Thank you, Kouraib. I love the video answers to the questions. I think I may have indeed confused the summery.

Once again, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions…😎

Hi Kouraib,

Thank you so much for taking the time to do that. I really appreciate it. It seems like the going to the edit button works for deleting a track, but for the individual frames it looks like it’s deleting the frames from both the cube and the camera. I don’t understand why it does that.

Shouldn’t it just remove it from one track or the…

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Hi all.

I hope this message finds you well.

Can’t believe I’m having to ask this question, but I can’t seem to delete individual keyframes from the dope sheet page. If I am on my camera track and I want to delete its frames it highlights the the cube I’m animating and it will delete both even though they are separate animations.

I was thinking maybe…

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Thank you Kourib!

Really appreciate it.

Hi Kouraib,

Thanks for the reply!. I haven’t used paths much or hidden paths, but I will try to find some tutorials and give it a go.

Thanks again. I really appreciate it.

Hi All and Happy New Year.

As you can see in the attached file. I’ve created some letters, stacked them on top of each other and then had an invisible object hit them that will later be replaced by another animation that will be composited in AE.

What I am having trouble with is getting the letters to reform into another word by animating them…

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Just as an update for anyone unfortuate enough to have to have been following this…it works until I use the liquid page rule and scale to resize the whole book, then when I try to insert a page it doesn’t work.

Thanks again for the replies on this thread…

I think I may have been wrong. Tried it today and it still doesn’t work.

Hi Sarah.

Thanks so much. I actually think that may have done it. I don’t think I was selecting both sides of the layout like it looks like you did in your video.

I really appreciate it and sorry for the late reply, I’ve been working on other parts of my project and just checked in here tonight.

Thanks, again!

PS If I open a new document with facing pages and do an insert it works fine, so it must likely be something in my book layout that’s causing the problem…

Hi Sarah,

Thanks so much for responding to my question. I tried what you suggested several times, but it’s still not working. After what you mentioned I went to layout/ pages/insert page and still the page is left by itself.

I had a similar issue before, but I was able to work around it by creating a new page at the bottom of the document and…

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Hi,

No one has attempted to anwer this yet. I am really kind of stuck until I resolve this. Anyone with information would be very much appreicated. Thanks.

Hi,

I’m trying to reformat by book, but when I try to insert a page it connects to the following page as two pages facing each other, but the page I was trying to connect it too is left by itself as a single page. I’ve tried a bunch of things and nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?

The photos below show the progression. The first is before. The 3rd…

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Hi,

I think I basically solved this by reformating all the pages using liquid layout and scale.

Hi All,

I completed my book layout a while back, but have realized that it is too large and so I want to resize the entire book. When I first did it I didn’t just dump all the text in one, I didn’t really know what I was doing and two, by book has tons of chapters and graphics so it didn’t seem like the way to do it.

But now it will cost me more in…

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Hi All,

Quickly Switch Between Open Tabbed Documents. This is the phrase I should have looked for, and the answer is command/tilda.

Just in case someone else is having the same issue.

Cheers…

Hello Creative Cowers,

I am in the process of editing a contents section of my book, which requires going through the book and making sure the page numbers are correct. I made a copy of the document so I wouldn’t have to keep scrolling up and down through the whole document to save time, but now I’m wondering if there is also a shortcut so I can…

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Hi Todd,

Thank you so much for the tip. It worked. Eureka!

I actually switched the auto scroll from Page Scroll to Smooth Scroll, but hadn’t tried the No Scroll because in a video I was watching on scrolling the host said something like “I can’t imagine anyone ever using no scroll” so I never tried it.

Thanks again for your help, I’m sure it will…

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Hi guys,

I’m a relative newbie on Premier so I don’t know if this is something I don’t know how to do or if it’s something the program can’t do. (Although you would think that it would.)

I am working on narrator footage in my timeline and as I am reviewing it, I often want to use the slider to move ahead while it’s playing so I can see where my…

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Also just wanted to add that once I looked into my activity monitor I realized that out of 64 gigs of ram I was using about 38 . I closed a couple of programs and my Brave Browser and suddenly I was down to using 15 gigs out of 64 and that helped amazingly.

Thanks Andy for pointing me in the right direction. Much appreciated…

Just wanted to update. I finally figured out what may be obvious to many. My problem was in the render settings. I didn’t have COLOR MAPPING checked in my render. Once I changed it it fixed my problem.

Hi All,

Just doing some due diligence here for anyone who comes to this post and doesn’t know some of the terminology as I didn’t… Turns out I just didn’t remember some of it, but still…

The terms I wasn’t familiar with were instances which can be found…

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Hi Andy,

Thank very much for the quick and helpful reply. Some of the language is a bit over my head, but I understand the general idea and will research what I don’t understand in the morning.

I guess it is the morning 🙂, but you get the idea.

Thanks, again. I really appreciate it…

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to increase processing speed in C4D, so I can finish my project.

I have posted a couple of times because both my Mac desktop with an 8 gig video card and 64 gigs of ram and my newer Macbook Pro with 16 gigs of ram can seem to process the project that I am working on.

I have never run into this problem before on…

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I just saw this. Thanks for the reply. Not sure about using having to install drivers on a Mac, but I’ll look into.

What I’m trying to achieve is what is in the photo. I just need the colors to show up correctly.

Hi Usama,

Thanks very much for the reply. I will check it out and post the results. Thanks, again

It’s rendered in C4D with the physical setting.

And thanks very much for the reply. I’ll look up what Element 3d is because I have never used it.

This is a weird one. All the colors read correctly in the reflections not on the set I made. Some in the middle are but the rest are wrong. Each panel is backlit by a colored light. I don’t get it.

Any ideas? I’m almost finished but this problem is blocking me from finishing it.

Hi All,

When I am in live selection mode and left click to make a multi-selection, my screen goes black so I can’t see what I’m selecting. Any ideas?

I have virtually the same set up on my laptop, but it doesn’t do it there. Both are Macs.

Thanks in advance….

Hi All,

I am just at the end of a project and I seemed to have pushed my system to the limit (like I always do)

I am building a virtual set and made it pretty big, about a hundred foot radius, twelve source lights, etc., and it’s been a little slow, but when I put the neon letters I made into it, I can’t really move anything. It renders fine, but I…

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Thank you Mads and Todd for responding and you’re well thought out responses. Appreciate it…

As usual, I wound up figuring out what went wrong after I’d made a post for help. But for those few who may have followed in my ignorant footsteps this is what happened.

I finally realized that I had an in and out point on the time line and the clips I was trying to place in it were too large for the selection that I had already made.

Sorry to…

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Hi All,

Having a strange problem. If I try to insert edit from the source window the fit clip window appears and tells me “the source is longer than the destination” and even when I’ve tried to use one of the fit clip choices it puts the clip in the wrong spot, but always in the same place in the timeline.

I have done an exhaustive search and can…

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UPDATE: This has been driving me crazy, but I finally figured out why it wasn’t working. I had the Renderer set to Standard instead of Physical (that I usually have it on). Once I changed it back to that everything works.

Hi All,

I have my camera activated — I go into the controls — the exposure box is checked, but no matter what I effect — shutter speed, ISO, or F-stop nothing changes in the image before or after I render it. I also tried it on my laptop to see if it worked there and it didn’t.

On a previous project I had it working and it saved me a whole lot…

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Definitely did.

Was wondering if you’d know a way to do what the problem was (the background going solid) on purpose. I kind of like the effect. I just didn’t like the color and not having control of it. I was thinking of changing the depth of field, but it’s a 15mm lens so I don’t know if that would work.

Any regardless. Thanks for your help.

UPDATE: Andy, I took your advice and went thought different layers and oddly enough found it was disk layer that was actually on the ground and not obstructing the camera. I changed one of the material layers and it went away.

Not exactly sure what is was doing, but thanks for the suggestion… It worked!

I don’t think so, but I will check it out. It’s a good thought. There are a lot of glass panels in there.

Thanks for the response, Andy. I really appreciate it…

Hi All

Hope this message finds you well…

I am creating a video logo and I have a star-field background in the form of a physical sky. And it is fine, but when I dolly in an animation it disappears and turns into a dark blue, with no stars. And it doesn’t change when I take out the sky BG.

I seems to coincide with when I am tilting up.

It didn’t…

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Hi Joe,

And thanks for the reply. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have done that already. I have gone from Photoshop to AI and also done an image trace in AI and exported then imported into c4d. And like I said, I got it to work on a complicated logo from Image Trace in AI to C4D, but then later it hasn’t ever worked.

Also there is nothing in…

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UPDATE: I solved this by copying the animation from the Timeline (Dopesheet) and pasting it to to where I moved it.

Thanks, Andy very much for the reply. I wound up going back to the letters I created and edited and then beveled each one separately and it worked out.

Thanks again for the response…

Hi All,

This is very frustrating. I’ve follow may tutorial to the letters and yet no matter what I do spline I’ve created in AE of PS show up at Nulls with nothing in them in C4D.

I’ve also tried adding points to the spline which is a solution I’ve read on line.

What’s more frustrating is that I got it to work with two very complex Logos I made in…

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Hi All,
I am trying to get different colors onto a text animation so they match my logo, but it seems that I can only make the text one color. And I could make the text edible and do it, but then I lose the animation.

So is there a way to make the text different colors without making them editable or a way to make the text editable and not lose…

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Hi All,

I am working on an a text animation that is made up of custom letters and so I am animating it one layer at a time. (Maybe there is a better way, but I don’t know it).

I did it in a separate project, because I didn’t want to mess up what I’d already done in the master project.

The problem is that the animation doesn’t move with… Read more