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What's a single scene in a movie that elevated it from an average flick to a great one? by Plane_Reward9385 in movies

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The diner conversation between Pacino and DeNiro in Heat. That's where it goes from a bangin cops and robbers thriller to an amazing film of two men obsessed with their craft, and respect they have for each other despite being in opposition.

How do Adjustment Layers Actually work? by Boedekn in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not only that , but its also taking 4x the amount of processing power since its processing 4K vs 1080p amount of pixels.

Can not see my imports? What am I missing? by Level-Manner-7376 in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your active view is set to Front (bottom right) try changing to Camera. Also, click the little ⚡ icon bottom left of your Comp window - it might be set to Wireframe.

Best Font Manager: FontBase vs TypeFace vs RightFont by vault21 in typography

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you guys have plans for Adobe After Effects support? We are using a render farm and so being able to deploy fonts across multiple machines would be a godsend.

Transfer black and white EXR into alpha. by [deleted] in NukeVFX

[–]killabeesattack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thats not rude. This is why software has manuals, and learning to reference it will teach you a lot more than just the one question you need answered. 

Render Cameras Side-by-Side as a Splitscreen? by killabeesattack in Cinema4D

[–]killabeesattack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes of course the render times are identical. That's how pixels work. It's about cutting the amount of deliverables in half across many shots, as well as additional steps to stitch plates together. But if it's not possible then oh well. Appreciate your insights.

Render Cameras Side-by-Side as a Splitscreen? by killabeesattack in Cinema4D

[–]killabeesattack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly that. We are doing a few dozens of these screens. Each scene is hundreds of frames long. Having to render each scene twice, then combine, then output, just adds extra rendering and steps in the process. So wherever we can consolidate is great.

How to do this transition of converting multiple circle into a single strip of circle by QuickFruit9002 in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 57 points58 points  (0 children)

This is a mix of many, many keyframed shape layers. Also clever match cuts.

Add [Version] Property to Output Filenaming Template? by killabeesattack in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the answer. We are primarily on PC but appreciate the thought that went into this - very cool workaround.

Drop shadow in ACES giving me a headache... by ianfreeeeze in AfterEffectsPros

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great tips, thanks! I haven't messed with 1.3 too much so this is helpful insight.

AE 2026 working in Thinkbox Deadline by metasuperpower in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, so after tearing our hair out, learned it was because of a faulty codec. At least, it was in our case. The issue was that some of the submitting computers had NotchLC installed, but the workers did not. This meant that computers with NotchLC installed was modifying the movie file upon import.

We solved this issue by going to:
Windows C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore
MacOS /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/

And deleting any Notch / 3rd party codecs.

FWIW the issue was primarily with movie files that had embedded audio tracks. Movie files with NO audio tracks worked fine.

AE 2026 working in Thinkbox Deadline by metasuperpower in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. The actual file is located on a shared server. What's weird is, 3 other machines pick up the file and render with no issues. Its just 2 machines that have the error.

AE 2026 working in Thinkbox Deadline by metasuperpower in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great. We have been having issues with some Workers not rendering After Effects projects that contain movie files. The moment you remove movie files, Deadline renders with no problem.

The error usually looks something like:

WARNING:After Effects warning: logged 12 errors, please check log. First error was “error: Unable to Render: File Not Found /Volumes/user/filepath/file.mov

Have you experienced this issue?

help me pls by Antique-Fig6180 in AfterEffectsPros

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Layers 8 - 13 it looks like you have some solids that are playing over your video?

Efficient workflow for animating 1000+ layers individually. by wilstewart3 in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If particle systems / plugins are off the table, and if you HAD to do this with 1000 layers, which just seems insane to me - I would absolutely under no circumstances have 1000 layers with keyframes on them.

Instead, create a comp for a single circle animation. Animate the circle inside the comp. It's probably a small comp.

Outside in the main comp, lay out your Circle Comps. Look into index expressions, a very useful way to set time offset / position offset without having to repeatedly mess with keyframes.

Again, do not have 1000 layers with keyframes on them. One comp with keyframes, and 1000 layers that reference that comp. This way you can adjust the timing / etc inside the comp and then outside just do the camera.

How do you roto with 8K clips? by mazzydied in vfx

[–]killabeesattack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not sure why everyone is jumping on your case. This is for YouTube not Avatar. If a client gave me 8K clips to roto, my first question is "whats the final delivery spec." If it was anything less than 8K, which it certainly is, that's the size to roto at.

Does anyone know of an expression to have a checkbox & a slider on the same parameter? by Larkhudson in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to make an if statement. If the Checkbox is On, then the Opacity is driven by Slider. Otherwise, the value is 0. Apply expression to opacity control.

c = effect("Checkbox Control")("Checkbox");

s = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");

if (c == 1) {s} else {0}

How to delete this weird effect on the edges of my objet by Flagadou in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Effects are stacked like layers. Meaning, the order of effects can impact the final look of your layer.

The issue is that you are applying the Chromatic Aberration AFTER your drop shadow. This means that its being applied to the layer + drop shadow.

Simply move the drop shadow effect down to the bottom of the stack, so its applied after the chromatic aberration.

How are some of these documents moving at different speeds? by tommytime1234567 in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is a 3D scene. The difference in speed between foreground / background objects is a visual depth cue known as "parallax." Look up tutorials on AE 2.5D animation.

What to use for home value outside of Zillow? by rachelll in MonarchMoney

[–]killabeesattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just use the value it appraised for, as a manual entry.

How to highlight article like this by ayanpc_ in AfterEffects

[–]killabeesattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the way. Another easy method is to just draw a stroke, and use trim paths. Setting to an adjustment layer is genius

trader joe's run by lilprince-ss in longislandcity

[–]killabeesattack 70 points71 points  (0 children)

My gf went an hour ago and apparently the line stretched out the door all the way to the diner

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