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Graham Quince
September 8, 2019 at 7:02 am in reply to: Num pad 0 deleting layers?

Have you checked Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts?

Not sure how, but it’s possible a key preference has been saved for the ‘0’ here.

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Graham Quince
September 8, 2019 at 7:00 am in reply to: Circular news ticker?

If you pre-comp your text layer, you can have the text as long as you want and only the text visible in the comp’s width will be wrapped around the circle.

Here’s a screenshot showing what I mean:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/esjtzopqvzgstxh/text%20circle.PNG?dl=0

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Graham Quince
September 8, 2019 at 6:47 am in reply to: Beginners – Something to bear in mind (Preferences)

Thanks for sharing. I know what you mean about old and new code although in Adobe’s defence I think lately it’s been a lot more stable. A few years ago it was really quite buggy.

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Graham Quince
September 8, 2019 at 6:42 am in reply to: Auto orient Camera to Solid?

If you parent the camera to the solid, set it’s point of interest to the solid’s position and then match the X and Y coordinates for the solid’s position and finally set the Z coordinates of the camera to be -500 and make sure you have zeroed any rotation/orientation that the camera should be looking squarely at the solid.

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Graham Quince
September 3, 2019 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Parenting – coordinates changed to parent’s top left value?

Ignore this post. I’ve been using Null objects so much that I got use to the layer’s anchor point be the same as the 0,0 position.

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Graham Quince
August 31, 2019 at 9:53 pm in reply to: One animating pattern across a 3d cube.

It might be worth exploring the idea of projecting the video of the splat using a light and a video layer with a shadow.

It’s kinda hard to demonstrate as there appears something wrong with the image links on this tutorial by Rick Gerard, but I think this would work:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/Projection_tut.php

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Graham Quince
August 26, 2019 at 1:41 pm in reply to: slide layer without keys?

Oh wow, sorry I had no idea. Especially that it would fight you on the undoing.

Comp markers and manually moving layers then using the marker to re-align your key frames might be the only option then.

Anyone else here got a better idea?

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Graham Quince
August 26, 2019 at 10:01 am in reply to: Compositing liquid animations from C4D with live action footage in After Effects – how to achieve realistic refractions?

Hi

Honestly, I think the best way to achieve this would be to have your video layer as a Plane or Background object within C4D. The renderer can than build more realistic refractions. Alternatively, you can fake this to some extent using the water rendering as a distortion map in AE, which will give you greater control of the final look rather than waiting on C4D’s rendering, but if you want the computer to do the heavy lifting, then export your video layer I reckon.

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Graham Quince
August 25, 2019 at 10:42 am in reply to: Pseudo-effects missing – can’t remember how to re-add

Possibly solved, looks like a backwards-compatibility issue. The effects still work if I ignore the Missing: dialogue.

For the sake of $17.99, might just buy the compatible version from BatchFrame and remake the effects. Here’s the link if anyone is interested:
https://www.batchframe.com/tool/pseudo-effect-maker

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Graham Quince
August 25, 2019 at 10:06 am in reply to: slide layer without keys?

Hi,

I think Adobe just recently solved this problem. Take a look at this reponsive design page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/after-effects/using/responsive-design.html

Not used it myself, but this should let you adjust nested comps timeline positions and have AE automatically sort out time remapping around protected areas.

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