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Either upgrade QT or downgrade it. Lots of issues with QT these last few installs. Best to stay ahead of the pack by being behind them when it comes to installing QT.
If the re-install doesn’t cut it then it’s obvious that something other than AE is doing all the damage here.
Good Luck!
Roland Kahlenberg
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Sounds like a good case for a pre-render – just render out the 3 layers in question. Import and you’ll be good to go.
Lots of users under-estimate the effective use of pre-renders. Not only do they help to ease workflow congestion but they also help to solve most issues related to nesting and/or grouping.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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I should also have mentioned that if your main comp doesn’t have a light layer then things are okay.
Therefore, you may want to have a 3rd comp – a final comp that doesn’t have any camera or lights where these two 3D comps can reside – ensure that you have Collapsed Transformations switched on for the nested 3D comps. The downside is that I really don’t know how lights from the two comps are going to react to each other.
I’m not on an AE-capable PC right now, so you’ll have to run quick tests to see if it’s a viable option.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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This is one area where AE just breaks apart.
Nested Lights get nuked in the main comp. Don’t ever light naything in a precomp.
Your best bet is to do all the lighting in the main comp or copy the light(s) into the main comp and work over there.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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Howzabout having a red bulb on the outside of the room with the switch inside? Then just sticker the text, “RECORDING” outside of the room. Place one bulb where the O is for recOrding. It’ll probably help if the light flickers slowly when it is set to on.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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Here’s a COW Tutorial by Chris Zwar on morphing with AE. It’s quite good – https://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph.php
ReVisionFX’s Flex should do the trick with less pain.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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Edit Original is a system-wide feature. The setting is created and updated as you install applications. For Windows, you’ll have to right-click on a file and then select Open With … .
The downside is that any time you double-click on say a PSd file, it will no longer open up Photoshop and the file.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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Why not use QT’s None compression and see how that works for you. QTs Animation CODEC does a good job with a quality setting of 96%. Both CODECs I mentioned support an Alpha Channel.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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Parenting is something that should also work for your needs. And no scripting involved. I’ve not taken a hard look at Andrew’s tutorial but I did something similar for one of my products a couple of years ago. The trick is to Parent the reflection layer’s matte layer (Ramp) to the reflection. It will also help that the matte layer (created with Ramp) is large enough for your moves without being cutoff from the Comp panel.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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Alt+Double-Click on a nested composition opens it up in its own composition. It’s a shortcut way of going from the main composition to a nested composition.
It doesn’t create or move anything – just a quick way to navigate from one comp to another.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace