned to make. (Well, I say commissioned, what I mean is someone asked me to.) Anyway, I've got some effect-worth planned. One of these is a transi | Re: Audio/Sound not there in AE
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
If you're trying to hear audio in After Effects make sure that the the audio switch in the timeline is turned on (its next to the eyeball) Then make sure your Time Control panel has audio playback che
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| | | | | Exportingby cyprusx 6 years agoWhat are the best options for exporting a video in AF without loosing quality | Re: Exporting
by Jeff McBride 6 years ago
If by export you mean going to File-- Export don't do it. The regular way to render in AE is by using Composition-- Make Movie This gives you a lot more options for rendering. Go uncompressed or using
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| | | | | Flash loading?by Jeff McBride 6 years agoI've never quite understood how Flash files load. I'm beginning and endeavor to make a fully Flash webpage which could potentially be quite large and wasn't sure about the loading aspect of it. I gues | Re: Flash loading?
by Kelly Johnson 6 years ago
a frame in Flash will not play or show until it's fully downloaded. So, as you build the Flash file, if you put everything on the first frame, you'll have a wait, whether 2 layers or 20. Sounds like y
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| | | | | Project Loading Errorsby Jeff McBride 6 years agoI'm having trouble opening an FCP 5.1 file. The program loads differently each time I open it, sometimes it freezes right away, others it will load all the way but show a green slug in the right monit | Re: Project Loading Errors
by Rafael Amador 6 years ago
Yes it can be a corrupted clip. I think that happens to me once and I did as you says. I dragged all the clips from the capture folder to another one and them put them back to the folder in groups of
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| | | | | Playback Problemby Jeff McBride 7 years agoHey all, I just burned a DVD with a menu system I made with After Effects and a few pieces of content I made as well. The DVD says it burns fine and plays on my computer fine, but refuses to play in a | Re: Playback Problem
by Jeff Bellune 7 years ago
1. What brand of blank media Don't use cheap brands like Memorex or Ritek. Use Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim or TDK. And even TDK sometimes turns up with a bad batch. 2. What burn speed I recommend never burn
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| | | | | Chroma/Alpha Exportby Jeff McBride 7 years agoI've captured a clip in Premiere Pro 2.0 that was shot in front of green screen. I keyed everything out so now I just have a black bg which claims to be alpha. I've tried exporting a bunch of differen | | | | |
| | | | | Write-Onby Jeff McBride 7 years agoIs it possible to achieve this kind of effect with flash http: www.creativecow.net articles hansen_jaysen growing index.html I've seen write on stuff that's either just shape tweening a mask and I've | Re: Write-On
by surone 7 years ago
Hi there, I'm looking for the same effect on flash by another option. LGABoarder, have you found it How did yo do it finally thanks in advanced.
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