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Roger Maus
May 28, 2012 at 5:05 pm in reply to: Render Analysis – the search for the bottleneck

Thank you! This does help a little. With this, I get this kind of information…
0:00:13:09 (335): 11 seconds
0:00:13:10 (336): 17 seconds
0:00:13:11 (337): 5 seconds
…for every singe frame.

With the help of Excel I got this:

Not bad, but in a 50+ layer comp it’s still quite hard to make out the effect/layer which is the root of the trouble.

Ain’t there anything handier?
Roger Maus
April 29, 2012 at 1:39 am in reply to: Select looped clip depending on size of comp

That’s it! Works like a charm! Thank you so much!
Roger Maus
April 28, 2012 at 11:05 pm in reply to: Select looped clip depending on size of comp

Hi Dan,

thanks for the quick response.

It does work for a fixed scale.
However when it comes to animating the scale, the precomp sticks to the very animation that the precomp started with. It does not switch.

e.g. the precomp starts of at 100% scale. As time passes by, the scale is going down to 10% – but the animation stays the one at 100%.
e.g. the precomp starts of at 10% scale. As time passes by, the scale is going up to 100% – but the animation stays the one at 10%.

The first value is all that matters. There is no live update.

What should I do?
Roger Maus
March 16, 2012 at 11:01 am in reply to: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes?

[Eric Santiago] […] can you auto-trace in Illustrator then copy and paste vectors?Wow, creative strategy. Would really give me crisp, scalable (!) results. However I think that I am actually way quicker with the magic wand in PS – not coloring the background green but just deleting it.
Roger Maus
March 16, 2012 at 10:55 am in reply to: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes?

Yes, that’s what I did so far, but the rototool needs way too much performance for working and rendering.
Roger Maus
March 10, 2012 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes?

Yes, would work, it does make sense. (Similar result would be “create matte”.) But the thing is that I still have to do the masking my hand. Secondly, since the shapes are painted by hand, it’s quickness over cleanliness anyway.

With my example, I just wanted to clearify the priciple. Actually it’s like 100+ small animations with 10+ looped frames.
Roger Maus
March 10, 2012 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes?

Yes, that would work. But the animation is drawn by hand and scanned. Analog instead of digital shapes.
Roger Maus
December 4, 2011 at 3:50 pm in reply to: Oscillate value with some randomness

I still couldn’t find a solution, I still need your help. Could I make myself clear? Could anyone please point the way which I could give a try?
Roger Maus
December 1, 2011 at 12:42 am in reply to: Oscillate value with some randomness

I am sorry that I forgot to mention that I need som ongoing randomness. I’d like the values to change every period.

I hope this quick sketch makes it clear:

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