John Jackowiak
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After much trial and error. I have found the problem. (At least for me). Someone had turned on multi-processing on all the machines. In theory that should make them more efficient. But there are only 8 gigs of ram in each machine. Not nearly enough. This was in fact slowing things down. I turned multi-processing off, and every works just as it should. Hope that helps.
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
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Actually one more question. If I wanted to add a 3rd (or more) positions, for higher values on the slider scale can it be written into the same expression? For example, at 200, position 3? I tried the following ways, but with no luck.
slider = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
linear(slider,0,100,200[50,100],[200,400],[300,600])or
slider = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
linear(slider,0,100,[50,100],[200,400])
linear(slider,100,200,[200,400],[300,600])John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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Perfect. Thanks!
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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Much simpler. I was over thinking the scenario thinking I had to use a layer control to bridge the two. Thanks!
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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I would like to apply my layer expression in my main comp, but pre comp the slider and the layers that the slider is determining opacity for. But from what I understand, the layer expression won’t be indexing those pre comped layers correct? I’m confused if I can even get this accomplished this way because it seems you cannot add an expression to the layer expression to point it to the slider expression in the pre comp?
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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Great idea! Thanks!
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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Yup, I’m an idiot. Guess I owe my high school teach from years ago an apology for saying I’ll never need this stuff because I didn’t plan on being an accountant. 🙂
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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Actually one more question that I have just run into. I have applied the expression to multiple layers in a row and just used simple math to make the amount of layers I have applied it to, visible for the exact same amount of time.
Because the numbers are exact, I have an overlapping common key frame between each layer where both layers will show up.
Any idea how to resolve this? I tried adding a (-1) at the end of the second value, but then I had instances where neither layer would show up on common frames because then neither of them equaled the value. I also understand this is kinda hard to explain through a written explanation. Please let me know if you need me to elaborate or explain further. Thanks.So:
Layer 1:
slider = comp("yourcompname").layer("slidername").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");if (slider < ((100/4)*1) || slider > ((100/4)*2)) 0 else 100
Layer 2
slider = comp("yourcompname").layer("slidername").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");if (slider < ((100/4)*2) || slider > ((100/4)*3)) 0 else 100
Layer 3
slider = comp("yourcompname").layer("slidername").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");if (slider < ((100/4)*3) || slider > ((100/4)*4)) 0 else 100
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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That did it. Much appreciated. Learning expressions. Not all quite there yet.
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov
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Success! The AJA plugins were the culprit. Everything is running smoothly now. Thanks for the help guys. It is also good to know about the necessary RAM for the multi-rendering option. I was at NAB this year, and everyone was telling me that it should always be enabled. They didn’t tell me that there were minimum requirements to having it on.
John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com***Recent Work***
https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov