[Richard Herd]

[Kevin Camp] “when ae runs out of ram”

But really, we will all 99% of the time run out of ram. It’s after effects and we have masks, effects, transforms, camera layers, lights…the whole thing. In order to not run out of ram, we’d need quite the computer.

[Richard Herd]

[John Nelson] “How do I determine if mine is dynamic linked? And what, if you will excuse my ignorance of acronyms, does PP mean?”

The media in the project pane looks like this:

PP = Premiere Pro

[Richard Herd]

That requires an expression from the math and design guru, Dan Ebberts.

By DAN EBBERTS
//change colors to the beat

threshold = 10.0;

colors = [[255,205,47,255]/255,[213,116,45,255]/255];

audioLev = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);

above = false;
frame = Math.round(time / thisComp.frameDuration);
n = 0;
while (frame >= 0){
t = frame * thisComp.frameDuration;
if (above){
if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) < threshold){
above = false;
}

}else if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) >= threshold){
above = true;
n++;
}
frame–
}

colors[n%colors.length]

[Richard Herd]

[Kevin Camp] “that disk caching often slows things down”

Unless it is Dynamic Link. In that case, Cache Work Area in Background and PP will use those frames too. Very speedy!

EDIT: iff pp and ae are set to the same cache folder, and even more speed is gained if the folder is not the media drive, not the system drive, like a thunderbolt SSD.

[Richard Herd]

Cool man! Two heads are better than one 🙂

[Richard Herd]

[Shane Ross] “Post is where it all comes together”

Editing is not the most important part of the movie…it IS the movie.

[Richard Herd]

[Vitaly Karamazoff] “aep file (which is also created on a different PC) nothing happens when I hit OK button”

Dynamic Link right?

I’m on a mac, but the idea is the same, and you can find articles and tutorials on the exact details I’m about to mention:

1. Make sure your Dynamic Link Server folder has the file permissions set so that everyone can read and write, and also make sure your firewall is turned off, because the Dynamic Link talks to itself via TCP/IP and they are “unapproved” in the firewall settings.

2. Make sure your media is on a drive whose file permissions are also set so that everyone can read and write.

You can imagine that the files you received from your colleague being on a different system, now do not have permissions to talk to your system, because it has a different system.

3. This may not solve the relinking issue because PP still doesn’t know which AE project and AE comp refers to what database entry. So you need to select the AE comp inside of PP > right click > make offline …

4. Turn it back on line by right click > link media…

If that doesn’t work, then you’ll need to use Media Browser to import the comps again. But isn’t as bad as it seems as long as you

1. do not delete the off line comps and do not delete them from the sequence: make a new folder and put the new comps in there (because they will have the same name and you’ll need to keep track).

2. Right click the newly imported comp, right click > Open in Source Monitor.

3. Find in the sequence the matching ooff-line comp, then in the sequence time line right click it > Replace with clip > from source monitor

(The proper way to share media, in the future, 🙂 is with the Project > Project Manager…

[Richard Herd]

I used a camera and 20 shape layers. I added an additional move to reveal the layers and planing.

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/23705

and here I added lines, but they are on a 2D layer and the camera won’t track them, so if I add the rotation move, then they’ll just be stuck.

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/testagain

And here I made a box, added a light, and because these are solids, they can be preComped, effected and decorated.

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/box-volume

[Richard Herd]

Soon and very soon, we shall be receiving much direct mail from very many politicians.

[Richard Herd]

[Suzin Daly] “Could the processor, graphic card or something along those lines not be strong enough?”

Absolutely! But also it seems to ‘though I haven’t verified it with an experiment that Adobe Media Encoder (AME) is faster than PP’s export. After you choose to make the movie (CMD-M), then the QUEUE button will send the edit to AME. In there, getting the details of your deliverable is very import.

How many effects (color correction) and motion adjustments do you have on your video?