[Jeffczyz]

I got it worked out in the ProAnimator and the first try it looked great.

Now when I go back into ProAnimator I get an error about being unable to complete the operation (*6) and I no longer see the preview. Other times it has reversed the animations between my layers. Seems very quirky. Works great as long as you get it right the first time and don’t need to modify anything afterwords.

[Jeffczyz]

Did you ever get an answer to this? I’m having the same problem.

[Jeffczyz]

ProAnimator now… got the demo and whew… that’s nice.

However, I created my Primative sphere and it looks great in the preview. In AE it’s squished and renders squished. What setting am I missing for aspect ratio?

[Jeffczyz]

I managed to figure out the 5.1 automation. Thanks for the post.

It seems (unless I’m missing it) that audition 2.0 doesn’t give you the ability to watch the video and edit the surround 5.1 at the same time. It would be helpful in order to sync the audio with the action on video. Am I missing how to do this somewhere?

[Jeffczyz]

Yes. They were the same. It’s as if one layer was in 2D, but it wasn’t. The other odd thing was when I used my custom views, only 2 of the 7 layers would refresh. I ended up combine some of the nested precomps and that seemed to work. Still not sure what the issue was though.

[Jeffczyz]

Dave,

Thanks for the input. I’ll have to revisit my setup. The problem I’m having is that my lower nested precomps are used in 3D comps. I’ve basically taken Andrew Kramer’s 3D reflection tutorial and used that to create a room full of videos with reflections. If I pre-render those, I lose the 3d aspect in the higher comps. However, I will try and render the original clips.

The other thing I’m battling with is the my original clips are 30 seconds and I’ve time -remapped and looped them for the duration of the 25 minutes. Even though each one isn’t really seen the entire time, I thought it would be easier to not render them since AE would only be rendering what’s in frame.(I think that’s the way it works) however, I’m seeing that it needs to interpret everything in all comps and then determine what’s in frame.. whew….

[Jeffczyz]

I just something similar for this. I found this in one of the forums on CC.

Basically, I just created my text layer and put the following expression in the source text.

You’ll need to adjust the Clockstart. This example countdowns 25 minutes.

Hope that helps.

//countdown clock
ClockStart = 25; //Start time in minutes
start = ClockStart*60; //start time in seconds
compTime = start – time;
eTime = Math.floor(compTime);
csec = Math.floor((compTime – eTime)*100);
ms1 = Math.floor(csec/10);
ms2 = csec%10;
hr = Math.floor(eTime/3600);
h1 = Math.floor(hr/10);
h2 = hr%10;
min = Math.floor((eTime – hr*3600)/60);
m1 = min;
m2 = min%10;
sec = eTime – hr*3600 – min*60;
s1 = Math.floor(sec/10);
s2 = sec%10;
m1 + ‘:’ + s1 + s2

[Jeffczyz]

Thanks for the quick response. So would the following make sense to do:

1) Take my 30 second comp-A and include in comp-B
2) Time remap comp-A in CompB and duplicate comp-a multiple times in comp-b with color effects
3) Include comp-B in a new Comp-C?

[Jeffczyz]

Joe,

Thanks. That makes sense. I guess I’ll be doing some mixing then.

Jeff

[Jeffczyz]

Jon,

yes. Thanks for the help. There must be a bug in 4.09 because the stats box is empty.