[Kendall Shaw]

If I understand the question, you can move pixels by pressing left/right/up/down by 1 pixel with the timeline/composition viewer open.

This is exactly what I want to disable because I do it accidentally frequently.

[Kendall Shaw]

I think the original poster is asking about audio sync issues while previewing. Presumably the hardware didn’t change between times when there was not an audio sync problem.

The typical response challenges the premise of the question, ignores what the poster wrote and lists an assortment of scenarios in which audio becomes out of sync, without identifying a fundamental cause.

My workaround is appalling. But, it is a way to function until I figure out what the patterns of mistaken video processing choices are that frequently result in audio being out of sync when the computer is unable to render fast enough, as opposed to say both video and audio being rendered in fits and starts.

[Kendall Shaw]

What is being replicated?

If you are comparing what you see on one computer monitor to what you see on another computer with another monitor, then the blue tint is probably a difference in how the color is being displayed.

This type of problem (the blue tint), if I understand what you’re describing correctly, can occur when different color profiles are being used.

If you want to correct the color after the fact, look at the various color management controls.

[Kendall Shaw]

I am a novice. Audio sync problems is the problem I usually have. It has to be that there are a class of problems that is a contributor to this type of problem and learning what the class of problems is would be a great help to me, but I have had no luck learning what that class of problems is, so far.

Using a faster computer, I have had to do this less. So, I assume it is something about the video processing I have done that places higher demand on the computer.

The below hackish solution should be so repulsive to a professional that they will be unable to help themselves from coughing up a general solution that is intelligent:

My brainless solution has been to append extra video that I won’t use. The idea is that, for me, the sync problems occur at the end.

So, for example, if I have 4 clips, the 4th is out of sync. I then kind of guess based on how extreme it is if it is “really” out of sync or not. If it’s just “normally” out of sync. I continue and check on it later. After having appended a 5th clip, the 4th clip is no longer out of sync but the 5th is, etc.

So, when I have this audio sync problem, putting video I am not going to use at the end for the purpose of previewing is what I do.

It seems to work to then limit the work area and preview that ignoring the fluff at the end.

[Kendall Shaw]

I am a novice. Can you give more details? Distorted and strangely colored could mean anything. The purpose of after effects is to distort and color things, usually in a good way. For example, resizing a video is distorting it.

Does the video look normal when you play it outside of after effects? Does upload mean that you opened it in after effects, or do you mean you created a video and it looks different than you want when you uploaded it somewhere?

[Kendall Shaw]

Yes, that is the tutorial I am talking about.

I figured out that you can use the echo composite operators with video that has no transparency by setting the “start intensity” parameter.

I think the explanation is hinted at by the Cycore FX manual:

https://cycorefx.com/downloads/cfx_hd_std/CycoreFX%201.7%20Manual.pdf

And this definition of composite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_compositing

The cycore time effects rely on having access to rendered frames and so they require that input to be a composition.

Composite on that wikipedia page means deriving a value from pixel values including opacity.

The starting intensity parameter sets the opacity of frames that are being composited. So, setting it to less than 1.0 odds opacity that allows the echo to be perceptible.

I still don’t know what the screen operator does.

And, I don’t know how to adjust colors of additive echos to appear to have the same “brightness” without distorting the balance of colors that result from the echo. I would really like to know that. But, I hope I can learn that as a result of learning about color.

[Kendall Shaw]

I tried collecting files. It prompted me to select a premiere linked sequence. But, it only let me select 1 sequence, then it collected the files.

You can choose to create a report without collecting the files. But the report doesn’t have enough information to do much with it.

So, I am in the process of recreating the projects and relinking them.

I wish an aepx file had all of the properties, layers and compositions in human readable and editable form.

I wish there was 1 program that is both premiere and after effects…

[Kendall Shaw]

You can use extendscript. Here is an extremely bare example:

var proj = app.project;
var item = proj.activeItem;
var layer = item.layers.byName(“Adjustment Layer 2”);
var p = layer.selectedProperties[0].property(“Source Frame”);
var k = p.keyOutTemporalEase(2)[0];
$.writeln(k.speed);
$.writeln(k.influence);

[Kendall Shaw]

That is exactly what I wanted! Thank you.

[Kendall Shaw]

I’m sure I can get an answer from some salesman, but I would rather do research first.

Is there somewhere that I can find which laptops are compatible. For example, a lenovo w530 has integrated intel GPU + nvideo quadro k1000m. With the latest nvidia drivers, later than from lenovo, GPU support for ray tracing in after effects is “unsupported”. With the lenovo drivers GPU support is unavailable from the preview settings menu.

Also, at the moment, previewing ray tracing is not my concern. Where else should I be concerned about GPU support and how can I tell if a laptop is supported?