[Paxson Woelber]

Changing the size of the solid (Layer -> Solid Settings) changes the scale of the effect. I wonder if this is particular to the effect – I’m using CC Particle World. ..?

[Paxson Woelber]

Todd and Dave thank you both for the help. The process worked perfectly, and the nested/precomposed animations were all slowed down correctly. One hurdle down. One more to go:

It looks like the motion blurs were remapped as well, so that when the action slows down the appearance of the motion blurs becomes very pronounced. (All of the motion blurs are added in AfterFX – this is all 2D animation so there is no natural blurring in footage here). Is there any way to keep the motion blurs consistent even when the scene is remapped? Perhaps a way to tween the shutter angle for the composition? My only thought here is to add a motion blur in post-production to the flattened scene, but that seems less than ideal.

I hope I’m articulating this problem clearly, if not please let me know, and thank you both again for the help – I really appreciate it.

[Paxson Woelber]

Ok, thanks very much for the help. I’ll run some tests and see if I can work it out. Regards,
Paxson.

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Sorry, to clarify, all of the material used in the piece is hand-drawn. There’s no video footage at all. It’s entirely hand-drawn and then animated in AfterFX. The frame rate I’m using for the animation is 29.97, though.

If I precompose and then time remap, won’t it give me a somewhat sub-par result? I mean, since I’m working at 29.97, if I want to slow it down 300% won’t the remapping process be taking 29.97 footage and then just blending individual frames?

Here’s another frame:

I guess what I’m asking is, is there a way to make the remapping process remap all of the nested compositions at the same time?

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Thank you, Todd. Will that remap all of the compositions nested in that scene?

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Thanks for your quick response, Dave. Each “equestrian” consists of hand-drawn pieces cut into about 40 different layers and animated into a running cycle using the parent tool.

Here is a (slightly unfinished) view of the “equestrian” (as you can see, it’s not quite a horse, but I thought that would be the best way to describe it as far as getting help):

I plan on having about 40 of these guys running through a scene at one.

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DVD Architect is compressing the AVI down to an MPEG-2, then formatting and burning it to play in a standard DVD player. I’m asking about the process and results of that conversion.

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Thanks for the help, again, Kevin. I figured it out, using the “move layer behind mask” tool. I only needed the waves to move on top of a background lake layer, so all it took was masking out the lake and then moving the masked waves over the lake. I knew it was an easy fix…

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Can a mask applied to the shore layer somehow affect only the wave layer?

To clarify, I have one layer with the shore and the base color of the lake, and another with little waves. I want to move the waves across the lake.

Any thoughts?

[Paxson Woelber]

Hi Kevin. Thank you for all the help so far. I’ve tried everything you’ve suggested, but I still can’t get the project to render much without crashing. I tried exporting as a PNG sequence and just starting over each time where the prior crash occurred, but it’s taking a very, very long time. I’m sort of reaching my limits of tolerance with this program..

Are there, by any chance, any companies or services that will render an AE project out for a small fee? Alternately, if I can find someone willing to do this, is it easy to usefully send someone an AEP file? All of the media for the project is in the same single folder as the AEP file. As long as the other computer has the same effects installed, would there be any issue with rendering somewhere else?

Thank you,
Paxson
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