After Effects Help | Improve performance

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/improve-performance.html

The link to Cache Work Area in Background is wrong, it links to Memory instructions in CS5.5 and earlier instead of the CS6 feature that it should to.

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After effects help & adobe air

i'm in the after effects cs5 application (creative suite production premium) on a power mac 10.5.8 and when i go to the help pull down and click on after effects help, i get the following error message:
don't even know what abobe air is. i'm assuming the after effects help has to run through this app. is this something i need to install and what does it do? i hate hate running unnecessary programs. thanks.

You can use After Effects Help without using the AIR application. You can either use the HTML version of After Effects Help on the Web or the PDF version of After Effects Help.
For information on how to fix this problem with the AIR application, see the Community Help Client forum.

Please rate the After Effects Help pages you find useful

You may have noticed that Adobe employees and Community Experts hanging in this forum keep pointing users to the relevant sections in After Effects Help on the Web. The reason for this is, of course, that the quality of explanations, visual examples, video tutorials and other materials in those pages is much higher than what anyone could quickly type in a forum reply. Personally, I think AE help has experienced a drastic overhaul in the last few years, to become a great, community-driven, user-focused resource.
if you find these pages helpful, you can in return help the documentation team by stating which pages you find useful by using the buttons at the bottom of each page.

You should also leave comments to tell us what other information you'd like to see... or to leave a tip, link, or technique of your own.
After Effects CS4 Help

Updated After Effects Help, and an update on my role

I just updated After Effects Help, and now I'm in Technical Support:
http://bit.ly/cpX44H
In my new role, my job is to provide "online, one-to-many" technical support for Adobe's professional video products. In other words, I'm supposed to spend even more time helping out on forums like this one.
So, howdy.

Szalam wrote:
Hooray: more forum time with Todd.
Booooo: worse AE documentation in the future, for nobody can match his placement of the T in RTFM.
"Read Todd's Freakin' Manual" ?
I like that.
Todd, I hope this is a good move for you and not an analog for Siberia.
bogiesan

Exporting to OMF for audio and After effect + delay in performance question

Hello
I have two questions.
First I have a problem with performance of FCP 5 I'm using a 500 GB firewire 800 external drive (not . Every time I hit the play button there is a delay of 2 seconds before playing my sequence I'm not sure why this is happening, I have a very basic sequence with one layer.
Second question - I'm trying to make FCP popular in my country but it is very hard since we work with OMF both in Protools and in After Effects. In Avid we exported media embedded OMF and also with audio. I know that there is an option to export OMF with audio but Protools has a hard time opening it. As for Video there is no choice, what can we do?
Thank you

Anyone?

Downloading After Effects Help! Urgent!

Hi All,
How can I download After Effects CS6 now that After Effects CC has come out? And is After Effects CS6 now free?
I'm wondering this as I don't have this right system for After Effects CC to run on my Macbook.
Any help would be appreciated ASAP!!!
Regards,
TheAAPlus.

Hi TheAAPlus,
After effects CS6 is still available as a separate version to purchase, it is not available for free.
Check the system requirements for After effects CC here: http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html
-Ankit

After Effects Help | Creating shapes and masks

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/creating-shapes-masks.html

Hi Todd,
I don't think either approach accomplishes what I am trying to do. Just as when using a shape tool on an existing layer to create a mask, none of these approaches lets me alter a shape path after creating it, in terms of number of points, inner/outer radius and inner/outer roundness. Nor can I animate those characteristics.
The Help file creates the impression that you can copy/paste a Shape path from a Shape layer. If that were true, I could create a shape, copy/paste that path to a mask path, keyframe it, go back to the original shape layer, change its propertie and copy/paste that new shape path to the mask path at a different time, thus morphing from one shape to another. I don't see any way to do that.
Jeff

After Effects, Help Need

Hello all,
I have Adobe After Effects CS 5 (TRAIL, WILL BUY IF I LIKED IT) Suppose there is a Video and the Lenght of the Video is 8 Seconds and When i Make all done with AE and Press CTRL + M(ovie) to save it. i save it and the lenght is like 3 seconds :'( i tried all my best so please someone help... The video is fast as hell i relly need ur help.
Cheers.

What version of After Effects? CS 5
Have you installed the recent updates? No, Never
What operating system? windows 7 64-BiT
What kind(s) of source footage? H.264 (MP4)
If you are getting error message(s), No Errors
What were you doing when the problem occurred? when i play the video after i save it..
Has this ever worked before? No
What other software are you running? Photoshop 7.0 Skype VLC and others
Do you have any third-party effects or codecs installed? No
Tell us about your computer hardware. Include CPU type and number of processor cores, amount of RAM installed, GPU, number of disk drives, and how any external drives are connected. 4 gig Ram 2.8 Dual Core E5500 1.7 GB intel G4/5
Do you have any third-party I/O hardware (e.g., AJA, Matrox, Blackmagic, MOTU)? no
Are you using OpenGL features in After Effects? no
Does the problem only happen with your final output, RAM preview, or both? Final Output
Are you using Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing?No
Pictures Of Composition Settings and render settings.
Original Video Lenght is 18 Seconds

Can After Effects help out Premiere

Dear,
I'm using Premiere CS3. I'm editing on AspectHD, and I'd like to have my co-editor working on his machine with DV version of the footage.
To have him have exactly what I've got so far, I went this way:
- saved a copy of my project file
- offlined all video clips it copy and kept audio files online (to avoid
having to reconnect them, by having my co-editor have them in the same
drive path and directory as I do so they reconnect automatically)
- I imported CFHD project in a brand new DV project (so that my co-editor
can work in it and have proper specs)
So now I have an offline DV version of my project file with audio online, but when I try to reconnect medias with the DV clips, I need to reconnect them one by one; even more, I need to select them 2 times each before Premiere recognizes and accepts them as the proper media. (that is normal software workflow according to ADOBE support "except for the double selection I have to make")
When I just Make Offline and Reconnect Medias in my project file and keep the HD media, I just need to select and tie one file in each folder that hold clips and Premiere does the rest, but now it won't do it for this particular project.
I talked with ADOBE tech support and the guy told me it was how Premiere works, but couldn't help me out as to if AE could help me help PREMIERE reconnect all my file in batch instead of spending 1-2 days doing so.
Anyone knows if by importing my project file in AE I could batch reconnect medias ?
Thank you.

Thank you Howard, didn't know about this.
But, still my co-editor doesn't have the Hard Drive space to have the files copied (1.4GB) and I don't have the money to buy it for him.
So I'd rather find a way to reconnect DV media to replace CFHD ones.
I posted on After Effects forum and it seems the program will respond as Premiere does. What about BRIDGE, is is there a way to reconnect media via it ?
This is like the basis of offline/online editing I can't believe that ADOBE technician haven't included something in the Creative Suite to do this !!?

After Effects Help | 3D layers

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/3d-layers.html

Here's a video tutorial showing Material Options and Environment Layers in Adobe After Effects CS6: http://youtu.be/jjvl1cUZsn8

After Effects Help ( PLEASE )

Ok, everytime I go on adobe creavite cloud and try to download after effects it goes on like 40% and says extarcting and than I get an error and I cant figure out the problem? I have 4GB ram and 64x bit computer I look at the requirements and I have everything. Please help

when im unistalling the program "after effects cs6" i get a error pop up :
Exit Code: 34
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Will reinstalling Yosemite on Late 2011 Mac Mini iCore5 4GB DDR3 help improve performance?

I have a late 2011 Mac Mini with icore5 and DDR3 4GB RAM.
To me performance was extremely good with Lion and Mountain Lion. I did love Lion though.
Mavericks improved the performance I did miss on Mountain Lion. But with Yosemite I feel I made a blunder.
My machine doesn't have the capacity to do App Nap effectively, or may be absent.
What happens most of the time is that Safari works extremely fast however all of my system apps behave bizzardly slow.
I thought it could be after initial install and waited for nearly 3 months for the OS to speedup on its own but it lags terribly.
I dont have problems playing iTunes, Safari, facetime and other live meeting apps.
I suspected my harddrive and tested it but that was working fine.
I now only think of reinstalling the OS believing it would speed up. Or should I do a clean install please let me know.

Activity Monitor - Mavericks also Yosemite
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Why your Mac runs slower than it should
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Adobe After Effects Help, Question: Shape Layer acts like a mask any help?

When i go to make a Shape it acts like a mask and i can't change it any help?

Make sure that no layer is selected before you begin drawing.

SLOW Query ... Need help improving performance

Database: Oracle 8i
Note: I don't have a whole lot of experience with writing queries, so please forgive me for any dumb mistakes I most likely made.
I have a query in which I have a SUM in two levels. I think this is probably the root cause of the very slow performance of the query. However, I just don't see any way around it, and can't come up with any other ways to speed up the query. The query itself only returns one line, the summary line. And, by slow, I mean it can take up to an hour or two. This is a query I need to run multiple times, based on some parameters that I cannot query from a database.
The query basically calculates the current unit cost of a part. It has to sum up the issue cost of the part (cost of material issued to the part's order), the actual dollars put into a part (labor, etc.), and the burden dollars associated with the part. This sum has to be divided by the total quantity of parts completed on the part's order to get the unit cost. I have to account for the possibility that the quantity complete is 0, so that I don't end up dividing by 0.
Below is my query, and sample data for it:
SELECT     a.part_nbr
,     a.mo_nbr
,     a.unit_iss_cost
,     CASE
          WHEN     a.qty_complete_ind     ='Nonzero'
          THEN     SUM(a.act_dlrs/a.qty_complete)
          ELSE     0
     END                                             AS unit_dlrs
,     CASE
          WHEN     a.qty_complete_ind     ='Zero'
          THEN     SUM(a.act_dlrs)
          ELSE     0
     END                                             AS qty_0_dlrs
FROM     (     SELECT     act.part_nbr                              AS part_nbr
          ,     act.order_nbr || '-' || act.sub_order_nbr          AS mo_nbr
          ,     ic.unit_iss_cost                         AS unit_iss_cost
          ,     SUM     (
                         act.act_dlrs_earned          +
                         act.act_brdn_dls_earned          +
                         act.tool_dlrs_earned          +
                         act.act_fix_brdn_dls_ea
                    )                              AS act_dlrs
          ,     ord.qty_complete                         AS qty_complete
          ,     CASE
                    WHEN     ord.qty_complete     <>0
                    THEN     'Nonzero'
                    ELSE     'Zero'
               END                                   AS qty_complete_ind
          FROM     ACT          act
          ,     ISSUE_COST     ic
          ,     ORD          ord
          WHERE     ord.ord_nbr          =act.order_nbr          AND
               ord.sub_ord_nbr          =act.sub_order_nbr     AND
               ord.major_seq_nbr     =act.maj_seq_nbr     AND
               ic.ord_nbr          =act.order_nbr          AND
               ic.sub_ord_nbr          =act.sub_order_nbr     AND
                    (act.order_nbr          =LPAD(?,10,'0'))     AND
                    (act.sub_order_nbr     =LPAD(?,3,'0'))          AND
                    (act.activity_date     <=?)
          GROUP BY     act.part_nbr
          ,          act.order_nbr || '-' || act.sub_order_nbr
          ,          act.maj_seq_nbr
          ,          ord.qty_complete
          ,          ic.unit_iss_cost
     ) a
GROUP BY     a.part_nbr
,          a.mo_nbr
,          a.unit_iss_cost
,          a.qty_complete_ind
CREATE TABLE ACT
          creation_date          date
     ,     c_id               number (5,0)
     ,     part_nbr          varchar(25)
     ,     order_nbr          varchar(10)
     ,     sub_order_nbr          varchar(3)
     ,     maj_seq_nbr          varchar(4)
     ,     act_dlrs_earned          number (15,2)
     ,     act_brdn_dls_earned     number (15,2)
     ,     tool_dlrs_earned     number (15,2)
     ,     act_fix_brdn_dls_ea     number (15,2)
     ,     activity_date          date
     CONSTRAINT     ACT_PK
     PRIMARY KEY     (creation_date, c_id)
);--Please note, issue_cost is actually a view, not a table, but by itself it runs very quickly
CREATE TABLE ISSUE_COST
          unit_iss_cost     number(15,2)
     ,     ord_nbr          varchar(10)
     ,     sub_ord_nbr     varchar(3)
);--Please note, ord table has a couple of foreign keys that I did not mention
CREATE TABLE ORD
          ord_nbr          varchar(10)
     ,     sub_ord_nbr     varchar(3)
     ,     major_seq_nbr     varchar(4)
     ,     qty_complete     number (13,4)
);Sample tables:
ACT
creation_date     c_id     part_nbr     order_nbr     sub_order_nbr     maj_seq_nbr     act_dlrs_earned     act_brdn_dls_earned     tool_dlrs_earned     act_fix_brdn_dls_ea     activity_date
01/02/2000      12345     ABC-123          0000012345     001          0010          10.00          20.00               0.00               0.00               01/01/2000
01/02/2000     12345     XYZ-987          0000054321     001          0030          100.00          175.00               10.00               10.00               01/01/2000
01/03/2000     12347     ABC-123          0000012345     001          0020          25.00          75.00               5.00               1.00               01/02/2000
01/03/2000     12348     ABC-123          0000012345     001          0020          75.00          120.00               25.00               5.00               01/02/2000
01/03/2000     12349     XYZ-987          0000054321     001          0050          50.00          110.00               0.00               0.00               01/02/2000
01/04/2000     12350     ABC-123          0000012345     001          0030          25.00          40.00               0.00               0.00               01/03/2000
ISSUE_COST
unit_iss_cost     ord_nbr          sub_ord_nbr
125.00          0000012345     001
650.00          0000054321     001
ORD
ord_nbr          sub_ord_nbr     major_seq_nbr     qty_complete
0000012345     001          0010          10
0000012345     001          0020          10
0000012345     001          0030          0
0000054321     001          0030          20
0000054321     001          0050          19If insert statements are needed for the sample tables, let me know and I'll go re-figure out how to write them. (I only have read-only access to the database I'm querying, so creating tables and inserting values aren't things I ever do).
Thanks in advance!

For diagnosing where the time of your query is being spent, we don't need create table and insert statements. If we execute your query with only a handful of rows, the query will be very fast. What we do need to know, is the plan the optimizer takes to compute your result set, and the cardinalities of each step.
Please read When your query takes too long ... carefully and post the full explain plan and tkprof output.
Regards,
Rob.

Caching, SSD's, improving RAM preview and rendering in After Effects CC

I've read a few posts and looked at some of the optimising After Effects for performance posts but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on settings for helping getting the best performance out of After Effects for my setup. I'm like to be able to explore more advanced effects like Trapcode and things like that but for them to preview and render as quickly as I can... as I'm sure we all do.
I have a 12 Core Mac Pro 2012 with 64GB RAM, a SSD that I use just for the system, a 4TH HDD for all my files and projects and 2 new SSD's that I installed today that I thought I would use as a cache disk and and a disk for my renders.
I decided this based on these guidelines that I found:
My Media and disk cache settings:
If I set the Conformed media disk as another disk separate from my cache is that good for rendering and previews?
My memory and multiprocessing details are as follows:
Installed RAM: 64.00 GB
Current RAM Usage: 3.26 GB
Allowed RAM Usage: 48.00 GB
Process ID
Application Name
Min Needed Memory
Max Usable Memory
Max Allowed Memory
Current Memory
Current Priority
548
After Effects
0.40
64.00
48.00
3.26
1 - High
Video preview, I'm not entirely sure what this is for, can anyone explain please?
I've only just discovered the Cache Work Area in background option shown here:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-after-effects-cs6/global-performance-cache/
That's going to help massively!
Just how much faster would things run with a new graphics card installed? Say a Nvidia Quadro K5000 for Mac? Is a GPU it worth investing in?
Current I just have this setup:
ATI Radeon HD 5770:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5770
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x68b8
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-C0160C-155
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.436
LED Cinema Display:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
Connection Type: DisplayPort
So, any tips that people think might help me speed things up and get the best out of After Effects CC would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

See this page for information about memory and improving performance in After Effects: http://adobe.ly/dC0MdR
See this page for resources about making After Effects work faster: http://adobe.ly/eV2zE7
See this page for information about hardware for After Effects: http://adobe.ly/pRYOuk

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