[Dan Fredley]

There are several ways to do this.

You can precomp the 10 footage layers together and use the mask as a track matte in the main comp.

If that’s not possible you can precomp the mask layer. Duplicate it 10 times and set the track matte for each footage layer. The reason for precomping the mask layer is so that if you need to make changes to the one mask it will ripple through to all of the duplicates.

You can also use expressions to link masks on duplicated mask layers instead of precomping, so whatever works best for you.

You can also precomp the mask layer with the footage and set the blending mode to stencil alpha or silhouette alpha. But make sure you don’t collapse transformations or it will cut out the background as well (defeating the purpose of precomping the layers).

I’m sure there are other options, but those are the ones I would try first.

[Dan Fredley]

I’m not sure I understand, but did you click “Align Surface” on the “clean plate frame” in mocha before copying and pasting to AE?

[Dan Fredley]

I’d say try trashing your prefs file (back it up first).

[Dan Fredley]

Try this:

n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;

if (marker.key(n).time < time){
minVal = [0.1*thisComp.width, 0.1*thisComp.height];
maxVal = [0.9*thisComp.width, 0.9*thisComp.height];
random(minVal,maxVal)

} else {
value
}

[Dan Fredley]

File.decode(app.project.file.name)

[Dan Fredley]

You save a “pseudo effect” as an animation preset in AE by applying the “pseudo effect” to a layer, selecting all of the properties in the timeline and selecting the menu item “Animation>Save Animation.”

[Dan Fredley]

Try this:

https://f1.creativecow.net/file/4444/4444_swapposition.jsx.zip

[Dan Fredley]

You can still share the “pseudo effect” by saving it out as an animation preset (.ffx). When the shared user applies the preset it will say “missing” next to the name, but it’s not a big deal–it will still work as expected.

If they want to get rid of the word “missing” to have a cleaner interface, then include a ReadMe file with instructions on how to add it to the .xml file manually.

I’ve shared “pseudo effects” this way before.

[Dan Fredley]

This problem is bothering me as well, so I submitted a bug report. My current workaround is to temporarily enable CAPS LOCK, hit Shift, select the comp, then disable CAPS LOCK. Still a pain, but it works for now. It definitely seems to be the new caching feature hanging it up.

I work with a lot of nested R3Ds, so it seems to never work correctly for me as it is always caching in the background.

[Dan Fredley]

You could do it a couple of ways, but one way would be to set this expression for both position and orientation:

x = 0; // change this to your desired x value
y = value[1]; // DO NOT CHANGE
z = 0; // change this to your desired z value
[x,y,z]