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Indeed I can use Extractor – but some effects in AE do not have an input for depth map.
For example, I can use Extractor to turn a layer into a greyscale depth map, then on another layer, I can apply Compound Blur or Camera Lens blur and specify my depth map layer to control the blur. But some effects like Depth Matte do not allow you to specify a different, greyscale depth map layer, but use the depth channel embedded in the RLA or EXR layer. But, it seems, AE is very fussy about what that layer is called – hence it not working initially, despite me politely asking C4D to name the channel correctly (a request that C4D completely ignored – presumably this is a C4D bug).
It’d be great, for effects such as Depth Matte, to be able to specify which channel you want to use as the embedded depth map (I think I already did a feature request for this).
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Done!
I thought of sending it as a feature request a while ago, but was convinced that someone would just reply “just press ctrl-U, stupid!” or something like that. I couldn’t believe that it was just not possible – but somehow, people must’ve been using Premiere* for decades, and just somehow lived with this omission.
*Presumably the very very early versions of Premiere (pre-Pro-period) just used the system’s file browser, so in that respect were more advanced than the current version!
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That’s not the same thing – the back arrow goes back to whatever you were previously looking at, not up through the directory structure. If you’re looking in the media browser at, say C:/documents/video, then click on a directory in your Favorites – let’s say it’s E:/work/job27/rushes/graded then clicked on the Back arrow, you wouldn’t be shown E:/work/job27/rushes, but you’d be back looking at C:/documents/video.
I can’t believe there is no way to just go up a level, like you can in every other file browser since file browsers were first invented. I’m pretty sure that if you clicked on the “The Mac 512”, you’d see a lovely hierarchical directory list. If only Adobe could also adopt this new technology:
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Yeah – but when re-linking, it uses Premiere’s file browser, which seemingly has no way of simply going up a level. But I must be wrong, right? Surely there’s no way the Premiere would have got to this version with such an obvious and ridiculous bug, right? Right?!
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On a similar, re-linking media note, is there a better way to re-link media other than going through the tedious right-click, Link Media.. process? It’d seem logical to be able to do something like option-drag a video file from the media browser onto something in a bin to replace it. Does anything like that exist?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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Ha! And co-incidentally I’ve found myself back here, once again fighting with the god-awful abomination that is Illustrator, trying to perform something as simple as turning off those stupid guides!
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That seems to have done it – thank you!
Dan, you are, as ever, the man!
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Actually no, it’s not just the textures of Xrefs not showing up, loads of others just don’t appear in the Texture Manager window either, for no apparent reason. Oh how we love C4D…????????????????????????????????
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Aha! I found why you’d use the Project Info > Textures thing: textures of Xref’d objects do not show up in the Window > Texture Manager, which is extremely rubbish. How we love bugs!
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Huh! From this dodgy-looking YouTube video, YouTube videoI found that Window > Texture Manager, which looks remarkably similar to the Edit > Project Info > Textures window, except it’s not shit, and I can select multiple textures! Problem solved. Why does that stupid Project Info > Textures panel even exist? It must be just to confuse people!
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