Dave Baum
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Thanks for the reply Bret. I can add the original back as a reference. I’m just finding that the timings are out on the audio markers for some reason. Eg I add a marker 47f, marker appears at f47 on video but f27 on the audio. And the markers are not always added to the audio, even when I apply them to linked video and audio. So it’s a bit inconsistent. I’ll double check it’s not a track selection thing, but any other suggestion would be most welcome! Thanks
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Are there speed changes and / or any frame rate discrepancies?
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Assuming you want to use the same gradient on all your letters, then I would do it by using the text as an alpha matte. So type whatever text you want on its own layer. Then on a new layer, create the gradient you would like to use.
Place the gradient layer under the text layer, and then from the timeline, make sure you can see the Track matte column, and then select your text layer as the track matte to display the gradient through. Attached screenshot might help
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Actually, I think you can forget the RAM comment – its your cache which is full, but purging will free it up to whatever space you have. You can allocate more space to this in preferences
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Hi Moxy – you’ve just run out of ram to preview.
Try going to the top menu bar in After Effects and selecting >edit >purge, then select “all memory and disk cache”
You will then need to ram preview the timeline area again.
If after that you still cannot preview the whole thing, try previewing the comp at a lower resolution. If you’re not sure how to do that I can upload a screenshot.
If that still doesn’t work, then you’ll have to buy some more ram!
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Not sure about shortcuts for the arrow keys. But you could use “H” for the hand tool and then “A” or “V” to quickly switch back to the selection tool?
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Hi Andy
As said by Andy K above, it’s probably trying to “corner pin” on the null object, and there is nothing visible there, so even if it’s working right it won’t look like much is happening
You could try changing it to “transform” and apply that to the null instead. That would give you position, scale and rotation keyframes for the null. You could then use that null to control the position (tracking) of your new sunglasses covering. The options for what layer to apply the tracking data to are at the bottom of the effect (“Export Option” and “Layer Export to”)
You could also use the tracking data to create a mask or a matte which you could combine with the tracking
Hope it helps a bit
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Ah… sorry… not sure I’m afraid!
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Did that work in the end?
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Hi, yeah either motion tracker or you can use Mocha AE which is built in within After Effects. It’s worth spending a little bit of time getting to know that as it will give better results a lot of the time I think, but is a bit more complicated to setup. I use it a lot so feel free to reply if you have a query and I’ll try to help
