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Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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And not the Parent layer


Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Correct, the keyframes need to go on the camera layer because you're zooming through layers that are positioned in 3D space, and that's exactly what the video is showing at the time you linked to. The parent layer exists just to move the entire VPE set of images together at once so nothing breaks. It's for repositioning or scaling the object as a whole, not for moving through. So nobody's lying and After Effects hasn't changed anything in this regard, in fact, the Vanishing Point workflow hasn't been touched in years.

Export does not look like it does on my timeline

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Hey, All!

 

I know just enough about AE to get myself in a ton of trouble.

Version 16.1.1 (Build 4)

Mac Pro Running High Sierra.

 

 

I've got an animation on my timeline - all comp settings are 1920 X 1080. View is set to (fit). I animate away, keyframing, precomposing, and nesting my little heart out, making it look just the way I want it to.

 

When I go to export, it's like the camera pulls back to a wider shot.

Screen Shot 2019-09-10 at 12.57.28 PM.png

Screen Shot 2019-09-10 at 12.55.45 PM.png

I'm baffled. There's got to be something obvious I'm missing, but I'll be dipped if I can suss it out. Can any of y'all help me?

Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Having just had a cataract done, I shall revisit this with a magnifying glass!

Will check tomorrow and reply here after trying that.

Thanks.

Re: Export does not look like it does on my timeline

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Hi Joy,

 

It is front camera selected in the composition window but the export window will take Active camera.

 

//Vinay

Re: Export does not look like it does on my timeline

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!  I knew it was something simple.  I really appreciate you taking the time.

Re: Ae and AMe Problem

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ive update it to 13.1.3 the last version

Re: Speed up Analyzing for Stabilize Image

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Hi Todd,


Is the process of stabilization considered as "other" still aplying to AE CC 2019 ?

 

Thank you for your precious answer !


Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Your suggestions worked, to a point...

I must have done this by luck when I made one a while ago.

Would you be happy to answer some further questions on how best to add keyframes quickly / by a shortcut?

I did manage it, but in trying to replicate the videos instructions I could not get the same result.

Re: After Effects can’t continue: Licensing Error:

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It doesn't work no matter how to change language!!!  I am chinese,  I have a team license,  now i located at Singapore, please help me!!!

Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Of course, ask away! You can add a new keyframe in a few ways:

 

1) Click a parameter's stopwatch to create your initial keyframe. Clicking this again will delete all keyframes.

 

2) After a keyframe has been created, you can create another one by either altering a keyframed parameter (and like you initially mentioned, a new keyframe will, in fact, magically appear) or by clicking the diamond icon on the left of the keyframed parameter. This will create a keyframe with the same values as the previous key, but at your current time. This is useful for holding the position of an animation.

 

3) To directly answer your question, you can use the keyboard to create keys. Opt+Shift+[Parameter Shortcut] will create a new keyframe. So this means Opt+Shift+P will create a Position keyframe, "r" for Rotation, "s" for Scale, and "t" for Opacity (the shortcut "t" refers to Transparency, but OpaciTy also works ) You can combine this with other keyboard shortcuts for navigation such as Page Up and Page Down to navigate the timeline one frame at a time or add Shift to those shortcuts to navigate 10 frames at a time. Additionally, the Plus and Minus keys on the NumPad will alter the Rotation property (with or without a keyframe), Opt+Plus or Option-Minus on the NumPad will alter Scale, and Ctrl+Option+Plus or Minus will control Opacity. Again, adding Shift to these shortcuts will move in increments of 10, rather 1. Between all these keyboard shortcuts you can do some significant animation without touching your mouse.

 

As for your original issue, if you're still having troubles with it, please post a screen recording showing what's working and what's not working, along with a description. At what point does the solution stop working?

2D image to equirectangular image using VR converter

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Hello everyone, A while back I worked a lot with the great plugin Skybox. In the meantime the plugin is been implemented directly in After Effects. It really works great. Normally I have been using the VR tool to create skydome videos. But now I have a project where I need to place many 2D images into a equirectangular image. In the attachment you can find one image in a 2:1 aspect ratio. This will be precomposed to a 8K by 4K skybox using the converter. My problem is that the final result that you can see in the second image is incorrect. I tried everything to fix it. Create the composition of the one image resolution bigger but it has the same result. So my question is how can I fix this problem. I see if I scale the image down the result will be fixed but I need to have this image this big in the equirectangular image. What would be the best appraoch for this? I really hope someone can help me with this.

Skybox_Converter01.jpg

Skybox_Converter02.jpg

Re: Problems with my current time indicator

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I have same problem

Current Time Indicator not moving

Re: After Effect custom workspace keeps rearranging itself...why?!

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Sep 2019 and After Effects still doesn't respect saved layouts properly.  Just thought I'd post so new users don't waste time trying to fix it.

 

Simple test.  I like the AUDIO panel to the right of the time line.  I resize the panel by sliding it to the right so that it hides the sliders.  save workspace, save project, open saved project, sliders are back.  It does this with all panels forcing me to resize them manually EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

 

It has done this from day one on a dozen different systems since the introduction of linked panel windows.

Windows 10 (but did it on 7 too)


Re: Move an animation along a path

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- Precomp your animation

- Use the pan behind tool to make sure it's anchor point is in the centre of it

- COPY (ctrl C) the 'path' value from your motion path and PASTE (ctrl V) it onto the 'position' value of the animation pre-comp (drag it back into position if it jumps off after pasting)

- Right click your animation Transform - Auto Orient along path.

DONE!

 

You can easily customise and adjust your animation, position and keyframes from here on. Seriously! There is too much convoluted BS in these forums! Keep it simple! 

Re: Auxsystem (particular) how to do this?

DELL XPS 15 9570 driver After Effects

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After effects it's working very slowy and bad on my new DELL XPD 15 9570, i-7 - 8750H INTEL, 16 GB ram, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

I have problems playing the preview of the video, which is never in real time but much slower.

the program also has problems playing audio.

I think it's a driver problem, that got worse after activating windows 10, currently I have installed DRIVER 436.15.

 

 

I need to know which driver I need to get After Effects working.

 

Does anyone know how to solve the problem?

 

 

Thanks

Re: After Effects Stuck Off Screen

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Just had this issue...the option click thing worked perfectly!  THANK YOU!!!

Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Thanks David,

I'll try the posted suggestions as soon as I am able. IF anything does not work as intended, I'll screenshot. Cheers.,

Re: After Effects 2019 Running Slow

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Running off of a Samsung 970 Pro. AE 2019 still runs like a slug moving uphill on an icy road.

 

From CGdirector.com "After Effects used to make great use of all of your Cores, but since a few versions the renderer has been re-written, unfortunately for the worse."

 

I agree with Dave LaRonde "let's just let the users find 'em!  What are they going to do, stop using the software?"  Adobe has users by the short hairs, and the company behaves that way.

I didn't sign up for a beta test. New releases should be a step up all the way around. Performance, new features and customer experience all matter and there are times when current version is the only choice.

 

IMO Adobe is a huge let down. Money and power is more important than customer satisfaction.

 

If anyone has a real solution to this issue I would love to hear it.

Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Still stuck.

I can add a keyframe at 0 sec, I can drag out to 5 sec what I cannot do is to get a 5 second keyframe to go poof and appear with any combo of keypresses - UNLESS I drag to 5 sec and then on the Camera Position line move the mouse over the Z number - left click and keep dragging back of forth until the image has zoomed in to where I want.

The act of dragging the Z number makes a keyframe blue diamond appear as if by magic, but not in any other way I do.

 

On most of the vids I have watched the brainbox just goes click here click there and as if by magic it works.

Can you suggest any screen recording free tools and I can post what I attempt?

Cheers. PC not MAC by the way.


Re: DELL XPS 15 9570 driver After Effects

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Are you having these problems after you have cached a preview or are you talking about the time it takes to initially cache a preview?

After Effects is not like video editing software where changes are played back in real time. In theory, AE must cache a preview before it can play anything back in real time. Now, sometimes things cache faster than real time, but not often!

Re: Auxsystem (particular) how to do this?

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It's fading the opacity over life and there is some variation on the life of the particles.

Re: Standard 3D module is missing

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That seems to indicate that AE did not install itself properly. If you've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, you may have to more drastically remove all the Adobe stuff, use the Adobe CC Cleaner tool, and reinstall everything.

Re: How can I delete one line out of a rectangle stroke shape?

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I used Add>Trim Paths and played with the settings.  To get rid of the top line of the rectangle, adjusting 'start' to about 42.4% worked.

Re: Current Time Indicator not moving

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Your composition is only two frames long. Your mouse movement isn't even moving halfway across the first frame. Make it longer than two frames or move your mouse a lot further to get it to the second frame.

Re: Ae and AMe Problem

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Does the problem persist?

Having an issue with emitter not being placed on top of null

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I have a project where I have created Earth with video pilot's orb and now I want to animate some light streaks from city to city the null is tracking the motion path but the emitter is quite a distance away on the x from where it needs, which it on top of the null. Can someone tell me what it the layers below it could be causing this issue and how to correct it


Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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In this case that's what you'll have to do, OR you can use the Camera tool to zoom in. Sorry for not clarifying earlier—I answered your general question of how to add keyframes with shortcuts, but didn't say how that would or wouldn't apply to this situation. There's no keyboard shortcut to zoom in with a camera.

 

The people in the videos you're looking at are likely using the Camera tool and dragging to zoom in. There is a Unified Camera tool which will allow you to do all camera functions on the same tool (with the proper mouse buttons) or you can click and hold the Camera icon at the top toolbar and pick the tool to just zoom.

 

I use ShareX for screen captures and screen recordings.

Re: Having an issue with emitter not being placed on top of null

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We need a screenshot showing the modified properties of the layers involved with the problem and if possible at least 2 views so we can see how this project is set up in 3D space. Press UU, PrintScreen and paste to the forum. Your description gives us nothing to go on.

 

ORB is not all that intuitive. I suggest you spend some time on the Video Copilot site and make sure you understand how the FX works.

Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Will try to show on ShareX what I see/ am trying to do. It is annoying that videos make it look so easy, and replication so hard.

Re: Having an issue with emitter not being placed on top of null

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Thanks Rick for responding - have to put this off until tomorrow, will post where I am then so you can see what is going on.

After Effects Cannot Set Stroke value to 0

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I am trying to create text without any stroke. When I go to the character panel to set the stroke value, it will not let me set it to 0. The lowest value possible is 0.01. when I enter in 0 it auto corrects to 0.01.

 

Is this a bug or is there someway I can fix this?

Re: After Effects Cannot Set Stroke value to 0

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Well I figured it out on my own.

 

You can't set the stroke value to 0 but you can essential turn the stroke off by setting its color to "No Stroke Color" in the character panel.

Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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First, even though there are a lot of views, that tutorial is pretty lousy. Sloppy and inaccurate techniques that can be greatly improved for creating the planes in Photoshop. The explanation was severely lacking. The entire workflow was extremely amateurish. I'm not surprised that you are having problems. You need to vet your trainers.

 

The proper workflow is:

  1. Carefully prepare your image in Photoshop
  2. Prepare a Vanishing point file using the original background layer carefully matching the geometry of each plane - NOT just creating a simple box
  3. Export the VPE
  4. Import the VPE to After Effects
  5. Adjust the horizon by adjusting the Z rotation value of the parent layer
  6. Animate the camera by adjusting ONLY the z value in the timeline

All Done.

 

If you have multiple planes you want to place in the scene and have the camera move past them or if you want to animate a more complex camera move you need to go back to Photoshop, duplicate the background layer as many times as you need to get a new layer for each plane in the image, carefully mask each layer so each plane is on its own layer, create the VPE file using the original Background layer, then spend a lot of time in After Effects matching up the individual layers for each plane using scale and 3D positions, then animate the camera. This ofter requires you to fill in holes in the middle ground and background plates or remove objects from the background layer. 


Re: After effects 2019 keeps crashing

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no, nothing. I've been using the pen as a workaround and haven't tried roto because I had too much I could lose (it takes a while for ae to boot up again)

Re: Ae and AMe Problem

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yes .. What should I do ?

Re: After effects 2d/3d zoom effect

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Thanks Rick,

Agreed on the 'training' video front. Some are good and some are not. I originally used one by a guy called Bigant video - unfortunately his version is slightly outdated. Steps 1 -5 are the relatively easy part. I CAN do those without too much faff.

 

The issue  I have is on step 6, some make it look as if you can set the start at 0 sec with the image (.vpe) at fit to view, then Zoom in to 50% (somehow, that is never clear or simple) then set a second, third etc keyframe, then run the 'job' and you have the result you want.

 

The only way I seem to be able to do this is VERY slow.

Steps 1 - 5 done.

 

6 Set start at 0 sec then in the Camera position 'layer' hover over the Z value 'til you get a 2 pointed mouse icon, then left click drag ( for ages ) until the image is zoomed in to the point you want. Then check/play it. That usually works.

There MUST be a faster way of getting step(s) 6 on to work.

Re: Having an issue with emitter not being placed on top of null

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Rick,

Here are the screen shots #15 shows the light streak position at frame 1 in relation to the null and #16 shows the completed path of the null and the light streak. The light streak should be on top of the null and follow it not mirror it in reverse from different position.

 

 

1.png2.png3.png4.png5.png6.png7.png8.png9.png10.png11.png12.png13.png13.png14.png15.png16.png

 

thanks for liking at this

Re: Ae and AMe Problem

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It's possible that they didn't install correctly.

It's possible you have a firewall issue.

It's possible you have some other form of internet security software that's being overly aggressive.

First thing I would do is uninstall everything and then reinstall it - make sure you are doing this from a user account with full administrator privileges.

Re: Motion tracker attach point drifting 378 pixels over 2000 frames

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Hi Rick, I've read the User Guide and it was very helpful, so thank you.  I still however have several questions I'm hoping you can help me understand:

 

1) It seems the attach point only drifts out of the motion-path reticle when analyzing one frame at a time, and that it's not the attach point thats getting off target, but the motion-path reticle that's drifting. So to keep them together, I've been putting the attach point back in the yellow box and then adjusting the feature region to move it's center back over the target. Over and over, every few frames.

 

But it seems to me that the attach point is what really matters, and that maybe I shouldn't worry about always trying to manually adjust it's position to keep it inside the motion-path reticle.  I'm spending a lot of time doing that, but it seems like a wasted effort.  Couldn't I just let the yellow motion-path reticle at the center of the feature region drift off a little, as long as the attach point stays where I want it?  Then, maybe every 20 frames or so, I could put them back together and center them over the target.  Any reason whey they should always stay so tightly grouped? Are there any issue you can think of with letting the yellow reticle not be perfectly centered over the target?

 

2) By pressing Command > Forward arrow, I can avoid having to move my mouse over to the single frame advance button, then back over to adjust the feature region.  This keyboard shortcut moves down the timeline one frame so I can adjust the attach point, wherein the tracker adds both a Feature Center and Attach Point keyframe.  However, using this keyboard shortcut does not add a Confidence keyframe.  is there any reason tracking this way without the addition of a confidence keyframe might come back to haunt me?  And what if I've already used the frame forward button for hanf the sequence, then switch to the keyboard shortcut and suddenly the confidence keyframes stops?

 

Again, both these questions are only for those frames I must track manually one frame at a time.

 

Thanks again, Peter

Re: GPU Warning: Special file 'TempDisableGPU3' found -- skipping GPU3 ***

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This is from aerender.exe the command line renderer. It still renders as you can see.

 

The file in question is in my home folder in the %appdata% folder. Looks like it has something to do with camera raw or photoshop..?

~\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\GPU\Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw\TempDisableGPU3

 

The comp I'm rendering has no footage at all, it's just shapes and solids, so why it should be using camera raw is beyond me. I'm going to try just deleting that file and seeing if anything catches fire.

 

Here's my output:

 

aerender version 16.1.2x55
Using DXGI: Device: "NVIDIA Quadro P5000" has dedicated video RAM (MB): 16255
Unable to read VR Path Registry from C:\Users\sdixon\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath
InitializeFileLogging failed    name                                    : NVIDIA Quadro P5000    VendorId                                : 4318    DeviceId                                : 7088    SubSysId                                : 296882216    Revision                                : 161    DedicatedVideoMemory                    : 17044602880    DedicatedSystemMemory                  : 0    SharedSystemMemory                      : 50815315968    MemoryBudget                            : 14487912448    AdapterLuid.LowPart                    : 517412    AdapterLuid.HighPart                    : 0    Flags                                  : 0        DoublePrecisionFloatShaderOps          : yes        ConservativeRasterizationTier          : 2        CrossNodeSharingTier                    : 0        ResourceBindingTier                    : 3        ResourceHeapTier                        : 1        TiledResourcesTier                      : 3        NodeIndex                              : 0        TileBasedRenderer                      : no        UMA                                    : no        CacheCoherentUMA                        : no        feature level                          : 0x00009100        feature level                          : 0x00009200        feature level                          : 0x00009300        feature level                          : 0x0000a000        feature level                          : 0x0000a100        feature level                          : 0x0000b000        feature level                          : 0x0000b100        feature level                          : 0x0000c000        feature level                          : 0x0000c100        MaxSupportedFeatureLevel                : 0x0000c100        HighestShaderModel                      : 0x60        WaveOps                                : yes        WaveLaneCountMin                        : 32        WaveLaneCountMax                        : 32        TotalLaneCount                          : 2560        ExpandedComputeResourceStates          : yes        Int64ShaderOps                          : yes        RootSignature.HighestVersion            : 0x2    name                                    : NVIDIA Quadro P5000    VendorId                                : 4318    DeviceId                                : 7088    SubSysId                                : 296882216    Revision                                : 161    DedicatedVideoMemory                    : 17044602880    DedicatedSystemMemory                  : 0    SharedSystemMemory                      : 50815315968    MemoryBudget                            : 14487912448    AdapterLuid.LowPart                    : 506190    AdapterLuid.HighPart                    : 0    Flags                                  : 0        DoublePrecisionFloatShaderOps          : yes        ConservativeRasterizationTier          : 2        CrossNodeSharingTier                    : 0        ResourceBindingTier                    : 3        ResourceHeapTier                        : 1        TiledResourcesTier                      : 3        NodeIndex                              : 0        TileBasedRenderer                      : no        UMA                                    : no        CacheCoherentUMA                        : no        feature level                          : 0x00009100        feature level                          : 0x00009200        feature level                          : 0x00009300        feature level                          : 0x0000a000        feature level                          : 0x0000a100        feature level                          : 0x0000b000        feature level                          : 0x0000b100        feature level                          : 0x0000c000        feature level                          : 0x0000c100        MaxSupportedFeatureLevel                : 0x0000c100        HighestShaderModel                      : 0x60        WaveOps                                : yes        WaveLaneCountMin                        : 32        WaveLaneCountMax                        : 32        TotalLaneCount                          : 2560        ExpandedComputeResourceStates          : yes        Int64ShaderOps                          : yes        RootSignature.HighestVersion            : 0x2
Skipping DX support: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
*** GPU Warning: Special file 'TempDisableGPU3' found -- skipping GPU3 ***
PROGRESS:  13/09/2019 1:15:26 PM: Starting composition  noise vs wiggle .
PROGRESS:  Render Settings: Multi-Machine Settings
PROGRESS:  Quality: Best
PROGRESS:  Proxy Use: Use No Proxies
PROGRESS:  Effects: Current Settings
PROGRESS:  Color Depth: Current Settings
PROGRESS:  Field Render: Off
PROGRESS:  Solos: Current Settings
PROGRESS:  Duration: 0:02:07:01
PROGRESS:  Frame Rate: 25.00 (comp)
PROGRESS:  Guide Layers: All Off
PROGRESS:  Skip Existing Files: On
PROGRESS:
PROGRESS:  Output Info: -
PROGRESS:  Start Frame: 0
PROGRESS:  Output Audio: -
PROGRESS:  Resize: -
PROGRESS:  Post-Render Action: None
PROGRESS:  (Skipping 0:00:00:02) (3): 0 Seconds
PROGRESS:  (Skipping 0:00:00:03) (4): 0 Seconds
PROGRESS:  (Skipping 0:00:00:06) (7): 0 Seconds
PROGRESS:  (Skipping 0:00:00:07) (8): 0 Seconds

..and so on


Re: GPU Warning: Special file 'TempDisableGPU3' found -- skipping GPU3 ***

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I deleted the file, and next time I go to render I get this:

 

aerender version 16.1.2x55
CryptVerifySignature failed
Error: 0xc000a000 (-1073700864)
Using DXGI: Device: "NVIDIA Quadro P5000" has dedicated video RAM (MB): 16255
CryptVerifySignature failed
Error: 0xc000a000 (-1073700864)
Unable to read VR Path Registry from C:\Users\sdixon\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath
InitializeFileLogging failed
[..]

Skipping DX support: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
*** GPU Warning: Special file 'TempDisableGPU3' found -- skipping GPU3 ***
[..]

 

CryptVerifySignature failed‽ Maybe I need to reinstall some stuff. ☠☢↯†☭‼

 

@Adobe, the silence here is deafening.

Re: Auxsystem (particular) how to do this?

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Did you know how to settle the opacity and life curve? Because I try a lot of possiblity but I can't get what I want

Re: After Effect ne s'ouvre pas

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Avant d’essayer une autre méthode, essayez d’abord de réparer Microsoft Visual C ++ 2015 Redistributable pour corriger VCRUNTIME140.DLL. Est manquant. Suivez les étapes ci-dessous.

 

 

Appuyez sur les touches Windows + R pour ouvrir la fenêtre Exécuter et tapez le panneau de configuration ici. Appuyez sur Entrée.

Dans le Panneau de configuration, accédez à Programmes et fonctionnalités.

Ici, trouvez Microsoft Visual C ++ 2015 redistribuable, cliquez dessus avec le bouton droit de la souris, puis choisissez Modifier.

Dans le prochain pop-up, choisissez Réparer.

Lorsque la fenêtre contextuelle UAC apparaît, acceptez en cliquant sur Oui.

Attendez patiemment jusqu'à ce que vous obteniez le message Setup Successful. Cliquez sur Fermer pour terminer.

Essayez de lancer le logiciel à l'origine du problème pour voir si l'erreur a disparu.

https://geeksadvice.com/fix-vcruntime140-dll-is-missing-error-on-windows/

Re: Ae and AMe Problem

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it was working before but suddenly stop working AE and Pr working properly

and I've do everything above still the same ! I don't know why   

Re: Imported JPG image becomes pixelated??

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Thank you!! I ended up saving it as a png file, that changed it back to the original. Very strange!

Re: Imported JPG image becomes pixelated??

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Thank you :-) Changing it to a png ended up solving it, very strange, you're probably right about the dodgy properties of the file... I did get it off Google!

Re: Auxsystem (particular) how to do this?

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Red Giant has a number of very useful tutorials on their site that walk you through the basics of using Particular. There's a curve to set the opacity over life (there's a preset for ramping down) and then you just set the particle life to what you want and add some randomness to it with the accompanying property.

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