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  Sure Target 2 not working in After Effects CC 2014

  Posted by Tommy Dimmel on January 3, 2015 at 7:16 am

  Hi,

  I have a video here that shows what I’m talking about: https://youtu.be/URZmlNqqftw

  I’m unable to get Sure Target 2 to work on my mac. I am using After Effects CC. I can get Sure Target’s dolly’s to work, but the targeting itself doesn’t work. I also feel like it’s hard to find Sure Target to download online. Do you all no longer make Sure Target? Is it discontinued?

  Currently I have my Sure Target plugin located in Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Plug-ins. When I try to use it, I get the following error message:

  “After Effects warning: effect named ‘Sure Target’ is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved, deleted, or the name may have been mistyped. A property expressing referencing it was disabled.

  ‘Position’ (line 1) of layer 1 (‘Null 15’) in comp ‘Ice Cream, Balloon, Color Wheel'”

  I can get this error message to go away if I move the Sure Target plugin file into Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Plug-ins/Effects, however, it simply doesn’t work. The dolly function works, but the targeting doesn’t work at all.

  My mac specs are as follows:
  Model Name: MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3
  Processor Name: Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores: 4
  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
  L3 Cache: 6 MB
  Memory: 16 GB
  Boot ROM Version: MBP112.0138.B11
  SMC Version (system): 2.19f12
  Serial Number (system): C02M73C5FD59
  Hardware UUID: 653E4B65-DF68-5DD9-AD93-8DC86F355C65

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  Stu Hunt replied 11 years ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  January 3, 2015 at 4:04 pm

  > Do you all no longer make Sure Target? Is it discontinued?

  Those questions are better put to the Video Copilot folks than to us here on Creative COW.

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  Brian Charles

  January 3, 2015 at 4:24 pm

  Are you applying suretarget to a 3D null named “SureTarget”?

  It works for me, see:

  8362_suretargetcc2014.aep.zip
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  Tommy Dimmel

  January 3, 2015 at 7:56 pm

  Yes, I am. Thanks for sending that project file. Your project worked fine for me. I can also create a new project on my computer and suretarget works fine there as well. It’s just in this one particular project of mine. I have been racking my brain over this for 24 hours. Driving me nuts!!! I feel like I have troubleshooted almost everything!
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  Tommy Dimmel

  January 3, 2015 at 7:57 pm

  Noted.
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  Stu Hunt

  May 7, 2015 at 8:56 pm

  As mentioned in another thread, I often have to create two target layers to make SureTarget work correctly…but sometimes not. I have never found the rhyme or reason for the difference, but give that a shot.

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