[Glenn Tak]

Thanks John,

The solution actually came to me in the middle of the night but you confirmed it.

Appreciate the quick reply!

TAK

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[Glenn Tak]

Well I’ve managed to get the slider to control the Time Remapped movie in a comp which works great if you have the Time Indicator placed at the last frame. But if you move the time indicator it changes the effect of the slider.

And if you use this movie comp as a precomp in another comp then the Time indicator moves according to the Time indicator in the master comp and that changes the position of the Remap… which effects the relationship to the slider numbers.

I suspect I need some line of code that tells the slider expression to always start from frame 0 of the comp no matter where the time indicator is.

I have copied the expression I am using below. Any thoughts?

spd = thisComp.layer("MOVIE SLIDER").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")
n = spd.numKeys;
if (n > 0 && spd.key(1).time < time){
accum = spd.key(1).value*(spd.key(1).time - inPoint);
for (i = 2; i <= n; i++){
if (spd.key(i).time > time) break;
k1 = spd.key(i-1);
k2 = spd.key(i);
v2 = spd.valueAtTime(k2.time-.001);
accum += (k1.value + v2)*(k2.time - k1.time)/2;
}
accum += (spd.value + spd.key(i-1).value)*(time - spd.key(i-1).time)/2;
}else{
accum = spd.value*(time - inPoint);
}
accum/100


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[Glenn Tak]

Thanks for the quick response.

The odd thing is I watched a YouTube Quicktip from PixelLab and they illustrated that if you set your axis to match the world axis in C4D, it should work perfectly in AE.

I will have to contact them and see what the deal is.

Thanks

T

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[Glenn Tak]

A few months ago one of the Techs at Imagineer finally solved this issue for me.

It had to do with MacKeeper and the Binary Cutter function which apparently removed a needed resource for Mocha.

I would re-install After Effects and Mocha would work. Once I ran MacKeeper with the Binary Cutter function Mocha would cease to function properly and I would get the issues I listed in my first few posts.

I have disabled the Binary Cutter function in MacKeeper and have since had no problem with Mocha.

There is no way in a hundred years I would have been able to track down this issue. It was only after a year and half of correspondence with Imagineer that finally one Tech had the answer.

I hope this helps.

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[Glenn Tak]

One of the more annoying features of Linear Space is that my color libraries don’t really work. If I use the color picker from a library swatch I created in Adobe Color, I get a much more washed out version.

I’m not sure what the work flow in 32bit you described above is. Can you direct me to a reference text or video that could help explain?

Thanks again

TAK

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[Glenn Tak]

Thanks… that seems to do the trick.

While I see a lot of positives with the Linear workspace, it generally causes me more problems than it is worth. Once you commit to linear in a project… you are committed. There’s no turning back!

TAK

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[Glenn Tak]

I had to completely uninstall After Effects and reinstall from scratch. That fixed the issue.

Good luck and Happy 4th~

TAK

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[Glenn Tak]

When I try to open Mocha AE through the Animation pulldown, Mocha AE opens in the background. It does not show up in front of After Effects. i have to cycle through my open apps to get to it.

Then I get the attached screen.

Image sequences come in fine but Mocha still doesn’t come to the forefront like it used to. I have to find it.

I have done tests with a simple .mov from my desktop. No dice

TAK

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[Glenn Tak]

I am running the latest After Effects CC 13.2.0.49

Mocha AE 4.0.1 Build 9110
Build Date Sept 16 2014

There is not a single Quicktime codec I have tried that works. Dnx, H.264, Pro Res, Animation,. I have No Black Magic codecs in my system.

I have tried .avi and .wmv files as well and get me the same error message.

And image sequences won’t open directly from After Effects. If I select an image sequence in a timeline, go to the animation pulldown menu and select “Track in Mocha AE”, instead of opening up the image sequenceI get a NEW PROJECT dialogue window and need to search my hard drives to load.

TAK

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[Glenn Tak]

It’s been 9 months since my post. And this problem still hasn’t been corrected.

I contacted ImagineerSystem support last September and was told it was a bug that would be looked into and fixed in the upcoming releases of AE and Mocha Ae. 9 months and still not fixed.

For years Mocha AE read all my Quicktime files with no problems and then it stopped. Lousy rotten customer service and attention to a HUGE problem.

No one has the time to export movies as Image Sequences and then reimport just to do a quick track.

Are you guys ever going to do anything to fix this?

T

BTW: Currently running Yosemite and the latest version of Adobe CC. MAC 12 core with no QUICKTIME issues anywhere else.
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