[Mike Sevigny]

I believe this was replaced with the use of “Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue”.
If you send your renders to AME, you can continue to use AE and keep adding to the queue as you work.

Mike

[Mike Sevigny]

You can just use the standard pickwhip from the scale to the opacity

You can then look at the resulting expression under the scale

Mike

[Mike Sevigny]

Even better, here’s a great video by CreatorUp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qz8WFfZTKM

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[Mike Sevigny]

Encoding H.264s at a resolution of 4096×4096 on PC/Windows

Step #1
Export your video in a highres codec. On macOS you can make an Apple Prores and on PC I would recommend an image sequence like PNG or JPG (depending on the quality of the original image). Export the audio as a separate file if you’re using an image sequence.

Step #2
On the PC side, download the latest version of VirtualDub 2 and launch the application. It comes with a couple of executables in the zip file, use VirtualDub64.exe if you’re on Windows 64bit.

VirtualDub is a free video processing utility for Windows
Download Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdfiltermod/files/VirtualDub%20pack/version%2019/

Step #3
Open the media in VirtualDub by clicking on File > Open video file..
Note: If you did not render an image sequence in Step #1, skip to Step #6

Step #4
Adjust the framerate by clicking on Video > Frame Rate. By default the FPS is set to 10 for image sequences. This default value can be changed in the preferences so you don’t have to change it every time.

Step #5
You will need to insert the audio by clicking on Audio > Audio from other file… and selecting the audio file you exported in Step #1.

Step #6
A) Click on File > Save as…
In the ‘Save as’ pop-up select ‘.mp4’ from the ‘Save as type’ dropdown menu and then click on the ‘Change’ button.

B) In the pop-up window, select ‘x264 8bit – H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec’ and click on ‘Configure’ to configure the h264 compression

C) In the new pop-up window under ‘Rate Control’, select ‘Single pass – bitrate based (ABR)’ and set the average bitrate as desired.

Step #7
Click ‘OK’ on both windows. Change the audio settings to what you need and click the ‘Save’ button

Check your final output for artifacting and tweak the output settings as you see fit.
Hope this helps.

Mike Sevigny
CTO – Torus Media Labs
https://www.torusmedialabs.com

[Mike Sevigny]

Hey Steve,
are you on mac or pc?

Mike Sevigny
https://www.torusmedialabs.com

[Mike Sevigny]

Hey Tolu,
This is actually a common problem in 360 and is based on several factors.
I explain what’s happening and how to fix it in this tutorial [@ 36:52]:
https://vimeo.com/222523621
Hope this helps

Mike Sevigny
CTO – Torus Media Labs
https://www.torusmedialabs.com/

[Mike Sevigny]

I think the wiggle() expression is what you’re looking for.

Expressions can be overwhelming at first but it’s worth it the moment you can wheeled their power
Spend some time on Dan Ebberts’ website (https://www.motionscript.com/) and check out some of the COW expression video tutorials.
The pros on this forum are quick to help, post your questions as you go.

Mike Sevigny
https://www.torusmedialabs.com

[Mike Sevigny]

You’re right, for some reason it’s not recognizing the Item’s parentFolder. I changed a few things around so that it uses the folder you’ve selected intead of trying to find it by name. I commented the script to give you an idea of what’s going on at each step.
Give this a try:
sourceFolder = app.project.activeItem; // Collect the currently selected Folder
customScale = [150, 150]; // Custom Scale

if (sourceFolder instanceof FolderItem) { // If the selected Item is a Folder
targetComps = new Array(); // Create blank Array to store the Compositions
for (e= 1;e<=sourceFolder.numItems; e++) { // Cycle through the Folder Items
if (sourceFolder.item(e) instanceof CompItem){ // If the Folder Item is a Composition
targetComps[targetComps.length] = sourceFolder.item(e); // Collect the Item into the Array
}
}
// Duplicate the Compositions
newFolder = app.project.items.addFolder('dupComps'); // Create a new Folder for the duplicate comps
for (a=0;a<=targetComps.length-1;a++){ // Cycle through the collected Project Items
thisCompDup = targetComps[a].duplicate(); // Duplicate this Composition
thisCompDup.name = targetComps[a].name + '-dup'; // Rename the duplicate
thisCompDup.parentFolder = newFolder; // Place the duplicate composition in the new Folder
thisCompDup.layer(1).transform.scale.setValue(customScale); // Change the scale of the first layer in the duplicate composition
}
}else{ // If the selected Item is not a Folder, throw error.
alert('You must select a folder to be processed')
}
Before running it:

After running it:

Hope this helps,
Mike Sevigny
https://www.torusmedialabs.com

[Mike Sevigny]

Here’s a script that will duplicate the compositions in the folder, resize the layers to 150% and place the new comps in a new folder. Check the ‘settings’ at the top of the code to set your custom folder name and custom size.

// Settings
folderName = 'myFolder'; // Folder with |Original Compositions
customScale = [150, 150]; // Custom Scale

// Find target Compositions
targetComps = new Array();
for (e= 1;e<= app.project.numItems; e++) {
if (app.project.item(e) instanceof CompItem){
if (app.project.item(e).parentFolder.name = folderName) {
targetComps[targetComps.length] = app.project.item(e);
}
}
}

// Duplicate the Compositions
newFolder = app.project.items.addFolder('dupComps');
for (a=0;a<=targetComps.length-1;a++){
thisCompDup = targetComps[a].duplicate();
thisCompDup.name = targetComps[a].name + '-dup';
thisCompDup.parentFolder = newFolder;
thisCompDup.layer(1).transform.scale.setValue(customScale);
}


Hope this helps,
Mike Sevigny
https://www.torusmedialabs.com

[Mike Sevigny]

Hey Gabe,
You’ll want to look into Mocha. It will allow you to track the logos (with perspective) and import masks/tracking data into After Effects. Mocha should also do a good job at tracking the logos as they leave/enter the frame.

Some Mocha Tutorials:
How to replace a logo with mocha Pro: https://www.vimeo.com/93455754
Mocha Pro Tutorial: How to Remove Objects and Logos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVSMOPUmhd4
Mocha is definitely the method you should be using but IF it doesn’t work: The other option is to use AE’s Camera Tracker to track the shot then create 3D Mattes to mask the logos (more complex).

Mike Sevigny
https://www.torusmedialabs.com

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