[Hector Vera]

Seems to me that you are trying to use a camera layer in After Effects to create a 3D Path that a plane layer can follow, am I correct? If so, here is one possible approach you can try by implementing these following steps:

1. Create a camera layer in After Effects and set its position to the center of the path you want to follow.
2. Add a plane layer and move it to the center of the path.
3. Animate the plane layer’s “X” and “Z” properties to follow the path.
4. Add a “Stroke” effect to the plane layer and set it to the desired look and width of the stroke.
5. To create the dotted line look, you can add an “Effect Controls” layer above the plane layer and use an “Echo” effect on it. Set the “Echo” effect to repeat the last X frames (e.g. if the frame rate is 24 fps, set the number of echoes to 2). Adjust the duration of the echo so that it produces the desired number of dots.
6. Set the X and Z properties of the camera layer to match the keyframes of the “X” and “Z” properties of the plain layer, respectively. This will make the camera follow the plane layer along the path you’ve created.

Hopefully this can be of help to you, any additional questions, you can let me know and I will see what I can do!

[Hector Vera]

Yeah, there has been several people who encountered this issue before and its a bug in after effects that has been reported as well.

I found an article here that may have experienced a similiar issue to you here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/auto-scale-image-to-always-fill-composition-when-changing-its-position/m-p/12837864

Sadly tho, there is no official solition to this issue yet. Many users has reported that updating Adobe After Effects to the latest version and reinstalling it completely may sometimes help solve the issue. However, some other users have also reported that the issue persists even after following those steps. Its certainly worth a try tho.

Another suggestions would be trying to disable any 3rd party plugins that you may have installed in Adobe After Effect and see if that fixes the issue. Let me know if this helps!

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Auto-scale image to always fill composition when changing its position

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[Hector Vera]

Yup! It is quite possible to achieve what you are looking for using scripting and automation in Adobe After Effects. Here is a general idea on how you can be able to achieve this:

1. Create your original round shape layer with the shape layer scaling from 0 to 100% and disappearing after (opacity to 0%).
2. Apply a “Python Script” effect layer to the shape layer.
3. Write a Python script to create 100 duplicates of the original layer and randomize their position and scale.
4. Use the “Python Script” effect to apply the Python script to the shape layer.
5. Adjust the parameters in your Python script to change the scaling of each duplicate shape layer at different times.

Hopefully this helps and if you have any other questions, feel free to contact me and I will see what I can find to help you on this! 🙂

[Hector Vera]

I do know that Adobe Premiere Pro does support MXF format which seems to be the default format for videos recorded via Canon XF105, but if Adobe Premiere is giving issues in passing the format correctly, try converting MXF to MP4 for iPads or 1920×1080 to see if that format is better supported with Premiere Pro. Here is a link I found of all the File Formats supported by Premiere Pro in case it helps you better: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/supported-file-formats.html

Let me know if you need any additional help on this!

[Hector Vera]

Dang! Maybe you can send me a video clip of how this problem is persisting so I can analyze it better to see whats going on there?

[Hector Vera]

If you can, can you send me a video clip of the type of grouping clips you are having in Sony Vegas Pro? Perhaps after seeing that, I can see what could be the issue there. And I have found this VEGAS Pro tutorial on Youtube that may be able to help you in some ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GoVsGpIUA

If not, if I see the video clip, I can see if I can help you better on advicing you on grouping the videos together 🙂 Hope it helps!

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[Hector Vera]

I found these steps online that can help you quite a bit. Let me know if you are stuck somewhere to see if I can see what else I can find. Hope this helps:

In order to achieve this effect, you can use the 3D camera tracker tool in After Effects. Here’s an overview of the steps you can follow:

1. Import the footage into After Effects.
2. Add a solid layer to your composition and select it.
3. Go to “View” > “Motion Tracker” and draw a box around the car. This will allow After Effects to track the movement of the car.
4. Adjust the tracking parameters to get a smooth track.
5. Once you have a good track, create a separate scene for the triangular sign.
6. Use the 3D camera tracker tool again to track the movement of the car in the separate scene.
7. Import the tracking data into your first scene.
8. Create a new solid layer and use the “3D Camera” effect to add a 3D camera to your scene.
9. Add a 3D plane layer to your composition.
10. With the plane layer selected, choose “Edit > Convert to 3D Layer” to enable 3D controls.
11. Set the layer’s properties to your desired look and size.
12. With both the plane layer and sign layer selected, right-click and choose “Keyframe Assistant > Create Null Objects” to create a null object that will act as the parent for the layers.
13. With the null object selected, go to “Layer > New > Collapse Transformations” to enable tracking.
14. In the “Motion Tracker” panel, select the null object and apply the tracking data from the other scene to it.
15. Apply any necessary transforms to align the sign with the roof of the car.

In order to connect the front with the rear tracking, you can use the “Split Layer” command on After Effects. This will create 2 layers from one with one layer containing the front and one layer containing the rear. Then you can apply the 3D Camera Tracker to the layter containing the rear of the car. Also to have the keyframes align with the speed of the car.

[Hector Vera]

Hello Sideral! Hope you are doing well! And yes! It is possible to achieve the helix path with Adobe After Effects expressions! Its always good to ask these questions since we are all here to learn new things and improve ourselves. One way to do this is using the “Rotate Path” effect from a plugin called the Red Giant Universe. In this plugin. There is an option to apply “Helix” rotation to a path.

Here is a video I found that can help you install this plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzDY5MD1qGI

To use the plugin, you can follow these steps:

1. Create a path shape using a pen tool in After Effects.
2. Select the path shape layer and apply the “Rotate Path” effect from the “Red Giant Universe” plugin.
3. In the “Rotate Path” effect’s “Properties” panel, set the “Rotation Type” to “Helix” and adjust the “Radial Scale” and “Radial Rotation” values as needed.

You can also modify the path shape using keyframes and a custom expression if needed.

Any other questions you may have, let me know and I will see if I can help you with it.

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[Hector Vera]

You can select the tracks of video1/audio1 and right click the video, select group and then select select “Create New” and its true that if you hold CTRL and click on the clips that you wish to work with, you can move them all at the same time. It would be helpful if you have a video clip of your issue, that way I can get a better idea visually on whats going on. So if there are other things going on there, would like to understand better to help you further on this.

[Hector Vera]

There is one method that you can use to achieve this with paragraph text within After Effects which would be to write or copy/paste the text into its own text layer as needed. Then you can use expression to control the text layer’s attributes such as size, position, animation, and text wrap.

Here is an example of how you can use an expression to control the text size:

1. Select the text layer and ensure it is selected.
2. Open the Animation Effects control panel by going to Window > Animation Effects.
3. In the Effects controls, you will see an icon that resembles a box with arrows on either side of it. This is the Scale control.
4. Click the pick whip tool (the squiggly line icon) and select “Slider Control 1” from the Effects Controls panel. This will link the scale property to the Slider control.
5. Open the “Expression Controls” tab of the Animation Effects panel and add the expression: a = thisComp.layer(“Slider Control 1”).transform.scale; [a, a]

The experession will link the scale properly of the text layer to the slider control that you have created. Then you can adjust the slider value to control the text size.