Ken Teutsch
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I’m sorry if I’m not entirely clear on the problem you’re describing, but…
Couldn’t you just turn off the visibility and shy the layers you want to temporarily get out of the way?
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There is a free version of ProTools from Avid if you want something to let you edit the midi as well as convert it.
And there is another free midi/analog audio program that works great… But I’m away from the computer it’s on and can’t remember the name, so that last sentence was useless to you. Sorry I mentioned it.
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If the camera moves, then yes, you need to track it.
As for making it look more part of the scene, one quick thing to try is changing the blending mode. Try add or screen. You also might feather the mask on your fireball. Perfectly hard edges seldom look real. Especially on magical fireballs.
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Uh… I’m sorry, but at this point I’m not even sure what I was trying to do back in 2014. (Early onset stupidity.) I do see that nobody answered my question, though.
There is a program (that used to be free but now isn’t) called ses2sesx that converts old Audition files to the newer format. You might Google that up and a look at it. I’ve used it, but..again..long ago. I don’t recall if it will combine session files or not.
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You can put the two shapes (without strokes) into a shape layer group, then apply a stroke to the group. Animate the individual rectangles’ rotation.
Or put the shapes (without strokes) on different layers, precompose the two layers and then apply the “stroke” layer style to the precomp.
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I may not completely understand your problem, but…
What sort of layer is it? Video clips have an end. A still, shape or text layer can be dragged to the end of the Universe. And when created, the default behavior for those is that they fill the length of the composition. (This can be changed in the Preferences under “Import.”)
If you need to chop the layer down to give you an end point to start from, as stated above, typing ] will trim the layer to the current time indicator.
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If you decide to try to grind it out directly from AE, consider exporting it as an image sequence, then re-encoding that into a video file.
That way, if your computer chokes during the render, you haven’t wasted all that time. You can re-start at the frame it died on and keep going.
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You need to use the speed graph instead of the value graph.
Or, if you are like me and even after years of using After Effects still can’t get the hang of the speed graph, you could buy this: https://aescripts.com/flow/
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Are you sure you’re creating two-node cameras?