[Greg C neumayer]

Here’s a good documentation page on using expressions with markers:
https://expressions.aenhancers.com/markerkey.html

[Greg C neumayer]

I don’t have a script handy that would do this, but here’s the approach I’d take to try to write one:

–> On a null layer, use a marker to note each frame with the error
–> Turn on time remapping
then,
pseudo-code:
// if (is this a frame with a marker?)
// then get the current time
// display the frame for current time -1

[Greg C neumayer]

I still have CS4! (9.0.2).
Let me know how I can help.
-Greg

[Greg C neumayer]

Yeah, I wanted to test out Google’s new-ish blog feature.
It looks really low-res, though. Was it that way for you as well?

[Greg C neumayer]

@Wouter,
Try using a pre comp for your artwork, but give yourself extra space where you want the distortion. Put your pre-comp art right against the edge you want pinned.

Here’s a quick tutorial I did on this:
https://local.google.com/place?id=7429640651565232022&use=posts&lpsid=730815074898583725

-Greg @ Antifreeze Design

[Greg C neumayer]

(following thread.)
I’m retiring an older souped-up Mac and needing a new AE workhorse.
Here are the questions I’m looking to answer in my new machine:
— Is Apple still the way to go? Should I consider a custom built PC?
— If Mac, which one? They don’t seem to be headed in our direction for pro video work any longer, with such a big focus on consumer products. I have an AE associate that simply bought a solid iMac, and seems happy with it.
— I have 96GB of RAM, but I don’t ever see AE access more than about 30% of it. Did I misunderstand what RAM could do for me?

[Greg C neumayer]

I’ve never had that kind of behavior in the expression pane. (AE CC 2019) Can you post an image?

[Greg C neumayer]

That’s a really cool example, because not only is it grabbing the lighting, but it’s dynamic lighting, not just a static LUT being applied.

In hindsight for my project, it probably would have been best to get a LUT by throwing some color samples in front of the camera before the shot. I haven’t done much of that, but if we can throw a white card up and say “this is white” for our white-balance, we can probably throw up a known baseline (RGB,Black,White) color card in front of the camera and then sample it to create a LUT, right?

[Greg C neumayer]

Just to update the archive, (since I was searching on this!),
Here’s the updated code in AE2019:

On your text layer, you can grab a bunch of properties by pasting this into the source text expression. The “Comment” is the marker text:

m = thisLayer.marker.nearestKey(time);
s = "time:" + timeToCurrentFormat(m.time) + "\r" +
"duration: " + m.duration + "\r" +
"key index: " + m.index + "\r" +
"comment:" + m.comment + "\r" +
"chapter:" + m.chapter + "\r" +
"URL:" + m.url + "\r" +
"frame target: " + m.frameTarget + "\r" +
"cue point name: " + m.cuePointName + "\r" +
"Event cue point? " + m.eventCuePoint + "\r";
for (param in m.parameters){
s += "parameter: " + param + " value: " + m.parameters[param] + "\r";
}
s

[Greg C neumayer]

I was just having this same problem. My view was just off enough to be be troubling, but not enough that I was obviously rendering the wrong view. The problem turned out to be a Target tag I had attached to my camera. I had added it earlier, but (another issue) couldn’t make it actually direct the camera at all. Even starting with a fresh Target Camera seemed to have no ability to direct the camera (and Enable Axis Modification was off!). Anyway, I haven’t solved that one yet, but I’m wondering if it’s part of the random weirdness that comes from running low on memory. Once I deleted the useless Target tag, the render in the Picture view popped up a few degrees and matched my viewport. If anyone has any idea what I was dealing with (including the Target), please let me know!

Thanks.