Graham Quince
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Fortunately, expressions in After Effects can be edited and disabled. Scripts run a series of actions, so it’s not the same. While you can edit a script outside After Effects (and when you get the hang of it, they can be self explanatory) you have to have some coding knowledge to do so. I must admit, long before LLM AI, I copy-and-paste whole sections of scripts that I just about understand. But at least I know what bits to copy. That’s probably the same with AI in fairness.
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Sorry Roland, but to counter:
It can create Textures – uses Adobe Firefly
Firefly uses Adobe Stock as its training database, which allows for AI generated images to be uploaded. There are multiple lawsuits ongoing due to how non-Adobe genAI acquired the training images.
It can write Responsive Expressions
So? It used to be a quick Google search or CreativeCow post would get you useful expressions. Until Google Search was made worse to service advertising.
It can do alignments even with differently sized layers
So can the align tools
It does multi-layer, geometric layouts
OK. Not something I need or want or see that often.
It does a good job organizing objects in the project panel
From the video, you already have to organise your assets in a folder outside AE. If someone needs AE for that, then they don’t know how to use AE.
It renames layers intelligently – it takes a snapshot of your comp and uses this for renaming and other tasks
Not a great argument. “I’m so lazy, I’ll get AI to name a layer”
It’s all fluff, and only the expressions adds anything. But because the AI did that for you, good luck adapting it.
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Oh my. Wow. That’s so, so awful.
The one element of AI I can acknowledge has some use is for inspiration/draft concepts and this is the opposite. She even acknowledges you have to have some knowledge of AE to get the best use out of it.
I’ve done demo videos and I know it’s never going to be your best work, but seriously? Organising folders, comp sizes and adding text animations?? We are bankrupting our future for voice to text and laziness. I clicked on the video expecting to see something inspiring, something unique that only a mega corp like Adobe could come up with. It used Replace Color to match the dancer to the sky!
Anyone bought any RAM lately?
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Oh, didn’t spot you’d posted twice. Looks like you got an answer on your other thread.
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I don’t think a plugin would help here. I’d right click on the star path and convert to bezier path, then just adjust the shape to be slightly imperfect.
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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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That’s very true. I’ve no idea why it works the way it does, just that’s what the info panel says.
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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.
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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.
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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.