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Rick Gerard replied to newb - smooth scrolling credits in AE ?

"If you are using the expression that I posted above all you do is set the speed to a whole number. DO NOT USE fractions.   The stutter you"

in After Effects 15 replies
49 minutes ago
Rick Gerard replied to Video overlay using C#

"C#???   AE is a compositing app based on layers. Just add your second video to the time line and position or scale it to fit your design.  "

in After Effects 2 replies
1 day ago
Rick Gerard replied to request for feedback about proposed change for keyboard shortcut

"U for keyframes only UU for all changed properties EE for expressions   Add Shift + EE to see expressions and keyframes   And most impor"

in After Effects 50 replies
1 day ago
Rick Gerard replied to Terminology Assistance

"Interlacing lessens the chance of judders but increases the chance of dancing edges especially in type for things like credit rolls. If you"

in After Effects 25 replies
2 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to AE CS6 Lagging issues

"How do you have your cache, memory, processor and preview options set up? What kind of graphics card? What kind of projects. I use CS6 on a"

in After Effects 1 replies
2 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Mocha tracking of a 4K image

"I'm not sure I follow the AE to Mocha workflow. In AE your comp should be the same size as your footage before you open and track in Mocha."

in After Effects 7 replies
2 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Missing 'Animation Presets' in the Dropdown List

"No, I see the behavior, however it's changed in CS6. Only presets that use just that effect show up now. If you'd like to have it back submi"

in After Effects 19 replies
3 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to How to resolve this error

"Open preferences>Media and Disk Cacle. Then turn it off."

in After Effects 10 replies
3 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Missing 'Animation Presets' in the Dropdown List

"I use an alias on my Mac running CS6 and have more than 200 presets in there. I tried making a preset for fractal noise and worked just fine"

in After Effects 19 replies
3 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Adjustment layer effect won't motion track null object layer

"The pickwhip needs to point to the null position property. In reading my posts I had not made that clear."

in After Effects 7 replies
4 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to HELP: My Videohive After Effects project is rendering artifacts!  AE CS6

"Turn off all GPU rendrering you can find in your system and in the plug-in."

in After Effects 10 replies
4 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Smoke effects?

"Try a google search for Smoke in After Effects (that's a link) and take a look at the first 6 tutorials. That should get you started."

in After Effects 1 replies
4 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to MOV render from AAE (photoJPG 100%) ten times larger than ORIGINAL Nikon D800 MOV file. Why?

"The original file is compressed with MPEG compression using a modified GOP scheme. The codec is barely suitable for recording but not suitab"

in After Effects 3 replies
4 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Terminology Assistance

"All SD broadcast material sent over cable or broadcast is interlaced. It has to be. If field one and field two are identical then you have ""

in After Effects 25 replies
4 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Adjustment layer effect won't motion track null object layer

"Point from distortion mesh offset not distortion mesh to the null or just make sure your null is called Null 1 and copy and paste the expres"

in After Effects 7 replies
4 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Compositiong turning invisible while doing anything (selecting, dragging, rectangling)

"CTI is current time indicator. Just move forward a couple of frames.   Hover over the little box that says 79% at the bottom right corner"

in After Effects 5 replies
4 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Adjustment layer effect won't motion track null object layer

"Liquify is based on the comp space not layer space so moving the layer will not move the mesh. There is a mesh offset however. That's  what"

in After Effects 7 replies
5 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Can you Install after effects on multiple systems?

"Creative Cloud allows licensing in two machines at the same time. They can be any OS so you can have one Mac and one Windows version running"

in After Effects 12 replies
5 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to HELP: My Videohive After Effects project is rendering artifacts!  AE CS6

"It's a lot easier to see screenshots if you just use the camera icon at the top of the reply form. Render settings don't show us anything ab"

in After Effects 10 replies
5 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Can't get any video file types to work in AE. Help!

"The most common cause of this kind of problem is a 3rd party codec or video player. They can play havoc with the system and prevent AE from"

in After Effects 19 replies
5 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Compositiong turning invisible while doing anything (selecting, dragging, rectangling)

"Your screenshot looks like what you get when you run the CTI outside of the comp length. The first thing I would try is to move the CTI to f"

in After Effects 5 replies
5 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Chronosphere effect

"I'm going to teach you how to analyze an effect by breaking it down.   A still frame is a good place to start. Let's start with the first"

in After Effects 4 replies
5 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Making eyes like in the movie Cars

"The pupils are just shape layers. So are the whites of the eyes. I saved out the project for you to look at. You'll find it here. It should"

in After Effects 9 replies
6 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to Making eyes like in the movie Cars

"Take a look at this tutorial on using Time Remapping for Lip Sync. Substitute Eyelids for a mouth and you've got it.   Be sure to watch"

in After Effects 9 replies
6 days ago
Rick Gerard replied to video from my sony handycam dcr-sr68 is kind of blurry

"If your footage is rectangular pixels AE could be giving you a soft preview with Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction preview turned on you could b"

in After Effects 4 replies
6 days ago