[John Cuevas]

Couple of ways to do this in Particular.

If the particle is a still, put all 26 particles in a precomp, make their duration 1 frame and sequence them with no overlap. Change the precomp to 26 frames long. In your main comp under particle choose sprite or textured polygon(polygon has more options, but it depends what you need to do) and choose your precomp as the texture. Change the time sampling to Random – Still Frame.

If you are working with 26 animations, you would need to precomp them also and sequence. But instead of “Random – Still Frame” you would chose “Split Clip – ?(depends on your animations) and change the Number of clips to 26.

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[John Cuevas]

Wish it could do that. I find the best way to work with PDF’s is to bring them into illustrator or photoshop and save each page as a tif. You’ll have an alpha and should be good to go.

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[John Cuevas]

the 2 cubes indicate that you have enabled per character 3d animation to text.

More info: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7e3ea.html

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[John Cuevas]

Found the shortcuts file, deleted it. It rebuilt but still doesn’t work. I actually found the MakeMovie in the file, but for some reason, nada.

More and more I’m convinced some update/application is overriding “cntl+m”. Though I’m not sure why it just started happening.

Oh well, wait for the IT guy to show up for his monthly maintenance, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll reinstall the app.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

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[John Cuevas]

Nope, that didn’t work either. Just swapped out keyboards on the crazy chance that “cntl” works, “m” works, but they didn’t work together for some reason.

If I used the composition pulldown and hit select the Make Move, that works….just the short cut isn’t working.

Think I have to wait for my IT guy to come in and check to see if some process is running in the background that I’m not seeing that has disabled this, though I can’t imagine what that would be since nothing has changed on this computer.

If anyone has any other suggestions, I’d be glad to try them.

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[John Cuevas]

I haven’t installed anything and don’t believe that any update took place on Friday when it stopped working. Nothing happens when I press “cntl+m”, not in AE, Windows or seemingly any program.

Aside from deleting my prefs, I’ve opened my current project on another machine, and “cntl-m” added the composition to the render queue. So it’s not the project either. I’m completely befuddled by this.

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[John Cuevas]

Is the shot moving? Can you post a clip of a few seconds before and after, would really help?

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[John Cuevas]

Check out this multiplane script: https://aescripts.com/pt_multiplane/

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[John Cuevas]

Played with this some more using particle playground(comes with AE) with these results(I can’t get it to play in this post, but if you click the chimney smoke link it plays):

Chimmney Smoke

Here are the settings, can’t see it, but I used wiggle on the particles per second “wiggle(4,40)—Main Comp:
particles.jpg

Wind Controller: windcontroller.jpg

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[John Cuevas]

Try using particle playground and some layer maps, they can affect position.

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