[Andy Engelkemier]

I don’t quite get it. I have this problem and I can’t get it to work. I’m just trying to do a bit of wiggle on the footage. It plays, but then this error comes up.

It’s just a layer from a PSD. A rather large PSD. about 10kx7k (I have to zoom in almost 10x, so it’s actually necessary)

I’m also getting some issues with zooming in on the precomposed puppet tooled animation. I had to precomp because I realized the puppet markers don’t move with scaling of the whole object. Ok, no big deal, precomp. Well now there’s an odd halo around the layer. I thought maybe that would have to do with expansion? I’m not having much luck though.

[Andy Engelkemier]

good tips. I appreciate it. Some of those will help.

I don’t have the available screen space for a couple, but the rest should help quite a bit. Time for a couple monitors. lol

[Andy Engelkemier]

if I could precomp and just drop down the thing to see the contents that would be cool (can’t wait till the next release. It looks like that’s there), but there’s something nice about seeing your layer’s I/O points for the whole composition. Well, for each “scene” at least.

The main reason here though is I’m comping to audio. I’ve not got a good workflow yet for working with animation in a precomp, then changing it in there to match the audio. I like to actually see the waveforms to do that.

Also, markers aren’t live in precomps. If I mark a layer on a precomp and go Into that layer, it should be on the top timeline. And if I mark a time there, it should come through to my main comp. That’s a big one too.

So I only use precomps when i Have to.

I’ve got it going, but using quite a few layers. I precomped the mask since I’m not animating it. I’ve already changed it, so it’s nice I thought ahead.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I’ll add that request to the feature request. It would be nice to be able to do two things:

I’d call text as a value for this. As you said, it’s not got a source.

I’d like to be able to drag one layer value to another and either copy and replace the value (or values if you have multiple layers selected maybe) to make them the same, or hold a different key and have the values swap. Swapping would really only work for two objects of course.

I wasn’t sure if that existed. I couldn’t find it, and you guys usually collectively have an answer if one exists.

I’ll just copy the information I need to a 3rd party (an outside text editor in my case) then copy them back to their new positions.

Thanks for the help all.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I tried encoding from the timeline out of Premiere as well with no luck. What happens is it ends up playing it back too fast while encoding so it jumps back in time and repeats sections often. Well, I think that’s what’s going on.
I imaging that’s common with streaming formats. It’s not a big focus so I just ended up cutting and retiming what I could to fit the sections I needed. It’s not great, but it only needs to get the idea across.

I definitely want to figure this problem out though. I’ll try wondershare and see if that works. 65 bucks isn’t bad if it solves the problem. I’ve got another one I purchased at home that came with a bundle for ripping DVD’s. I tried the Microsoft Expressions (good for screen capture actually), but it choked on it too.

The last thing that might work is simply playing the video in a player and doing a screencapture Of the screencapture. If that works out well that might be my go to method. The guy was smart enough to capture audio so I could line up the screen capture with what was going on in the scene, but because of this problem, it doesn’t actually line up.
Capturing the existing screencap would be a last resort though. It’s limited to real-time recording, performance is difficult to control, and the quality usually isn’t as good as it could be.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Confirmed, it’s a bug of some sort. It doesn’t always happen, but turning the layer’s visibility off/on causes it to refresh. So that’s a workaround at least.

I logged it with Adobe. I can’t pinpoint when it happens, so it may never get fixed. I assume it doesn’t happen on all systems either. At least I know a fix.

I had it happen once after using the technique you suggested by creating a copy using the button at the top left in the titler, so that didn’t solve it either. It just sometimes happens. Meh, I’ll just have to keep a close eye on things.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I swear I tried Ctl+Shift+D.

After I found that I notice there Is a way. Search “Default” and you’ll find “Apply Default Transitions to Selection”

And wouldn’t you know it, That applies it to Everything that’s selected, regardless of where the head is on the located on the timeline. I like that even better.

Anyway, thanks for the reply. Sometimes all it takes is someone to poke your brain into realizing the mistake.

[Andy Engelkemier]

AH, got it.

I didn’t have any markers yet, so it wouldn’t work. I just quick added a marker, then followed what you said. Updated like a charm.

Thanks Walter. Exactly what I was looking for.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Shoot, I didn’t know that it would delete my workspaces too. Ooops.

Still no luck though. I even tried duplicating my comp first and replacing it with the duplicate. It replaces it, but it still doesn’t update with the markers I’ve added.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Did you try that? Because it doesn’t work for me.
I actually use that function quite often. I was hopeful when you posted, but no such luck. And I went back and read it after trying to see if I missed something.

I assume you meant that replacing the footage with itself would update any marker changes/additions, but they didn’t change.

It looks like it actually isn’t possible, from what the help file says, without the use of scripts.

If I’m missing something let me know. I clicked on my footage in the timeline, then alt+drag the footage on top of it as if I wanted to replace it with something else.