[John Cuevas]

I noticed that you the plank’s transfer mode set to dissolve…which creates those dots and loses the fast blur.

If you turn the transfer mode to normal or really anything but the dissolves and turn off openGL I think that will solve the issues.

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[John Cuevas]

As soon as I turned off Open GL, the text came back into focus. It’s the pulldown that has a lighting bolt in the composition window. Give that a shot.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[John Cuevas]

Try a dissolve the same length(or a just a few frames shorter) as the wipe and set the wipe to add.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If you type in “value” into any field, it returns the layers current value. Try it out, create a solid and alt click the position and type “value” into the expression field. Now as you move your solid around notice the position coordinates are red, because it’s an expression but it’s just showing you where it the solid is located.

A 2d layer has 2 coordinates, x and y. For expressions this is written as an array[0,1] with the 0 being the x value and 1 being the y value. If you had a 3d layer it would be [0,1,2]

So in the expression [value[0], wiggle(2,effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”))[1]]
value[0] says use the current x value of the layer.

When you use the Wiggle command, it returns the number of variable you need to wiggle the property. If you wiggle rotation, it returns 1 variable[0]. If you wiggle scale, it returns 2 variables.[0,1]. If you wiggle a 3D layer, it would return 3 variables[0,1,2]. And if you were to wiggle a color, it would bring back 4 variables[0,1,2,3] for the RGB and Alpha.

The Y value of your expression is controlled by wiggle(2,effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”))[1] says to Wiggle 2 times per second, and the amount to wiggle is the slider value. But since wiggle returns 2 variables, this expressions says use the 2nd variable.

Hope that makes sense.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I think we got our signals crossed. I meant I needed you to upload the the project file here. Save your project and use the upload button here(last button in the reply box) so I can download the project and see what the issue is.

Since it looks to be a problem with just the text/nulls, you don’t need to worry about uploading the graphics, movies or anything, just the .aep file.

Before you do that though, turn off OpenGL, that can cause problems with AE.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If you can quickly upload the comp(just the comp and assoc precomps-don’t need any footage) I’ll take a look at it. I can’t get my text to behave in the fashion you are describing so I’d like to see what you’ve done.

The file upload button is the last one to the right in the reply box.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

it sounds like rotobrush is working the way it’s designed.

Rotobrush requires you to work in increments of 10 frames, check the roto, then work 10 more frames. You can change the span, but I wouldn’t recommend that because your roto might get messed up and you end up doing more work going back and fixing it.

Rotobrush isn’t that intutive, adobe has a tutorial and help on using it:

Some Adobe
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/digital-video-cs5/rotoscope-with-rotobrush/

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3bf812c123007fb8513559df126b537c840-8000.html

AEtuts tutorial:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/welcome-cs5-an-intro-to-the-new-roto-brush/

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I think you need to add another channel there for the alpha, that’s why you are missing a dimension.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Make a large composition 2x width to height(2000 x 1000) and name it Pictures. Arrange the pictures into the composition. Create your final comp and drag Pictures into it and apply Perspective -> CC Sphere

Quick example project: 4116_spinningglobe.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Is the text set to best quality? It’s a diagonal line that switches the layer from best to draft quality.

Adobe Help on layer switches

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.