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At around 12 minutes in the video, he talks about this issue, something to do with setting the back page in the Page Turn effect. Double-check that and if you’re still having issues, can you post your project files here and I can take a look.
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I’d set up a watch folder on the PC’s Media Encoder – any sequences, videos or comps (AFAIK) will be picked up and rendered. At my old job, we had a spare PC sitting there allowing teachers to convert any video they uploaded (and yet most still came to our office to do it).
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Do you have access to Video Copilot Element 3D? You can use the render tools in that to replicate the look of Plexus.
I made a video a little while back showing how (second-half of the tutorial)
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Your video link won’t open for me, but from your description I think CC Card Dance could possibly get you there. If you can arrange your letters in a grid, you can then use a gradient on another layer to drive the animation. That would be quite a bit of work just lining up the letters.
Alternatively, I think you could use a “proximity detection” expression on a layer’s position, something like:
var targetPos = thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 1").transform.position;
var thisLayerPos = value;
var distance = length(targetPos, thisLayerPos);
value+(thisLayerPos*100/distance);
This means the L layer actively stays away from the displacing object. That expression might need a little work, but if you make one letter, get that responding correctly then duplicate and reposition the new layer, you should be able to fill a grid relatively quickly.
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That sounds strange. Are you definetly editing the same file. If you right-click on the file in the Project panel and choose “Reveal in Explorer” does it open to the same file? That’s the first thing I’d check.
You also mention right-clicking on the file, are you then selecting Reload footage ? To be honest, I rarely have to use that these days as AE auto-updates.
Last thing I can think of… is that AE imports PSD as if they are also their own project, with both a comp and mutiple layers in a folder. Is it possible you’ve made new layers? These might not import as once inside AE, the layers are split into their own “files” in the project panel. To get around this, you might have to import the PSD again and use the ALT-replace method to update for any changes.
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Not sure what tutorials you’ve followed, but you seem to have two things going on here. Mocha AE is providing you with a track of the video (you didn’t include that btw). You should now be able to apply that to your tracked footage using Mocha. It’s possible you’ve done that generating Null 1.
Where I can’t tell what’s going on is that Null 1 is a 2D solid, so it only has X and Y coordinates, but you’ve linked a camera’s position to it which requires 3 coordinates. Actually, you only linked to the layer, which generated an error. You needed to link to the layer’s position.
Can you post a link to the tutorial you followed and some screenshots of your comp and we should be able to work out what you need to change.
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Weird. but thanks for posting back a solution. That will help the next person struggling with the same issue.
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I think that’s just the natural result of shrinking down the text. Fonts are often made up of think lines, only a couple of pixels wide. When you scale them down they will get thinner and thinner.
Can you try capturing the screen software with a larger font – I’m thinking in the accessibility settings or failing that, try two screen recordings overlaid with one nudged 1 pixel to the side.
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Not used it myself, but maybe something like this tool would help:
https://aescripts.com/elastic-comp-changer/
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What I’d try is an expression on the Null’s position, something like:
value/2
This takes the value of the keyframe and divides it by two. The issue with this approach is that if the starting position is 960 (and the next frame is 970), then the new position will be 480 (and 485). To combat this, create a second null object and have the parented to the first.