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What determines video orientation (landscape or portrait) during playback?
If the video is meant to be played in a different orientation than its stored representation, then a rotation flag is set in the stream metadata. A compliant player uses that tag and rotates the video ...
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Layer dimensions in after effects
To find the pixel dimensions of a layer in AE,
Hit 's' that brings up scale,
then right-click Scale to bring up the Edit-Value dialog,
then set units to pixels.
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Is it possible to export a Video with transparent Background? (No Image Sequences!)
Production codecs with alpha channel support
Apple ProRes 4444 / Apple ProRes 4444 XQ
From the Manual:
Apple ProRes 4444 and Apple ProRes 4444 XQ are ideal for the exchange of motion graphics ...
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After Effects distance between two points
Hate to spoil all your good work, but it's a lot easier to use the built-in length() function:
length(pointa, pointb)
e.g.
length(thisComp.layer(1).position, thisComp.layer(2).position)
or
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Is it possible to "Blur a Transparent Background" in Adobe After Effects?
It's not possible. A generic blur effect relies on a function which smooths out pixel values within a specified radius. A mask combines the value of a pixel in the top layer with the pixel of the ...
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How do I resize a image preserving aspect ratio in After Effects?
Click on a layer name. You should see the control points on its border. Click on one of the border points but don't drag it yet. Hold down Shift key and then drag it. Release the mouse button when ...
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How to upscale a 480p video to a 1080p with minimal quality loss?
You can upscale Premiere Pro footage using the Detail-preserving Upscale effect in After Effects via Dynamic Link. The results will never be as good as actual HD footage, but the Detail-preserving ...
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How to remove Tracker points from green screen footage
You don't need to use greenscreen. You need to track markers, and put your footage above the markers and greenscren. Just lock position on markers points.
Like in ...
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Cropping a Video based on a motion track
Here's one way to do it. I'll assume you have basic motion tracking knowledge already for the sake of brevity.
AfterEffects
Turn on 3D space for your footage layer.
Track the player in your ...
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Separate all layers every "X" interval of time in After Effects
No scripting or expressions are needed, it's built-in to After Effects:
Drop all your frames into a comp…
go to the 5 second mark…
with all layers selected, hit alt] or option] to trim the end of ...
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How to import 2D position data into After Effects
Found the answer here.
Copying any positional keyframes out of After Effects generates a text file like this:
Adobe After Effects 8.0 Keyframe Data
Units Per Second 25
Source Width 100
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How to delete a gap in an After Effects timeline
There's a script that does it for you (I just wrote it). You can get it (free, open source, WTFPL license) here on my blog. With the playhead in a gap, run the script and it will pull the layers after ...
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Best and easiest way to remove tracking markers from green screen video
You can do this quite easily without content-aware fill or anything like it. I'd tackle this by doing the following:
create a rough shape for each tracking-point (the color doesn't matter)
track each ...
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Sci-Fi intro logo animation
In the example given, typical motion graphics techniques are used. There are several ways to achieve this animation in After Effects. Probably the easiest way is drawing a mask shape per letter on top ...
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Is it possible to export a Video with transparent Background? (No Image Sequences!)
File > Add to Render Queue > Output mode > Format 'Quicktime' / Channels 'RGB + Alpha'
See if that works for you!
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Is ffmpeg the solution to automate video building from multiple files
You can do this with ffmpeg using either the concat filter or the concat demuxer. Which one to use depends whether or not your inputs have the same parameters or not. If they do not, you may have to ...
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Automated rendering of After Effects or similar
After Effects can be automated using the Adobe extendscript scripting language, and can be run from the command line, meaning that it can be integrated into other processes.
Extendscript is ...
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Extend duration of imported static layers in After Effects
Open the imported comps. Not in the layer source window, just as comps (i.e. double click from the project panel).
Go to the composition settings menu and change the duration to whatever you want.
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Extend duration of imported static layers in After Effects
If I'm understanding your situation correctly...
two options:
Place your cursor over the very end of the layer bar in the timeline. It should be a horizontal double ended arrow cursor. Drag to the ...
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After effects Timeline display: frames into milliseconds
Here's a workaround:
Create a left aligned text layer - type a zero. Format to the size and colour of your choice.
Twirl down this layer, twirl down text, ALT click the stopwatch on the Source text ...
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After Effects on Mac: Use touchpad to scroll like in PS or Illustrator
It's so weird the way all the Adobe apps require different muscle memory to do the same thing. Even things that are the same like panning around a work area or zooming. I understand it's because of ...
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How do I resize a image preserving aspect ratio in After Effects?
…and because there's always two ways of doing anything in After Effects:
Select the layer.
press s to reveal the scale property of the layer. Note that you don't need to hold any modifier keys like ⌘ ...
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Why do a lot of animation videos have wiggly lines?
This seems to typically be called 'Squigglevision', it's even patented. There do seem do be ways to replicate this in After Effects.
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After Effects: Make beam effect go over end/beginning
You can't do it with the beam effect as it stands. But…
A workaround would be to move your start and end points further out along the line that they define. A bit of maths and an expression will do ...
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How are motion graphics like this created?
Totally doable using After Effects as it comes out of the box.
I'd be making each letter a separate layer, turning that layer into a matte for the colour, which would be provided by the gradient ...
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After Effects preview with decreased image quality
You're probably using "Fast Draft" as your preview. This is a new preview mode which uses the GPU to provide "fast"* rendering for previews. This mode will generally look pretty bad, with less or no ...
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edit after effects projects with aerender and extend script
Aerender does what it says on the tin: it just renders. It can save a comp after rendering if there's a post-render action like setting proxies, but AFAIK it has no other capability to modify projects ...
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Screenshot - what is this on my layer?
That means there's extra media after the end of the clip. If you hover the mouse over the intersection of the semi-transparent part and the opaque part, it will turn into a double arrow <-->. If ...
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How can I recreate this overexposed effect from the last scene in 'The Lighthouse'?
You can tell by the shadows that light's illumination was increased. However, you can acheive a similar result (though not perfect) by just keyframing the 'Curves' effect in After Effects. (I had ...
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random copied and being truly random
The random number generator in AE seems to be linked to the layer index, but generates the same results for every composition. To demonstrate here's a comp with a shape layer where the vertices of the ...
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