• Adobe After Effects

  Camera Not Working With Particular

  Posted by Sam Randa on September 14, 2015 at 12:55 pm

  Yes, i am a motion designer.

  I have had this problem for about a day now, and I can’t do what I do without it being fixed.

  So, I have a camera in C4D that is the child of a circle spline.

  I rendered it out normally, and then dragged the C4D file in AE

  I extracted the camera out of the C4D file and now Particular is not reacting with the camera.

  I know it is not a problem with Particular, because I changed the Particular layer to be a 3d layer, and that still did not solve the problem

  By the way, the Particular I’m talking about is Red Giant’s Trapcode Particular.

  Sam Randa replied 10 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  September 14, 2015 at 1:15 pm

  The particular layer should NOT be a 3D layer. Particular takes the 3D from an AE camera and uses it to project it’s particles in a 3d within the plugin. Turning the layer into a 3D layer will create a flat layer that will not be 3D. Change this back to a normal layer and if you are still having issues, please upload a screen grab of your timeline.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  ThinkCK

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
  —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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  Sam Randa

  September 14, 2015 at 1:31 pm

  Here is a screen grab of what is happening (a gif)
  https://gyazo.com/c9c15bf9901d4086c524804f85362ee0

  The BG is not moving with the text.

  Here is what it looks like in c4d
  https://gyazo.com/0aab92a7be291179ef02b80b7e87824a

  Thanks for your help!
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  Sam Randa

  September 14, 2015 at 2:22 pm

  So I decided to scrap that project, since that was only about 20 mins of work (But a whole lot of rendering) and that was the only file that did not work.
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  John Cuevas

  September 14, 2015 at 4:47 pm

  It looks like you didn’t have an alpha tag when your rendered out your text. You should have a layer above your text image sequence and a luma matte. You can check to see if particular is working with your camera by turning off the text layer.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  ThinkCK

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
  —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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  Sam Randa

  September 23, 2015 at 6:59 pm

  I did have an alpha tag (if you look very closely you will see orange smoke)

  The camera just was not responding

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