[Michael Szalapski]

It does let you adjust the size of the rings over time. Under stroke, mess with the Start Width and End Width.
See this project file: 11521_radiocopycc12.aep.zip

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[Michael Szalapski]

Haha! I’m glad it helped. ☺
Pronunciation varies. My family pronounces it one way (zuh-lap-ski) – probably due to the processes at Ellis Island when my great grandfather immigrated from Poland (he actually stowed away on a ship, but that’s another story). And then there is the Polish pronunciation which is more like Shuh-lop-ski. But I would recommend against giving anyone that name as a first name OR a surname regardless of how you pronounce it!

Please file a bug report here: https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html
Give as much information as you can about the problems you were experiencing and the solution. Adobe has fixed a number of causes of this, but they (obviously) haven’t fixed all of them yet.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I mean dock a panel (any panel) underneath your timeline panel. In a number of cases this has fixed the problem.

If that doesn’t do it, try turning off the “Hardware Accelerate…Panels” option in the preferences.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Speaking of testing, Puget Systems have some really good resources for what works best in various software packages. And they have done a LOT of testing!
Here is a testing of various processors (including Ryzen and the latest Intel chips): https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/After-Effects-CC-2017-2-CPU-Comparison-Skylake-X-Kaby-Lake-X-Broadwell-E-Skylake-Ryzen-7-977/ and here is their page discussing the best components for working with After Effects: https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-After-Effects-144/Hardware-Recommendations

(By the way, if those links are truncated in the email, come to the forum and click on them. The COW doesn’t handle links in posts very well…)

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[Michael Szalapski]

H.265 is becoming more supported. Especially good for 4K content.

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[Michael Szalapski]

It’s probably to do with the higher resolution screen. There have been some issues with that…
What, exact, version number of AE are you using? Is it 14.2.1? If not, consider updating.
If you are running 14.2.1, try docking something like the progress panel or render queue underneath your timeline panel. See if that helps.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I would consider Walter more respected than I!

I would suggest having 4GB of RAM for every core of your processor if you’re using CC 2014’s multiprocessing (which you can do, by the way – just Save As version 13 and you can open it in CC 2014 – if you don’t have CC 2014, you can install it alongside CC 2017 without issues. See this page [link]) or if you’re using the BG Renderer add-on.

RAM is very cheap these days. Unless you’ve got a laptop or one of those weird all-in-one things, it’s relatively easy to put it in by yourself too.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Or you could use the Vegas Effect after you Rotoscope and have it based off of the image’s alpha. (You’d need to mess with the settings so it’s one, solid line instead of a bunch of soft lines.)

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[Michael Szalapski]

Technically, it’ll never have multiprocessing again.
That feature was quite buggy and was kind of a hack to get old AE to handle newer hardware. The AE team is in the middle of a re-write of AE’s architecture. The problem is, the new architecture is incompatible with the old multiprocessing (which wasn’t multithreaded at all in the true sense of the word, it just spun up a bunch of instances of AE in the background).

With CC 2015, for the first time in AE’s 20+ year history, the renderer and the UI were separated on to different render threads. This means AE is now truly a multithreaded app and interactivity is much, much quicker. There were, however, a LOT of unforeseen bugs when it was first introduced which slowed AE’s development down as they had to fix all of those bugs.

The AE team has said that they intend to bring a new, better, faster rendering system to AE. We have seen some of it in the GPU-acceleration of native effects in the past couple of releases, but they’re nowhere near done with it yet.

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[Michael Szalapski]

How accurate to the shape of this person does the stroke need to be? Can it be kind of scribbley or does it need to follow exactly?

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