I’ve been battling with various Windows machines for years… Moved to a new Mac some months ago, and the contrast is unreal… I’m on the latest version of Tahoe and no issues at all really…. stark contrast to using Adobe on Windows!!

It’s been a while but I’ve just come back to this and tried out the tutorial – it works really well! Thanks very much for sharing 🙂

2 years later and I still haven’t found a fix yet. I’ve just upgraded to version 2025 and now I also have Redshift, so I’m looking into this again now… Right now I’m exploring vertex maps and also the vertex color tag, this shows some promising results, but not sure if it’s going to be scalable for large projects.

15 years ago there were some illegal hacks for this… now? nope. You need to verify your Adobe account to use AFX so you’d also need the creative cloud app to run alongside not to mention a ton of other processes that need to spawn with AFX, and AFX doesn’t run in a portable version.

Have you tried dual booting a library PC from a memory stick…

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I would tend to shoot it into ffmpeg and split it out into separate physical files personally, I find it more reliable to manage, and simplifies the workflow when I want to take it into Audition for further tweaking.

Thanks for the reply, I’ll check this out later!

Hello all,

I’ve used C4D for a few years, it’s not my primary tool, but I know it well enough to do mid-level modelling, texturing, rendering, etc. However, I still don’t know of a good way to convert an spline object to a polygon, or a polygon to a spline.

For instance, today I had a 2D imported spline, and I wanted to work on it specifically with…

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+1 on Mads answer – best to use a file hosting platform for the purpose you describe, which maintains the integrity of the original file.

Youtube re-encodes all video that you upload, so whatever the file format, however many channels or metadata you have, it all gets normalised, so all audio channels get merged into a single stereo stream.

Also,…

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Personally, I’m not sure why there would be any problems? I have windows 11 and keep it fully up to date, and do 80% of my animation and 3D modelling in Visualize R20 which works without a single problem. I think it’s one of the most stable design programs I use, much more reliable then any Adobe program for instance, which makes my modelling…

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+1 for Mads solution – I’ve tried to do exactly this in the past but even with a clean plate it’s difficult. Not to be pernickerty, but obviously the pixels themselves don’t “move”, they are static and just change color… so you can’t track pixel movement, you have to track changes to the pixel color… but unless you’re in highly controlled…

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Personally, I have this sneaking suspicion that you could have 512GB of RAM, and After FX would still somehow manage to hit 99% usage…

I agree Rob, pagefile definitely isn’t a replacement, I was more saying that if you’re in that situation that you’ve maxed your RAM, you’ve still got something which is better than nothing… So if you only expect to max out your RAM on a heavy project a couple of times in a year, then it might not be worth getting more RAM for the few times…

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Interesting, I would have said go for the SSD if I had to choose. With a better / faster SSD, you can increase your paging file, and also use it for fast caching, which while it doesn’t do the same job as RAM, it does reduce your systems dependency on RAM. A better RAM with faster combined i/o speeds will also help computations complete much…

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Definitely CPU… adobe programs are CPU hoggers

just trying to understand, are you stacking these expressions all on a single property or is each one used separately?

just lots of frame grabs / stills lined up surely?

you’ve got the syntax wrong, each expression works fine on it’s own, but they RETURN a value, they don’t modify the existing value.

var txt = value;
txt.trim(); // removes whitespaces in front of text and returns the value - doesn't change the value of "txt" variable
txt.substr(0/37);//limits the ORIGINAL string to 37 signs and returns it again.…

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what version of Resolve? what platform / os / system are you using?

It might be easier to mask out the rug altogether and replace it with either a clean plate or a 3D generated alternative. If it’s not the main focus and you blended it in to a good match, it could be so subtle that no one guesses that it’s not the real deal

They seem to follow a standard masking pattern. You could create the mask pattern in photoshop or something and just use an image series as a mask for the colored box graphic. Shouldn’t be too difficult if you know your way around After FX

You can turn lens correction off in Camera RAW for the DNG file – you’ll find it under the Optics section as per screenshot below.

If lens correction is off for both images, they should composite correctly. Once you’ve composited and got your final image, you can apply Camera RAW as a smart filter to re-apply the lens correction afterwards.

Have you though of just using the captions tool in Premiere Pro or even the credits roll feature? Both would give you similar effects and they’re built in as standard…

Had to download to view, wouldn’t be mega complicated to do this using expressions if you’re familiar with them. If you’re not, I suggest watching some tutorials or doing a course on them first maybe, this will help you find the best way of doing it.

position and scale properties for all objects are natively changeable via expressions, what have you tried so far?

Let me know if you get this sorted, because I’m interested – as far as I know, I didn’t think there is a way to guarantee this. Can you tell me what you’ve been using in the textReplace function? What values are you using?

The big killer here, as far as I know, is that most font sets i’ve seen don’t include curly quotation marks as standard,…

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Sounds good to me Gerry, a lot of stuff is personal preference of course but if you have put as much thought into the rest of the system as you have into the hard drive arrangement then you’re off to a good start.

Just off the bat, the first thing that came to mind is that an M.2 is probably faster for a cache drive, but depends on specs of the…

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I have 10 years experience in Premiere Pro…

I have 10 hours experience in Davinci Resolve…

Recently I struggled to color grade a shot in Premiere Pro… after 40 minutes of tweaking, it looked ok but definitely not perfect… I thought I would try it in Davinci Resolve, and after 10 minutes, I had the shot looking exactly how I wanted it.

I…

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https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/sharepoint-cloud-storage/

Just thought I’d also post a link where I previously discussed my setup if you’re interested…

Using any RAID system will increase r/w speeds because you’re basically adding an extra software layer between your program and the drive. For instance, if you have several hard drives of any type, you can either mount them natively in the system and access them individually which is always the fastest way, or you can add a RAID layer in which is…

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Because they don’t need them… The best videos are the ones that tell a story and use great content to make it interesting…

I use transitions so I’m not putting them down, but IMHO I know that often it’s just a way to make footage look more dynamic and captivating then it really is. For something like a music video where you have an amazing…

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Can’t see an obvious problem with your script. Personally I would rename the text layers to something short and simple to help keep your code clean.

If the sourceRectattime() functions aren’t returning the right answer, you’re probably using a text box, don’t think it works on these, it has to be free form text – open the text type tool, and don’t…

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Does it stop playing or just pause to buffer? If it stops playing, the play button will change from a || pause symbol to the > triangle play symbol.

If it’s pausing to buffer, it will still keep trying to play, but will just hang while it’s loading, and the pause symbol will still show.

If it’s buffering then it’s down to system specs, issue with…

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There’s lots of info on the web generally on this so I’ll try and offer a brief outline. Not sure how much of this you already know so let know if you want more specifics on anything.

You first need a layer to hold your checkbox, this is an Expressions effect. I usually add a blank Shape layer but you can use a null layer or any other layer too.…

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This is a big bugbear for me, the updates (and upgrades) are generally buggy and cause a problem somewhere. I have all the auto-updates turned off for anything Adobe, just because I can’t risk getting bugs that make it impossible to work.

The only time I update is when I have a problem. Whenever I look at the new features listed in the updates,…

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Green screen is an art in itself, and I would say most of the work is in the initial keying. If you don’t get that right, you’ll ultimately spend a lot of time adding effects on top of effects on top of effects… it’s not an ideal way to go. I’d recommend spending more time getting the keying right, and then everything else is more likely to…

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41000 Hz doesn’t match exactly, not sure if it matters but a 22050 Hz track doubles to 44100 Hz (or 44.1KHz) – surprised there’s not an option for this.

So just to clarify a few things – is it this one track it happens to, or several / all? If it’s one track, is it 100% not an issue with the track? – try playing it through a few different media…

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You can literally stretch (scale) the image to whatever dimensions you want in Resolve, click on the clip, go to the inspector tab, uncheck the link aspect ratio option, and change scale to whatever you want. Lots of tutorials on youtube if you’re not sure how.

If you don’t want it stretched then I guess you’re best off pulling this into photoshop…

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If the main point of this is for tidyness, then I wouldn’t worry about removed unused footage. I have OCD, like to keep everything organised, named up correctly and so on, but I still wouldn’t bother going this far.

Footage isn’t stored in your project, it’s only linked so it won’t increase project size much and won’t affect performance unless you…

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Difficult to help when we don’t know anything about what’s going on, all you’ve given us is 2 images… really need some more details.

Can you post some screenshots of the After Effects projects and how the effect is built? What machine are you editing on, what’s the OS, and what GPU?

What export settings did you use in After Effects? Have you…

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Interesting… I use C4D and AFX, familiar with the takes system. I get what you’re saying but also interested in an example where this would be useful – I’m not sure what I would do with it personally.

If I wanted to do anything like this, I wouldn’t split it out into project files personally, I’d prefer to split it out into different comps…

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Or… uninstall Adobe and install Davinci Resolve instead!

These errors are sadly part of the Premiere Pro workflow – Adobe always like Premiere Pro to run into a few errors occasionally, this is part of a special user selection process. If you’re good enough to solve the errors and keep working, then you’ve passed the test and you can keep using…

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Yes, I thought same as Andy, I think it only imports if all the filenames end in the frame number but they have to be prefixed with the right amount of zeros so the quantity of digits at the end of the name is the same. So it could be 4 digits which would run from filename_0000.tiff, filename_0001.tiff through to filename_9999.tiff.

simplicity is best in AFX expressions!

2 things stand out straight away.

Firstly, the precomp that holds the replaceable media is at the bottom of your comp. This is fine, but you also have “adjustment layer” turned on (the half filled circle). Adjustment layers affect layers beneath them and as there are no layers beneath this layer, this just hides the layer.

Secondly, you have a red…

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Personally, if I was recreating this, I’d use 2D shapes in Illustrator. Just cos it looks 3D doesn’t mean it has to be 🙂

There are no real 3D effects involved here, no lighting, no shadows, no reflections etc, so 3D is overkill. Just create a few ellipses, make them wider than they are high and stack them, you’ll get this same effect much more simply.

A mogrt can’t interact with anything else on your timeline so it won’t work as an adjustment layer like you found out 🙂

However, using the replaceable media function should work ok if it’s setup right – sounds like it’s still not working for you?

Do you want to share your mogrt with me or attach it here? Happy to take a look at it, sometimes…

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The smart snapping guides work off points by default, not splines. Illustrator also intelligently adds “midpoint” point for snapping – it isn’t a real point but appears when snapping to objects.

On the first example, the snapping guides appear because the end points of the line are vertically in line with the right point on the circle. The…

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Just trying to understand what you’re trying to do – if I understand right, you’re trying to use an adjustment layer in the replaceable media part of a MOGRT?

As far as I know, you can’t do this, and also not sure if would do anything if you could? An adjustment layer has no output on it’s own – on a timeline it will affect layers beneath it but…

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