***SOLVED*** I trashed the preferences

H, Everyone.

Today, all of a sudden, whenever I close Mocha AE, After Effects crashes. Also, for some reason Autosave has stopped working.

The only thing I did today was install an extension from Adobe exchange called Motion Bros, as I was trying tio follow a tutorial on how to do a face replacement using it. The tutorial proved to be a rabbit…

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Hi, Everyone.

I am not an everyday user of After Effects, but am trying to pull off a temp comp for a project that is proving tricky. I’m not sure what to do and am looking for advice.

In the shot, the camera tilts down from the roof of a building to an alley below. A lot of the tiles of the roof are missing, which I painted in on one frame in…

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Thanks, Michael.

I actually did try content aware fill later on. It fixed one tricky bit, but failed on most of it, even with good reference frames.

I tried photoshop for my matte painting work at first, but I made one big file that covered the whole shot, by stitching various parts together. What I learned though was that there were too many…

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Thanks, Michael. That does make sense. Unfortunately I don’t have any plugins budget, so hopefully there is a way to remove lens distortion inside AE itself.

Hi, Everyone.

I am not a major user of After Effects, but have successfully used the 3D Camera tracker to solve certain VFX shots for my job in editorial.

I have been having a problem with the 3D Camera tracker lately that I just can’t figure out. I, AE version 23, I will do a track, and it seems very straight forward, and there appears to…

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Thanks, Filip!

Unfortunately, I don’t really know what you mean by this. All I know how to do is track the object in Mocha and export the cornerpin data. I don’t know if you mean that I can bring the .psd file into Mocha and make it line up there? Sorry, I am so not an expert in any of this.

Hi, I am trying to comp a .psd of a thin rectangular picture into an HD shot of a mobile phone. I did a cornerpin track of the phone in mocha, but I couldn’t really track the corners where they should go on the final shot – though I roughly got the tracking data for most of the shot. I want to use this data, but I then want to apply an overall…

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Hi, Guys.

I have done a free transform transformation on one image in photoshop and I want to make that exact transformation to another image that has the same starting dimensions. How do I do this please? I’m not having any luck getting the answer with google. I don’t know photoshop inside out.