[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there Tristan.

Providing the AE version, OS and some hardware specs can really help you get an answer to your torment.

I remember having some sort of issue like that back in AE7. But I guess it didn´t happen all the time and I upgraded the version as well as the machine before I could actually solve the mistery.

Hope someone can help you for real.

Cheers.

[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there Bedford.

First off I think it´s kind of unprofessional do come here and publicly doubt the talent of the person you´re hiring.

That said keep in mind that you can accomplish a LOT and I mean a LOT of stuff in AE. There are limitations but also those can be used by a creative mind to be transformed in breakthroughs.

Another thing: AE is a very complex tool. Sure most kids today can mimic tutorials and simply invert the order of the text on the exemples and say they “work on AE” but the real research you should be doing is on this person’s demoreel and background. There you might be able to find out if the person is or is not capable for the task.

And yes it can be done. Fairly easy with the proper planning and right material if you ask me. But I wouldn’t dare steping in front of your guy/girl and giving my impressions and ideas.

I hope you didn´t find my response offensive. It is not at all supposed to be.

Cheers and all the best.

[Adriano Moraes]

I don´t know how is your setup or what kind of effect you´re applying but creating an Adjustament Layer on the top of the layer stack and applying the effect on it should do the trick for some effects.

And if you want to change something on the effect’s parameters you can do it easily by changing the settings on only one layer.

Hope it helps in some way.

Cheers.

[Adriano Moraes]

Hi Erik!

Over here it works perfectly. Click and drag, drag and click…no matter what I do it keyframes all the layers and all the properties selected.

It´s probably one of those misteries like: is lebron really landing in chicago or all this free agent nonsense is only gonna end the way it started?

By the way I´m running CS5 production premium on windows vista and on mac OSX snow……

Both behave as they should.

Cheers.

[Adriano Moraes]

He answered the question on a comment on the tube.

Cheers.

[Adriano Moraes]

Just another shot in the dark here Mitch though I think your solution is more on Dave’s wise words:

Are you by any chance using OpenGL on your render settings?

This thing can really make your life miserable when working with graphics….I don´t know about footage.

Well. Sorry if I´m saying something stupid but came to my mind.

Cheers and the best of luck!

[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there!

Since you say you´ve used time remaping I figure this strange blob on the guy’s hand seems to be due to Frame Blending mode set to Pixel Motion(witch I think is the default).

Depending on how much you messed with the speed this FB mode will have a pretty hard time creating the frames in between the existent ones.

Try changing it to Frame Mix. But keep in mind that there´s a limit fot messing about with footage speeds.

I don´t really know much about what you actually did to the footage (slow, fast, ho much %, etc…) but I´ve seen this “weirdness” before while doing some time remaping and I thought I could try to help by sharing my 2 bits.

More on that matter can be found on AE’s help files.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7d43a.html

I hope I was of some help.

Cheers!

[Adriano Moraes]

My pleasure John.

I´m glad it worked.

Cheers!

[Adriano Moraes]

Sorry I meant:

You could interpret one of the files

sorry ’bout that.

[Adriano Moraes]

You could interpret on of the files then right click and select “remember interpretation” then choose all the 199 others and apply the interpret footage on them under the same menu.

Hope it helps.

Cheers.