Hello !
For some reason when i import from AI into AE the obejcts all are centerd.
I need them to stay in their origonal place like they are in AI.
I been fighting with this problem for half an hour now. gets me crazy.
I did search online. but couldnt find a solution.
Any help?
Thanks !
You can't extrude a PNG and scaling the Z dimension won't do what you think it will.
I see you've already switched to the Cinema 4D renderer, but you need to use Shape Layers in order to extrude. You can accomplish this by rebuilding the logo in Illustrator, bringing it into After Effects, converting it to Shape Layers, exploding those Shape Layers and reorganizing everything so it's easy to work with and not living in a single layer, and then extrude.
Here's some info to help you get started.
http://lesterbanks.com/2016/11/new-cinema-4d-renderer-ae/
Create 3D text and logos with CINEMA 4D Composition Renderer
Alternatively, you could bring this PNG into your included copy of Cinema 4D lite and texture a model with the image.
1. import your Ai as composition (you can choose retain layer size or no, does not matter)
2. click twice on the composition to open it (very important, do not drag the elements into a new composition)
Hey everyone,
Maybe someone can help me out with this.
Recently I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled my entire CC suite. So far everything has been working fine. However, when scrubbing through old or new projects in Ae my playhead in the timeline has a ghosting effect. I believe I read in an some other forum's post that it is a "drawing issue" in the application itself.
I checked my GPU drivers (NVDIA) all updated to the most recent releases. I checked all other drivers in device manager, all of those are good. I uninstalled and reinstalled Ae several times, but I still see these weird playhead laggy ghost lines ! ! while scrubbing.
To be clear, everything works fine, I have had no crashes, yet. Projects seem to work just fine it just worries me that it may crash in the future while I'm working on something important.
Any more info on this is appreciated.
Thanks!
So....... I guess i got the answer.
Hello, i want to attach a 3d text to the ground on a footage but the ground doesn't have enough details so i don't have any points on the ground.
I've watched tutorials on youtube to find out, but the guys always use grounds with a lot of details to show how it works, and my ground has no details.
So how can I track it to attach my text to the ground ?
thanks for helping me out.
the footage itself :
thanks for you time
If following those directions doesn't work, you may need to uninstall, remove your preferences, run the Adobe CC Cleaner app, and reinstall.
You don't need to animate 3d models frame by frame! Most 3d animation software offers tweening.
Anyway, Cinema 4D Lite the comes free with After Effects CC has some pretty great functionality. Sign up for a free account on Cineversity (from company that makes Cinema 4d]) and you can go through this pretty comprehensive training series from one of my favorite Cinema 4D instructors: Cinema 4D Lite Reference [Video Tutorial Playlist] - Cineversity Training and Tools for Cinema 4D
Unfortunately deleting the Preference files did not fix the issue
Have you tried trashing your preferences? See this page: Reset After Effects Preferences
You can't get a transparent background in an MP4, but you can try to match the background color of your PowerPoint project! MP4's compression is pretty famous for messing with color accuracy though, but it's worth a shot!
What happens if you open some of the projects that were working well a few months ago?
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I hope all those who have answered me through AE see this because I want to say you all thank you for taking the time to answer me again. I have used GOOGLE for the translation.
Not in AE without additional markers. In an advanced tool like Syntheyes you can create reference geometry and manually place trackers, which wil ltake care of the matter. Even mocha's planar tracker might give a solution, but you need the Pro version for such a workflow. There's simply not enough distinct features in your footage, it barely has any parallax and the curved walls of the stadium don't help, either (which is what actually throws off things a lot - there's no logical straight edges)
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That's a good question. I just opened them and they are also slow now.
Depending on the camera movement you might be able to just motion stabilize the shot, lay the text in place, and then add the original motion to the new layer and put the motion back into the shot using a null and some simple expressions. That is how we did this kind of thing before there was 3D tracking. I did a lot of it that way. Many feature films composited in CG elements that way. Here's a quick basic tutorial on how to do that in After Effects. If I say your shot I could tell you if it would work.
There is no real fine tuning or finesse in this tutorial but the technique is sound and if you name your Motion Stabilized footage "stabilized" this animation preset will work on the null: Dropbox - destabilize Rotation Scale.ffx
One of these days I'll do a detailed tutorial on this useful technique. I still use it all the time on certain kinds of shots.
Another thing you might try is fussing with the color grading of the shot to try and bring out a bunch more contrast. You don't care what the shot looks like, you just want contrast in the area you are trying to track. Then you pre-compose and camera track the pre-comp. When you have successful set an origin and ground plane, created the camera added at least one reference layer you can turn replace the pre-comp with the original footage, or if you duplicated the original footage you can just turn of the pre-comp. You may have to delete the markers on the actor to get an accurate solution for the camera.
If you're on a Mac, the options to import as footage or a composition are hidden, so make sure you click the Options button at the bottom-left of the Import dialog.
As for whether or not to Retain Layer Size, it does matter depending on how you animate. If you don't Retain Layer Size then every single element, regardless of how small it is or where it is in your composition, will have its anchor point in the center of your After Effects comp. This means that if you have a ball, for instance, in the one of the corners of your file and you try to rotate it, the ball will not spin around its own center, but it will instead revolve around the center of the composition, which could be very annoying.
I always choose to Retain Layer Size when I import AI files so each layer's anchor point is in the center of itself, rather than my composition.
precariatprodstudios wrote
This brings me to my question to you since you work for this magnificent company Adobe,
Todd no longer works for Adobe.
precariatprodstudios wrote
does Adobe offer free software to those who have potential but have no way to pay for software?
I may have potential as a great driver, but Porsche still hasn't give me a free car.
That being said, Adobe does offer very cheap versions of the software to students and teachers - even those without potential!
precariatprodstudios wrote
After Effects CS6 for Mac is almost 500.00 US dollars.
Not anymore. Adobe no longer offers CS6 for sale.
Students and teachers can get the entire Creative Cloud collection of software (which includes After Effects, Cinema 4D Lite, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, illustrator, Character Animator, InDesign, Muse, Dreamweaver, Lightroom, and much more) for less than $20 a month. That seems very reasonable to me. You could use the latest versions of the whole collection for two years for less than the cost of one rather old piece of the suite - and you get the very latest versions as soon as they come out!
Hi guys!
I've been using Adobe After Effect 2017 and it's really an amazing app. However, what can I do to speed up the render time?
Many thanks!
Yes I tried, but didn't work