Michael Szalapski
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Or, if you really want to scale instead, try the Keyframe Assistant Exponential Scale feature. See here [link]. I believe you can use this with the Detail Preserving Upscale effect too.
– The Great Szalam
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Apply the echo effect on an adjustment layer.
– The Great Szalam
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Do you have animation happening in the precomp? Don’t. Precomp the shape. Apply puppet to the precomp. Then animate psr rotation after that.
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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It looks like you’re choosing a really bad intermediate file. Use ProRes, Cineform, or DNxHD. The intermediate format you’re using is an outdated codec and way, way too tiny if your client is going to want HD or 4k when you return it to them.
As far as tracking goes, have you considered using Mocha AE? It comes included with After Effects and could be a bit faster.
King Pin tracker from Red Giant, if you have access to their software is really fast. You could easily use that. (I think they still have the sale for half off of Red Giant Complete, but today’s the last day this code works RGC50 )
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Can you not just buy that template?
What it’s doing is using a prerendered video of the water and splash and putting the logo in behind it.
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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As far as putting specific renders in specific folder structures, render tokens are the answer.
See this article for an easy-to-digest rundown of it: https://medium.com/@justin.gundlock/use-ae-render-tokens-to-automatically-set-file-names-and-paths-a437f4749e79As far as making the thumbnail goes, you might be able to make a default output module that does both your regular encode and a still image, but I haven’t tried that. You can certainly have output modules that have multiple outputs from one render simultaneously, so (at the very least) you could have it do an image sequence AND a video.
As far as making an MP4 goes, no – you can’t do that directly from AE. The easiest solution would be to get After Codecs from aescripts + aeplugins. It basically hooks into ffmpeg inside AE and is very handy.
Alternatively, you can render out an intermediate codec from AE (like ProRes, Cineform, or DNxHD [I can’t remember if CC 2018 can do ProRes on Windows, but the newer versions can]) and then use Adobe Media Encoder to do the encoding of the deliverable. You can set up watch folders with AME so that anytime you render your intermediate file out of AE, AME automatically makes the MP4 for you at whatever specifications your stipulate. You can do that over a network with a second machine or have it do it in the background on your machine if it’s the only one you have.– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Look at the website for Puget Systems. They do a LOT of testing of various components with actual usage with professional software including AE. They’ve got a lot of good writing on what makes your AE faster and what doesn’t.
More RAM likely won’t make AE faster. It’ll make you able to hold longer previews in green though.
Talking about making things faster in AE is very complicated. Sometimes the bottleneck isn’t the CPU or RAM at all and it’s file transfer speed. Or maybe it’s caught up with decoding a heavily compressed codec before it can even do your effects.
As far as actual image processing goes, the core speed of your CPU matters most. Some things like Camera Shake Deblur, some of the grain effects, Wave Warp, etc. are multithreaded for rendering, but not everything is at the moment. A lot of effects are GPU-accelerated now, so if you use more of them (and you have a decent AMD or NVIDIA GPU), you’ll notice things being much faster than if you make the computer move frames back and forth between the CPU and GPU while rendering.
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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You can’t change the actual layer source with expressions, but you can drive time remapping of precomps very easily. So, if you have all of your images in a precomp, you can time remap that precomp based on an expression slider, a drop down, or whatever to show any image you want.
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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If you have both of the hard drives mapped to the same drive letter, it could work. I’d say give it a try.
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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It might work or it might not – depending on the font and the client requirements. But, if you look at my response, it was one of the things I suggested (last paragraph before the sig line).
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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