[Andy Engelkemier]

you pose some great questions there, but to All of them, the answer is the same. It just needs to Ask. I would hardly call it “real” sticky. We do this in the 3D world All the time. Just go talk to an engineer.
The software just pops up and says, “hey, this thing seems out of order. what would you like to do? Ok, would you like to do that with all instanced, or would you like me to ask you about each one individually. And hey, you referenced this layer, but now I’m changing it’s order. how do you want me to deal with that, asign to the new position, or follow the original layer?”
Other software already does it. And sure, not sure if it will ever happen. It’s probably unlikely that they would add something like grouping in a way that only really is visual, so we’re stuck with nesting, which has benefits, but isn’t the same. We’re unlikely to get a way to rubberband between multiple compositions. There are a bunch of things that we’re unlikely to get, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t reasonable to do. It just might be hard, and not the highest priority.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Oh, you know I didn’t think of doing that.
Clipping masks always end up with no fill and no line color. So that should work pretty well. Chances are, if I have anything else in the file with no fill or line color, then it’s likely a mistake.

Thanks for the tip. I very much appreciate it.

[Andy Engelkemier]

no, that could be it I guess.
I Did notice that in AME I had “Save Media Cache files next to originals when possible” checked instead of saving in the dedicated SSD I have for cache files. I at least unchecked that, so in the future those should be a bit faster.

I do periodically clear AE’s cache though. Did you know if you update to a new version it keeps all your cache files and you can’t remove them without manually deleting them? That seems like a Huge oversight on Adobe’s part. If you aren’t going to delete them, or migrate them for me when upgrading, then you should give me a tool to remove previous version caches from the new version. I get why not automatically do it though, I think. Probably because if they really F up, then you can roll back to the previous version and you still have access to those cache files.

Anyway, I’ll see if clearing the cache helps next time this happens. It happens more often than I would like, that’s for sure. Something similar happens occasionally in Premier as well. But there, usually restarting or something like that fixes it.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Of course, Right after posting I decided to try one more thing. I just took my comp, and created a new comp from that.

No color bars. This has Got to be a bug. I didn’t do anything else.

[Andy Engelkemier]

In previous version of AfterEffects all I had to do was listen to the entire track and tap along with the star key. I have pretty good timing, so that was almost always spot on. But since somewhere around CS6 through CC, there’s a little bit of lag every time you add a marker.

But that’s exactly how it works in Audition as well. So I just did it there, saved over the file, right clicked on a marker on the audio file and chose “replace all markers from source”
I thought it might choke a bit because I added 500+ markers, but it did fine.

your solid idea isn’t so bad for some of the ones that Really need to hit perfectly. But if I had to do that a ton I would hope for a faster workflow.

I wasn’t looking to automate it. I was just looking to see if I could change a setting that’s already there. In that click and hold preview, I want it to start from that point instead of play around that point.

[Andy Engelkemier]

well that just sucks then.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Open the STL with Subtitle Workshop. Export XML. You can now do find and replace. I suggest using Notepad++ instead of notepad. This will arrange formatting easier and make it less likely to accidentally change something. You can do a find and replace All, in one step.
Bring that back into Subtitle Workshop and save as the original format.

Otherwise, you’re likely stuck changing each one, one at a time. So I’d just change one the way you want it, then do a find and replace, as you suggested.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I’d be interested in this as well, only….this method doesn’t work for nested comps right?

If I’m just working on timing, I don’t need grain reduction, echo effects, exposure, etc. I just need to see the clips motion compared to the audio or other clips.

Any way to just disable All of them for preview only?

[Andy Engelkemier]

I agree. I like the direction they are trying to take, but it shouldn’t be released like a beta is all. keep beta features beta, and only release things that work really well.

I just don’t understand why they don’t add some other things that have been around in other software for a Long time, like automatic background preview caching. Hey, I walked away from my computer. Oh look, my entire sequence can be played back without having to render the audio before preview, and the section that’s crazy slow due to an expression can actually be played. That’s when I’ll be happy with “preview”.

So the direction? Sure, that’s fine. But I feel like they are releasing things just to try and justify the extra price everyone is paying now for CC. Are most people Really that much faster from CS5/6 to now? Maybe a tiny bit.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Is anyone else quite unhappy with the direction this took? It seems like it’s riddled with mistakes, and what’s up with them removing features?

Well, at least I know I’m not just crazy (says the guy currently dressed as Monty Python’s King Arthur). That’s always nice.