Ha! Not only did I not find a solution, but I had forgotten about it long enough that I did a search for this issue and found my own question.

If you are using time remap, it feels very random which keys will work and which won’t. It really feels buggy. In one case, if I set a key on an opacity value then it didn’t work. With no keys, I could set…

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Not sure which forum to put this in, but the end result is Premiere, so figured I’d put it here.

I needed to do some rotoscoping on some text. So I sent some video over to an AfterEffects file, matched the camera, added some 3D text, did some rotoscoping. Everything looked good…in After Effects. The proxy is working just fine there. I am at home,…

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I know where all of the footage is located. It’s actually located in the location that it last was. But my coworker selected to offline them for some reason.

I was just wondering if there was a way to tell Premiere, “Hey, I have all my footage now. So just go ahead and look again.”

Many of the pieces of footage are in their own folders, so…

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A coworker opened a project and saved it. Some of the footage was on a drive I had, so now it says offline.

Is there a way to just tell premiere….”Hey, why don’t you just check again?” I don’t want to select a new path. I just want to tell it to check for the missing footage.

I’ve been hitting “Cancel” when footage is missing. And then when I…

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Thanks. I figured I’d have to calculate the sizes based on the source width and height, but also calculating for scale.

I chose to use the rectangle dimensions directly, rather than sourceRectAtTime because I thought that would be faster to calculate (but I have no idea and I’ve found testing to be pretty inconsistent) and all of my footage is…

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I made a giant collage of rectangles and have a source below each rectangle, using that rectangle as a mask.

I’m auto sizing the sources by assigning the position to the layer above first, then since they are actual rectangles, just doing rectangle height / source.height *100.

I added the ability to mirror the footage as well, but that’s basically…

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I’m wondering if there is a way to get a file, or embedded xmp, that will give you some information about the footage used to create the final render. I really just need a list of files, but if I was metalogging information about them and have something like “cat; eye; fur; feline” listed for one of the clips and “dog; mouth; tongue; slobber” for…

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I’m doing some work for a poor quality TFT screen and it is only able to display RGB565. For those not familiar, instead of 255,255,255 the pallet is divided into 32,64,32. (That green is Super annoying).

For images, I’m using imageMagick to deal with and have come up with some methods there that end up looking really good. Basically I’m saying…

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I know this is really old, but I found it by doing something really similar and came up with results that I think are better. And order matters of course.

Posterize is likely what you want, but not by itself. You’ll need to limit the colors to probably 8 values of R, G and B. So precomp your layer and duplicate it 3 times. Make each layer only…

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Thanks for the tip. I do both, depending on what is needed. If you use essential graphics to push a setting, that setting is different for each instance.

Maybe a good example is color. I know I’m supposed to use purple for a color, but I’ve seen 5 different versions of it. Clearly the graphics team hasn’t chosen it yet. So I’ll add a color effect…

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That’s a real bummer. I just ended up precomping both, but sometimes doing that is a huge pain in the butt, if you’ve got a lot of expressions going because then you have to update them all to point to a different composition.
I would precomp a Whole lot more if they just let you show the contents in place as well, making it much easier to…

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I have a solution, but It isn’t efficient and I’m wondering if there are other ways.

I have a video layer that I’ve masked a person walking by that I will be using as a transition. The video is scaled because it’s RED 8k footage and my composition is 4K. Red’s footage is 4096×2160 when scaled, rather than 3840×2160, so some of the layer’s footage…

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One big advantage of using an expression is that the fonts Stay linked to your “parent” layer. And you don’t have to explicitly call out the text if you do it like this:

f = thisComp.layer(“MainText”);

fFont = f.text.sourceText.style;

fFont;

I’ve split it up so that you just point “f” to your parent layer with pick whip, but you can do it all in one…

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I understand that everyone’s workflow is going to be different based on what type of footage they are using, what kind of storage limitations they have, and what kind of team they might work in. From what I’ve found, most tutorials are showing how to just convert one piece of footage to a proxy, and move on. That just doesn’t seem efficient to…

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My guess is icc profiles are different for both of you. That’s a windows setting, but could also be the View>Use Display color management settings are different.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/color-management.html

Yeah, that parent business what a huge pain in my butt. I realized, after Basically finishing something, that what I had designed would have worked much better with a few child-parent relationships.

I haven’t come across it yet. Does AE let us do something like: thisLayer == child ? parent info : nonParented value;

I obviously wouldn’t do that…

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Is there anything like CodePen for AE expressions?
I was trying to think of the best way for me to store my own expressions for using over and over, and also sharing with my coworkers. But I like the idea of sharing with the world as well, but only if it’s well designed in a way that benefits me, And others.

For instance, every time I make a…

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Yeah, that’s basically the same as what I am doing as well. I was wondering if you could do it with essential graphics. I can maybe think of one way, but it would only work for transitioning two precomp layers. That would work for premiere, if you’re moving it over there, but I’m keeping things all here, and I try not to precomp when I don’t need…

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Most of the wipes I’m seeing are using big thick shapes that cover the entire screen. So basically wipe on, then wipe off. That works perfectly for pretty much anything because you just line up the center of that with where you want to transition from one set of things to another, and you don’t have to worry about masking.

But if you need to mask…

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That sounds like part of Motion V2 called Animo. There are a lot of cool options in there. If you do much motion graphics in AE at all, it’s totally worth it. If you use illustrator much, I also highly recommend getting Overloard by battle axe? Not sure if I got the company right, but anyway it makes life much easier, and faster. Faster is always…

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If you’ve got effects and animation on a layer, sure, you hold Alt (windows of course) while the layer you want to replace has already been selected and drag the asset from the bin over top of the layer and it replaces it. But some items aren’t “footage” in the bin, like text or shapes.

I’ve got quite a few text objects that are Actually…

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I am in the situation where I need paragraph text, but I’d like it to be accessible in essential graphics so I can create the style, then reuse it.

As far as I know, if you are within AE, the only way to edit the text is to right click and edit source text. That brings up the “Edit Value” box, which lets you edit a string of text and that’s all.

I…

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I forgot to mention that I tried that. It doesn’t change anything at all.

I just tried it again, for good measure though. The footage actually looks wrong in AE also. So it’s not happening Only at direct connect. It’s just not looking correct in AE with the same settings.

I haven’t tried one suggestion I found elsewhere on a semi-related field,…

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I’m working with some footage given to me from a Red camera in ProRes. It has zero correction applied, so I first applied the “SL Neutral Start” Lumetri Preset. I then added another lumetri color effect just to make my own adjustments, and I used the “SL clean straight HDR” look in the creative tab, but no basic corrections.

So I had a sequence…

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It’s not a matter of swaying because it’s necessity when it comes to turnaround times.

Every time I see someone’s cool animation I ask, how long did that take? And it’s usually something like, “well I was working with the client over a few month’s/years so it’s hard to really say.” But I’m over here trying to crank out a finished product in 5 days…

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It’s pretty funny, I was searching how to do something Almost like this AGAIN, well because I haven’t had to in over 3 years and that’s how my memory works.

But in case someone else ends up here searching for this as well, I figured I’d share what I came up with:

On a shape layer, I created an ellipse path. I needed a circle on each of 22 layers,…

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Before you jump, the TL;DR: Premiere fast, AE slow, I’m looking for some things that point to the best workflow for utilizing the speed of premiere working with video, and the motion graphics, and advanced video editing and special effects of AE (not sure what things are considered SFX, or just advanced video editing these days).

Premiere is…

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Here’s the source text area of the title in Premiere:
https://imgur.com/aWa6ENo

And here is in AE. (it wouldn’t save the image for some reason, so I’ve added links)
https://imgur.com/PD5sk9o

It says text bottom, but I don’t get any details about it. So to change those things I have to do it all in expressions. In this case I only need to change the…

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For anyone else that came here, like me, to find that answer, but found this to be more complex than they were looking for, and Maybe some of the expressions are using the older language?

I wanted the source text of one layer to be two lines, and I’m using Essential properties for my titles (aka master properties?)

It should be entered like this:…

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I’ve got a title I need 6 times at once over something. I set over a mogrt file to premiere, but Wow it gets slow if you use 6 titles at once. I’m guessing because it is creating a new ae file for every instance of the title, so it’s got 6 open, plus the one I did for the background animation.

I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong though. The…

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Yes, I just got permission to. It is far from an exciting video, unless you are one of the people listed, and get excited to see it I suppose. But it was a good excuse to do this with a master composition. I had a few last minute changes and additions. And things like, “Oh, can you put this person before that one,” make manual entry on each one a…

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Can you add the PNG to it’s own nested composition? I would think if you add the png in that one composition for media replacement then it would match? But maybe I’m not following what you’re after.

2021, and this is still an issue for me. And I’m on a new computer. It’s a shame it’s so slow. Especially since things like a browser handle vector graphics so fast.

I do wish there was something that gave an indication of which layer/composition was giving issues. I have quite a few expressions in this particular composition. But odd things slow…

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Thanks Adobe, for giving us protected regions. But how the heck do you want us to go about moving them?

I’ve got a stack of layers with protected regions at the end because there is an in and out animation. Currently they are all there for about 5 seconds. I need to move all 8 of them to a length of 8 seconds now.

Once you add a protected region,…

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Aaaand my programmer friend helped me figure it out.

I had “Anniversaries.csv” as the source text. I just eliminated the quotes there and it fixed the problem.

I didn’t think that would work because that makes it ‘Anniversaries.csv’ but I don’t understand when single or double quotations do what.

I have a file in the project named Anniversaries.csv

This code works:

file = "Anniversaries.csv";
col = effect("Column")("Slider");
row = thisComp.layer("name").effect("Row")("Slider");
footage(file).dataValue([col,row])

But this does not:

fileSource = thisComp.layer("csv").text.sourceText;
file = fileSource;
col = effect("Column")("Slider");
row =…

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Ha, believe me. If Adobe changed the way things get previewed and played in AE so it was comparably as fast as Premiere, I’d never leave AE. There is Very little I like about Premiere. But stringing together a bunch of videos, premiere is much faster.

I still don’t get why Both applications can’t just crunch away at things in the background All of…

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I can’t always get in touch with a client fast enough. So I’d love to be able to create something like a lower thirds title in AE, send over the things I need for essential graphics, and start filling in the info for each person’s title info, and adjust the overall timing for that title.

But then when they say something like, the shape here should…

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I can’t seem to find this, as everything I search keeps showing the trick for creating motion blur from an animated moving object by using the transform effect rather than just the regular motion. Great tip, not what I’m looking for.

I have footage where the camera is paused looking at something, it then does a slow, even, pan to the right, then…

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Working in a team, with some of the people involved Barely understanding that they should only use CMYK if the printer requests it, then frequently forgetting and giving me CMYK files anyway, it’s difficult to get them to not move around layers.

Also the point here is the save time. Doing that takes quite a bit of extra work.

Of course, these…

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