Michael Szalapski
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Could we please see some screenshots to demonstrate the issue?
Also, have you tried the Labels script from AEScripts.com? It makes the process of re-coloring layers and project panel objects much easier (and you can change the color schemes you’re using too!
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If you have individual elements, you can use something like this: https://motionscript.com/design-guide/elastic.html or this: https://motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html to animate the first one moving up and down and then the rest will move in reaction to it.
Otherwise, there’s going to be some distortion. However, it might be acceptable. You can use the Reshape effect, Bezier Warp, or (probably the best option) a third party effect called BAO Boa.
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You might have transform options inside your shape layer that you could tweak with that would help.
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It’s hard to beat Puget Systems’ website for getting hardware advice! They’ve got several pages of stuff for After Effects alone. I would recommend starting here: https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-After-Effects-144/Hardware-Recommendations
They compare a LOT of different CPUs – including Threadripper – with similar other specs to really see what is best in AE.– The Great Szalam
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What version of Premiere Pro?
What version of After Effects?– The Great Szalam
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Couple of things I’d like to point out here.
The bug report form at Adobe’s web site here [link], if you fill it out correctly, goes directly to a member of the After Effects team. They aren’t likely to respond, but I can assure you that a member of the AE team will read it and will file it appropriately. (I’ve met the person whose job this is and they are very nice, so please don’t swear too much.)
As to performance, here are a different kinds of performance in software. In After Effects specifically, there are a couple of big ones: interaction and rendering. They require very different work.
In CC 2015, the AE team was working on making interaction with After Effects faster, not rendering. Now, there were a lot of bugs when it first released and it took them a couple of years to get those worked out! But now, in the current version, working with After Effects is much faster as far as the interface goes. The reason for this is because After Effects is actually multithreaded now (which it wasn’t before). The renderer and the UI run in different processor threads. This is a big deal. A while ago, I jumped back into an old (pre CC version of AE) and was struck by how much slower it was to work with. It felt very clunky compared to CC 2017 and CC 2018.
The problem is that separating the UI from the renderer doesn’t really speed the rendering up. It does, however, provide a foundation to build on to make it better in the future (theoretically). Now you can, for example, start GPU-accelerating various effects. I use Fractal Noise on every project and it is noticeably faster to use now – even on my crappy/old GPU!
Some of the newer things in AE are multithreaded now too (like the Camera Shake Deblur effect and the Cinema 4D renderer).
In a way, I’m glad the old render multiple frame simultaneously is gone because it was pretty buggy. You could get some ridiculous flickering with it. Also, the wrong expression or certain effects would be incompatible with it and it’d just revert to single core rendering a lot anyway. So, in many cases, and with many projects I’ve had, the new versions actually render faster.
HOWEVER, there are still a lot of cases where the older version with RMFS is faster.I know the AE team is working on making things faster. From what I’ve gathered, performance is the highest thing on their priority list. Still, every chance I get, I let them know that we just want things quicker. I know that something as fundamental as the rendering engine isn’t going to be redone overnight, but…I want faster to be here faster!
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Lens flares shouldn’t be applied to adjustment layers. They should be on black solids with the layer’s blending mode set to screen or add.
Anyway, you should precompose your vector layers and then use that precomp as a Track Matte for your lens flare layer or use the Set Matte effect on the lens flare layer and point it to the vector layer precomp.
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It sounds like Dave is being facetious, but it’s good advice. It might look better faster, it might look better slower. You’ll just have to experiment to see.
Turning motion blur on for your layer and composition might solve it without you having to do anything, by the way.
It also wouldn’t hurt for you to look into judder.
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It’s an unintentional change/bug in the new typeface interface.
You may notice that there are a LOT of changes to the font box. You can actually preview the fonts in the font list, you can set favorite fonts, and a BUNCH of other enhancements. Downside though, is that arrow keying through the fonts no longer works (I think you can scroll through with your mouse scroll wheel though, but I’m not at my CC 2018 machine to check).
The After Effects team at Adobe is aware of the issue, but it wouldn’t hurt to file another bug report to bump the priority of this issue.I would also suggest going into your preferences and making the size of the font preview larger. At least get some use out of the new interface!
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I like this gradient idea, but instead of trying to mess with the gradient itself, would using Colorama to colorize it (with interpolate colors turned off) make things a lot easier?
Like many things in AE though, there are several ways to do it.
If the gradient thing isn’t cutting it for you, you could also put as many strokes on there as you want and use trim paths to place them.– The Great Szalam
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