• Adobe After Effects

  Red screen

  Posted by Ahmed Ashraf on January 6, 2016 at 6:06 pm

  Hello community,

  I’m making AE projects with expressions in Windows
  When i open this projects in Mac i get red screen (expressions don’t work)
  Why this happen?

  Max Ziebell replied 9 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 11 Replies
• 11 Replies

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  Walter Soyka

  January 6, 2016 at 9:13 pm

  It’s hard to help without any information.

  Can you post a screenshot of your entire Ae UI, showing the expression and as much of the timeline as possible?

  Expressions should be cross-platform; I wonder if perhaps there’s an issue with some kind of footage?

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  Ahmed Ashraf

  January 6, 2016 at 9:37 pm

  I’ll give you example,
  All layers has Fill effect
  Adjustment layer [controller of all layers colors]
  The fill effect get error and all layers gone to red.
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  Walter Soyka

  January 6, 2016 at 9:40 pm

  What is the expression, and what is the error it throws?

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  Ahmed Ashraf

  January 6, 2016 at 10:01 pm

  thisComp.layer(“Controller”).effect(“Text Color”)(“Color”)
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  Walter Soyka

  January 6, 2016 at 10:10 pm

  And the error?

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  Ahmed Ashraf

  January 6, 2016 at 10:23 pm

  does not exist
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  Walter Soyka

  January 6, 2016 at 10:36 pm

  What does not exist?

  A screen shot would be really, really helpful. I need to be able to understand what you are seeing.

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  Ahmed Ashraf

  January 6, 2016 at 10:58 pm

  I don’t get this on my PC but i get one for you.

  

  (it says: „After Effects Warning – Class ‚Effect‘ has no property or method with the name ‚color‘. Expression deactivated. Error in Line 1.“)
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  Walter Soyka

  January 6, 2016 at 11:15 pm

  Is the PC using an English language and the Mac using German? If so, it might not be able to address the property by name, because the string literals are different. You might have to address the property by number instead.

  Assuming that the effect named “Text Color” is a color control effect:
  thisComp.layer("Controller").effect("Text Color")(1)

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
  @keenlive   |   RenderBreak [blog]   |   Profile [LinkedIn]
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  Ahmed Ashraf

  January 6, 2016 at 11:50 pm

  Thank you very much!

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