Thursday, June 7, 2012

AE Error messages

Top reasons for AE error messages:
-Too much unnecessary stuff in your comp (select your main comp and do a File/Reduce Project)
-Comps that are too big
-Comps that have a different framerate from each other.

In your Project window, you can expand its view by hovering your mouse over it and pressing ~ (Tilde) located under the Esc key.

Then sort by Kind.

Open all your folders (yes, even the subfolders), starting at the bottom. Click thru your comps and see their framerate and dimensions in the little thumbnail viewer.



Shows name of comp
Dimensions Wide by Dimensions tall
Duration, framerate






To change the framerate or size, hit Cmd K. Try reducing a massive size by half (in Comp Settings, click the "Lock aspect ratio"











and then at the end of the first number (width) type /2 to divide in half).











Then go into the comp it lived in originally (click the twirly next to the name of comp in Proj window and double the scale value.










Click the scale values in that Timeline, and at the end, hit *2 and AE will do the math.

Brilliant!

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