Ben G unguren
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If you take out the funky settings (solid set to multiply, transmission at 100%) can you see a shadow on the white solid? If you can, it’s somewhere in the funky settings that things are going wrong. If not, my guess is your lamp’s settings, or it’s position, need to change.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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The effect probably doesn’t honor the continuous rasterize setting. One option is to precomp your illustrator file, then double that nested comp’s size (and scale up the illustrator file, with continuous rasterization). At that point you can scale the nested comp down to, 50% and reposition it so it matches how it looked before.
Now your magnifying-glass effect is working with a scaled-down image, and thus has more image to work with (in its mind). Now it isn’t going from 100% to 190%, but from 50% to 95% or so.
Hopefully that makes sense…..
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I know you don’t want to transcode everything, but I’m sticking to my guns on this one, especially after your last post. With AME you can transcode everything overnight and swap everything out in the morning (use CMD+H on the footage in the project to swap each one out — save a copy of the project first, of course).
One of the safest codecs would be the Animation codec, but it’s also pretty large.
Sometimes codec problems don’t appear with a single clip, but do start to emerge when it’s decoding a larger set of videos.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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It’s a risky practice at best. For one thing, your image might not be at full resolution when you take the screenshot. Then there are color-space and -depth issues that could cause problems, as a screenshot is a picture of how your monitor is interpreting the image, which isn’t always the same as what the image is (for instance, if the image were 10-bit, the screenshot would only capture an 8-bit interpretation of it.
Then again, if it’s working for a particular project keep going. But it’s good to be aware of potential pitfalls.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I like this list! I have a huge list of hotkeys and other minor features that I’d like to see implemented, but this is some meaty stuff that could make a real difference! Please submit these to Adobe. Maybe they’ll hire you while you’re at it….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Is it possible that he created this particular project at a lower resolution (like 854×480, or 640×360) and that AMC is consequently up-rezing the footage?
I might have him export a section of the video with an uncompressed-image codec, like animation, at 1080p. This would help verify that the problem is actually in the codec/compression side of things.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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What you’re looking for is an “adjustment layers.” Here’s a quick intro: https://net.lib.byu.edu/ae7/TUT_mosaicAdjustmentLayers.htm
A quick google search will a lot more….Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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If it’s a timing problem, then you can select the entire set of keyframes that needs to be adjusted, then hold the opt/alt key and click on the outermost selected keyframe of either side and drag it — this will do an “accordion scale” of all the other selected keyframes. You can change this until it matches up with the other set of keyframes.
If it’s a position problem, it’s probably a layer-size problem. A relatively painless way to fix this is to create a new solid (I’d make it small, say 50×50 pixels). Put that solid at the exact point where your wrongly positioned layer begins. Then make your wrongly positioned layer the child of the new solid. Now move the solid to where you want the wrongly positioned layer to begin. Now play the animation. They should start at the same location, at least. If they don’t end at the same spot, adjust the scale and rotation of your solid until they do (I’d just match up the ending keyframe, and it should work fine).
Once that’s all done, you can delete the solid and your wrongly positioned layer will remain a rightly positioned layer.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Olly,
Perhaps you have 3d enabled for that object?… If not, maybe oyu can post a couple screenshots to help us understand what you’re experiencing.Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Sounds like you have corrupted footage to me.
Have you tried transcoding your footage to a different codec with a different app (Quicktime 7, MPEG Streamclip, etc)?
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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