[Mike Schmitt]

Which Magic Bullet?
Colorista, Frames, HD or Looks?

I uninstalled them all and the errors did go away.

I reinstalled and the errors came back.

[Mike Schmitt]

Sure.
It turned out that the trouble was in the ‘draft’ settings. In the process of troubleshooting I started with the spike buster, by changing the settings and going into AE to see if it worked.

Then tried different settings on the letters themselves.

As I tried things and went back and forth from AE to Proanimator, I was moving faster and faster.

When i finally got to play with the draft settings, I would move it to the left and immediately exit to AE. What I didn’t realize was I was moving so fast that I would pull the draft controls all the way to the left and when I lifted my mouse and closed Proanimator to go back to AE, the control bar was zipping back to the original position, so I wasn’t seeing a change at all.

Once I slowed down, I noticed this happening and was able to correct the settings.

[Mike Schmitt]

By ‘don’t look as good’ I mean that when i Rotate light one or light two around the glove in PA, the object looks really cool and shiney.

In AE, I have been using the spot light. Not parallel. This may be my problem. The AE lights were making the object look like a glowing, flat, two dimensional object.

I don’t want to animate the object. I am just trying to make a gold logo that shimmers once. Maybe sparkles, but that’s asking a lot.

I’ll try parallel lights this afternoon.

[Mike Schmitt]

PROBLEM SOLVED> THANK YOU!

[Mike Schmitt]

So you’re saying to do the transition before the motion. If that’s the easiest way, it’s fine by me.

[Mike Schmitt]

Your technique did the trick!

I was able to drop all the photos into place with one drop and fit to fill.

Now I can put the dissolves in and start the tedious task of adding motion.

Thanks guys! You’ve saved me two days work.

[Mike Schmitt]

I’ve been waiting since before my son was born four years ago. Finally bought a Mac this year and Motion 3 has an emitter library.

[Mike Schmitt]

This is what I tried at first… It’s okay.

I’d love to make it sound a little better though.

[Mike Schmitt]

Hey! I fixed my problem. My RAM preview was broken and wouldn’t work at all. I uninstalled Nucleo, but at the same time I did this because it is more likely caused by a corrupt Mediacore Cache.

Try these two things and let me know what happens:

1: Purge cache, exit After Effects.

2: Go to you CACHE Folder on the hard drive and DELETE it.

3: Create a new Chache folder. (I named mine “Cache Fix”)

4: Open After Effects and go to Edit/Preferences/Memory and Cache. Choose a new folder (your new cache folder).

5: Exit After Effects. Your fix should be complete.

[Mike Schmitt]

…Too late.