Andy George
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Do you have open GL enabled? If so turn it off, it works poorly in after effects.
What types of footage are you working with? After effects struggles with certain compression scheme. See’s Dave’s explenation below-
Dave’s Stock Answer #1:
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following — footage in an HDV acquisition codec, MPEG1, MPEG2, AVCHD, mp4, mts, m2t, H.261 or H.264 — you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
I’m a Mac guy, so I like to convert to Quicktime movies in the Animation or PNG codecs; both are lossless. I’ll use Apple’s Compressor, Adobe Media Encoder or Quicktime Pro to do it.
-Andy George
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Are you holding down Option when you click?
OPTION+Click on the stop watch opens the expression field for that property.
Or select the property and go to animation>add new expression
-Andy George
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Not really sure what the double arrow is myself..but If you select the mask in your composition panel you should get a box around it in your preview. Shift+Click on any of the 4 corners to scale proportionally. Click only to scale freely.
-Andy George
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Prores only comes with Final Cut Pro. So it’s more about what version of FCP your running.
-Andy George
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Option+Click on the stopwatch of the property you want to apply the expression to.
-Andy George
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I think this is the problem your running into?
From adobe-When a closed mask (with mask mode other than None), a layer style, or an effect is applied to a nested composition with collapsed transformations, the layers in the nested composition are first rendered on their own, then masks and effects are applied, and then the result is composited into the main composition. This rendering order means that the blending modes of the nested layers are not applied to any underlying layers in the main composition, and that 3D layers above and below the collapsed layer cannot intersect or cast shadows on each other.
The easiest way to get around it is as Dave says and leave them in the main comp.
parent them to a null if you need simultaneous movement.-Andy George
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Is that laden, or unladen?
Well that’s ridiculous. It’s a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut. A European Robin maybe, but of course European Robins are non-migratory 🙂-Andy George
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Check out this script ease-and-wizz
https://aescripts.com/ease-and-wizz/
Makes exponential easing really easy…
I must use this one everyday-Andy George
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Try converting your h.264 to something else first. AE has trouble with interframe codecs (like h.264). Apparently this is supported better in CS5.
Anything lossless should work fine as an intermediate codec.
-Andy George
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If you have Layer styles enabled it can disrupt your stacking order.
Sometimes they sneak in on a psd--Andy George
Senior Editor & Post Supervisor
http://www.chiselindustries.com