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Garrett Appleton
June 7, 2019 at 5:30 pm in reply to: Mocha Pro Plugin in After effects

That awesome I am so used to the standalone version I have not even considered the plugin. Good to know thanks.

Garrett Appleton
Motion Design | Compositor | Dev
Apetown Art
Garrett Appleton
June 7, 2019 at 1:41 pm in reply to: How to create this?

Pen tool the shape in AE then “trim path” animate the shape. This might be your best option. There are also ae plugins on https://aescripts.com/ if you want a faster method. But trim paths is my favorite way to animate a path change. You can manipulate the start and end to make it look like the straight line is disappearing as the waveform is being drawn. Just a heads up, where you start to draw your path is where the “Trim Path” property choses as the start of the animation.

Garrett Appleton
Motion Design | Compositor | Dev
Apetown Art
Garrett Appleton
June 6, 2019 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Mocha Pro Plugin in After effects

I could be wrong but I thought mocha “pro” has to be used outside of AE. I recall an older thread about this. Again I apologize if this information is out of date. I now use mocha m with 2019 cc unless I need pro out of comp.

https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=2&postid=1059766&univpostid=1059766&pview=t

Garrett Appleton
Motion Design | Compositor | Dev
Apetown Art
Garrett Appleton
June 6, 2019 at 6:33 pm in reply to: My render’s look low quality!

If you are OK with longer render times I would try switching to Constant bitrate around 45 to 60. I like 25 for most projects. Another trick you might try is symlinking the .C4D project file in after effects. This way you are only compressing the composition once, inside media encoder. As much as I love the prores codec you might want to try .h264 mp4. In most cases It’s going to require a lot of trial and error depending on the project. What I like to do when I’m test rendering options is only render out a couple frames of the more complex part. If I like what I see, I save the preset and render the entire project.

File Format: .mp4
Codec: .h264
Bitrate: 45 cb/s
Framerate: 24fps

Hopefully I was able to help. Good luck on the project
Garrett Appleton
June 3, 2019 at 12:50 pm in reply to: AE Advanced Light Painting w/ Red Giant

You might want to try using Saber from videocopilot.net as the base for your animation. You can apply it to a shape mask or use the default two point vectors and apply a lot of force motion blur. Its free and a super helpful tool

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/saber_plug-in/