[Andy Engelkemier]

Thanks Dan.

I knew it was something simple like that which I just didn’t know.

That would have saved me some time had I known that sooner.
I’m going to go back and edit that portion tomorrow just to ensure it sinks in for next time.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Not everyone is a fan of trial and error. I like to see the results as I change them as much as possible so I’m not billing a client for wasted time fighting with software.
I understand not everyone does advanced things though, so may not have needs like that. Some people just deal with some basic graphics, text, and video footage, so may not even need anything like that.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I must not have been clear. I’m aware that is the way it works, but wondered if I was overlooking a way to override that for certain cases.

I perfect example is where you already have other keyframes in the start of an animation. Maybe some controlling opacity? So in the beginning you can’t see where something is.

Later in the animation after a couple seconds you need to see where the object is and control that a bit, but you Don’t want a keyframe there.
So you have to adjust the first position keyframe relative the the timeline where you are located.

If you add keyframes all over the place, going back and editing an animation can be a pain, and if you want something to look precise, it’s always best to have as few keyframes as possible.

So it’s a great feature, but I want a way to tell AfterEffects that I’m editing a specific keyframe while having the timeline in a different location.

I added it to the wishlist. My suggestion was to have sliders available as well as preview when you double click a keyframe to edit it. Currently when changing items in that window it doesn’t update in view until you hit ok.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Good to know. Super lame, but good to know. I guess we just won’t be buying any more Adobe software for like 5 years. Bleh. Too bad there aren’t alternative suites.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I don’t think that really helps though. XP 64 also wasn’t on the supported list for CS4, for those of us who have been on that and used it. There were actually 2 major problems. One is Encore burning capabilities didn’t work right because they got a driver wrong (that one was just laziness in programming). The second was that you needed a newer directX to use the cooler zooming and rotating options in photoshop. But everything else, from what I can tell, works just fine in all the CS4 stuff.

Is CS5 the same way I wonder? Sure they don’t officially support it, but will it work and would we still see much of the benefit from CS5?

A lot of us guys with corporate jobs don’t have a choice in OS. I’d love to be on Windows 7. My home laptop is faster than a lot of things than my work workstation with double the processing power and video card power probably due to OS and some other crapware they put on there, but we have to deal with it. Probably will for at least another 2-4 years honestly. Upgrading an OS is extremely costly to a large corporation.

Is anyone actually using CS5 on XP 64? I’m looking mostly for the vid production suite.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Almost, but I can’t quite get that to do what I want. I’ll explain further. (but thanks, I did forget about that tool)

I have a layer 3 seconds long placed at zero. I have 6 more layers and the last one I place the in point at 2 seconds.

I want to select those layers and automatically distribute the in points from 0-2 evenly while ignoring the lengths of the layers. Sequence seems to overlap based on the outpoint of the previous layer.

To avoid math, for now, I’m adding a keyframe to a dummy layer at the beginning time, one at the out time, then adding a number of keys in the middle to match the number of layers. Select the keys, hit Rove across time, and it distributes them so I can easy use J and K to jump to the in points.

[Andy Engelkemier]

it actually sounds like you were looking for what I’m looking for. It’s hard to find, and I have not yet.

I don’t want to distribute the Contents of the layer. I want to distribute the actual layers themselves, ie. the in point of the layer.

It seems all I can find with searching is how to distribute the content. Although, I did find that useful because I needed to distribute in 3D, which aftereffects couldn’t do without some special help of scripts.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I think I’m trying to do the same thing so wanted to respond here.

I’m not sure how to add something to the loopOut(); expression.
I’ve got a comp I want to loop, but make a bunch of copies and do something maybe like “value + random number using the index for seed number” to just offset the value. Well, that was my initial thought, but I couldn’t get that to work.

How do you offset a loop expression?

[Andy Engelkemier]

although, I just thought about it, and couldn’t a script actually add a key one frame before the last key and then delete the last key all in one step? That would be handy. That way I could hit one hotkey to create the Time Remap correctly the first time.
I still can’t understand why it is the way it is.

[Andy Engelkemier]

shoot, you’re right. Anyone know how to write a script for this?