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Scott Smith replied to the discussion JSON / Essential Graphics performance in AE in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:03:45 +0000

Reply to JSON / Essential Graphics performance in AE

Hi Filip,

Thanks for these ideas. Curious to try the posterizeTime(0) method — does this basically tell that text layer to refresh only on the first frame, and never again? Sneaky.

Re the parsing in expressions vs the timeline — I am currently reading the JSON in and addressing the objects i want on every expression. I’m also parsing layer names…

Scott Smith started the discussion JSON / Essential Graphics performance in AE in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:06:45 +0000

JSON / Essential Graphics performance in AE

Hi all,

I’m working on a video piece in which I’m trying to parameterize as much of the animation as possible in After Effects. The main composition contains a number of smaller videos that fade in and out at different times, as well as shape layers and text that accompany those videos as annotation graphics. Since a lot of the animation is…

Scott Smith replied to the discussion Unable to import JPEG into AE - Error 86 :: 1 (Bad Header) in the forum Adobe After Effects

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:29:35 +0000

Reply to Unable to import JPEG into AE - Error 86 :: 1 (Bad Header)

Hi all, reviving this thread since I just hit this issue for the first time, and I had 28000 images in a sequence that threw this error. In case my solution is useful for others — I found the batch conversion feature in Irfan View worked great. Just “converted” them to JPEG (they were already JPEGs, but whatever) and they worked great in AE.