[Ernest Rosado]

Thank you Walter, that is quite nice!

[Ernest Rosado]

After working on this all day, I cobbled together a solution.

I added an adjustment layer (called “Controller”) with a slider control (called “ColorPicker”) and a Hue/Saturation control. I enabled Colorize on the Hue/Saturation and entered an expression for hue, saturation and brightness. I am only showing hue here for the sake of brevity. Replace xxx, yyy, and zzz with the h/s/l values of your chosen colors.


var cp = Math.round(thisComp.layer("Controller").effect("ColorPicker")(1));
if (cp<2){
hue=xxx;
sat=yyy;
bri=zzz;
}
if (cp>=2 && cp < 3) {

hue=xxx;
sat=yyy;
bri=zzz;
}

if (cp>=3 && cp < 4) {
hue=xxx;
sat=yyy;
bri=zzz;
}

if (cp>=4 && cp <= 5) {
hue=xxx;
sat=yyy;
bri=zzz;
}

hue;

The last line should be changed to sat or bri depending on which item you’re modifying.

Anyway, I added the slider value to my mogrt and now the video editors can drag the slider to select one of the pre-chosen colors.

[Ernest Rosado]

Thanks, but I’m looking for a technical solution rather than a policy-based one.

[Ernest Rosado]

Don’t feel bad using AE for graphic design. There are plenty of us who prefer the workflow over Photoshop. Just be aware of the limitations and know that if you have to pass your work on to another (photoshop-using) artist they are not going to be very happy with you.

[Ernest Rosado]

Thanks for your reply. I captured the screen using Camtasia from Techsmith. It has a whole lot of other features that I didn’t use here, definitely worth checking out the trial and totally worth the price, it’s a great piece of software and they’ve developed a screen-capture codec that retains full quality with surprisingly tiny file sizes.

In terms of this issue, I have tried dragging it into the bin first and the effect is the same. Same with converting to another format. I haven’t tried changing the sample rate, will give that a go when I get back in front of it. I can confirm this is happening with every piece of audio I try to bring into the project. Same thing happens if I make a new project.

I thought perhaps it was indeed a bug, but I can’t find a workaround. I literally can not move forward with my work and I don’t know what to do.

[Ernest Rosado]

Thanks, I was worried that might be the case. I suppose I could recompress the source footage to lossy and then do a replace on the file in the project but I’d hate to lose quality on the source and still have it take up more space than it should.

[Ernest Rosado]

You might consider waiting until this summer when AMD releases their new Ryzen lineup. AMD has really caught up to Intel in terms of performance, and it’s possible that this new third-gen Ryzen architecture will finally exceed the current Intel lineup (since Intel has been dragging their feet on Ice Lake). AMD is also considerably less expensive than Intel (the Ryzen price to performance ratio is heavily in the consumer’s favor), leaving you extra cash to spend on things like more RAM or a better video card.

[Ernest Rosado]

I’ve seen a lot of reviews of Puget systems on the various creative sites I follow lately, they seem to be making a pretty aggressive push into this space, and good for them. They may have found a great niche of customers and their systems and expertise seem to be top notch.

To get back to the main point, let me first disclaim that I used to work for Apple, so I’ve been as loyal as I can be to them. I own several iMacs and Mac Pros, but can’t bring myself to use them for creative work (actually that’s not entirely true, I use them for vector design because Sketch is so much better than Illustrator yet isn’t available on PCs). PC hardware just flat-out outperforms Mac hardware for the price fairly consistently, and I’ve found that Apple’s failure to consistently keep their hardware up-to-date in the last ~8 years has forced a lot of my Apple-diehard colleagues to Windows as well.

To be clear, the dance between Adobe and Apple support is not a problem unique to Apple hardware. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a company with support better than Apple’s, so if your frustration is only with support then I’d suggest staying where you’re at. But the ability for the performance of your editing machine to be dictated solely by your budget and not by a limitation of offerings is by far the most attractive feature of Windows PCs.

[Ernest Rosado]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but how does one do this without a scroll wheel?

[Ernest Rosado]

Ah! There’s a separate anchor point for each shape layer. And when I move that it indeed behaves as I’d like. However moving the anchor point of a shape also moves the shape itself, which defeats the point of the action altogether. Is there a way to move that action point without the shape repositioning itself?