Tudor "ted" jelescu
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If you are working at 8bit color depth try changing to 16 bit and 32bit. You will probably get different results. Also, you can try adding a blur to the gradient and/or noise. This will also help.
Maybe I did not understand exactly what you’re after, but the kind of blur you have in the still that you posted can be achieved if you apply a blur on an adjustment layer and mask out the part you do not want affected by the blur. Feathering the mask will give you a softer transition.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Do you have the collapse transformations/continuously rasterize box checked on all layers with vector art?
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f49a.htmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Depending on how complex the animation is – 2d or 3d with camera move- you can go the simple route of using a shape layer to draw a line and then mask that out. Animate the mask and reveal the line as the car moves forward. For more complex setups you can parent a Light to the car layer and use that as an emitter for Particular. The set the particles to create a solid line – any of the ipod light streak tutorials should help you on that.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Feather the mask and you should get that. You will probably need to adjust the expansion and the feathering together to get the result you want.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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I am not sure if I understand your issue correctly, but if you are referring to a mask on a layer you have the option to Expand and Feather the edge. If it’s an alpha channel then a Matte Choker may do the trick.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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It may have something to do with the way you have setup the memory usage for AE. With 8 processing cores and 8GB of RAM, at the minimum recommended 2GB of RAM/processing core setting, AE will end using only 2 processing cores. Check out this link for more info:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/03/performance-tip-dont-oversched.htmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If you want to determine where the audio queues are for your animation you can just hit the”.” key on your numbers pad from your keyboard- that will play audio only, and then hit the”*” key whenever you hear a queue in the audio (like base or drum beat). This will set markers on your audio layer that you can use then to animate.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If you have CS5 then you have Free Form. You can apply a depth map to a 2d layer Using Free Form and position that in 3d space using the plugins controls to create the floor.
Here’s a tutorial that can help you understand how Free Form works:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If the attributes you are changing affect only what comes after what you already have rendered in RAM preview, AE will keep the rendered frames, but most likely changing a keyframe will affect the whole layer and thus the whole comp, so AE starts again.
If you just want to see the change you made with only a few frames before, all you need to do is set the Work Area (on top of the layers in the timeline window) to the points you want as in and out. AE will render only that part for preview.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7ef7a.htmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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One quick work around is to work at a higher frame rate, render and then bring in a standard frame rate comp- you can get slow motion that way. If you need to speed up after, you can time remap.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist