[Jessica Lawheed]

I am now having this problem. It moves with the camera only for so long and then stops, even though the camera is still moving. It was fine for the first few renders and only now has started acting up. I’ve purged everything; I’ve restarted. I cannot get it to do the thing.

[Jessica Lawheed]

In V 18.4.1 I am getting an error saying there is a “SyntaxError unexpected token ‘else'”. Any fixes for this?

[Jessica Lawheed]

Thank you for this reply. I will be able to use this method for a few other things in other projects but sadly not for the one referenced in this thread. They don’t have the ability to then orbit the center of the circle they’ve made, or adjust according to the radius if I change it. If it helps, the code embedded in the position of this layer is as such:

calibrate = effect("Position - Orbit Calibrate")("ADBE Slider Control-0001") / 57;
on_off = effect("Position - Orbit Direction")("ADBE Checkbox Control-0001");
d = effect("Position - Orbit Distance")("ADBE Slider Control-0001") * 15;
s = effect("Position - Orbit Speed")("ADBE Slider Control-0001") / 10;

try {
L = effect("Position - Orbit Target")("ADBE Layer Control-0001");
center = L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint);
} catch (err) {
center = value;
}
myTime = Math.max(0, time - inPoint);
if (on_off == 1) {
angle = (s * myTime * 2 * Math.PI) + calibrate;
} else {
angle = ((s * myTime * 2 * Math.PI) + calibrate) * -1;
}
value = center + [Math.sin(angle) / thisComp.pixelAspect, -Math.cos(angle)] * d;


[Jessica Lawheed]

OH MY GAWD thank you for this. You have saved me SO much time.

[Jessica Lawheed]

His monitors are calibrated, but I’m looking at the difference between a render he makes and a render I make both pulled up on my screen. His render is more golden and mine is slightly more magenta. I’m just trying to figure out who the render is different than his.

[Jessica Lawheed]

Yes most of the files that don’t re-link are jpegs. Some are Pngs. I’ve never encountered the problem in previous versions, but I also can’t say how often I had to relink Jpegs.

I will try to scrub it and re-open to see exactly which jpegs it takes and which it doesn’t; if I can discern the difference between the jpegs- they’re all pretty similar.

[Jessica Lawheed]

Thank you. It’s a board from a client so I guess I’ll just have to spend extra time making sure none of them has an opacity change and go back into after effects and do it.

I’ll check out the script too. Much appreciated.

[Jessica Lawheed]

I guess it must be because there are images in the file as well, because if I save the file without the jpegs in it then it works fine. I’ll just have to separate out all of the images from each file they sent me.

I don’t, however, know how to get rid of the extra groups that wind up being “merged” with a path that’s the size of the illustrator comp. I miss the days when it would convert to a shape without that added inconvenience.

[Jessica Lawheed]

10644_1617.ai.zip

[Jessica Lawheed]

I figured it out! I just started checking and unchecking a ton of things as trial and error on the relink window and what did the trick was to uncheck align timecode and have “Interpret footage” checked. Hope this helps anyone else with the issue.