Hi, Jonathon

I greatly appreciate your generosity and sharing with me the work that you’re doing as well.

Before I enter into it I jsut wanted to share my thanks.

Have a great 2026

I need new eyes to take a look at my Mac, which has slowed down immensely in the middle of a project.

The project I’m working on is a motion graphic animation with the strokes of a mind map growing outward, and its titles’ opacity fading in at each point in the synced voiceover. The layers of this project are broken into four images: wooden…

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I greatly appreciate it, Andrei.

I’ve sent you the details and will hopefully send a fuller post as I complete this learning.

Hi Andrei,

I hope you’re doing well! I am Andy Diesel, an experienced After Effects user but new to coding expressions. I found this helpful discussion with Daniele Zacchi about using marker names in expressions.

I’m working on a project where markers drive animations across layers, synced to an audio track. I’d love to clarify some points about…

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Thanks, Roland
All for the sake of progress, I appreciate your clarity.

Good morning, Roland

I hope you are well and don’t mind my following up after implementing the Universal Audio advice you kindly shared with me.

Returning to the manual process, I’ve added markers in a formatted and spaced manner to map out the video’s skeleton. This took time, but aligning it with the audio made ‘universal’ has been a smooth…

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Fantastic, let me try it out!

Thanks a lot, Roland

I greatly appreciate your experienced opinion, even as it leads back to the drawing board.

I need to complete a few dozen more of this same sort of project. Please point me towards books or links that are good references for efficient hierarchy in an After Effects workflow.

Kind regards

Andy Diesel

Thank you very much, Roland

Your response is very insightful and gives practical insight.

I have attached below screengrabs of my project with the Timeline, Branch Precomp, and Title Precomp; I will refer to these.

I’m learning to crawl before I can walk, so I’ve structured the composition/project so that expressions can manipulate it.

The branches…

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Hi, Creatives

I’m slowly learning to use expressions to quicken and measure my work though while manually developing a motion graphics mind-map project, I discovered I had mistakenly shifted all the keyframes within the ‘Generate Stroke’ effect a few frames backwards. Not knowing how long ago this had happened, difficulty in telling by how many…

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Hi, Creatives

I have a large file (25576x14386px) that moves around my HD (1080) canvas and reveals its masked titles at each stop. The process I’ve been using so far is a manual copy-pasting of opacity keyframes but this takes a huge amount of time and needs shaving down the time by automation.

Having no experience and only familiarizing with…

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Hi there,

I’m running a project that I have been working on for almost 3 years now though as I try to export a TIF image sequence with mp3 audio files, it cannot complete with an error pointing towards ‘Photoshop library operation failed because of a program error’. This follows: ‘ An unexpected error occurred while exporting a composition, Error…

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Thank you, Graham, for your response.

I appreciate you clarifying the purpose of the Graph Editor and I thought that it may add to the jolts my motion graphic experiences. I see this wouldn’t change if the pathway changed.

Yet the issue I’m experiencing is the unpredicted movement between keyframes not visible in the pathway lines in the…

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Hi to all After Effects fanatics.

I’ve been working on this project for a long time, but the project’s motion pathway lines are not visually changing when I’ve added a ‘Bezier’ to their movement.

I use Creative Cloud with the most updated After Effects (v24.1) program.

My project comprises three large files (25867 x 14550 px) in which I move these…

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Hi, my name is Andy Diesel and I am a videographer.

Currently, I’m exporting a simple motion-graphic animation made up of layers that either use ‘generate a stroke’ effects or changing the opacity for separate masks. The only elements I can assume would have an impact is that I’m working from an external hard drive and that each of the 3 static… Read more