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Maybe clear your cache, reset preferences, or copy the layers into a new comp, then. A speed change on layer 7 should not have any impact on layer 1.
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The audio speed should only be changing where you have time remapping keyframes. Can you confirm that layer 1 has no time remapping?
If that’s already the case, double-check the Preview panel during playback and make sure that playback is not dropping below real-time.
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This is not super-straightforward to do in Ae, because you can’t just “draw” each circle — you actually need to have a layer (or a set of many shape objects within a layer) already set to respond to the data.
The way I would probably approach this is to reformat the data so it better matches Ae’s model. Consider each row in the spreadsheet to be a single dot, each column to be a single frame (so column A is frame 0, column B is frame 1, etc.), then store the position [x,y,z] in each cell.
Once you’ve done that, you can import the CSV into Ae, build out layers for the maximum number of dots you’ll have on-screen, and use expressions to get the position for each dot from its corresponding record.
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There’s a control to show masks during preview in the Preview panel. It looks like this:
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Element 3D uses OpenGL for real-time rendering.
It’s a rasterizing renderer, which uses all sorts of cheats to work quickly.
Most 3D apps use ray-tracing renderers, which attempt to model how light and surfaces really interact.
Here’s a quick comparison of the two techniques:
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/03/19/whats-difference-between-ray-tracing-rasterization/ -
All the cloud workstation options jump in price when you go to the higher-end GPUs. Storage costs are sneaky, too, and they get high fast.
Vagon is maybe a dollar an hour more expensive than Amazon, but it’s also probably a lot easier to administer for a single user.
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You can use time stretching to change the speed/duration:
Since you’re just halving the duration (or doubling the speed), if you keep frame blending off, Ae will simply throw away every other frame just like you want.
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I built a quick sample project that takes the month (as a dropdown) and the year (as a slider) and builds out the calendar. It figures out what day of the week the first day of the month falls on, and it figures out the number of days in the month programmatically, so leap years etc. are always accounted for.
I’ve laid out numbers as text layers in the calendar squares, and put initial values of 1 through 42. The expression on each text layer subtracts one for each day of the week before the first day of the month. If the number ends up less than 1, or greater than the total number of days in that specific month, the expression replaces the text with an empty string.
Please ask questions after you go through the project if anything is unclear!
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Duplicate the footage layer, mask out the area you want to zoom in on, then scale it up and reposition as needed.
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You’ll probably have to cheat. What else is going on in your comp? Can you put a 3D solid in that bisects the circle and obscures the back letters?
