[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Alex, thats a nice idea to think about. However, without a script doing the heavy lifting automatically, I don’t see other alternative than achieving this all manually.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Ryan, what if you :

1. Duplicate particles layer.
2. Key-out shadows/dark areas.
3. Add some feather.
4. Do not apply motion for this layer.
5. Put it at the top of the layers stack.
6. Try playing around with blending modes and opacity on top.

Not sure whether it would look acceptable, but this is what I would try to do first.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Reuben, what information in particular you are interested to populate? Also, is it only for single-layer selections?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Sam, sorry to hear you have headaches. Take a look at the last post in this thread:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2632080

This might give you some ideas how to address the situation. Cheers!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Jon, good to see you have found a workaround. Yet on the other hand, it is not required to do the following in order to access items.

Have a look here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7027051/access-json-or-js-property-using-string

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Nick, do you call pre-renders actual output files which you export for other use, OR actual preview lag in the viewport?

One way or another, its not your systems setup. Feel free to share more information, specifically about your comp setup – resolution, assets used within effects, etc.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Craig, most likely its an encoding issue. It was usual in earlier versions of Mocha, but lately I haven’t faced such issues myself.

Just try to encode your video to other intermediate format and see if it helps.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Max, interesting intentions! Few questions:

1. Do you expect other ‘stories’ to trim accordingly to respond to your changes in other comp?
2. Currently, how your main/other comps are designed most often? Is it a single comp where you manually edit work area one after another, or anything else?
3. Assuming changes are requested from a client, how it affects above? (2nd point) Are there only in/out point changes, or there might be more complex adjustments required?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Nick,

from a personal perspective – Quadro is a waste of money for AE – close to none benefits at all.

It think if you pick some newer Geforce with more rams, you will be fine, as your current is pretty old to say the least. While there will be some benefits for some effects, do not expect anything out of this work, flying ☺

Here is great guide, which will give you a general sense:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-After-Effects-CC-144/Hardware-Recommendations

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Ralph, try to look here: https://videohive.net/search/explainer%20toolkit

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