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Friends:  Deklin Jay | | | | |  | Audio time remapby Alfred Hammer 1 day agoI used time remap to freeze a frame for a couple of seconds and when I RAM preview it, audio seemss to be completely out of sync. I could get the audio into audition and add silence where the video ge | Re: Audio time remap by John Cuevas 4 hours ago If it's not too much trouble reduce the project to just the problem composition, use the collect files command to put everything in one folder(.aep file and M4H00503.mp4). Zip the file and upload to t
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| | | |  | Text NOT smooth!by Graziano Guardiani 6 days agoHi Please see attached picture... For some reason the txt is not crispy on the bigger font but looks cripsy on the smaller font.... If I select a small portion with the 'region of interest'.... then B | Re: Text NOT smooth! by John Cuevas 2 days ago I noticed that you the plank's transfer mode set to dissolve...which creates those dots and loses the fast blur. If you turn the transfer mode to normal or really anything but the dissolves and turn o
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| | | |  | Wiggler "Y" and Slider Controlby Matteo Ferreccio 5 days agoHello all. Is it possible to apply a "Slider Control" on a wiggle that moves only the "Y" values Slider Control can be parented on a wiggle expression that moves equally X and Y. I need to move only Y | Re: Wiggler "Y" and Slider Control by John Cuevas 5 days ago If you type in "value" into any field, it returns the layers current value. Try it out, create a solid and alt click the position and type "value" into the expression field. Now as you move your solid
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| | | |  | Rotobrush stops after X frames?by Ian Campbell 6 days agoI've been trying to use the rotobrush and it works fine. I understand the concept of drawing the skeleton of the figure. It works fine, but when I push play to process subsequent frames it stalls afte | Re: Rotobrush stops after X frames? by John Cuevas 5 days ago it sounds like rotobrush is working the way it's designed. Rotobrush requires you to work in increments of 10 frames, check the roto, then work 10 more frames. You can change the span, but I wouldn't
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| | | |  | Effect used in videoby Rhuan Alecsander SatÃrio 6 days agoDoes anyone have any idea how to do this spinning globe with photos (link of video below) http: www.sevenpictures.com corporate-video-production.php Thank you! | Re: Effect used in video by John Cuevas 6 days ago Make a large composition 2x width to height(2000 x 1000) and name it Pictures. Arrange the pictures into the composition. Create your final comp and drag Pictures into it and apply Perspective - CC Sp
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| | | |  | Tracking object that moves off screenby Charles House 1 week agoI'm not sure how to fix tracking points manually AFTER setting the information to the null and then parenting the null to the text. I've tried changing the values numerically but it doesn't do anythin | Re: Tracking object that moves off screen by John Cuevas 1 week ago Pretty simple tutorial in this thread addressing the issue:http: forums.creativecow.net readpost 2 1017437 Johnny Cuevas, Editor Thinkck.com "I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving t
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| | | |  | Keyframe question in After Effects!by Thomas Johansen 1 week agoSo, im making a musicvideo like this; . Except that im trying to make the picture in the middle pump to the beat! I have converted the audio to keyframes, and connected the picture scale with the both | Re: Keyframe question in After Effects! by John Cuevas 1 week ago You could use the ease expression to limit the min and max of the zoom. Ease takes an input(in this case both channels) that has numbers from say 0 to 12 and converts them to other numbers say from 0
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| | | |  | Rotating video without scaling.by Steven Happel 2 weeks agoSorry for the newbie question. I shot my video on a 5d Mark II, holding the camera like shooting a portrait, and so the video straight out of the camera is sideways. I want to rotate the video and do  | Re: Rotating video without scaling. by John Cuevas 2 weeks ago When you say skipping frames, is this during playback, and when you rendered what kind of file did you make If it's a quicktime, you can check to see if it's skipping frames by using your arrow keys a
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| | | |  | Moving Pluginsby Ryan Tweedy 2 weeks agoHow do I move Red Giant plugins I can't find them on my computer. I mostly am concerned with after effects but I could use them across the board. They are all 64 bit plugins. Ive googled it but I cant | Re: Moving Plugins by John Cuevas 2 weeks ago With Red Giant plugins, if all else fails you can download them again and re-install them. I've had mixed success updating my AE releases and plugins, so I always keep a backup of the installers and t
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| | | |  | How to isolate yellow colour from footageby Scott Green 2 weeks agoOK, so I've managed to highlight a particular colour in my footage for this music video and turn it to yellow. And now what I want to do isolate the yellow from everything else to use as a matte alpha | | | | |
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| | | |  | AE digital signage / Vertical Plasmaby Kevin Candela 2 weeks agoGreetings friends. I have a 1920x1080 HD plasma that will feature digital signage. Motion Graphics. No video. The plasma will be turned vertically and mounted to a wall. I will probably lay it out in  | Re: AE digital signage / Vertical Plasma by John Cuevas 2 weeks ago Work in your comp 1080 x 1920(Comp_Vert) and when you are finished create a new 1920x1080 Comp_Horz and drag Comp_Vert into it. Now just rotate 90 degrees. Now you can send it to your encoder, DVD Blu
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| | | |  | Tutorial fairy dustby Sandrina Vandoninck 3 weeks agoHi everyone! I'm making a special project for school. We need to make a little movie for Marketing so we have to follow a company. We had chosen for Plopsa Indoor Hasselt, it's an amusement park in Be | Re: Tutorial fairy dust by John Cuevas 3 weeks ago You can recreate that really simply with CC Particle world. I made an example project for you to use as a starter project. 4044_fairydustcs5.aep.zip These are the values I used but they all can be adj
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| | | |  | AE vs Smokeby Richard Cardonna 3 weeks agoCan someone list the features in smoke that are not in AE Richard C | Re: AE vs Smoke by Todd Kopriva 3 weeks ago It should come as no surprise to anyone that I'm reading this and taking notes. ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopri
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| | | |  | Inverting text alpha channelby Lisa Simonson 3 weeks agoYikes... Confused with this. I know how to invert alpha channels of an image in the project window but wondering how I can invert it with a text Its a bold black font with stars cut out. I want the st | | | | |
| | | |  | Importing Footage to Use as a Maskby Emily Skaer 1 month agoI took some footage of black paint being applied over velum on top of a pane of glass. I had a camera set up under the glass and am hoping to use this footage as a mask in AE. My question is, the foot | | | | |
| | | |  | Rear Window in two minutes.by John Cuevas 1 month agoAmazing job of compositing here: Rear Window Timelapse from Jeff Desom on Vimeo. Johnny Cuevas, Editor Thinkck.com "I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will no | | | | |
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| | | |  | Letters into words...by David Komer 2 months agoI'm basically following the tutorial at http: www.redgiantsoftware.com videos redgianttv item 22 But I'd like to use letters of the alphabet, instead of spheres, for the particles... I.e. I'd love it  | Re: Letters into words... by John Cuevas 2 months ago What you want to do is use the custom particles feature. To do this with random letters, you would need to make a 26 frame composition 150 x 150(or so) and place a letter. Apply a text animator-offset
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| | | |  | Service: John Cuevasby John Cuevas 2 months agoGrand Rapids Michigan, United States Animation John Cuevas Motion Graphics Senior Editor, Avid Nitrous. Cynthia Kay Media Production Oversaw editing of Hi-Def. & Standard Def. projects on Avid Nitris | | | | |
| | | |  | My latest videoby Alistair Gallop 2 months agoHi Everyone, Just want to say a massive thanks to everyone on this forum, I have only been using after effects for 6 months and without all your help I dont know what I would of done! A great communit+2 | | | | |
| | | |  | Best PC for MC6by sandy shapiro 2 months agoI've dropped FCP and thinking of dropping their workstations too. Can anyone tell me the best PC to run MC6 I'll be working with Alexa footage. Doing minimal After Effects work. Thanks! | | | | |
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