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Simon Robbrecht
August 25, 2010 at 9:03 pm in reply to: sourceText from anaother comp slows render down. A lot…

I see. So the only way to avoid al this referencing is baking the info into keyframes.

Is there a way to script an automation for this?
In other words, is it possible to write a script that scans for text layers whose contents are generated by an expression and bake this info into keyframes? For all these layers in all different compositions and all at once?

Or am i asking too much now?
Simon Robbrecht
August 25, 2010 at 3:58 pm in reply to: sourceText from anaother comp slows render down. A lot…

Thanks for the tip Dan but unfortunately that is not an option.

The whole project consists of 42 comps with a total of 200+ textlayers. So converting the expressions to keyframes for all these layers would eliminate the time-benefit of automating everything with expressions…

It still seems odd to me that it takes longer to render. One would think that the expression takes care of filling out the text layers before rendering. So rendering a textlayer that is filled out automatically should not take any longer than rendering out a manually inserted text.

Or am I missing the whole expression-way-of-thinking clue?

Simon
Simon Robbrecht
August 24, 2010 at 1:06 pm in reply to: Expressions for modifying textSource makes render slow?

UPDATE: if i disable the expressions, the render times are back to normal. So it looks like the mere reference to a textsource in another composition slows the whole thing down.

Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thank you very much
Simon Robbrecht
January 28, 2008 at 11:51 am in reply to: randomizing scale parameters over timeintervals

that worked very well.

thanks a lot!
Simon Robbrecht
March 2, 2007 at 2:25 pm in reply to: scale and position issue copy pasted paths from AI or PS

Both the AE composition and the .psd are set to square-pixels…
Simon Robbrecht
March 1, 2007 at 7:41 pm in reply to: scale and position issue copy pasted paths from AI or PS

the fact is, I didn’t import a file; I only copy pasted the paths from a Photoshop document with the same dimensions as the AE comp and layers.

I vaguely remember that there is a maximum number of masks per layer that AE can handle (how many?). Perhaps that’s where the problem comes from because i’m importing a few hundred paths (i’m only wildly guessing here).
Simon Robbrecht
February 28, 2007 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Pasting Photoshop Paths to AE

I don’t know whether this works for Photoshop but I know you have to setup a preference in Illustrator to paste paths into the clipboard.

In Illustrator you have to change this settings in preferences > clipboard > select AICB

Dunno whether there is something similar in Photoshop.
Simon Robbrecht
February 28, 2007 at 9:44 am in reply to: paint effect from audio(keyframes)

that does the trick very well.

Thanks a million!
Simon Robbrecht
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 am in reply to: paint effect from audio(keyframes)

Thanks for the tip! I got the Soundkeys plug-in but I think I am missing out on something. The plug-in converts audio to keyframes allright but I think I still need an expression to let the “end” property of the paint effect grow gradually depending on the keyframes generated by the soundkeys effect, right?

Since the amplitude of the music does’nt grow gradually, the keyframes generated by soundkeys won’t do either. I can generate an output by opting for the on/off mode but there is no way to “freeze” the generated output and build it up gradually.

Perhaps I overlooked something, the manual is very very basic i think.

Does anyone have a clue?

thanks!