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All your formats are 8 bpc, so on the output side it’s not really much benefit working with 16 bpc files. However, working in 16 bpc will also affect AE’s internal pipeline and still improve some things. You will for instance experience less banding even if your footage is “flattened” to 8 bpc on output. So technically it’s not a waste entirely but considering what compression on DVD and DV does it may not always be worth the effort and longer rendering times.

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Use an expression:

X=position[0];
Y=my_value;

[X,my-value]

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Use an expression:

X=position[0];
Y=my_value;

[X,my-value]

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Use an expression:

X=position[0];
Y=my_value;

[X,myvalue]

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Use an expression:

X=position[0];
Y=my_value;

[X,myvalue]

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I still fail to see your problem… You can create that gradient look just as well in 2D or if really need be apply a gradient to a tilted 3D layer. In order to avoid to dark colors you need to adjust the layers diffuse and metal shading values and add some directional lights.

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I have no idea what you mean… Could you be more specific instead of postink dead links (or links to dead links)? reflections can easily be done by using negative scale values on one axis and adjusting anchor points accordingly.

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This is a global setting in the Windows Explorer (file dialogs are Explorer windows). Change it to list or detailed views in any normal folder view and make it the default – the file dialogs will adapt accordingly.

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[Christof van Niekerk] “I’ve got some camera moves & animated 3D layers in AE.
Now I’m trying to map like an environment texture on my 3D world background to move in relation to my camera.
Is there any way of doing this without using any fancy plugins?

CC Sphere comes with AE 6.5 Professional and should be good enough for this

[Christof van Niekerk]
Alternatively … how can I EXPORT camera data from AE?

I’ll then render out my background movements in Maya & bring it back into AE.

Please help…
Christof”

Copy & Paste to a text file. There’s a million ways to get that data in Maya ranging from 3D conversion tools to motion trackers to MEL scripts.

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Perhaps it’s a problem with OpenGL… Try to use Adaptive resolution.

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