Hello John,

This is a very late reply, my apologies. I checked the Minimax effect, but it won’t be a solution for this project. Thanks for the suggestion!

I flagged it in the Adobe After Effects Community and it’s been reported as a bug, hopefully their Product team will pick it up and solve it in consecutive editions of After Effects. It’s still…

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Hey Creative Cows,

I have some abstract compositions that I need to render in 4K. Most of them consist of some simple 3D shape layers (3 points, connected to 3D Nulls). These are pre-comped, and these pre-comps have colour and blur effects applied to them (Camera Lens Blur, Gaussian Blur, Colorama, CC Toner, these kinds of effects). They’re about a…

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Hello,
I’ve ran into a small issue while applying stroke Animators on certain type layers.
It seems that on certain typefaces, or only certain weights of certain typefaces, the stroke doesn’t generate correctly on some letters. In the example here it’s the top end of the ‘K’ that gets tapered in a weird way.
When converted to shapes in After… Read more

Hello Boston,

Thanks for your reply, and apologies for my late answer. I’m excited to learn that there is a way of achieving what I’m looking for. Unfortunately I have reached a dead end. The “Collect Files” dialog box doesn’t show the “Collect Source Files” option you mentioned. It does seem like it would answer my question. Where should I be…

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Hello,

I have a question about optimizing my workflow in regards to archiving. I feel like there must be a better way method to what I’m doing at the moment.
What I currently do after I’m done working in a .aep file is clean up my project, organize my Project panel, get rid of any unused or redundant compositions/files etc., and finally use File &gt…

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Hello,

I’m working in an After Effects project file where the previous animator animated a grid using 40+ individual shape layers (one for each of the grid’s lines), and the same amount of shape layers for masks (each line-layer being set to Alpha Matte). All of them keyframed individually. It won’t surprise you that this is a mess to work in,…

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That’s what I was looking for! Didn’t bother to check the other dropdowns.

Thanks for your help Andy!

Hello,

I am using a Scale Animator on a field of text. I want increase the scale of the letters individually, preferably from the center of each letter. I noticed that the default ‘anchor point’ of the scaling sits at the center of each letter, resting on the baseline (visible by the little crosses in the included image). Is it possible to change…

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Hello,

A bit of a specific request for help: While working with Text Source expressions I ran across a problem. In this expression-output I want to use a specific glyph (a cross) of the typeface Riforma LL, which is used in the projects’ identity. I wanted to access this glyph by its unicode escape sequence. In the Glyphs panel of Adobe I…

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Thanks a lot for your input Yoan!

Your first mentioned solution sounds logical. I have two questions about it:

1. Within expressions: how do you indicate which values (either the expression- or keyframe-based) the property should adhere to? I have never applied that method before. Could you show me an example of what such an expression would look…

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Hello,

For several projects I’ve worked on in the past I have noticed that an optimal outcome for an animation would be if it consisted of two parts: One part ‘generative’ i.e. expression-based, and one part ‘set’ i.e. keyframe-based. A balance between generated animation and fixed animation, and being able to transition between the two.

A simple…

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Hello,

I’m relatively new to working with expressions in AE and I fear this is going to be a relatively easy problem to solve, yet I have been trying things and reading around on the internet for a couple of hours now and I can’t seem work it out.

The problem is simple: There are two objects, one (non-rectangular shape layer acting like a mask for…

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Hello,

I’m relatively new to working with expressions in AE and I fear this is going to be a relatively easy problem to solve, yet I have been trying things and reading around on the internet for a couple of hours now and I can’t seem work it out.

The problem is simple: There are two objects, one (non-rectangular shape layer acting like a mask for…

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