[Chris Voelz]

I have experienced this a lot. To further clarify what Filip said. If the path in Illustrator is not a true stroke it will not convert correctly. What you end up with is a bunch of merged paths “simulating” a stroke. You need to go into Illustrator and change any compound path to true stroke. You also need to make sure that the stroke is “aligned centered” on the path. If the stroke is aligned inside or outside in Illustrator your shapes in After Effects will still come in as merged paths. The conversion process from Illustrator to AE definitely has some quirks, but once you learn them it becomes easier to trouble shoot.

[Chris Voelz]

You can use expressions to determine the brightness by using finding the max value of RGB channels. You can do the same to get the color. These expressions have been covered on the forum, but half the battle is knowing what to search for. I hope this helps!

sampleImage() to sample a section of the screen

Great resource to learn sampleIamge, https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/sample-image.html

hslTorgb() to convert color to rgb values

Math.max() to find “brightness” of color from rgb channels

[Chris Voelz]

Is the font by chance an Adobe font?

[Chris Voelz]

I’ve had this issue before too. Try opening Nvidia settings and in the 3d tab set media encoder to nvidia. I think the default is auto switch. I’ve had success with that.

[Chris Voelz]

It looks like one of your Keylight effects is not set to “Final Result”.

[Chris Voelz]

You just need the height of the box and an association to place it in space. You can use the anchor point of the box and sourceRecAtTime to find the height. Pin the anchor point at the top of the text box. Then on the position value of your name layer add an expression to calculate the height, add, a padding, and add it to the y value of the text box.

textBox = layer(“box”);
height = textBox.sourceRectAtTime.height;
textBoxPosY = textBox.transform.position[1];
pad = 25;
x = value[0];
y = textBoxPosY + height + pad;
[x,y]

Something like that.

[Chris Voelz]

It’s a short clip and since there is a camera move, various background elements, and lighting differences you may have success exporting as still frames and use photoshop to object remove/paint out the people.

[Chris Voelz]

Above the search bar (top right of page) there is a currency drop down. You can change to pound or euro.

The tool is for creating connecting layers connected by dynamic lines, not really following what you mean by placing names.

[Chris Voelz]

Are you talking about the script “Connect Layers Pro” on aescripts.com?

[Chris Voelz]

You can do this with shortcuts, will that be enough?

You can use “[” and “]” to move a layer based on it’s in-point or out-point. When pressing these keys it will move the layer/pre-comp to the current time.

You can use “Alt + [” or “Alt + ]” to trim the layer/comp to where ever the time indicator is.

So if you want your layers in-point to start at 10seconds you can go to that time click “Alt + [“. Then click the “Home” button on your keyboard which will move the time indicator to the beginning of the comp. Use “[” to now move the layers in-point to the beginning of the comp.