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Matt Cheah

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August 1st 2008
28 Posts
Best Workflow Practice - Not Re-using Images from a Large Library
by Matt Cheah 5 months ago
Hey guys, Quick question. I have a client who's requesting that I make a fairly long minute motion graphic with a few hundred different images. Do you guys have any efficient solutions to make sure th
Re: Best Workflow Practice - Not Re-using Images from a Large Library
by Roland R. Kahlenberg 5 months ago
With the Project Panel active, select File Consolidate All Footage to remove duplicate copies of footage items. If you're about to archive the AEP, you should follow this routine with File Reduce Proj
Is there any Script or Expression to pull data from a spreadsheet?
by Matt Cheah 1 year ago
Hey all, I'm trying to create 200+ videos that only differ by one or two text layers and I'd like to know if there's a script or expression that I can use to pull text from a spreadsheet, input into a
Re: Is there any Script or Expression to pull data from a spreadsheet?
by Matt Cheah 1 year ago
Thanks Walter!
Any Script or Expression to pull data from a spreadsheet?
by Matt Cheah 1 year ago
Hey all, I'm trying to create 200+ videos that only differ by one or two text layers and I'd like to know if there's a script or expression that I can use to pull text from a spreadsheet, input into a
Re: Any Script or Expression to pull data from a spreadsheet?
by Matt Cheah 1 year ago
Thanks so much Declan! I'll try this out and let you know how it goes.
Want to select all keyframes nested in a group in the graph editor
by Matt Cheah 1 year ago
Hey all, Quick Question, I've imported a character with an animation into one of my scenes and I want to sync up the character's animation with the rest of my scene. What's the best way to move all th
Re: Want to select all keyframes nested in a group in the graph editor
by Matt Cheah 1 year ago
Amazing, Thanks so much!
Maya Fur doesn't grow in extruded areas
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Hey all, I've been working with some fir trying to create the appearance of a cloth with furry qualities. My object is somewhat cylindrical but in order to get the exact shape I've had to extrude a fe
Re: Maya Fur doesn't grow in extruded areas
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Hey all, I got it, just had to mess around with the UVs a little bit. Thanks.
White Transparency not completely opaque
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Hey All, I've having some trouble rendering out a sequence in which I've animated the transparency of a long rope object, so that it animates on. Everything works well except that before the object an
Re: White Transparency not completely opaque
by Alvaro Castaneda 2 years ago
Check the specular and reflection channels those might be problem channels ---------------------- varomix - pixelEater MIX Studio www.varomix.net
Constrain world pivot point to 0,0,0.
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Hey all, I'm trying to make a simple motion graphic where a camera tracks in a circle around an object and then cranes upward while still rotating on the Y axis. Placing the object in the middle of th
Re: Constrain world pivot point to 0,0,0.
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Hey Alvaro, I tried parenting my camera to a null and I run into the same problems. When I rotate the null it doesn't change the camera at all transforming poses the same problems. Any ideas Thanks!
Batch Renderer and GUI difference?
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Hi all, I'm trying to render out a scene using the mr Production: Motion Blur preset. When I render in the GUI it renders fine, but when I try to batch render the whole thing, The image appears differ
Animating a tube growing?
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Hi all, I was wondering if it were possible to animate an object growing lengthwise without going through the unfortunately tedious process of creating clusters for every single edge loop and animatin
Re: Animating a tube growing?
by Matt Cheah 2 years ago
Thank You so much. I couldn't open your file for some reason but I figured out how to do it from your instructions. This looks great - thanks again.
Import Footage From External HDD?
by Matt Cheah 3 years ago
Hi all, I'm working on some footage on a computer that doesn't have enough HDD space to which I can transfer my files, so I figured i'd just import them from my external. However, when I attempt to ge
Re: Import Footage From External HDD?
by Matt Cheah 3 years ago
Thank you so much. I wouldn't have known.
After Effects imports TIFF as footage with fewer frames than source files
by Matt Cheah 3 years ago
Hey all, I've been exporting some footage as TIFF files and I still need to edit a little bit, so I import it all back into After Effects but I've run into a little problem. There's a total of 888 TIF
Re: After Effects imports TIFF as footage with fewer frames than source files
by Dave LaRonde 3 years ago
After Effects defaults to a 30 fps frame rate for image sequences. If you're working in 29.97, that could be a problem. So go to the Interpret Footage settings, check that frame rate, and re-conform i
Motion 3 Time-Remap Entire Composition?
by Matt Cheah 4 years ago
Hi, Does anyone know how to time-remap the entire project in Motion 3 What I've found is that it's possible to group all the layers and then make a clone layer out of that and time-remap that, but my
Re: Motion 3 Time-Remap Entire Composition?
by Matt Cheah 3 years ago
Wouldn't this lose a lot of quality
Motion 3 Crashes every 5 minutes
by Matt Cheah 4 years ago
Hi, The mac at my workplace was just updated with Snow Leopard and now my Motion 3 Projects crash every 5 minutes. I'm only using assets that I created within Motion and the program crashes even when
Painting with a reference
by Matt Cheah 4 years ago
Hi, Is there any way to paint onto a layer but be able to see another layer behind it so as to have a reference to what I'm painting The only thing I can think of is painting directly onto a layer and
Re: Painting with a reference
by Matt Cheah 4 years ago
But when you paint you can only paint in the layer panel, correct Therefore regardless of what compositing mode you're on or the transparency of your layer as a whole, you cannot see anything else in
Office Lights Preset
by Matt Cheah 4 years ago
Hey all, I've just added the "Office Lights" preset to one of my text layers, and it's working fine except that I feel that the text blinks on and off too fast. I've messed with the expressions and ef
"Heroes" Chapter Text
by Matt Cheah 5 years ago
Hi If anyone watches heroes you'll see that at the beginning of an episode, the name of the chapter is written in text and "stuck" to a wall or floor, moving with the camera and taking the same rotati
Re: "Heroes" Chapter Text
by Christian Wheel 4 years ago
Are you using the "Perspective Corner Pin" tracking method ----- Christian Wheel ----- Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles Audio Production & Imaging MS Visual Studio Developer After Effects Enthusias
Motion Menu Outro
by Matt Cheah 5 years ago
Quick question, I have a motion menu which includes a video (we'll call it video1) and buttons sliding into place. I was wondering how I could make an outro from that menu - with the buttons sliding o
Re: Motion Menu Outro
by Michael Sacci 5 years ago
It simply cannot be done. You are jumping from the middle of one movie to the beginning of another movie. Don't even believe this is possible with BluRay (maybe with Java but it would cost $1000s to p
Buttons in Motion Menus
by Matt Cheah 5 years ago
I'm attempting to create a motion menu in After Effects CS3 and import it into Encore, but I'm having some difficulty. I realized that in order to place a dynamically linked composition into Encore, I
Re: Buttons in Motion Menus
by Tony Zaragoza 5 years ago
True! This much I do know: In AE, create your menu button and videos, but, instead of using the (+) or (+ ) names, you just have fun and make the menu buttons fly, dance, and slide into position. The


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