[Eric Chard]

Walter, thank you for reminding me about the Comments column (selfhedslap!) and for the idea about the Guide layers. Very useful!

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[Eric Chard]

Intriguing. On the second idea, do you enter the actual content as a Text layer??

Thanks to all for responding!

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[Eric Chard]

Thanks for the info. I’m using AECS6 and AECC.

1) are the metadata you mention accessible/settable thru AE?

2) What I’m really looking for is a way to write notes to myself within the AE application, “post-its” so to speak. Anything like that?

Thanks for your help.

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[Eric Chard]

Actually Dave, it works like a charm.

The markers pictured were generated in Audition, displayed here in AE-CC:

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[Eric Chard]

Looks good, thanks!

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[Eric Chard]

So, that’s a “No”. I was hoping to avoid loading the scene, although it’s more of an academic concern than anything else, since Loading seems fast. I worry about performance slowdowns though.

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[Eric Chard]

Another reason to have better control of this:

I recently fired up a very old DEMO version of C4D to check something, and sure enough, when I tried to launch c4dL inside of AE (using ^e), it launched the DEMO, not the CC/c4dL version.

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[Eric Chard]

Oh (no).

https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/files/2013/04/C4D_ProductComparison.pdf

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[Eric Chard]

Thanks. I went to MAXON and dl’d a huge dox package, but it seems to want to be installed thru an actual c4d installation, i.e. it’s not standalone. (I believe that C4D would unpack the html files within this package.)

So far I haven’t found a SIMPLE way to get the dox to this very very very modest laptop for perusal. I suppose I could go to my c4dLite machine and grab the HTML files ‘by force’, but geeze Maxon, why make it so hard??

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[Eric Chard]

I’ll give that a try, Kevin, thanks.

To describe it ‘better’ (or at least more), what I’m attempting is almost a ‘metaball’ effect, but only in 2d, where the lines have a sort of illusion of surface tension.

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