[Hector Vera]

Thats good to hear that your settings was good enough for you to be able to do your project. And what do you mean by “No preview”, your preview on Sony Vegas is like showing blank or black screen and cannot see whats going on? If that happening to your current old computer that you are using now or the new one you were building?

[Hector Vera]

I found something related to this that may be able to help you in this situation. And you are correct that the amptitude of the sine waves at the center would certainly be lowered than compared to the amptitude at the Edges. Follow these steps to see if it can help you with this project:

Here are the steps:

1. Create a new composition with a black background and add a new solid layer.
2. Apply the Turbulent Noise Effect to the solid layer and adjust the settings as desired.
3. Use the Wiggle Expression to add movement to the turbulence. Here is an example expression:

wiggle(5, 30)

This expression adds jitter to the movement of the turbulence. You can adjust the values to change the amount and speed of the jitter.

4. Apply the Echo Effect to the layer and adjust the settings as desired. This will add a glow effect to the turbulence.
5. Apply the Transform Effect to the layer. You can use this effect to adjust the position of the turbulence in X axis.
6. Add a Slider Control to the Composition panel.
7. Select the Transform effect on the layer and click on the stopwatch icon to add the expression. Use the following expression:

value + (3 * (pickwhipping_range))

This expression will add the value of the slider control to the original position of the turbulence. The value “3” is a random value used as a multiplier. You can adjust it to control the speed of the movement.

8. Add a new Null object to the composition and name it “pickwhipping_range”.
9. Select the Null object and click on the pick whip tool (it looks like a double-ended arrow).
10. Hold down the Alt key (or Option key on a Mac), click on the position property of the transform effect on the layer, and drag it to the pick whip button on the Null object.
11. The position property of the transform effect on the layer is now pick-whipped to the pick whipping range on the Null object.
12. You can now animate the position property of the Null object along the X axis to control the position of the turbulence.

Hopefully these will help you, if any questions, you can let me know just incase!

[Hector Vera]

Would like to know exactly where its giving you that bug when you made the shape size. If the bug came from the size of the image, what is it that you wish to accomplish compared to whats going on here? I can see the image of a half circle but seems like you are trying to make a full circle perhaps? Not sure but more context on the issue and how you wish to fix it can be quite helpful.

[Hector Vera]

I used to render everyone of my Sony Vegas videos to WMV format as well for that very reason, it consumes a lot less space on your computer compared to MP4 or MOV from my knowledge. WMV format is what I used on older computers I used to have for editing videos in Sony Vegas back in the day. I used to render these WMV files to 480p instead of 720p back then. And at least your computer has 6GB of RAM, I used to render Vegas videos with even less RAM than that so it should work on your end for 720p. At least its decent for the old computer you have to use for now. What happened to your other computer that broke if I may ask?

[Hector Vera]

Try these following steps to see if this will help and best of luck:

1. In Adobe After Effects, go to “Edit” menu > “Preferences” > “Audio Hardware”.
2. Under “Device Class”, find and select the device that corresponds to your audio hardware (likely a USB audio interface or a sound card installed in your computer).
3. If the “Digital Out to Optical (S/PDIF)” option is checked, uncheck it. If it is already unchecked, skip this step.
4. Click “OK” to close the preferences window.

After you have done these steps, try again to preview your comp and see if the audio is able to play correctly. Let me know if it helped or have any further questions.

[Hector Vera]

Yeah the error messages I am seeing there is kind of vague so I would suggest you do the following that can help:

1. Restart After Effects and your computer. Sometimes a simple restart can fix issues caused by temporary errors or conflicts.
2. Update the plug-in to the latest version. The Roto Brush and Refine Edge plugins are part of Adobe After Effects, so make sure that you have the latest version of the software installed.
3. Disable the plugins. If you’re still having trouble, try disabling the plugins by going to the “Edit” menu and selecting “Preferences”. Find the “Plug-ins” panel and uncheck the boxes next to the Roto Brush and Refine Edge plugins. Now try to open your project.
4. Reinstall After Effects. If none of the above solutions work, you may need to reinstall After Effects. Be sure to back up your project and settings before doing so.
5. Contact Adobe Support. If you’re still having trouble, you may need to contact Adobe Support for further assistance. They may be able to help you determine the exact cause of the issue and provide you with a solution.

Hopefully these suggestions can help and if anything else comes up, feel free to ask to see if I can help there too 🙂

[Hector Vera]

Did you also made sure that all those files about your character are in the exact same directory as they were when you first started making this projects? Because when you open a project, its going to search for the exact directory you got the item from, otherwise you will have to find the same file from wherever you have it now. When it happens with me in Sony Vegas for example and its unable to locate a file I used, it gives me the opportunity to search for the file manually so I can recover it. Hopefully you are able to do the same even if it has to be one by one. Best of luck there!

[Hector Vera]

No worries, its not AI generated, I was looking up information online to research which answer can be more or less close enough to a resolution. And we hope its able to help the person we helped look for additional info. The link I gave you is from a community post in an Adobe website.

[Hector Vera]

It looks like to me that its a missing file in that directory where its pointing out. Did you remembered at any point if you accidently deleted an important file within like the Adobe folder? Or misplaced a file to another place? I think also using Windows Event Log can give you more information on what caused this error from Adobe After Effects. If it continues, you may have to uninstall and reinstall AE while keeping the .aep files in tact so when you reinstall it, perhaps all the files required to run AE will all be there for you to use. You should get access to your project file afterwards. I hope it helps! 🙂

[Hector Vera]

Same here, I found nothing at all. I would imagine perhaps when you tried to look up .height for Adobe After effects, the AI may have suggested “health” by mistakes since both of them sounds quite similiar to each other to be honest. I hope it helps.

If height is what you are looking for, here is the link: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/how-to-get-comp-height-and-width/td-p/6976655

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