[Rachel Kodner]

I had this same error. So I went back to AFter Effects and took the MOV layer and duplicated it. and on the duplicate i clicked the “mocha ae” button on the mov layer to launch the program. once I was in Mocha AE I deleted a bunch of layers that I wasnt tracking and just kept the layer i was tracking (and the obscuration layer) and it didnt give me an error that time. (the reason it was ok to delete all those layers is because those tracked layers are still on the original MOV in my project, because I’m working off of a duplicate mov now in my composition)

[Rachel Kodner]

Just to test one of your theories…. I’m taking a 308 KB (KILOBYTES!) project file and dragging it into a BRAND NEW EMPTY AE project file just to see if the import time is slow. Starting this test at 11:41am. It only took a few seconds. So perhaps that proves your theory, that, its the actual size of my normal project file that I’m dragging it into that is slowing things down?

[Rachel Kodner]

I’m confused why its so big: all thats in it is Solids. animated solids. I just deleted a 146 mb voiceover file from within the project file. saved the project file and its 403 mb now.

[Rachel Kodner]

Let me try

[Rachel Kodner]

Wow thank you so much Dan. Just tried it with my coworker. Works like a charm. I enter that expression into the ‘position’ of a solid for instance. Then I duplicated that solid a bunch, and if you look at the position for each one (without changing the expression on each one), like a charm… 0, -1, -2, -3

[Rachel Kodner]

I’m trying to accomplish something and i’ve been scouring the internet now for over 2 hours and I’ve been trying stuff from this forum and another forum for over 2 hours and I’m completely new to expressions. so I wanted to find out if A) what I’m trying to accomplish is even possible and I believe it is, and B) how to do it (or find out what I’m doing wrong…)

I have a sequence. I have a precomp in this sequence. the precomp has a flat outlined logo. the precomp is 3d (not that that matters). I’ve duplicated the precomp 40 times within this sequence. and I’ve offset each precomp by 1 frame (i.e. PreComp on Layer 1 comes in at 0:00:00:00, Precomp on Layer 2 comes in at 0:00:00:01, Precomp on Layer 3 comes in at 0:00:00:02, and so on for 40 layers). NOW HERE IS WHAT I’M TRYING TO DO with all 40 of these layers:

layer 1’s position: 960, 540, 0
layer 2’s position 960, 540, -1
layer 3’s position: 960, 540, -2

etc… for all 40 layers…. change the z position by -1.

I’m basically trying to offset each layer’s z position by -1. (Which is super easy to do the manual way, yet somewhat time consuming if you have a ton of layers). So I thought I could write an expression to expedite this? (That’s what I’m trying to do: write an expression that would be applied to one layer in order to offset the Z position of all 40 layers by 1 increment without having to manually type it into every single layer, to make it look like this logo is growing/extruding when you view it from the side). This is possible right?

The 6 second point of this video is what I’m basically doing. having the walls ‘grow’. and I have the project file and the person who authored this is manually decreasing the Z position by 1. They arent using an expression. but I wanted to get clever and write an expression to speed up that process of manually typing it in per layer if/when I create this from scratch.

https://videohive.net/item/architect-logo-reveal-3-versions/9919777

Again, I’m completely new to expressions. Do I add the expression to layer 1 and parent all subsequent layers to layer 1? Or do I add this expression to a null on top and parent all layers to the top null?

I tried reading this forum and tried to understand the code and tried to apply to mine but I’m not sure that it’s working:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/25272

I went to layer 1, and typed in the following expression VERBATIM for position. Is this correct? I’m looking at my comp and it kind of looks like it worked but I wanted to know if someone could break down this expression for me and tell me if I’ve wrote this out correctly, if I’m supposed to substitute numbers in place of the word “value”?:

offset = -1;
p = thisComp.layer(“Layer1”);
t = time + offset * index;
z = p.position.valueAtTime(t)[2];
[value[0],value[1],z]

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

offset = -1;
p = thisComp.layer("Layer1");
t = time + offset * index;
z = p.position.valueAtTime(t)[2];
[value[0],value[1],z]

[Rachel Kodner]

I dragged a motion 5 project into After Effects CC 2014 just now and it says “media missing in Motion File .motn”

How did you import yours into AE?

[Rachel Kodner]

When you go to export your sequence in Premiere, (in order to export for a blu ray), which FORMAT do you choose in the Export window?

-H.264 Blu Ray?
-MPEG2 Blu Ray?
-H.264 ?

And what bit rate are you using?

[Rachel Kodner]

did you find an answer yet?

[Rachel Kodner]

“Make certain your Recorder has the latest firmware”… When you say recorder, what are you referring to? Because I’m not recording anything. are you referring to the Blu Ray BURNER?

What software are using to burn the Blu Rays? Are you using Encore CS6?

I asked my client to do a firmware update. They said “So update done. Disc 2 seems to work, the wedding website option froze. But it seems to be playing fine now. Same issue with the other discs though.”

So it sounds lil they’re still having problems after the update, which I can’t understand, because I take the disc and try it in my PS3 and it works flawlessly. But client puts it in their player and it supposedly freezes at times. I wonder if their playing is getting old and slowly starting to break?