Hey all — I’m having issues with AE’s memory usage. It’s gotten so high that I can’t queue up more than one render (through the queue) without closing and reopening AE between renders. Not optimal.

Mac Studio, AE 2022.4.0, Monterey, 128GB RAM, UHD comp, 19 seconds long. Keyed footage, some effects, nested comps. No dynamic link (ugh) used. Running…

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I think I have an application that might illustrate this.

You have two stars floating in the scene. Each star has a stroke and a fill. But for project-specific reasons, each star’s fill and stroke must be on a separate layer. So you have four layers: fill 1, and stroke 1 for star 1; fill 2, and stroke 2 for star 2.

Now, you want each star to be…

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I’d like to speed up my workflow with x-particles, but can only find a few x-p shortcuts under “customize commands,” and not all. Is it possible to create a shortcut for something I can access through the x-particles menu, but isn’t in the customize commands manager? Thanks.

Yeah. Zoom. Ugh.

Thanks very much for the compression spec. I’ll also ask my friend to set that NLE-compatible switch should he ever want to do this again.

In the end, I gave him (before reading your last post) a decent looking file that was around 225 MB. He was happy.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the quick reply, Craig.

Yep, 55MB H.264, recorded by my friend via Zoom, is the original source, unfortunately: laptop camera over Zoom. Hence, the problem. 🙂

I’ve examined the data rate in Mediainfo (thanks for the pointer), and overall, it’s 216Kbps, video is 87.6 Kbps H.264/AVC, audio is 126 Kbps.

Zoom might use a proprietary…

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I’m compressing a 33-minute (1440×900, 25 fps) video in Premiere Pro, for online delivery. The first 30 seconds is a talking head, and the rest is composed of still images. It’s basically a narrated slide show with an introduction by the presenter, Zoom-style.

I was provided with his original clip, and he asked me to make a couple of cuts. However,…

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I see the blur in your video, James, when stepping frame-by-frame through the video (pause, then shift+ R/L arrows): yes, some of the frames are blurred. Two causes come to mind:

– the compression for Vimeo might be causing this. The way to tell if it is or not is to render uncompressed, maybe TGA sequence, re-import, and take a look at the…

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Thanks, Jim.

I’m having a bit of difficulty with that (quite reasonable) plan in that even with “realtime update” selected, scrubbing (or clicking) in the “radius” window shows no results in the viewport until I click “apply.”

Ah. But if I reset the values after one try, then try scrubbing/clicking the radius value, I see a real-time effect… Read more

Hi – apologies if this is basic, but I can’t seem to find a key for gearing up or gearing down the mouse dragging. I’m looking for a key to hold when dragging the mouse, in the way that in After Effects, you hold down shift to gear up the mouse dragging, or hold down cmd/ctrl to gear it down.

Why? Because I’d like to chamfer a spline by… Read more