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…in that case.. How about opening one of your previous versions from the Auto-Save Folder before it started crashing?
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Are you talking about depth of field?
Because if so, that would be best to have filmed like that to begin with.
Otherwise, you’d have to rotoscope the actor, probably track the background, and create a depth matte for it, which you’d later use with A Depth of Field blur, like the Camera Lens Blur that comes with After Effects.But I guess most of the time you can get away with rotoing the actor and just blurring the background… if that is what you wanted to achieve..>
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Hello,
Try opening After Effects. Then go File>Open.
When you select the project file, hold down SHIFT. That way the project will open without opening any Compositions.
You can also use Caps Lock to open Comps, and turn off all layer visibilities.
Then you can go through the project until you find the comp / layer that causes the crash.Sometimes I’ve had problems with certain keyframes on masks!!
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Not sure if this is relevant, but maybe using the Text layer’s animator function and changing the offset or value might add something of interest.
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You made this composition yourself or was it handed to you?
All I can think of is
A/ A bug
B/ That there are expressions on the other layers… In which case I’d select all layers, hit “U” twice to see what has been changed on them.Otherwise, that’s quite odd..
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ooohkay.. I googled “javascript scalar” (..and later “element-wise multiplication”).
“A Scalar is a variable that holds an individual value.”That cleared that up!
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I wrote that whole thing very quickly.. But I spaced various instances of the same comp in Z.. and then moved the null back and forth in Z..
Your layers are 2d layers so transform.position[2] would not work since you only have two dimensions..
If the final frame on your precomp is frame 200 and you want to control it over X this would work
dist =thisComp.layer(“Null”).transform.position[0]- transform.position[0];
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That’s beautiful!
I had a look at the comments and Glenn Stewart asked:
” I’m imagining each UI element animation is set to time remap that’s then triggered by positional data from the null via expression link?”I’d try something like that…. and wow, I’m really tempted to do something like that!!
…just realized you had seen that..
So Id do the in and out animation in the precomp and apply this to the timeremaping..dist =thisComp.layer("Null").transform.position[2]- transform.position[2];t = (dist);
ease(t, 00,550, 0, 200*thisComp.frameDuration)
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That’s beautiful!
I had a look at the comments and Glenn Stewart asked:
“I’m imagining each UI element animation is set to time remap that’s then triggered by positional data from the null via expression link?”I’d try something along those lines… and wow, I’m really tempted to do something like that!!