[John Cuevas]

Or ost a couple of pictures, which you can do at the cow. 3rd icon from 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]

Can you save the project(minus assets) and upload it here. I’ll take a look at it and see if I notice anything out of the ordinary.

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]

By pressing B and N, you can set the in and out points of your preview, if you are running out of RAM(previews are just frames stored in your RAM).

Remember if you change your work area, you will want to change it back when you go to render your final composition.

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]

In the Output Modulue lossless settings have you changed your Video Output pulldown Channels to “RGB + Alpha”?

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 go to Edit > Preferences > Appearance you can turn on “Cycle Mask Colors”. Everytime you create a new mask it will give it a new color.

Also if you double click the color swatch of the aleady created mask, you can manually change it’s color.

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]

Check to make sure you have the speaker icon turned on.

Also when you render make sure you have audio checked in the Lossless dialogue.

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]

Well, I hope that first file is helpful to you at some point…lol
Add a glow to the layer you want to affect.
Radius > 40
Intensity > 2.0
Composite Original > On Top

Next I added Stylize > Roughen Edges.
Edge Type > Spiky
Border > 2.0
Evolution > add the expression “time * 200”

To make the aura appear and dissappear I keyframed; Glow > Radius and Intensity; Roughen Edges > Scale.

So I’m pretty sure there isn’t anything else in that video..right…Just kidding, I’m laughing cause I managed to misread every post you made. Hope this helps: 3642_fireauracharacterfolder.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]

Think I came up with a solution to the fire aura. I used particular, if you don’t have that plugin you can download a trial from red giant. This isn’t really a basic project, so feel free to ask questions.

To create a basic line, instead of moving particles with velocity, I used Wind X to move them left to right. Then created 1200 particles to create a solid line, wiggling the position of the emmitter a bit gave it a random/organic feel. I encountered a problem that it takes a long time for the particles to fill the screen this way(15 seconds), so if you use this method, I would suggest creating a long animation and prerendering it, then color and add camera moves later.

Most of the work is done in the Air and Turbulence Fields(the turbulence field affects particle position) to create the look of the line, twisting and turning on it’s own. Turn on Visualize fields and you will why the particles are being affected.

To colorize it, I added the tint effect to make the line black and white and added an adjustment layer to the project and added the Tritone effect and just keyframed the Midtones. Then a Glow effect over that.

Camera with Null controller and randomized postion and some rotational keyframes finished the project.

3639_fireaurafolder.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]

Try starting here: https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/#07

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]

One thing you could try is under Edit > Purge > All. Might free up RAM that AE has grabbed.

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.