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  • John Cuevas

    May 21, 2025 at 4:44 pm in reply to: Scam Alert

    Well, the final product looks nice, good job, sorry you didn’t get paid.

  • I don’t use blender, so I’m not sure what is causing the issue. As far as fixing it, I would just choke the matte, using one of the matte effects like “Simple Choker” or “Matte Choker”.

  • You could use the rd Comp Setter script. Set up each precomp, then when you make your final renders, use the script to change the size of all the precomps at one time. I use it all the time for changing frame rates, comp sizes, etc.

    https://aescripts.com/rd-compsetter/

  • John Cuevas

    January 31, 2025 at 3:38 pm in reply to: marking time (segments) in a video during playback.

    I’m a little flumoxed, because before I posted my answer, I tried to use the Num Key * and it didn’t work for me. I saw Chris’s replay, and I just started AE again, and tried again and it is working for me. It might that my first project was too complicated to playback in realtime, not sure. But Chris is right and you should be able to use his approach.

    Sorry for the confusion.

  • John Cuevas

    January 31, 2025 at 2:56 pm in reply to: marking time (segments) in a video during playback.

    I don’t know if you can do it in AE, but you can in Premiere. So I would just open the composition in Premiere, play it and just tap “M” where you need markers. Only workaround I know.

  • John Cuevas

    January 30, 2025 at 2:36 pm in reply to: Error launching even though I’d just been using it!

    Might be a corrupted preferences file. I would try these steps.

    To delete After Effects preferences on startup, <mark>hold down the Ctrl + Alt + Shift keys on Windows or Command + Option + Shift on Mac while launching the application</mark>; this will prompt a dialog box asking if you want to delete the preference file, where you can click “OK” to reset to default settings.

  • If you select the keyframes and Alt+click them you can cycle through the interpolations.

  • First things first, there is an AE Expressions forum with the absolute best expressions guy ever, Dan Ebberts, so you might want to post there first.

    I have a few questions though. Is the null moving? You have hundreds of objects, and they are all going to be going to the null, is there going to be a delay between object 1 then 2, then 3… are they going to be following each other like a snake or train?

    Again, it will probably be quicker if you ask Dan, but these are details he will probably need also, but if he’s not around, I’ll try to muddle my way through it.

  • John Cuevas

    January 10, 2025 at 6:22 pm in reply to: After Effects, Fitting the Project to a Curved Surface

    Open up your scene elements, click on the object and then click on surface options. Then just invert the normals. Once I did that, the material showed up on the other side. I just had to rotate it around.

    The normals, created in C4D, point perpendicular to the surface of the object. I think because this object really doesn’t have any thinkness, isn’t closed, is why Element is only applying the material to one side.

    To be honest, ever since I started working in C4D(2017), I haven’t used element, so I’m pretty rusty.

  • John Cuevas

    January 10, 2025 at 3:58 pm in reply to: After Effects, Fitting the Project to a Curved Surface

    I tried to use your .obj in Element and had issues right away. I opened it in C4D and I just think the way Creo(don’t use it) creates geometry isn’t optimized for Element. My product wall wasn’t exactly the shape of your object, so I went into C4D and created a new object(Cyc Wall) as close as I could to what you made and just added it into the AE project. I included the C4D file also in case you want to modify it.

    And I’m always try to help out as much as I can here. Discovered this site over 20 years ago, working the third shift at a tv station and couldn’t figure out how to do something, posted it here and someone shot me an answer in a few hours. Saved me hours and hours of work. So I’ve been paying it forward ever since.

    Cheers,
    Johnny

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