Greg C neumayer
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Just as a side-note, I had trouble pinning down the ‘flag pole’ edge of my wave, but solved it by precomping my flag and aligning the edge that I wanted locked (e.g. pole is on the left) to the left edge of the comp. Then in wave warp, locking the left edge will keep it in place. For added interest, add a second less intense instance of wave warp at a slower and slightly different angle.
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Did this process reveal anything for you? I’ve been having this problem for months as well.
One thing you can do is try to make sure you have your “info” window open in AE when it relinks. This will at least tell you what it’s thinking.Here’s my very similar problem:
— I have an Illustrator file with 70 layers. I’ve changed the overall dimensions of the AI file.
— When I go back over to AE, it’s “checking for changed footage” and “incorporating changed footage” one painfully slow layer at a time. This isn’t overly complex artwork and each layer check takes about 5-10 seconds. That’s 23 minutes to update! Something’s very wrong, but my artwork is just AI vector art. This happens on multiple projects. The biggest problem is that I have a hard time getting out of the spinning beach ball cycle. It would be faster just for me to close the project and re-open, but I can’t escape the auto-update check.Is there:
— A way to disable auto-checks of footage?
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Thanks! Do you think AME will respect this (embedded) data on mp4 creation?
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Ha! That’s true. I’ve done that in the past but forgot about it.
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I like those ideas. And they look like good spy-movie fodder. But as you suggest, they aren’t very practical for production.
I’m guessing this issue of information is part of the reason the industry started putting more effort into file metadata. I’m surprised that AE doesn’t have more metadata support, but even if it does that I’m not aware of, the burden is on the output file specification or codec (e.g. Quicktime, PNG, ProRes), not AE to provide the support for it.
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I’m actually asking about permanently embedding metadata into the output file (e.g. quicktime), not source files.
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Tell me more about hiding the info in the file. That might be the long way around the problem, but I’d love to have the option.
Thanks!
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That sounds like a good case for someone to write a script.
But notwithstanding the other good solutions, I like to add an underscore to any of my top-level comps that I’ll be rendering or at least dropping into a master comp. I also add the word “main” for the top level, if I only have one eventual output comp. This helps me identify them for rendering, as well as keeps them floated to the top of my Project Window for easy access when moving between main sections. Just a workflow idea.
e.g. : _MainProject, _Section1, _Section2 etc.
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If it feel like it’s doing the wrong thing, it probably is. I get weird text-selection behavior when I start running low on memory. In general, though, any formatting like that I try to do within a paragraph in AE I end up regretting once I start to animate. Invariably, I end up deciding to animate separately that header line that was 10 points larger than the copy, or the mid-sentence bold phrase. Now, I usually just give them their own text block so I have flexibility.
Also remember to note that although AE doesn’t acknowledge it very much in the interface, there are two types of text: Text and a Text block. If you just start typing, you’ll just get text. If you use the text tool and drag a box before you begin typing, you’ll get a text bounding block that you can insert text into, which will also create the line breaks automatically based on it’s size. You may be noticing slight differences between them. Resizing basic Text results in the text changing size (squash, stretch). Resizing the Text Block will re-flow the text.
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Is there a muxed open source equivalent of TIFF that also supports audio?
It would be nice to have just one file that includes audio.