[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Lee, my plain guess is that once rendered, you preview video in your viewer at a higher/stretched resolution. As for this reason, it looks less sharp.

If thats not the case, then I suggest to sharing a sample clip.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Robert, in order to help you further, could you please provide a bit more background. Specifically:
1. What is the reason that you need to overwrite existing named files in the renderQueue?
2. Are you set rendering location to be in the same place all the times?
3. Don’t you make a risk of overwriting files which might be needed after all?

With that said, knowing more of your workflow, could help to either provide more detailed approach, or suggest different list of actions instead.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Greg, few questions:

1. Is it OK to have more than few static frames to fill in the gap?
2. Instead, maybe you should just ‘slow down’ the previous or upcoming clip, or even both, to fill that gap as naturally as possible? ‘Rate Stretch Tool’, shortcut of ‘R’ would do it.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Robert, are you running your current bash manually? How do you initiate re-render in your current process, also by hand?

Also, are you familiar with Extendscript at some degree?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Wouter, looking at first example with 3 keyframes – I wonder – that circular path happens to appear when you paste value of the first keyframe, aka, by trying to reset motion into its original state?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

I guess during auto-saves it bugs even more to work with such project. My assumption is that you are working with ‘template’ project. Accordingly, when developing, think about the ways to structurally separate items into different projects, without loosing continuity between them.

Don’t think there is real ‘optimising’ thing in such case, unless you could try to apply Dependencies, by removing unused items and reducing the project. However, if assets were prepared with clarify, this most likely will help minor to close to none.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Blending modes, as well as gradients always been an issue between .ai’s & .aep’s. Ideally, during preparation, this should be avoided.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey John, thanks for confirmation. Actually, I just tried to test this alone based on information provided, with some markers in comp as well as layer markers. Here is what I get, the same way as I ‘debugged’ it in my mind:

When this case happens: else if (time < t2) { t = linear(time,t1,t2,t1,p.marker.key(m2).time) }

1. Interpolation is introduced. t becomes a numeric value from interpolation. Meaning, if t1 is at 1st second, interpolation actually returns value in the range of [1..p.marker.key(m2).time].
2. Here is what I don’t understand here – what opacity values you are actually getting in such case.

Maybe my setup of marker timestamps just didn’t match the logic you have, but this turns out to be wrong opacity interpolation on my end.

As a side note, I would strongly recommend writing expressions with full syntax. Of course its a matter of preference and getting used to it, but readability is clearly more better from a first sight ????

On a different note, sometimes it is easier to apply ‘Distort > Transformation’ to have another level of control via different transformation option (where you could apply different controllers over it). Its a workaround though 🙂

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Javier, glad it worked out. Now if you need to have ‘master’ control of the decimals, heres a solution:

1. Add checkbox expression control where you see it fit your needs (it does not matter where you will put it, as long as its comfortable to edit)
2. In your text layer’s source expression, add the following expression:

decimalsStatus = effect("Checkbox Control")(1); //Update the path to your created Checkbox control
if (decimalsStatus == true){
decimals = 2;
}else{
decimals = 0;
}
num = parseFloat(thisComp.layer("Number_Control").effect("Number_1")("ADBE Slider Control-0001")).toFixed(decimals);

3. If checked, you will have 2 decimals. If not – none decimal values.

If this needs to be done for every bar number – you have guessed it, it will require to create N of such controllers and link them in texts sources.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Johan. There are quite a few scenarios, but in general:

1. Create a null and add two Sliders, where one will control X padding, and other for Y.
2. Create two Text layers and two rectangular shape layers.
3. Inside the shape layers rect size, add expression similar to this, based on your layers/controllers names:

textLayer = thisComp.layer(1);
textS = textLayer .transform.scale[0] / 100;
textW = textLayer .sourceRectAtTime(time,true).width*textS;
textH = textLayer .sourceRectAtTime(time,true).height*textS;
boxW = textW+thisComp.layer('control').effect('box-xPadding')('Slider');
boxH = textH+thisComp.layer('control').effect('box-yPadding')('Slider');
[boxW, boxH]
}

Where textLayer should be your main text layer’s index.
4. Apply this expression to second shape’s size as well, and change textLayer index to your subtitles one.
5. You will have to adjust positioning of the layers and their anchor points as well as add another slider to control the gap between them.

I assume in the forum there is already a fully working solution, so searching could help.

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