[Scott Bush]

Edward… WOW!

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this. You got much closer than I was able to… I’ll take this as a starting point. If you’re ever in NYC I owe you a beer.

Scott

[Scott Bush]

OK that makes sense and would explain this. Whew… thanks guys for helping fix my brain.

[Scott Bush]

Thanks guys for the responses.

I understand all of this… but I’m pretty certain I’ve gotten more than 7 seconds preview on an SD comp before – something else is happening here, I’m nearly certain.

How does AE handle rendering things that go off-frame? For example, if I have a large stroked circular path with only a small corner of it actually in the frame (so it gives me a perfect curve through the frame), does AE need RAM for all of the circle? Am I using up RAM on elements that fall outside the frame? If so that might explain it as this BG is made up of several of these very large circles where only a small piece actually passes thru the frame. I’ve made a lossless proxy of the BG so it is not a huge deal, but I’d like to figure this out.

Thanks again for the help.

[Scott Bush]

Hi Richie, thanks.

yeah I noticed this with nucleo also, but I don’t have it installed anymore. I think paging file is windows only though…

[Scott Bush]

Bert!!! Thanks! I was starting to wonder about my sanity 😉

Did you ever figure this out? Does it ever “go away” or once it happens to a project does it stick? As I’m sure you saw when I rebuilt the globe project from scratch it was just fine, but the original project still doesn’t work properly. It’s really strange! I simply can’t seem to find any sort of pattern – I’ve examined everything and it SHOULD work…

[Scott Bush]

Thanks very much for your time on this…

Here’s what weird (and frustrating!!!) — I just rebuilt the thing to test, and of course, now that I’m asking for help, it works as it should!

The expression is the same one I’m using.

There’s got to be SOMETHING going on in my other projects – but the fact that the old one was suddenly broken is what throws me off. I guess I’ll just keep pluggin away and if I see this again I’ll give an update… but for the moment I’m completely baffled.

Are there any gotchas for this sort of thing? Maybe something specific I should look for in my ‘broken’ stuff?

Thanks again,
Scott

[Scott Bush]

I pickwhiped the Y Rotation value of the CC Sphere to the Angle Control effect. I’d paste the code in but I have already used my workaround and cannot mess with it right now. But it is a very simple tie one value to another (and since it is an angle control tied to a rotation control there should be no need to convert the values).

The expression works… as long as I don’t try to animate the angle control. When I slide the control in the effects controls window the globe rotates in my comp view… until I add a keyframe (or several keyframes) — then it won’t even move when I manually slide.

[Scott Bush]

Thanks for the reply, but yes – ANY keyframes “break” the rotation.

The CC Sphere effect is in a precomp, with no keyframes. The Angle Control effect is in the main comp. I tie the Y Rotation of the Sphere effect to the Angle Control with a simple expression. When I manually drag the slider control with no keyframes set, the rotation works in the comp viewer. But as soon as i try to animate it with keyframes, it stops responding. The keyframes don’t work, manually sliding doesn’t work – it just breaks.

In my old project, I already had keyframes set for the angle control, and they used to work perfectly (I have old renders to prove it) but when I import the project now, the keyframes are still there, the expression is still linked properly, but nothing happens.

[Scott Bush]

Ok cool thanks once again – not sure I’ll be able to do this today but I’ll keep you posted.

I’m curious, though – nobody seems to think it’s strange that I’m having these issues… is compressor that buggy? Is it normal for people to have this many issues with it?

[Scott Bush]

Fair enough, I’ll give it a try.

Should ask – is there any downside to using something like compressor repair? I mean, let’s say it works – could I then just run it every day without any ill effects?