Brian Charles
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From After Effects Help: You can apply the tracking data to a null object layer and parent the layer that you want to animate to the null object layer.
Apply the tracking data to a null and parent the flare to the null. Then offset the flare position.
For more information see:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/tracking-stabilizing-motion-cs5.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/layer-properties.html#parent_and_child_layers
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[Tom Lansford] “I want to use the media encoder for output if possible. I’d like to use a compressed format for title output.”
Adobe recommends using a legacy version of Media Encoder for flv output.
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[EricBowen] “The OS moderates threads based on interrupt and priority. If another process needs to take cpu time it will interrupt based on priority. I have been setting these to zero for years and never has an issue with it since AE uses CPU’s as background resource priority.”
Are you saying that setting available CPU’s to zero won’t affect other application renders or processes? e.g. Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Compressor etc?
Todd Kopriva of Adobe posted a warning regarding over-scheduling processors which seems to contradict what you wrote.
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/03/performance-tip-dont-oversched.html
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[Joshua Chaulk] ” isn’t the whole purpose of that option so that RAM previews are faster by utilizing the multi-core processor instead of just using the RAM?”
The purpose of that option is to enable more cores/threads for any processing task After Effects has to do, so both Renders and Previews •can• be faster.
Since After Effects does this by spawning new instances, the time to spawn the instances can slow down the start of a preview – hence the option to enable it •only* for renders and not previews. Sometimes it is faster for previews to leave MP disabled.
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[Joshua Chaulk] “I find i spend more time waiting for ram previews than I do actually working!”
It is my experience that enabling Multiprocessing for RAM previews actually can actually slow down some RAM previews, hence the new option to enable Multiprocessing only for rendering and not previewing.
The speed of previews is affected by many factors, complexity of a composition, number and type of effects, how fast the source media can be loaded and processed. An SSD used for cache can improve performance significantly.
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These 2 forums may be able to provide you with an answer.
https://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=128
https://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion/ae_scripting
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From After Effects Help:
Refresh footage items
To refresh footage items selected in the Project panel to use the current versions of the source footage files, choose File > Reload Footage. -
This might get you started.
https://evanabrams.com/make-sequential-animations-using-the-repeater-adobe-after-effects-tutorial/
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[Paul Campbell] “so why doesn’t it just dip a little more into my RAM well? “
Have you enabled Multiprocessing so After Effects can use more cores and RAM? If you do, be very conservative since you have very little RAM.
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While 10GB is 5 times more RAM than you had its still very little for After Effects, it has the greatest appetite for RAM of any application I run.
My 12 core MacPro has 64GB of RAM and sometime it asks for more. Depending on the version you are running After Effects can use several GB per core.
You may find this informative.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/543440?start=0&tstart=0