[Eddy Elliott]

Ahhh, ok, for anyone else likely to encounter this problem, the solution was to turn off the Viewport Solo Switch on the left hand panel.

All the best.
Eddy

[Eddy Elliott]

The easiest way to do this is to draw out your bar with shape layers how you want it to be, then pre comp it them. Once pre comped, turn on continuous rasterization on the pre comp layer in the timeline. Move your anchor point with the ‘y’ key to where you want to scale from and unlink constrain proportions next to scale. Then just scale on x to your desired width (or indeed y).

Also, you could just do it all on one shape layer. Again, moving the layer anchor point to where you want to scale from.

[Eddy Elliott]

Hi Max,

It’s a pain for sure. But, one way to avoid this happening is to command (or ctrl) drag the render queue tab to tear it off so the window floats. Then, when you press render, it won’t jump to the composition, and you’ll have access to the render queue.

[Eddy Elliott]

I know this is a slightly old thread, but FYI, when you click on the work area bar, in the info panel there is a display that tells you the current duration and the start and end timecode of the work area.

[Eddy Elliott]

I would try rendering the clip without Looks, then bring it back in and reapply the effect. It seems like Looks isn’t reading the format of the clip correctly. Or some effect on there is causing an issue.

[Eddy Elliott]

Same problem here! I thought I was the only one. Thanks for the advice Mike, I’ll try moving the render queue window before rendering next time!

[Eddy Elliott]

The wiggle expression always wiggles relative to the position of the layer.
wiggle(10,10) would wiggle 10 pixels away from the position of 960 x 540, 10 times every second.
If you wanted a random motion not related to the position, around the full area of the comp you could try this:

frequency=3 // change this value to set the speed
posterizeTime(frequency);
x=random(thisComp.width);
y=random(thisComp.height);
[x,y]

[Eddy Elliott]

Thanks for the reply Bill. Interesting article. Still doesn’t quite get to the bottom of what I’m trying to figure out, but interesting and relevant nonetheless.

[Eddy Elliott]

Thanks for all the responses guys. All methods seem to work. Many thanks!!

[Eddy Elliott]

I’ve been wondering this for a while. I can’t seem to smoothly combine an opacity text animation using range selection and layer styles. I’ve tried the precomposing method but the issue is the same… the layer styles appear to ‘flick’ on only after the opacity reaches a certain value which looks like a mistake.

If anybody out there knows a solution to this please post…