Hi, Im trying to use the fake proximity shader method using the AO node to control the opacity of an object. Since the object im trying to get the proximity to is inside my main object, I checked to reverse the normals on the AO node. The result looks just fine, but when I try to use it to drive the opacity the transparent parts of the object just…

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Hi, this may be more of a math problem but im totally stuck, Ill try to explain:

I have a comp (1080 by 1080) containing a rectangle with a width of 100 and a height of 1080. So at zero degrees the rectangle fits perfectly in the comp. Now i want to rotate the rectangle and while this happens the height should adjust, so that the rectangle is…

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Hey, yeah this has been an issue for ever and seems to be a core problem for every compositing software I used (e.g. Nuke). We used to have this problem with 3D renderings, here is my workaround (I hope I remember everything right. Real footage might give you some problems but I cant try it out right now)

I usually go as follow:

– precomposed the…

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Hi,

you could precompose the AI elements and change the size of those comps and the AI layers with continuously rasterization enabled. If you place them in your regular comp now AE should just handle them as big layers without the need to rasterize cont. those

The dot you mention is a switch to solo certain layers, that means all other layers are hiddeb except the ones with the dot. As you see in your video, the null layer at the top also has the dot present, so everything besides your null layer is hidden. Clicking on the dot of your null layer should fix your problem

So Ive run into a problem and I cant wrap my head around it.

I have a big layer I wanto to move in one dimension continiously, lets say 50 pixels every second. But at certain points I would like to stop the animation with easable keyframes. At first I thought I could simply use a slider and multiply that slider by “time” and add that value to my…

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Since it is for streaming I would look into a OBS plugin solution, this one I found after a quick google search:

https://github.com/UpDownLeftDie/obs-random-videos

Maybe you can find more in their community 🙂

Hi, so you want to let the time remapping happen when you click (set a keyframe to change the value) the checkbox right? Then you might need to use a for loop like this:

Im not really good at those loop things so this is not a perfect solution – like when you switch from off to on multiple times or you have 0 keyframes on your checkbox – but maybe…

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Yeaht thats the problem with auto orient, thats why you should use the expression I linked instead

Hi Ranveer, you could use the tangentOnPath function, like Dan discribed here:

Auto Orient expression to use for path layer? (Don’t need built in AE option)

This might have some issues with a trim path end value of exactly 0, but you could add an if statement to set the value to something like 0.1 if the end is exactly at 0 🙂

Hi Paulo, the only solution I found is to use the position inside the Transform effect. If you still want the option of Motion Paths you could link the position value of the transform effect to the position of a null via expressions

This sounds similar to this problem. Have you tried adding a camera to see if the option shows up?

This seems to be this scene from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

This is not a simple clip to track. Since this is the finished result you have to fight the color correction and applied effects, a very dark scene and (judging by the source used in your screenshot) a good amount of compression. I…

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Hi José,

this is some complex 3D animation which is not possible with After Effects alone. You should look into some 3D software, Blender for example is free but has a very steep learning curve

Hi Nina, you could reduce the colors to black and white, get the dotted effect with CC Ball Action and apply the Glow effect

Hi Steve, we need to know what you are trying to accomplish here, there is no universal if/else statement. Do you want an object moving in a diagonal path? Do you want to check if an object is inside/outside the green triangle? Should the path of the triangle be drawn?

You can select and transform points when the path is selected in a shape layer or in a mask. For shape layer it has to be a Bezier path or be converted to a Bezier path. Just unfold the contents of the layer until you reach the one called “Path” (with a little stopwatch to the side)

Hi Brice,

strange, these are the exact settings i used. What are your settings regarding the AI footage itself (interpret footage -> Color)? Maybe there are mismatched color settings

Weird, I never noticed this. Anyway, here is what did the trick for me:

– Check your AI color settings (under “Edit”) and look for your RGB color space, in my case its sRGB IEC61966-2.1

– Check your project settings in AE (little rocket icon) and see what color space is used under “Color”, for me it was none. I set that to the same as in AI and now…

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I would go a different direction. I would create a big circle around the central one, give it a big stroke matching the diameter of the small outer circle I want to create and make sure the stroke has rounded caps. Then I add a trim path where the start or the end (depending on the direction I want the circle to spin) are very close, so lets say…

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Hi, I cant reproduce your errors using what I see in the screenshots. How is your text alligned? I only get something close to this using center allignment in the paragraph window

There are a few things wrong here. First of all, you want to put the position of the null here instead of the anchorPoint, since I guess you will be using the null as your cursor. Mind that this will not work anymore if the null gets parented, then you have to use some space transformation expression like toComp or toWorld (cant remember which).

Se…

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Hey Nicolas, you could place your playhead in the middle of the animation, enter the graph editor and switch to value graph mode. There you can drag the values and see the result live

You should check the spatial interpolation of your keyframe, it might be on Auto Bezier and you should set it to linear.

Another tip: you can always use “time” as a constantly growing variable to achieve something similar

Hi, this script called Pastiche seems to be right for what you want:

https://aescripts.com/pastiche/

It sounds like your sending your renders directly to Media Encoder, have you tried encoding a MOV in After Effects first and then encoding it again with Media Encoder?

Hi, as far as I know AE does not support SVG fonts so far. What might work is an animated type face using Font Manager:

https://aescripts.com/font-manager/

You should be able to add your icons to this, but Ive never used it before so maybe try it out? Would love to hear your results 🙂

There are lots of different ways to accomplish this, search for topographic maps or textures on youtube to find a tutorial which suits your needs, for example:

You can assign different blend modes for fill and strokes inside the shape layer. You could also have all 4 circles inside one shape layer.

You can extract keyframe values from the audiochannels and use the now generated slider values to drive the position of your triangles, using a linear function. You should smooth the audio values out though, see this:

For example, this is what I quickly put together:

the 36 is the max value for the song I…

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You could do this:

Create a solid, apply the Audio Spectrum or Waveform effect, make sure start and endpoints are to the very left and very right of the layer, then apply a CC Cylinder effect. It remains a 2D layer but will interact with cameras and you got 3D controlls inside the effect

Ups, sorry Filip I didnt see your reply and that you allready linked the script

Ok dude, if this was a paid plugin it would not be ok to ask for a pirated copy….

But it is “pay what you want” on AEscripts

https://aescripts.com/rift/

Your positions are off. Your misaligned triangles are at position[0] (the x-value) 408 it seems. In the linked tutorial they are at 420. Mathematically this makes sense, since you shift the triangle by half the width of the square base. So base is 1080px, half 540, 960 (old x-position) -540 is 420. I guess you messed up while repostioining the…

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Hi Filip, awesome expression set up you made there. Just out of curiosity, since I checked it out to learn a thing or two, I noticed that the expression sometimes does not work with certain fonts. I did not recognize a pattern, but the problem is always the same as that the coordinates pushed into the array are zero. As far as I understand the…

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Collect means to gather all your footage (or resource files) and make a copy, so that you have on folder you can easily share. Its an option in After Effects.

Are you trying to open the file or importing it into an existing project? If the latter maybe you should open the file and convert it first.

Since its converting from an older version, did you…

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Okay so you are talking about the basic concept of the ad here. This vclip was made with to shots on seperate, but similar looking sets. The cut was hidden when he went into the store and the camera zoomed in

Hi Joseph, this will do the trick:

max=500; //y value where you want your text to stop
y=value[1] - time * 29.97 * 3;
y<=max && (y=max);
[value[0], y]

I dont really understand what you mean by “where he goes out in his house and came in linearly”. He does go into a shop but what do you mean by linearly and what exactly are you trying to replicate?

You can create a new shape layer and copy and paste the mask paths into new paths, its as simple as that. You could also use this script, which is part of rd_scripts, a free collection of very useful scripts:

rd: Masks to Shapes

For this particular case you dont need to mess with the channels at all. As far as I can tell this example does not use the corresponding channels in a true fashion, because (for example) the red layer does not seem to have a background. The easiest way to achieve this

– Put both videos/images on top of one another

– Add a Levels or Curves effect to…

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Okay, Im a step closer now. It seems that the problem was using a PBR material on my object, with regular materials the GI works just fine. So whats the workflow now to get PBR materials lit up by HDRI images, or is this simply not possible since luminance channel is not physically acurate?

Okay even increasing the intensity in the GI settings does nothing, wtf is going on? Ive attached a screenshot to better illustrate what I mean

Hi, its been a while since I had to rely on the physical render but now I have to use it. I tried my simple setup, creating a sky with a texture (only luminance ticked) with a HDRI image as a material. The sky has a render tag to not be visible for cameras, only rays and GI (strangely, being only visible for GI doesnt do anything, rays HAS to be…

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Hi,

you cant have odd dimensions for your video in H.264, thats just how the codec works. If you want to embed a specific sized video in a website, maybe you could double the output resolution and have it displayed half the size in your player? Apart from that there is nothing you can do using H.264 or most other standard codecs I guess

first of all, theres an easy way to get the correct angle transformation for your repeater. Take the degree on a circle you want your result to have( so for a full round 360°) and divide it by the number of copies (in your case 6, so 60°). After that, since this seems to be a custom path as Filip already pointed out, you just have to try m…

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You could also convert the spatial interpolation to linear, like here:

If you need a bezier in your motion path you can adjust the handles by hand and get rid of the ones causing the boomerang effect

Check the spatial interpolation for your keyframes if its linear oder some type of bezier. On a position property you would see the path and can fix the issue with the tangent handles, but here you should change the interpolation mode to linear. This happens quite often when after effects tries to interpolate between to keyframes with the same value

You could draw a shape or mask path around the infinity symbol and reference this path with the “pointOnPath” expression on the position of your arrow layer. Then add auto orient to the layer and the arrow should orient along the path

http://expressions.aenhancers.com/path-property.html#pathproperty-pointonpath-percentage-0-5-t-time

Look through the paths in that layer, there should be a rectangular one right before a “Merge path” opertor. This is your artboard and AE adds it for every shape group. You can just delete it