[Arne Münch]

Wow, that is really interesting, I ask myself if more than five per cent of every AE users know that. Not even the courser changes when you hold the alt key. There is no menu to choose that option manually. But it really works.
Thanks for your reply. But nevertheless, is there a way to convert the parametric shape to a path shape after you created it?

[Arne Münch]

Thats it, I thank you so much, you saved me a lot of hours I guess..

[Arne Münch]

I would also be happy if someone solved the problem and shares his knowledge..
i don´t like everything related to avid..

[Arne Münch]

thanks for that, but I was freaked out for a couple of minutes. In my version left is blue and right is red, so maybe i can prevent somebody of having the same trouble as i was having while trying this.

[Arne Münch]

yeah, aerender at the end works
but only if I allow my firewall to allow ae to acces the internet. Otherwise i get an error message (After Effects can not open a socket to aerender)
Why is that necessary, i prefer not letting my software to communicate with the web unasked?

[Arne Münch]

hi Michael

thanks for you reply

I was working for a job on a very strong 8 processor machine and it would have been much more effective to edit one ae-project while rendering another. I am used to work like this with cinema 4d and i like this kind of workflow.

any ideas how to do it without multiple instances of ae?

thanks

[Arne Münch]

i was just checking my own old post, because I forgot how to do that sample picker thing and saw that the link has changed.
the new one is this:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/07/color-sampler-using-sampleimag.html

[Arne Münch]

yes, thanks, this is a good way to solve this.

[Arne Münch]

You don´t need an extra plugin to manage the question in the first post. I found this:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/07/color_sampler_using_sampleimag.html

I hope I could help someone..