[Dflamholc]

cheers again then!
i’ve got the mayer’s ae in production second edition. got some expressions in there. never got the motion grapics vol 1 though. would you advice to get the motion graphics in ae vol 2 straight off or start with vol 1. obviously i’m interested in getting my head around expressions too, but i find the books overlap sometimes.
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[Dflamholc]

cheers again then!
i’ve got the mayer’s ae in production second edition. got some expressions in there. never got the motion grapics vol 1 though. would you advice to get the motion graphics in ae vol 2 straight off or start with vol 1. obviously i’m interested in getting my head around expressions too, but i find the books overlap sometimes.
/d

[Dflamholc]

dude, wow what a reply! thanks so much! did you just make all that up as you went or have you worked on it before? anyway, it looks like it’s exactly what i’ve been after, so i’m super grateful. i guess it’ll take me a minute or two to make heads/tails of your mini tute (or not so mini for that matter)
i feel really silly as i’ve read everything on dan’s web pages a hundred times and sort of understand how use the scripts individually, but not how to cross-use them or get how they really work.

anyway, thanks a million again for your reply and sorry for missing your reply on my first post, i guess we ran past each other on that one.

/d 🙂

[Dflamholc]

dude, wow what a reply! thanks so much! did you just make all that up as you went or have you worked on it before? anyway, it looks like it’s exactly what i’ve been after, so i’m super grateful. i guess it’ll take me a minute or two to make heads/tails of your mini tute (or not so mini for that matter)
i feel really silly as i’ve read everything on dan’s web pages a hundred times and sort of understand how use the scripts individually, but not how to cross-use them or get how they really work.

anyway, thanks a million again for your reply and sorry for missing your reply on my first post, i guess we ran past each other on that one.

/d 🙂

[Dflamholc]

thanks for that, yikes! i’ve actually done the adobe tutes already, and it’s not really the tracking part which is giving me the hassle. i think i’m just being thick and hoping for a quick and easy way out. it’s more corner pin as a plug which insisting on squeezing my logo-layers and not (according to me) giving me a consistent behaviour. i’ll check out the vid-tute. i’m sure i’ve got that dvd lying around here somewhere. it looks dangerously familiar. anyway, thanks for helping! 🙂 /d

[Dflamholc]

pre-comp the illustrator layer to which you want to apply the write on effect, then apply the write-on effect to the pre-comp.

the problem lies in that your illustrator layer is probably not the size of your comp, so the position keyframes that you achieve through pasting in the mask end up way off, but if you pre-comp you transforme the illustrator layer to your comp size, then apply write-on effect to the pre-comp and past in the mask on the positon property. i managed to mess up and say all that tiwce i think 🙂 anyway, i had that problem time and again, and then finally figured out where i kept going wrong,… good luck /d

[Dflamholc]

hmmm, that rings a bell… funny thing is that i’ve made both problematic instances work in small full res test renders (not in a full time render though)

thing is,,,, all my layers in this comp are 3D, however one of the offending layers is a i have pre-comp of two 2d layers i wonder if that could have something to do with it, based on where that pre comp is placed in the main comp…

i will check this right away… thanks for the promt! /d 🙂

[Dflamholc]

Thank for the offer Steve, believe it or not I’ve managed go get it to work with all layers on, but only small “work-area” test renders so far. I’ll continue and experiment. Maybe the whole thing is to big to actually process in which case I can pre-comp and split it up on several renders. Sounds weird, but could AE start making choices of what layers to focus on if render get’s too busy? sounds like quantum mechanics to me… 🙂

Thanks for all the help, and moral support and I might take you up on the offer and drop the proj if i still can’t make it work, but at the moment i’m on an up, and there is no greater feeling than a successful session of problemsolving! 🙂

thanks again, d

[Dflamholc]

thanks! good point, i’ve been doing test renders for a while now, so hopefully i’ll track it down quicker by your described method. 🙂

as for the advanced 3d render setting – i’ve got that ON, …however what about the: “preserve resolution when nested” setting? could that have something to do with it, or what does it do??? it’s not checked at the moment, nor is the one one above; regarding frame rate in nested comps. i’ve never really tampered with these checkboxes… should I?

/d

[Dflamholc]

thanks, no i know.. 🙂 i’ve made that mistake before, but not this time. to many double checks down the line already. i’m def rendering the active camera view, same as would render out in final render.

thanks for your quick reply! doing a workarea test render now excluding layers one by one to track it down.

any other thoughts, don’t hesitate with obvious tips, i’m desperate…. /d