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Ridley Walker
February 25, 2014 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Loss of quality when Scaling down an animation

Perhaps this link might provide some answers.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/adobe-media-server/articles/h264_primer.html
Ridley Walker
February 25, 2014 at 5:22 pm in reply to: Loss of quality when Scaling down an animation

[Peter Hunt] “I tried rendering as a Quicktime movie with the animation codec. Still has the same problem but I’m currently putting it through AME as H.264 to see if it helps.”

If a lossless CODEC like animation produces the same undesired result is there any footage in the source project that is H.264 or uses some other form of lossy compression?

If the animation CODEC fails to produce a good result running that render through AME won’t improve it.
Ridley Walker
February 25, 2014 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Loss of quality when Scaling down an animation

[Roland R. Kahlenberg] “PS – Ridley, I know you know what I know but there are folks out there that will take your statement at face value – and perhaps run amok with it.\”

I appreciate your comments RoRK. A lengthy explanation of long GOP, quantization and frame re-ordering seemed unnecessary at the time of writing.
Ridley Walker
February 24, 2014 at 10:49 pm in reply to: Loss of quality when Scaling down an animation

After Effects Render engine is not as good at transcoding as AME.
Ridley Walker
February 24, 2014 at 9:37 pm in reply to: Loss of quality when Scaling down an animation

Don’t render to H.264. Render to a low, or no compression format such as Animation or one of the motion JPEG or PNG sequence.

Then transcode the rendered file to H.264 using Adobe Media Encoder.
Ridley Walker
February 21, 2014 at 12:49 am in reply to: A wall of hundreds of clips

[Joseph W. Bourke] “You can also set it up so that it will animate between a flat matrix and a globe shape, if I remember correctly.”

Joseph is right, I’d completely forgotten about Plane Space, I own it and had not installed it on my workstation. Thanks JB for the reminder!

First use the Matrix Creator to arrange many layers into a grid and add keyframes for position, scale and orientation(done automatically within the panel) then use the Spheroid Creator arrange the same group of layers into a sphere and use the panel to automatically add keyframes for position, scale, and orientation.

The result is a grid morphing into a sphere.
Ridley Walker
February 20, 2014 at 9:12 pm in reply to: A wall of hundreds of clips

A simple video wall is easy to build, having it transform into a globe is a bit trickier.

These scripts could help:

https://aescripts.com/create3dshapes/

https://aescripts.com/distributelayers/
Ridley Walker
February 20, 2014 at 8:57 pm in reply to: Start/Stop layer in AAE

Sounds like you need a quick basic tutorial on Keyframing.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/AE-Basics-11-Animation-1/video-tutorial
Ridley Walker
February 14, 2014 at 9:00 pm in reply to: AE Expressions Invalid Numeric Result Problem

There is *nothing* wrong with the script. It works. I’ve just copied and pasted the script in your first post to both position and scale.

To what and how are you trying to apply the scipt?

See: 7129_workingscript.aep.zip
Ridley Walker
February 14, 2014 at 7:45 pm in reply to: After Effects – The next level!

Do your interests incline to compositing and VFX? Or are you more interested in Motion Graphics and communication design?

fxphd has some terrific courses and instructors.

https://www.fxphd.com/fxphd/courseInfo.php

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