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A shader system would be great, but I too have used Form for exactly this before. The trick is using two instances of Form to create the offset/interlocking hexagonal layout.
Walter Soyka
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This should do it:
12525_pathexpressionv3.aep.zipWalter Soyka
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Try Edit > Purge > All memory & disk cache.
Walter Soyka
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You mentioned you had a lot of these… so I’ve made it a little more easily repeatable. The Shape layers in this project have two Layer Controls on them, so you can select which two nulls it should connect in the Effects Control Panel.
12524_pathexpressionv2.aep.zip
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[jeffin ravi] “I want to instruct the AME to export only one composition(the main comp) from the project, Is there any way around to achieve this?”
When you drop an .AEP file into an Adobe Media Encoder watch folder, AME renders all the comps contained in the root level of the project. Tuck all the comps you DON’T want to render into a folder before saving the AEP and you should be able to render only the main comp.
Walter Soyka
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[Moog Gravett] “1/ Using a path
– issue, I can’t parent the ends to nulls / objects”Starting with Ae CC 2018 v15.0 and higher, we now have expression access to paths. That means with just line or two of code, you CAN parent the ends to nulls.
Check out this sample project for an example:
12523_pathexpression.aep.zipWalter Soyka
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Red Giant has Trapcode 3D Stroke, which I think does exactly what you want:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/trapcode-3d-stroke/Walter Soyka
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Perhaps a Promise Pegasus RAID? If you’re working with video files, you can still benefit from the extra speed and protection that a RAID can offer.
On the lower end of the budget, you can get single-spindle, external Thunderbolt 3 drives in high capacities from manufacturers like G-Technology, Glyph and Lacie. They will be significantly slower, of course.
In any case, just please remember that all hard drives fail. It’s a question of when, not if. Make sure you have a good backup strategy so you don’t lose anything important!
Walter Soyka
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I would create a set of maybe 3-6 small, looping comps that feature one individual circle doing its own cheer, all with exactly the same duration.
Then, I’d either use expressions or a script to position them, looping them and randomizing their start times, or I’d use a particle system like Form to distribute them.
To use Form, you’d have to sequence your individual comps into one precomp that contains all of them, again, with exactly the same duration for each. Then set Particle > Particle Type to Textured Polygon, Texture > Layer to your all-animations precomp, Texture > Time Sampling to “Split Clip – Loop,” and Number of Clips to match the number of comps in your all-animations precomp.
Walter Soyka
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Once something is previewed, Ae caches the results so that subsequent previews and renders are faster. This might be what you’re seeing with this example.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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