Created a horse. Legs are separated from horse torso. Legs are puppeted fine, but want to “pick whip” or something to attach legs to torso, so that when I animate or move horse, the torso moves in conjunction with legs. How to attach legs to horse torso so that when I move legs and torso, they move together as one. Null layers, or is there…

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Yes… I have tried, but all those choices (when I double-click or right click) are ghosted out, so I can’t even choose anything. And true, it should have just automatically updated when I opened AE, which was yes, strange that it hadn’t. Not sure too, I may have to just bite the bullet and re-animate by uploading the updated file. For your last…

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I should also mention, that I have tried double clicking and right clicking the PS file in question in AE, but its not updated from what I edited in PS

Not sure why the old method has changed it appears in 2022. It used to be a quick fix. I have several Photoshop files that make up one comp in After Effects. I recently did some work on one of those files back in Photoshop, changing it, saved it, but when I go back into After Effects – I assumed that comp now (or PS file) would be ‘missing’ or in…

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So, I have been researching across the web, so Ill try a few of the answers there, such as try CPU instead and clear out the Media Cache… We’ll see. Plus, I’ll check the report and hopefully see what’s crashing it at the very last minute… That’s where I have a Trapcode particle effect, but its so minimal.

Incredible!! That solved it! Thank you kind sir…

BUT, if I may… I noticed that the video playback is a little dark in the beginning for some reason. Is there a tweek to the software videolan? Its not dark on the AE file, so just wondering…

For the third time, my export/render from AE (using either Quicktime, H.264, etc… Pro Res), either way, when the render gets to the last minute, it stops and just fails. The renders are taking 8-9hours for a small 3 minute animation – and I’m still trying to resolve the black screen video problem, but that’s another post and problem, but I need…

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Yeah – I’ll give that one a try too and see if that helps — THANKS!!

I render/export using Quicktime, Pro Res, H.264, and various other methods to get a 3-minute animation into a video playback format. One render took over nine hours and ended up failing (using the new HEVC settings). But all the others, even trying cutting the renders in half, I still get a black screen playback but audio is fine. At the start of…

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Thank you – Rotoscoping may solve the issues, but this animal is pretty hairy… so I wonder. The link is helpful!

Thank you – Ill give it a whirl!!

As a note, I used Unmult, which has the same effect as using key color and linear color key etc, etc… as they all have the same outcome – they remove the black (Alpha?) background but makes the animal stock transparent. When sliders are adjusted, even slightly, it brings back the black background. Almost impossible. Hopefully I haven’t wasted my…

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Have UnMult from Maxon-Red Giant and purchased a video from Adobe. Though Unmult removes the black background easily, the foreground object (animal) becomes almost transparent and you can see through it. How do I fix this? I think its removing black portions perhaps from the animal too? Green screen removals with Keylight works perfectly all the…

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I created an Energy Ball effect found on YouTube. Came out great (and great tut!) Ball spins like an energy ball. Cool. Comp is 1:45 sec long, but at the 1:00 mark, for some reason, it freezes, and stops spinning. There is a ring of fire attached to it though that keeps spinning, but the center matter stops spinning rights at that point. I can’t…

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