[Graham Quince]

There’s Andrew Kramer’s tutorial for water droplets:

https://youtu.be/GLwpCNil3XE?si=tXkw-3rtyY8T9K2W

Scaling up the size will probably get you the effects you’re going for.

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[Graham Quince]

That’s very true. I’ve no idea why it works the way it does, just that’s what the info panel says.

[Graham Quince]

If you open the Info panel and watch that when you tap the spacebar, you’ll see the issue, After Effects has to cache audio each time it previews. So the first 10 seconds is it compiliing (probably not the right word) the audio file so that it can play it back alongside the cached video.

I don’t think there’s anything you can do about it, although WAV files are not compressed as MP3, so I think they take less time for preview playback.

[Graham Quince]

Another cause of this might be the renderer you’re using. Classic 3D lights can cast shadows, but unless you’re using the latest beta, parallel and spot lights cannot cast shadows for Advanced 3D.

[Graham Quince]

Hi Emil,

I think I’d go about this by precomposing my circular mask layer. Then use the Mosaic effect to “blockify” it so that each block matches the size of the squares. As the mask expands, the mosaic effect will snap appear each block.

[Graham Quince]

Whenever I see someone asking about PC set up, I try to remember to point them to this article:

https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/after-effects-computer

The writer spoke to the Adobe team about how their software works and while the tech might be out of date, I don’t believe After Effects (under the hood) has been rewritten so significantly that the information is no longer of use.

In the middle of the article, there’s these takeaways:

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[Graham Quince]

If you create an VR 3D environment in After Effects, what it actually does is create 6 duplicate comps with cameras pointed in the different directions. The script then takes these comps and places them together in the final render comp. So, you can explore the folder created in the project panel, you’ll find the top, bottom and side comps which you can then arrange in your own pixel map comp.

[Graham Quince]

Is it the blurring effect you want to emulate?

That looks like Camera Lens Blur using a gradient layer as a blur map.

If it’s the 3D:

I don’t have GeoLayers but that looks like a combination of GeoLayers and Mettle FreeForm. You should be able get similar results with CC Ball Action with displacement or you could look at using Blender to do the displacement.

[Graham Quince]

I wonder if it’s a “Run as Administrator” type issue. I seem to remember having problems back in CS5 days.

[Graham Quince]

My mistake. I was trying to understand why you’d be using the Paint tool rather than an art program. If you add some paint to a layer, then leave the layer and take a look at the effects controls panel, you’ll see every brush stroke is adding as a separate effect. And each of these has a number of settings. My guess would be that you are using up all available processing power as you paint in much the same way as if you had dozens ror hundreds of Lens Flare effects on one layer.

I think other software might give you a better experience for painting and like I mentioned in my other reply, you can then export from these and bring the result into AE to finish.