[Darby Edelen]

[Darby Edelen]

I don’t think so, but it’d be nice if you could see such connections in the project flowchart. Maybe a feature request is in order.

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

Continuously rasterize changes the render pipeline. Rotate the layers without an effect applied and things should work. Applying the effect breaks the 3d compositing space such that the layers become composited in their layer order rather than depth order.

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

I no longer use an external monitor so I’m not up to speed on the latest developments in that workflow.

When I was using an external monitor (circa CS4) the colors were not converted from the working space values. You’d have to use a Color Profile Converter effect to make any necessary conversions.

Based on what I’ve read here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/previewing.html#main-pars_heading_19

All external output is now converted to HDTV Rec. 709, so if that’s what your external monitor is then you’re all set.

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

If the layer is centered between pixels then it will perform some interpolation that may cause the edge to look soft.

You can set the quality switch on the layer to draft and no interpolation will take place.

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

Who frowns at the use of levels?! I find levels to be vastly more useful and less prone to accidental mass color destruction than curves.

I’m not aware of a way to enlarge the histogram but I do often apply a second levels effect after the initial one just to see where the new color values fall in the 0-1 range.

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

[Ali Quintana] “by the way, if I dont need the color profile corrector….as u mentioned before, what is the color profile corrector for then?”

It’s needed for converting from one color profile to another 🙂

For example: lots of times color values are provided in sRGB by clients, if you enter the values as-is in an effect (say Generate > Fill) or on a text layer in a linearized working space they will be wrong (much too bright). If you enter them as-is and apply a Color Profile Converter and set the input profile to sRGB then they’ll be adjusted to look correct in the working profile even if it’s linearized.

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

Audio files don’t have frames so there is no frame rate to speak of. Audio should play back at the same rate no matter what the frame rate of the composition is.

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

Ack, you know you’ve been away too long when you’re over complicating expressions, this works too:

if(position.numKeys > 0){
//keyframes!
}

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

You could use try/catch to access the first keyframe on the property. If there are no keyframes then it will fall back to the catch:

try{
test = position.key(0);
}
catch(err){
//No keyframes!
}

Darby Edelen