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Graham Quince
April 26, 2020 at 8:51 am in reply to: Why is there a slight gap between shapes?

Does this also happen in your final render? Or just the preview?

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Graham Quince
April 26, 2020 at 8:50 am in reply to: AE to AME Update

Thanks for sharing this. I was trying to make a 360 video last week and it wouldn’t appear in AME. I wrongly assumed it was just too much for AME, but looks like it might have been caused by VC’s Optical Flares and this bug.

As it happens, I did the same thing as recommended and rendered out an intermediate png sequence directly from the Render Queue.

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https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 20, 2020 at 7:40 pm in reply to: 3D null object

Hi,

Check out the smoother (it’s a window, not an effect) that will smooth out your path.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/after-effects/using/assorted-animation-tools.html

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https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 20, 2020 at 7:37 pm in reply to: Seeking a way to smear video

Hi Jeff,

Check out the Liquify effect. There’s also Bezier Warp and (without checking) I think Flo Motion can all smear video.

Graham

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https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 18, 2020 at 1:22 pm in reply to: Removing Specks from (Lit) Headlights

I think Mohamed Mehrez might have you covered:

https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=2&postid=1137121

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https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 18, 2020 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Best way to fine tune artificial camera movements (using null layer) to pan between constructed scenes?

I struggle with this stuff too. Lately i’ve taken to recording a similar movement with a real camera and bringing the footage into AE for comparison. I’ve not bothered with tracking the real footage, but having it as reference is sometimes enough.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 18, 2020 at 1:14 pm in reply to: After Effects UI (not preview) is lagging

Not something I can say directly, but see what happens if you disable hardware acceleration. It might be AE is not really able to use your graphics card – even if it says it is.

And make sure there’s no virus scanning going on in the background.

I never had an issue as bad as you have described, but when I had it on a laptop I struggled. I borrowed my wife’s desktop (almost identical spec) and it flies in comparison.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 18, 2020 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Thoughts on an effect

Try out a Displacement Map with a precomp of your shockwave.

Using a white solid, add a circle mask and animated the circle to expand and collapse. When you’re happy with the timing, you can copy the mask, but use Expansion to reduce it’s size and set it to subtract. This will give you a donut. Feather the outer mask a little and the inner mask a lot, to give you a leading edge look.

Then precomp this and use a diplacement map on your animation (either directly or an adjustment layer). See if that gets you closer to the look you’re after.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 16, 2020 at 5:03 pm in reply to: C4D / After Effects render problem

I really want to make a joke about this being a knotty problem, but I’ll resist. Best guess there is an extra object in C4D. If you’re prepared to post the project files, I’ll take a look.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
April 10, 2020 at 3:06 pm in reply to: Matching a flag’s angle and wind ripple from a still

I think if you use a Displacement Map, you will get closest. If you precomp the displacement texture, you can use Fractal Noise to get relatively random movement with your flag, then at the point needed, you can fade up a new layer in the precomp with displacement set to match your static flag (a grayscale version of the logo should probably do it).

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog

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