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Missing Bezier Handles!
Hello there,
I have been having a strange issue for the past few days where the handles of my bezier curves do not appear to be showing.
I did a search on the board, and found an explanation that stated the handles only appear for speed and not value graphs.
The curve I’m editing is for the position attribute which consists of 3 values for the 3 axis. I’m not exactly sure how you would edit all 3 parameters using the speed graph as it only gives me one curve to edit.
The odd thing is that I have spent a few hours editing the separate XYZ curves in the graph editor using the value graph, and the HANDLES WERE THERE.
Am I going crazy? Is my computer? I know that the way the value graph presents the data is the way I’d like to edit it. The speed graph doesn’t make sense at all in the context of the position attribute. But I needs me handles!
Thanks in advance to whoever helps out 🙂
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Okay. I am not crazy. Well, I am but not when it comes to remembering things that happened yesterday. At least not when it comes to compositing.
Anyhow, for those of you who are dying to be able to separately edit bezier curves for attributes that consist of more than one value, with position being the most often used one, and are on a a Mac, do this:
1. Go into your home folder/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/8.0 [or 7.0 if you’re pre-cs3]/Adobe After Effects 8.0 Prefs
2. Open it up with TextEdit
3. Command+F, type in “experimental”
4. On the line that it finds, change “Experimental Spatial Value Graph Handle Mode” to equal to “1” instead of “0”.There, you should be on the edge, using an experimental hidden feature that, honestly, should have been there to begin with.
The answer was here on the board but I just couldn’t find the bloody preference file anywhere.
I have NO idea why I had this enabled somehow and then had it disabled, but I’m glad it’s back. It’s a pretty obviously needed feature.
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Oh, and if you’re on windows, the file is at C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\8.0
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Thanks for the tip, Derived. It’s good when people post their solutions when they solve their own problems. 🙂
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