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A pleasure, happy to help! 🙂
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Angie
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Eek, never seen that one before. Looks like a Windows OS error. You may try deleting the AE prefs and rebooting. If that doesn’t work you could uninstall and reinstall. If all else fails you may have to call technical support I think! Your IT department should be able to help you with this if you’re working at a college or university, they will have admin access.
cheers,
Angie
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Hi there,
After Effects is resolution independent so you can create your comp at any size (as long as it is at least the size of your planned output). Once it’s created you can then nest it into another comp which is the correct size for output. The dimensions of your comp are known as the Frame Aspect ratio. The shape of the actual pixels is what’s determined by the pixel aspect ratio.
So, for example, you can create your comp at a frame aspect ratio of 1920×1080 but before outputting for DVD you would have to scale it down to “Widescreen NTSC DVD” preset (assuming you’re NTSC? If not PAL equivalent). This has a frame aspect aspect ratio which is 720×480 with a 1.4 approx Pixel Aspect Ratio and 23.976 FPS.
You can then nest your 1920×1080 movie into a new NTSC DV Widescreen comp and scale or crop the nested video to fit into this comp before rendering.
If you have no need for the higher reolution file then it would be easier just to start with a DV Widescreen comp of course.
Hope this helps. Here’s a primer on Aspect Ratios too:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f3aa.html
cheers,
Angie
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Hi there,
By far the best fire footage is from Artbeats. It’s not free but it’s royalty-free which means once you pay for it it’s yours to use as many times as you want.
https://www.artbeats.com/footage/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=fire
Hope this helps.
cheers,
Angie
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Yes, I’ve had this happen too, i think it’s a bug. Only workaround I’ve found is to manually drag the keyframes apart and delete the one you don’t want.
cheers,
Angie
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Hi Dan,
My understanding of it is that it’s important that it is a multiple of the frame rate. in my experience 75 pixels per second has worked for me but if you want to be 100% sure then sure, stick to an even multiple to be on the safe side.
It’s important to consider the movement of the text as a value in “pixels per frame”. So if your text moves by 3 whole pixels per frame that’s cool. If it moves 4 pixels per frame that’s cool too. What causes the “jittering” or “streaking” effect is when an object travels at 3.25 pixels per frame or 4.5 pixels per frame. It needs to move by a whole number of PPF, no fractions.
Even using these rules you may still run into problems so you can also add a little vertical blur (assuming it’s a vertical scroll) to help alleviate the problems.
Another expression that might help is this one, included in a post from the wonderful Rick Gerard:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/791530
And here’s another article that may help too:
https://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/908/cpsid_90843.html
Hope this helps 🙂
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
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Here’s the After Effects project for reference.
Hi there,
you can do this by setting up a chain of parented nulls. So, create a new null, make it 3D and make the 3D Ellipse it’s parent so that it follows the ellipse. (make sure the Anchor Points and Positions match) Then parent the Light to the new Null so that it will also follow the same path. (making sure Anchor Points and Positions are OK again)
Now if you Rotate the Null on the Y axis the Light will also Rotate. Adjust the Z Anchor point value of the Light to move it further away from the Null to make it orbit at the desired distance. You can even animate this to make it get gradually closer or further from the Null and Ellipse.
Hope this helps.
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
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Hi there,
you can do this by setting up a chain of parented nulls. So, create a new null, make it 3D and make the 3D Ellipse it’s parent so that it follows the ellipse. (make sure the Anchor Points and Positions match) Then parent the Light to the new Null so that it will also follow the same path. (making sure Anchor Points and Positions are OK again)
Now if you Rotate the Null on the Y axis the Light will also Rotate. Adjust the Z Anchor point value of the Light to move it further away from the Null to make it orbit at the desired distance. You can even animate this to make it get gradually closer or further from the Null and Ellipse.
Hope this helps. I’ve attached a project for reference.
cheers,
Angie
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Hi there,
Are you using the Aux System? If so then you may need to adjust the Opacity over Life settings in there? Also, if you have the Opacity Random setting higher than 0 this may be preventing the opacity from fading completely.
If you can’t get this to work by checking these perhaps you can use the Visibility settings with an Obscuration Layer to “fudge” it to get what you need?
Hope this helps.
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
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Hi there,
There are a couple of methods for masking effects. The first is to apply the effect to an adjustment layer and mask the adjustment layer. however I don’t think that’s what you need here.
To use a Mask to contain particles is usually done within the effect itself and how you do it depends on which particle system you’re using. In Particle Playground you can use the Wall settings to use a mask to contain the particles. In Particular you can’t really use a mask in the same way but you can use a layer with an alpha channel to control the particles and create a Wall for them to bounce off in Bounce mode. Alternatively, in Air mode you can set up a spherical field to control the particles.
Let me know what software you’re using and I’ll try to give you more detailed instructions.
Hope this helps.
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
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