[Matt Griffey]

Certainly ideal to work that way…unfortunately, I don’t have that option. Or rather I would have to copy 30 GBs of frames over to my local drive every time they rendered. So it’s an option just not a practical one.

[Matt Griffey]

Forgot to include the last bit on auto reloading

“Choose ‘Non-Sequence Footage’ (default value) if you want all footage to load, except image sequences.
Choose ‘All Footage Types’ if you also want image sequences to automatically load when changed.”

So in my case I guess I want to turn it on Non-Sequence Footage…I’ll give it a shot later today and see if it works

[Matt Griffey]

Hey Dave,

Thanks for the reply. I am using CC 2014. I think I may have figured it out.

So for years, After effects auto reloads your footage if it has been updated (you stomp over a piece of footage and AE sees that and reloads without a prompt). For the last few iterations it has an auto loading feature where if your sequence of frames or footage is being added upon (more frames in the sequence show up) AE will continue to find and load that sequence without a manual reload footage click in your bin. Its kind of handy except when you are dealing with lots of 32 bit EXRs or some other large file sequence and it will bog things down as it is constantly searching for and loading any new footage.

I dont have AE on this computer but it looks like the option to turn it off can be found here:

“Go to After Effects > Preferences > Previews… (for Macs) or Edit > Preferences > Previews… (for PCs).

Import…

Under Automatic Footage Reloading, you will find a drop down for Auto Reload. The manual completely fails to tell us how to use this setting. You have two choices, both of which are valid. If you are working in Premiere Pro, Encore, Photoshop, etc., simultaneously, and want to make changes to the footage itself, it will automatically reload and appear in After Effects.”

[Matt Griffey]

Right…my wording might have been weird there. You can choose any color for the drop shadow. I was just saying they might just be using a black color overlay for the main silhouette and adding in some outer glow type effect or something to get the edges to appear like that.

[Matt Griffey]

Also looks like it has a bit of a chromatic aberration or something to it.

[Matt Griffey]

I could be wrong but to me it looks like it could be done with simple layer styles. They just have a black color overlay of her main dancing footage. The pink could just be a drop shadow actually set to a certain distance, given a pink color and a certain opacity. The main shadow has a bit of an edge glow/blur softness that could be achieved a number of ways. But I would just start with layer styles and work from there