Hi Kouraib, thank you for your answer! I tried to reply yesterday but creative cow keeps deleting it or something.

I tried caching and reversing the animation, but what happens is that the crumpled up ball stays the same throughout the whole animation instead of unfolding. I will keep looking for solutions, but I appreciate your suggestion!

I have an mp4 as one of my material textures. I understand how to bake materials, but only as still images. I would like to know if it’s possible to bake the material that has an mp4 in the color channel, and export it as a glb. And if not then what is a good alternative? Thanks!

I’m following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ4K-lhHBrU&list=PLZHZaDxrTmxQ2JQAY1jbDSRJYGzepCy9m

for crumpled paper using a sphere with a soft body tag and a sphere with a collider body that scales downward so that the paper crumbles with it. I’m actually trying to uncrumple paper, but reversing the sphere scale keyframes do not…

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I’m following a tutorial for a blooming flower. It uses a plain effector underneath a segment of sphere in order to ‘bloom’ the flower petals by rotating them outward along the x axis. When I set my rotation R . P value to -90 like the tutorial, it distorts the petals as it rotates rather than achieving a nice clean rotation. I can’t figure this…

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I recently upgraded to R25 and the first thing I notice is that scale animation does not get recorded when auto keyframing. I’ve ensured scale is not checked off, and it does record other parameters but not scale.. Is this a known issue with R25?

Edited to add that manual keyframes for scale doesn’t work either… What craziness is this?

Thank you! Checked all of the above, could be the bump was not at a level that could be discernible.. I will bump it up.

Amazing! Thank you so much for these solutions – I will certainly try them both out!

I have a voronoi exploding sphere that collides with another object. I want to have the exploding bits get smaller and smaller, and appear to dissipate into the air rather than remain large. I know there’s a way to do with with random effector falloff, but I don’t know how to combine that with the rigid body dynamics, as it seems to be an entirely…

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Hi again, Michael

I just tried to follow a tutorial on weight brush and using the fixed connector, but I’ve been unable to replicate what you’ve done here. Would you be able to share with me how you achieved this?

Thank you so much!

Yes indeed it is! Thank you, Michael!! Can you tell me what settings you used to achieve this effect? Many thanks!

On looking further, it looks like you used a brush effect to select points–which I vaguely remember hearing about somewhere. I will try to look it up now. Thank you again!

I realized I had PLA checked on when baking the object, which was not right in this case. Now I’ve unchecked it and it did bake out

I have a sphere which I’ve fractured using voronoi. I need the colliding object to crash through the sphere, breaking pieces horizontally (this part I know how to do) and making it explode out the other end, but not make the entire sphere explode. Think of something bursting through a planet but leaving most of the planet intact, if that makes…

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I want to export an exploding sphere with collision dynamics to FBX and bring into Unity with the animation. I’m getting pretty stumped because at this point, I’ve tried every method of baking this type of effect that I can find tutorials for. Nothing seems to work, my model gets exported without the animation. I know there are different ways to…

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I’ve noticed a frequent freezing issue with R25. Predictably, it’ll happen during certain actions such as adding a rotation keyframe (it does other keyframed properties with no problem) and clicking the middle mouse button to move around the scene. I’m sure there are others I’m not thinking of, but those are the two actions I’ve noticed a lot.…

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I’m running R25. I’m new to material baking, so apologies if this sounds basic. I’m trying to bake color and bump channels using material bake tag. I selected psd so I could bake them all in a single file, but when the material baked out, only the color was present; the bump does not show up in the material. Has anyone encountered this before,…

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Update: It did end up working, I did a dumb thing and confused versions because I have more than one C4D installed…

Sorry for the trouble, you can delete this on your end, mods. I don’t think I have the option to do it on my end.

I extracted the glTF exporter plugin to a new plugins folder which I created, and changed the preferences within R20 to…

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Sorry, it’s Monterrey 12.6 on my new mac, and the other one I don’t remember off-hand but it’s several versions lower (also mac). With red giant being taken over by Maxon, I don’t think it’s as easy as using the activation code, either. I’m just kinda lost.

I need to transfer my plugins like trapcode, boris, sapphire etc to my new laptop so I can use them with AE. The trouble is it’s been years, I lost track of activation codes, and I’m wanting to know if there’s any way I can still transfer those over. I heard there’s something called a script folder that I can just move over via external hard…

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I created a lower thirds mogrt with some position keyframes, but when I use it in Premiere, every time I change the text, it appears to delete those keyframes. Furthermore, there’s some stuttering when I try to play it back after modifying text. However, when I scrub through, it shows the animation. The thing is that when I close the file and…

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Thank you so much! I’ll try this and get back to you.

I need to make a model of this dome (below). I thought I would start with a bucky and try to modify it from hexagonal sides to triangles, but there appears to be no options to do that easily. A platonic would also work since they are triangular sides, but there aren’t enough sides to make it a dome. Is there a simple fix for this I’m not seeing?…

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I had to install AE 2022 just to be able to import a template file into Premiere, but now it’s telling me I don’t have AE 2022 installed when I definitely do. Is this a known error? I came across somebody with this problem, but there was no solution. Wondering if anyone here knows how to fix this.

Thanks

I’m told the VR comp editor has changed in the last few years, but I’m new to it and all the tutorials are not matching up to how it is now. I have a 360 equirectangular videoi and I want to add a 2D edit so that I can preview the video and pan around the scene in 360. What happened to the option to ‘add 2d edit’ to a VR comp? Is there another…

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I textured a plane with an alpha channel video–I have the clip loaded into color, luminance and alpha channels of material. However, when rendered, the plane is reflecting the hdri environment. I tried a compositing tag and just checked off “seen by” for everything but the camera. I didn’t know whether that would do anything, but I don’t…

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I’ve tried the two main ways of baking particle animations (particle bake and mograph cache tag on a cloner with emitter as object). I want to export the particles as .obj or .fbx but neither are retaining the baked animation. Is this something that is not supported? Is there a way to ensure the animation bakes out with the particles?

I’m with a team who wants to create real-time projected visuals on the wall of a building. We may want to work with something like Notch. I’m told Kinect is not good for long range, and real-sense is phased out. We don’t necesarily need depth data, but we do want the human form tracked so people can appear to move imagery around with their arms,…

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Thank you, Jim! And you are always so kind and helpful. You’ve solved my issue many a time on this forum, including this one. It’s much appreciated:)

Hi, Jim

That was my mistake. I see now that you said Model mode, but the tutorial I was following showed he was in polygon mode and had the outline. However, the true issue is that I was a dummy and thought he had an outline when in reality, he just had all his geometry highlighted and showing up orange. This was not a true outline at all, it was…

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Hi, Justin

Unfortunately that didn’t do it–I think because it’s been this way by default since I downloaded R24. I never had side tabs even in the beginning, and it was only in earlier versions that I had them.

I recently got R24 and noticed that the content browser is no longer in the side tabs on my right, as it was in previous versions. I had to go to window—>content browser to get it to show up. Problem is it opens in a separate window and I can’t get it back to being a side tab like before. I tried a tip someone posted online, to make a new…

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Hi, Jim

Apologies that I dropped off the forum for a while. But I did see your responses and meant to reply that yes, I was in polygon mode and highlighting the object but still didn’t have that outline. Then funny thing happened, I ended up upgrading to R24 and when I opened the project there, I did have an outline. So I’m not sure exactly what…

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Hi, Jim,

First of all, thank you for your helpful suggestion! I tried enabling outlines, but I still don’t have an outline. Below is a screenshot of what I see vs. the orange outline I should be seeing. Do you have any idea of what I can try?

Thank you so much!!

Sorry I don’t know the official word for it, but you see in this video around 5:18 he has an orange outline around his geometry:

I didn’t have one, and someone said if I turn off Isoline editing under options, it would appear; but it hasn’t. Anyone know how I can make the outline visible? I’m…

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Thank you! Yes, it was add edit I was looking for. I didn’t know the term

I suddenly found my custom shortcuts erased for some reason, went to reset everything to my liking and found that the command + K shortcut for splitting at playhead is no longer in the default preferences. The shortcut works, but I wanted to reprogram it to a single letter and I am not able to because the command no longer exists in the keyboard…

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Baking is still very new to me; I normally go with bake object, but since it’s messing with my textures, I’m trying to bake material instead. Anyways, I grouped my textured objects into a null before baking. When I applied the bake tag to the null and tried to preview it, I got the message “your object has no material tags” because all the…

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The images aren’t showing up, but I know what you’re talking about. Unfortunately I have that bug where shy layers are visible anyway (or something similar where toggling shy does nothing). Otherwise, I’m sure that would’ve done the trick. Thank you for this!

Thanks Henry! I will look into round tripping from P to AE since this is the first I’m hearing of it.

This is helpful to know! It does seem that AE has more options for manual adjustment–that’s something I really like about it. I will look into making an AE comp out of a Premiere shot. Thanks!!

I downloaded a template and wanted to swap out a background element, so I went through and muted each layer to find which one I needed to work with. I ended up with all layers muted, and the preview window still showed the whole composition as if I hadn’t turned off any layers. As a result, I’m not able to isolate the layer I want to adjust. I…

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Thanks!

This may be a basic issue, but I haven’t had luck with google results. I’m trying to insert one clip between 2 others, but the separate music layer beneath the video gets split when I insert. I only want to affect the video layer. How can I prevent this from happening?

edit: I discovered that if I toggled the V on the video layer it didn’t cut into…

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Is there a way to store images used in your materials library so that they do not go missing when you move files around? (I mean besides saving each project with assets)

I don’t understand why the options to delete or edit this post are gone, but I figured out the answer is to use the ripple edit tool.

To add on to this, since editing is hidden from me for some reason..

How can I expand the length of a clip and have the other videos move over to accommodate the extra length? When I try this, it says “trim blocked”

I know such a thing exists, but I can’t remember the option for it. I want to be able to cut a video layer and then have the rest of the clips in my sequence move to fill the empty space so I do not have to adjust the other clips manually. Can anyone help me out with how to do that?

Thanks

Thank you for this valuable advice (both Walter and Michael)! I hadn’t realized how much of a difference it would make to work in Premiere. I’m just now starting to deep dive into the software, and hope to get up to speed soon enough.

I may be the only one who edits regular video with AfterEffects. I find it easier for some reason, than Premiere. However, since it’s not the industry practice, I am wondering if this is ok to do for professional video. I’m sure Premiere is better for things like color correction, but other than this, are there any serious drawbacks to editing in…

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Thanks Andy! I will do that from now on.

After consolidating a project’s assets into one folder, what do you do later on when you add a bunch more assets to the project? Is there a way to “re-consolidate” to keep all items in one place?