[Todd Kopriva]

Kevin is correct.

Regarding what you were seeing in your previous project: roving keyframes.

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[Todd Kopriva]

If you don’t understand how Ease & Wizz works, you could ask Ian, the person from whom you bought it:
https://ianhaigh.com/easeandwizz/

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After Effects quality engineering
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[Todd Kopriva]

That is built in and automatic. It’s part of the caching system.

See this video for details:
https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/global-performance-cache-and-persistent-disk-cache

If you don’t want to rely on the cache system, you can prerender an element and just use the prerendered movie instead of making After Effects recalculate aspects of the element:

See this video for details:
https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Prerendering-using-proxies-After-Effects/123475/128365-4.html

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After Effects quality engineering
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[Todd Kopriva]

After Effects added the ability to send video previews over HDMI in the CC 2014 (13.0) release:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/05/video-preview-mercury-transmit-after-effects.html

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After Effects quality engineering
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[Todd Kopriva]

So, you’re trying to import an XML file, not a .r3d file?

That is a different thing entirely.

If someone gave you an XML file that represents an entire project (e.g., an FCP XML file from an NLE), then that is not a file that you import like a piece of footage. After Effects does come with a feature for interpreting FCP XML files; File > Import > Pro Import After Effects. This feature is based on Pro Import AE from Automatic Duck.

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[Todd Kopriva]

You can ask Jeff Almasol for the script here:
https://twitter.com/redefinery

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Posts by redefinery

[Todd Kopriva]

We’re working on a fix, and it is our intent to release a fix in the next update, which is likely to come out in a month or two.

Even though we now have the ability to release updates on our own schedule, that doesn’t remove the need for us to be careful with how we develop and test these fixes. Nor does it change the fact that it’s more efficient to bundle a set of fixes together into a single update, rather than rush to release each individual fix out as a separate patch.

In the meantime, there are some workarounds discussed here and in the forum thread that it points to:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/06/red-r3d-problems-after-effects-cc-2014-13-0.html

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[Todd Kopriva]

You do not run an update to go from version 7 to version 8 of Adobe Media Encoder. You install a whole new application.

Go to the Creative Cloud desktop application and install Adobe Media Encoder CC 014 (8.0) from there.

BTW, AME is automatically installed with After Effects and Premiere Pro.

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[Todd Kopriva]

Start here to learn After Effects:
https://adobe.ly/AE_basics

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[Todd Kopriva]

There are a lot of different RED cameras and formats. Give us the details of the camera and footage.

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