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Try importing it into an empty project, that sometimes works. Don’t expect to recover all work, though. There’s a good chance something still remains screwed. And next time you might wanna consider incremental save ;o).

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Nope, you can’t use masks in that manner – not without third party plugins anyway. From waht it sounds like, all you need is a line connecting the images so either give the Beam effect a try (a tutorial here at the COW explains a bit more, it’s called “Expressions without the math” or something like that) ore use a long thin solid with real expressions.

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Nope, you can’t use masks in that manner – not without third party plugins anyway. From waht it sounds like, all you need is a line connecting the images so either give the Beam effect a try (a tutorial here at the COW explains a bit more, it’s called “Expressions without the math” or something like that) ore use a long thin solid with real expressions.

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You need to unmultiply the Black. Use XMult (free) or a similar filter to do it.

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Cycore FX are only part of the Professional version (separate install on the CD)

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[Frank van Mourik] “I was wondering there are other ways to render out a AE file or is it only possible in AE it self? other programs that can do it?”

Nope. Only AE will render AEP files. Unlike with Autodesk/discreet* products, there isn’t an entire family of tools, so why bother?

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You won’t get an argument from me… I too love expressions and sometimes find myself creating expressions for things that could be solved otherwise but on the other hand I’m not one of the guys who try to automate the hell out of a program. It’s kind of funny how many scripts you can find on AEnhancers or other resource sites that are really redundant ‘cos the manual setup of the things they are supposed to do is just as fast and easy. That’s one of the reasons why I also never really was impressed with Useful Things or Useful Assistants – at least the scripts that come/came with the package were less than exciting in most cases. And for the same resons I often tend to be a bit opposed to Dan (Ebbert’s)more convoluted expression stuff. but hell, anybody should do what he thinks is the most fun.

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You won’t get an argument from me… I too love expressions and sometimes find myself creating expressions for things that could be solved otherwise but on the other hand I’m not one of the guys who try to automate the hell out of a program. It’s kind of funny how many scripts you can find on AEnhancers or other resource sites that are really redundant ‘cos the manual setup of the things they are supposed to do is just as fast and easy. That’s one of the reasons why I also never really was impressed with Useful Things or Useful Assistants – at least the scripts that come/came with the package were less than exciting in most cases. And for the same resons I often tend to be a bit opposed to Dan (Ebbert’s)more convoluted expression stuff. but hell, anybody should do what he thinks is the most fun.

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[Steve Roberts] “How about adding an expression to the keyframed property?

Maybe:

100-value

or

100-opacity
(if it’s opacity)

(soory, I’m not at the AE station)”

It would do the trick, but there’s still little sense to it – c’mon, it’s just 6 keyframes…

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[Steve Roberts] “How about adding an expression to the keyframed property?

Maybe:

100-value

or

100-opacity
(if it’s opacity)

(soory, I’m not at the AE station)”

It would do the trick, but there’s still little sense to it – c’mon, it’s just 6 keyframes…

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