Thanks for replying Hector.
I am trying to make sure, going through the documentation of the plugin as well as some online tutorials, are you sure flicker free has grain possibilities?
I have used that plugin a couple of years back with someone, for flicker reduction.
Not sure I understand where the grain related capabilities there.
Thanks!

Hello!
I am looking for a solution!
I did vfx work in AE and the studio has bright clamping issues duo to the fact I have used
MatchGrain to finish and polish the shots. (delivered as EXR sequences)
MatchGrain supports 8 bits… So my rendered files are not as expected (32bit or at least 16)
What is my alternative? I need a to get the grain back.
Any…

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This is the script Locations by Fabian Moron Zirfas.
https://aescripts.com/locations/

Your kind of replies is the reason I get help on these forums for so many years. This forum rocks!

Dear Tom, Appreciate your replies very much!
I will look into it more, right now, due to deadline issues I swept into, I ended up using a pretty neat script that actually does what I needed in a simple clean manner.
But since I was trying to figure this out for so long, I am still curious what went wrong with my formatting.
I wanna slowly go over it…

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Tom, I really appreciate your time with this and the step by guidance.
I am embarrassed to admit that although all this, I am still have issues, not I have been working with AE for a good few years and I do follow all your steps and my csv is similar to yours now…
You have an idea what am I doing wrong?

My I ask how does your afxtest.csv look? I guess the formatting is the issue.
Appreciate your time and help Tom

Maybe its the CSV file?

WOW, Tom thanks so much for the investigation 🙂
I am trying to do what you have described (the attached img of you work space is a bit fuzzy, but I think I understand)
Do you mind explaining the steps once more in a bit more detailed way?
As I try to follow your steps (by marker you mean a shape layer dot for example?)
I have a 1080 comp with a map…

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Thanks for replying Tom.
Sure,
I have a long list of locations (370 Hospital) around the world, in a spread sheet:
Name | Location
here are some of the locations:

40.2053040516947, 44.5313374967476

-37.79305806827382, 144.94968784081559

-27.484088336469163, 153.0263611816673

-33.8016024265893, 150.9921414713299

How would such thing can be achieved, putting…

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Hi.
I have an excel sheet with a column of hundreds of coordinates.
I would like to “pop” dots of those coordinates on a map of the world.
How should I approach this?
Thank you so much!

Hey there forum
I am in need for a script that will automatically save a jpg from the 1st frame of each of my 200 layers…
I have many layers and I want the script to save a tedious task.
I have asked chatGPT to help, but the script does not execute (it’s not a “permissions” issue)
Does anyone know what is not right here?
——-

var comp =…

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Mainly file size…
Rendering to Prores4444XQ will render a bit more than double the original.
I have many files.

Thank you Benjamin.
I wonder if there is a way to render back to sony’s somehow…
Thanks for the reply, that’s what i’ll do for now

Hello forum

I am about to do some VFX on footage from Sony Venice, 6K 6048X4032 using Sony Raw.

I have native MXF files that I open in After Effects (interpreting to S Gamut3/S-Log3)

I would automatically deliver ProRes4444XQ files, but I was wondering if I should consider a different approach.

Mainly because the QT ProRes will be double the size of…

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O my!
I am speechless. A quick test showed it also works in Hebrew!
If in English you would want to differentiate upper and lower letters, this would have to be via “cont message.toUpperCase and lower?”
for example “Good morning Filip!, this is very NICE”.
//Thank you!

Dear Fillip, I appreciate your reply very much! I am trying to understand how to implement in and how to start. Should I save it as a script and manipulate my way with a text layer?
I am sorry I am asking a very basic question…
Regards and thank you.

Thanks for the reply Tomas!
I imagine when pressing “C” for example, “A” will show for 4 frames- a blank ONE frame-“B” will show for 4 frame – One blank frame – “C” will show, and stay
But if A or B will be pressed, they will have to have a shorter cycle.
And that is true to all 9 controllers.
I understand the idea, but due to my scripting…

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Hello forum, before I delve into a tedious hand made imitation of old Nokia 9pad texting, i thought asking here might be of help.
I need to create some lines of text messages as they were written on pre-smart phone.
So pressing the letter “C” will cycle through a couple of frames of “A” and a couple “B” and then “C”…etc…
Any ideas or thoughts on…

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Thanks for the reply.
Right now I am using form. I am aware of the other methods in what you have mention, and might change. But I am intersted to know if it’s possible in a simple manner, due to this fact…
I am using form because of a couple of things before I get to this stage.
Thank you!

Hi forum.
A simple question;
I will end an animation have a starry night look of particles, and wanted to simply have those particle to animate on a slow (few seconds) move/push, toward the yellow square in the attached image
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3ql5fjzws0zoxu/starry1.jpg?dl=0.
right now those particles are via form.
I anyone could shed light,…

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Hello again forum!

Another question, this time regarding particles.

I am trying to achieve a starry night sky video

where at a certain point in time, most of the stars (a seperated layer of particles?) are making a slow move (hopefully a customized path in a way) and form a shape of a ship… (made out of stars.

I made a rough sketch (not so…

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Thanks for the reply Graham, it is actually a similar image, the forum gave me hard time pasting an image…
I got it to work. in a similar way.
Thanks again!

Hello.
I’m in early stages of mock up for a video piece, in which I will have slowly moving figures, with some kind of an extra layer that will effect the image (water, waves, drapes, tiles (such as glass piece that we can see through…)
In any case, I have a ref image I love (by American photographer Erwin Blumenfeld)

I am looking for ideas in…

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Thank you Brendon!

Hello,
I guess this question is more for the Matte painters and designers around here:
I am on the lookout for assets for designing a matte painted wrecked car (based on real unharmed cars we have.)
So crasheddamaged cars, car parts, good digital quality…
Where can I find assets?
Any tip will be appreciated!
Thank you so much.

Thanks! :-)….
I didn’t think of that!

Hello forum!
I hope it’s the right place, I usually ask specific AE questions here…
If now, maybe someone can direct me to an active VFX forum.

I am looking for movies and/or TV series from recent years which “happens” in the 1970’s
A pretty general question, I know 🙂
I am looking for some nowadays 1970’s look of VFX breakdowns.

Any idea/tip is appreciated

Hi!
I have footage in 24 fps.
On it I composite another piece of 24 fps footage (screen in monitor)
I would like to give the monitor (the footage in the screen)
a posterise time effect and drop it’s frame-rate.
But now matter how I do it, the end result is glitchy in the final render.
The best example:
If there’s a pan and the shot moves sideways,… Read more