[John Cuevas]

I didn’t watch the video, but one way you could do it is to put your entire list into an array. Then have the slider just return the index number of the array(remember indexes start with 0).

Something like this:

myText = [“orange”, “lemon”, “apple”, “grape”];

myChoice = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);

myText[myChoice]

[John Cuevas]

The guy who makes Projection 3D has a lot of tutorials showing how to really spice up photos. In this one he goes into depth on how to create realistic water ripples/waves from a photograph.

[John Cuevas]

Do you have assets in the project, because you could move them all to another folder(s), and try opening the project. If it opens you know you have a corrupt asset, then just need to relink and discover which one it is.

[John Cuevas]

Made a quick update to the file.

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[John Cuevas]

Had some free time, so I made an 8 line bar chart that you can use in Premiere. Added a global height slider and a gap control. Also, there is a global color fill or if you want, you check the ‘Individual Fill Color’ checkbox and drill down into each bar and change the colors.

Each bar also has it’s own X length slider and a checkbox to turn the layer off if you don’t need. it.

Hope this helps.

[John Cuevas]

This works if you go into your project settings and change Expressions to Legacy Extend Script

Add null and a ‘Slider Control’ effect to it. Add the expression “Math.floor(value);” to the slider.

Create a composition for all your precomps(All Precomps) and put all of them in it. In the final comp, click the slider control layer and lock the effect controls window so you can access the slider from another composition.

In the first layer of ‘All Precomps’ open opacity, alt-click to add and expression and add

if (pick whip to the slider) == thisLayer.index) 100 else 0

Right click opacity and choose “copy expression”. Select all your other layers and paste the expression.

Drop All Precomps into your main comp, use the slider to pick the layer you need turned on.

See example file if anything is confusing.

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[John Cuevas]

Looks like it wasn’t the most popular change…

As of today, in After Effects Beta v18.2 build 9, the view layout can now be switched by going to the View menu > Switch View Layout. You no longer need to have a 3D layer in the comp to switch the view layout.

We’re looking at other changes in this area. Please try the Beta build and let us know how these changes work for you.

[John Cuevas]

That error comes up when your settings have the “Glow Based On” set to “Alpha Channel” and then change the “Glow Colors” to “Original Colors”. I don’t know what you are glowing, but just changing the “Glow Colors” correctly will fix the problem. What is strange is if no one else is getting that error when they open your template, but her template is opening incorrectly.

Using a marker, you could put a note on the layer with the glow explaining what to do in case of error.

[John Cuevas]

This was a poorly thought out update by from the developers.

In After Effects 18.0, the Composition panel’s toolbar was updated to improve the layout and to improve designing in 3D. As part of these changes, 3D controls, including the View Layout menu, now only appear when there are 3D layers in the comp. More details here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/user-guide.html/after-effects/using/composition-basics.ug.html#Improvedcompositiontoolbarfor3Ddesigning

I, and others, have been submitting feature/bug reports explaining the drawbacks of this new viewer window. You should let them know too.

[John Cuevas]

Will the particles be just small circles like in the illustrations. If so you could do that with text animators and wingdings.