[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Your comp renderer has to be set to Ray-tracing. You set the renderer in your Comp’s Advanced Tab.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

The smallest time factor in AE is frames; regardless of your Timeline’s display mode. Hence, if you’ve set your display mode to seconds BUT you zoom sufficiently into the Timeline view, you will see frames and not seconds.

In short, live with it. 😉

HTH
RoRK

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Parent the bar layers to a Null Object. Then use the Null’s Rotation and Position to orientate and position the bars to suit your needs.

HTH
RoRK

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Ensure that you first move the Anchor Point to the bottom edge of your bar. This ensures that scaling is anchored at the bottom of the bar.

Use the following script in a single layer’s position –

bar_width = 120;
xScalar = (index-1)*bar_width;
x_Startvalue = 100;
y_value = 640; //floor value for the bars

[x_Startvalue+xScalar,y_value]

————

Use this script for its scale prop

Scalar = transform.scale;
frequency = 2;
amp = 50;

[100,Scalar.wiggle(frequency,amp)[1]]

——————-

Then simply duplicate the layer as many times as you need bars. Changing the variables (the numbers after the = sign in the scripts should be easy enough for you to customize the script).

HTH
RoRK

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You can paste the path onto a Null Object’s position prop. Then SHIFT+Parent the Camera to the Null. Then adjust the Camera’s position prop to obtain offsets and zooms.

HTH
RoRK

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Ensure that you are previewing via the Active Camera View?

If the problem persists, embed in your next post, screen grabs of your Timeline and your Comp Panels.

Cheers
RoRK

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Take a screen grab of your file menu. Alternatively, trash prefs.

HTH
RoRK

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This is a pretty good Page Turn tutorial – https://vimeo.com/44564616

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RoRK

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Try Newton2. Google “after effects newton liquid” for relevant details.

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RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Your hand layer, foreground, has to be at the very top of the layer panel. Is this the case? If it is then look at creating more clean plates in PS. Alternatively or additionally, look at rotoscoping the hand to overlay it back onto the plate.

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RoRK

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