[Stuart Fleisher]

Found the solution. You need to select the top level effect property in the Timeline, not in the Effects Control window.

[Stuart Fleisher]

I’m sure there’s a way to do this with expressions, but it seems like an easier method would be to apply the distort > transform effect to scale the parent layer instead of the transform controls.

[Stuart Fleisher]

A day of digging, and I found the solution! (I really hate toggling the graph editor manually)

Turns out some versions of text edit default to “smart quotes” – which are not unicode safe. Pretty easy to turn them off in the text edit -> edit -> substitutions menu:

Source:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1386022?q=Keyboard

[Stuart Fleisher]

David –

Did you ever figure out what the problem was? I’m also trying to change the mostly useless “Group” hotkey to reveal the graph editor, but I’m getting the same error you got.

[Stuart Fleisher]

Hey Roy,

I’m not really sure what the problem is, and I’ve been too busy to invest much time in fixing it. I’ve been stitching my sequences to my local disk and then transferring them to our edit share after that, which works ok, but isn’t an ideal solution. I will show your post to some people at work who are more familiar with the technical aspects of networking and see if they have any input.

[Stuart Fleisher]

I will try that suggestions as soon as I can, but it seems like more of a workaround than a permanent solution to me.

The actual stitch isn’t being farmed, just rendered from a single machine. Granted, we have an EditShare, so all of our files are located on an external server which we have extremely fast connections to. Since our workflow is highly dependent on this hardware, it doesn’t really make sense to pull all of the files onto a local machine whenever we need to stitch.

I’m not convinced that this is a network problem, since we don’t have problems with shorter length videos, or with other compressions. It almost seems like AE isn’t properly closing out/signing the render. We can watch each frame render, and we have a 2.5 gig file at the end of it, but we can’t open it. I’ll test your solution and see if it tells me more.

Oh, and btw, thanks for your help. Every time I have a technical issue and start researching answers your face seems to pop up in my search results. Its great to have such helpful people in the community.

[Stuart Fleisher]

I’m sorry, I was unclear. The image sequence was rendered over the network and all the images came out fine. The problem comes when I try to use after effects to stitch the sequence into a .mov.