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Kevin Olmsted
May 22, 2019 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Issues Keyframing The “Time*” Expression

That worked! Thanks so much, Dan!
Kevin Olmsted
September 29, 2018 at 8:50 pm in reply to: Duplicating a group of Comps & PreComps

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been referred to aescripts.com on more than one occasion for various things, but have never pulled the trigger on anything. Might have to soon.
Kevin Olmsted
September 29, 2018 at 8:48 pm in reply to: Duplicating a group of Comps & PreComps

Thanks so much! I’m at a Nexstar station, but the short comps and seemingly unnecessary pre-comping is something I run into quite a bit. I prefer to keep things tighter and efficient when using precomps, and I like animations with plenty of pad for flexibility… but different strokes for different folks. Appreciate the help!
Kevin Olmsted
June 8, 2016 at 4:28 pm in reply to: I’ve Lost My Keyframes And They Won’t Show Up

Thanks for that… I’d tried that one as well.

I actually just found the answer, strange that I’ve never come across this in 10+ years of AE use…

I had three looping movie clips and I was animating them across the screen. To create an illusion of randomness (they were all rotating the same direction in their loop) I reversed the rotation of one with a -100% time-stretch. That one was the first clip I was trying to animate.

I gave up for the moment on seeing keyframes on that one and moved on to the next of the looping movie layers and lo and behold, I see keyframes! I go on a hunch and precompose the -100% time-stretched clip. I animate the pre-comped clip and yup, there is a visible motion path and keyframes.

So, I suppose experienced AE users probably knew this, but for some reason you can’t see motion paths or keyframes on time-stretched clips? I gotta say that’s kind of lame.
Kevin Olmsted
April 8, 2015 at 11:55 pm in reply to: layers not changing or responding in composition

Good point, but unfortunately for me right now, a moot one. New hardware is arriving within a month or so, but until then I need to rectify the problem using other means. Any suggestions?
Kevin Olmsted
February 14, 2014 at 2:44 am in reply to: random text letter position

George, Thank you! That worked perfectly!
Kevin Olmsted
December 18, 2012 at 7:23 pm in reply to: Motion Tile and ‘time’ on one axis

That did the trick! Thanks so much!
Kevin Olmsted
March 26, 2008 at 2:44 pm in reply to: wiggle effect on only one axis of movement…

Thanks so much! That link should prove useful for lots of my expressions learning…

Kev
Kevin Olmsted
August 3, 2007 at 11:31 am in reply to: mirrored expressions values?

Thanks guys, for the help and the recommendations!

The advice you gave worked perfectly (I needed to add the 180 to my expression.

I will be heading to the links shortly! Again, thanks!

I learn something new in AE every day.

Kevin