I know this thread is nearly a decade old. HOWEVER! I was just wondering the same thing today and set out to write a script that would do this.

I’ve tested it a few times in my own projects and this seems to work! The trickiest part was getting it to loop through the open comps. There’s not a built in way to do that as far as I could tell. So…

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Hey Vu Dyk,

I think you want to make that pink glow attached to the character’s hand, right? I believe tracking it with the motion tracker or animating it by hand to match the movements might be your only options really.

The motion tracker should work on that image fairly well, you might need to adjust the sizes of the inside and outside box on the…

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Hey guys I’ve been working on a lot of subtitle videos lately and just wanted to share a script i made that might save other people some time and headaches too. The way it works is that it takes an existing, stylized text layer and runs through a SRT transcript file of the video. And then it duplicates that layer to keep the style, and updates the…

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Hey guys I often get projects with shows graphics packages and I’m usually missing this Unmult effect. I have unmult from RG that I usually just replace it with. But it is annoying, does anyone happen to know where i can find this? Or is there a built in way to replace effects that i dont know about? I think it’s an older effect possibly but it…

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Hey Marc

Theres no built in method of doing this that i know of. But i have had luck in the past using the following technique, although it’ll depend a lot on your footage.

You start by generating a black and white luma matte of the scene, where the small objects are white. Usually just by Tint and then levels adjustments. Then you can try to…

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Brilliant. Filing this under something i never knew i needed!

Can you send a screenshot of your render settings? Might find the culprit there

Hey Tom

It would depend on how you’ve combined the shapes to make this effect. Sometimes you can get edge issues from alpha mattes. This article might be helpful https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/set-matte-fringes/td-p/11281932

Hey Martin can you give a little more detail about what you want to do?

When i make a solid layer and then draw a mask it normally rescales with the layer already so im not sure what you’re asking for exactly.

Glad you got it working. Shot in the dark here (sorry light pun) but I’ve had weird issues like that when i bring in a psd file that has layers with layer styles. They always cause weird issues for me when interacting in a 3d scene. The Classic 3D vs Cinema renderer can sometimes create unexpected issues too but not usually what you’ve described.

Walter you never cease to amaze! Thank you very much ill try this script

Thanks Graham, the copy and paste method is how i normally do it currently. I would use the built in guide except its a slightly different safe area for some of the networks. Some have a lot less space than others or big bug safe areas i have to avoid so that’s why i rely on their overlay. Appreciate your answer though!

Hey Guys

Wondering if there’s anyway/ plugin that lets me set a layer to always be a guide layer without the need for me to enable it in every comp. I need to use a text safe overlay in many graphics, and it’s so annoying to realise i didn’t hit the guide layer button after it renders. Normally i set it to be a guide layer in the first comp, and…

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Yes, it is possible to update a drop down menu in a main comp and have that update reflected in other linked comps. To do this, you can use an expression control effect to control the drop down menu in the main comp. This expression control effect can then be linked to the drop down menus in the other comps, so that when the drop down menu in the…

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Here is one possible way to achieve the desired effect using the linear() function and the posterizeTime() effect:

// Set the magnet radius and the minimum posterization rate 
const magnetR adius = 500; 
const minRate = 1;
// Calculate the distance of the object from the center of the effector 
const distance =…

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see if this helps too

const src = thisComp.layer(index-1);
const v = src.transform.position.velocity;
let delay;
if (time == 0) {
  // Set the position to the initial value at time 0
  [value[0], value[1], value[2]];
} else {
  // Check if the velocity is greater than or equal to 0
  if (v[2] >= 0) {
    // If the velocity is positive, check if the previous…

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Thanks for you reply Walter, I believe you’re correct about the cause. I’m not sure why it invalidates though. I don’t remember ever having this issue on older versions. I have comp name set as the default for the Output To: but I have noticed sometimes it puts the entire destination path as the name at first, and I have manually set it back to…

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I believe you understand how its working properly. The bit about it not knowing what to add that layers pixel data to because there’s nothing underneath.

Have you tried using the choke matte effect to shrink the edges of the alpha? That could be enough to get rid of the dark edges if you play around with that and maybe a blur. Try choking the…

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Hey guys long time no post, but I’m back with hopefully a simple question that’s been bugging me on some projects lately.

In one of my projects I que’d 10 comps of lower thirds to render, and selected the output module on them all, and set the output folder. All pretty standard stuff. Except for a bunch (but not all) of them it created folders in…

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Hey Tommy

It depends a lot on what type of 3d things you’re trying to rotate. That link seems to show 3 separate techniques about making 3d text. If that’s what you’re trying to do one of those techniques should work. If you’re trying to rotate a more complicated object- I don’t think AE has the capabilities to do that without buying plugins. If…

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