Ill try splitting the footage to shorter lengths, thanks!

on long tracking the track markers disappear while the camera solve is updating

Works perfectly, and learned something new

Thanks Filip!

Hi to all!

A weird issue try to use text layer size along with data from an outer CSV source- trying to get both changes bet only one is shown according to the order of this example code:

text.sourceText.text="custom data from CSV";
text.sourceText.style.setFont("Custom Font-Regular");

In this order the font changes but not the…

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The LookAt expression is exactly what you need

Hi!

If I understand correctly your issue is to show only one language at a time- so I suggest a different approach:

Use dropdown menu (expression control) that contains the languages and using the sourceText of the text layer with a switch/case expression to select the correct text content according to the dropdown selection.

This way you will only…

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There are a few different tools that can achieve Network Rendering with After Effects such as Render Brain:

Render Brain

You need to take to consideration that network renders usually use network (mapped) drives, so all of the machines use the same files

Hi Soren

Let’s say tmpArr is your array, so you can loop through it and find the biggest one:

var biggestNum = tmpArr[0];
for(var i = 1;i < tmpArr.length;i++){
    if(biggestNum < tmpArr[i]){biggestNum = tmpArr[i]}
}

Cheers!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

View-> Hide Layer Controls

or

Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+H

Hi to all!

I’m coding some servers for After Effects and I encountered a problem.

On windows machines everything goes smooth but I’m having some trouble using the same code on a mac machines.

I narrowed down the issue to the socket listen() function

Here is a small part of a code that returns “true” on a PC but somehow returns “false” on a Mac:

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Hi!

I’m coding some servers for After Effects and I encountered a problem.

On windows os everything goes smooth but I’m having some trouble using the same code on a mac.

I narrowed down the issue to the socket listen() function

Here is a small part of a code that returns “true” on a PC but returns “false” on a Mac:

conn = new Socket();
alert…

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Hi Eric

Walter’s advice using Essential graphics is great, and will work in most scenarios.

If you bump into trouble you can always use True Layer Duplicator to duplicate precomp hierarchy

To create increments of a number you can add the expression:

value-(value%5)// subtracts the remainder of five from the number

It can be placed on a slider that drives the numbers or on the Number value of Counter Preset

Cheers

You can create the animation in a standard way like opening a map with a round mask, and place the CC ball action effect to make it look like in the video

Hi Nathan

You can replace all fonts in an After Effects project with FontMate

(and a lot more)

FontMate

Hi Marc

There is a new and friendly alternative to change all fonts in a project (and a lot more)-

FontMate

FontMate

Cheers

Yep!

You can use FontMate script to change all the fonts or a specific font in the After Effects project:

FontMate

If you wish to skip the Expressions and you have few buck to spare you can always use Counter Preset

Cheers!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

There is a new Script to do this, just as True Comp Duplicator but straight from the timeline:
True Layer Duplicator, It’s 100% Free and you just need to select a layer, press Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+D to duplicate a layer and its inner hierarchy.
Cheers!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

You can create odometer animation with Analog Counter preset in the link below:
https://www.vdodna.com/products/analog-counter/

Cheers

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Nick
Expression Based counters have their flaws, but they they are easy to create and animate (until you tackle something like this).
If using the paragraph alignment don’t resolve this I recommend using our Counter Preset to solve the alignment issue.

Best Regrads

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Chris
Dan certainly cracked the way to create counters with expressions.
For all of those who don’t feel comfortable or experienced enough with expressions, or just want to save some time, there are really nice tools to create counters in After Effects.
One of them is Counter Preset which was create in the past year, that can create all… Read more

there is a different approach to solve this by Linking the Source Text value to a Slider/Point Control and animating them.
Counter Preset is based on that solution so you can create any Counter and running numbers animation, with keyframes. I hope you will find it useful. you can get it… Read more

If you wish to skip the expression method, you can also use Counter Preset to create any Counter and running numbers animation, with all kinds of Dividers (, . ‘ etc.). I hope you will find it useful. you can get it here:
https://www.vdodna.com/products/counter-preset/

Cheers!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

You can also use Counter Preset to create any Counter and running numbers animation, with any kind of symbol or character (%,$ etc.). I hope you will find it useful. you can get it here:
https://www.vdodna.com/products/counter-preset/

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

You can also create and animate Curved arrows with ArrowHead script:
https://www.vdodna.com/products/arrowhead/

Cheers!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Ilya
I think this tutorial will help understanding the expression behind what you seek:

https://www.vdodna.com/tutorials/3-digital-clock/

cheers

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Ricky
You have a lot of options to create a counter animation in After Effects:
1. The native text->Numbers effect.
2. Connecting the source text property to a slider which drives the number animation (using Math.round() will help)
3. Counter Preset for after effects to save all the hassle and limitations of other methods.

It seems that you… Read more

Hi Clive
Your technique resembles a tutorial i’ve recorded a while ago, on a digital clock/timer.

I believe the issue you are describing in the technique is caused by the high frame rate and the value interpolation of time remap, but it can be solved easily with these steps:
1. Open the digits comp.
2. Create an adjustment layer and place it… Read more

Hi Ronaldo
I believe most of the shots in the example are dispersed 3d layers with camera movement.
For the floor layers I recommend using “Corner Pin” effect as shown in this Tutorial:

Cheers!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Paul
Try changing the “Cinema 4D” Engine to “Classic 3D” by pressing the render engine button circled in the screen-cap.

The C4D is a great engine for extrusions in AE but it does not support masks (yet…)

Cheers!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Shawn
Try to select one point and only then drag select the points you need.
This way AE will understand that you are point selecting and not moving the shape.

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Melbrin
If the Photoshop file contains layers but you can’t import them to After Effects, usually it’s because the Photoshop file is in CMYK color mode.
Change it to RGB and try to import it again.

This can also happen when trying to import multiple Photoshop files at once with drag and drop, so just import them through the proper… Read more

Hi Ranveer
Try our VA Precomp Time script, it’s free and does the job well.

Best Regards

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Vlajko
You can recreate this blur by creating a masked solid, duplicating the mask and changing the bottom mask’s mode to subtract and playing with it’s expansion and feather properties as seen in the attached photo.

Best Regards

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Reed

What you ask is pretty simple to do, copying the path data an pasting it to the position of the Electron layer.
But since this is with shape layers there are few things to check before copying and pasting:

1. Vector data must be copied from a bezier path so if you didn’t create the Oval shape with the Pen tool you’d probably need to… Read more

If I remember correctly adding wiggles on the same value create a mess.
but you have a few things you can do instead (without creating additional nulls):

1. Create three additional Slider Controls on the layer, wiggle them, and add the result to the existing expression instead of the last line of code:
[xSpread[0]+SliderX, ySpread[1]+SliderY,… Read more

Glad I could Help!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

Hi Noel
I believe that a simple wiggle() expression could solve this, assuming the layers are 3D.
Since the Amplitude value you enter is relative to the original 3D position of the layers they will disperse in a sphere which the Amplitude value is actually the sphere’s radius.

spreadRadius = thisComp.layer("Control").effect("Spread… Read more

Hi Yoshiko
Instead of copy / paste, Duplicate the original layer, containing the groups.
After that you can delete the relevant groups from both layers (group 1 in the duplicated layer and group 2-4 in the original layer, for example).
This way you’ll have one copy of each group divided in two layers, and without the need to reposition.

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Hi Nate
you can use the AE’s Optics Compensation effect to remove the distortions, and the cool thing is that after you incorporate your graphics/cg elements you can reverse the distortion using another copy of the effect on top of everything (or on top of your precomposed result), using the same effect values but the opposite selection for the “R… Read more

You can use ArrowHead script, it enables you to create and animate multiple arrows at a time.
For the record, I am the Developer of ArrowHead.
Cheers!

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

Hi Georgie

Just put the Grow Bounds effect, before the CC Radial Fast Blur in the effects Stack as you can see in the picture below.

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

Hi Senior
I like the gesture!

You can easily round the numbers using the built-in JS Math in AE:
round-rounds the number. 2.5->3
ceil– rounds to the closest number from the “top”. 2.5 -> 3
floor– rounds to the closest number from the “Bottom”. 2.5->2

change the last line of code to something like… Read more

Hi Senior
I believe the error is because the TC is a layer and not a text animator on the Text Layer.
To make things easy here is a CS6 project file that shows the implementation of the code:

11512_counter.aep.zip

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

Hi Senior

In algorithm I meant that it’s a general Idea to solve the problem.
But you can utilize it like this(just name the relevant layers):

startValue=thisComp.layer("textLayerName").text.animator("AnimatorName").selector("Range Selector 1").start;
Text=thisComp.layer("textLayerName").text.sourceText;
Text.length*startValue/100;

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Hi Senior
Sure thing!
I believe multiplying the length with the value of the range selector will give exactly that. (I assume you are using the Range Selector’s Start/End)

The algorithm (as oppose to code) should be something like this:

Text.length*startValue/100

I hope this is clear enough and to the “point”.

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

Hi Jenna

The issue you’re describing looks like your puppet mesh does not include the exterior portion of that image when you use the Mask expansion.
If I understand correctly increasing the Puppet Expansion value will solve this quickly.
You can change it from the toolbar when the Puppet tool and the layer is selected, or directly from the layer… Read more

Hi Senior
If you connect the to the layer’s Source Text you can use the “length” property which counts the number of letters you have in the Source Text of the text layer.
It should look something like this:

thisComp.layer("TextLayer").text.sourceText.length

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com