Peter Diefenthaler
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Every change you make in a pre-comp will exist in every instance of it. So you can’t have the same pre-comp do different things. However, you can have multiple instances displaying a different point in time.
From what I understand, you basically want to create a bunch of animations of different actions and then be able to arrange them however you like. I would create all of these actions in one pre-comp(use marker comments to label each action to stay organized), then in the main comp, chop up the layer to separate all of the different actions. Name them accordingly. Now that you have your “action library” you can begin arranging your sequence. This is much like what you describe as your work-around, but it’s probably the best approach to what you want to do.
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I’m glad you solved your problem, but don’t neglect learning the basics. Knowing the fundamentals of AE will help you better understand projects like this and will also help you better articulate your questions in the future.
Some helpful links:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/topics.html
https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/
https://library.creativecow.net/series/After-Effects-basics-tutorials-by-Andrew-DevisPeter Diefenthaler
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I’m not familiar with Rhino, but this is how I would do it in Blender. Convert the edges of the mesh to curves/splines, give them thickness, animate a colored texture along them, then render with a shadeless material. This probably isn’t the answer you were looking for but hopefully it sparks an idea for a solution.
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Make sure that your RAM Preview frame rate is also set to 24fps or auto. If this is mismatched to your comp frame rate, it will make the preview playback faster or slower than what you desire (in your case faster if it is accidentally set to 30fps). That’s all I can think of!
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The “Scale Composition” script will proportionally scale the layers and their animations.
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This sounds like z-fighting. Try putting an adjustment layer between each of the layers that are occupying the same space. Then the layers will no longer intersect each other.
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I’m not really sure how you have this set up, but try disabling the light effect from the pre-comp and then add it to a 2D adjustment layer in the main comp. This way the effect won’t be dependent on the view or the pre-comp size.
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My first suggestion would be to render to a lower resolution because it seems that most Kickstarter videos are in some form of SD. Secondly, consider simply editing down the length of your video. My third suggestion is to never render to a delivery format (h264) straight from After Effects. First render to an uncompressed or visually lossless codec, then encode your final video using Media Encoder/Compressor.
From After Effects I render to either a TIFF sequence or to AVI with Lagarith Lossless Codec (Windows only). Then I encode with ffmpeg/x264, which gives high quality and smaller file sizes, but has a significant learning curve and will require some research. Like with most things, do the research and do your own experiments to find what works best for you. Video compression definitely requires finesse and there isn’t a single magic solution that will work for everyone, for every application.
Here are some helpful links to resources that I use in my workflow.
https://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html
https://www.ffmpeg.org/
https://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
https://www.stuudio.ee/anothergui/Peter Diefenthaler
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This wouldn’t require software. To create “chapters” for YouTube videos, you create annotations that link to a specific time in the video. The same guy you’ve referenced above describes how to do it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBmYnIT5XI
Peter Diefenthaler
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