Effects and animation presets overview

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A new video tutorial and download about animation presets by Harry Franks is listed on this page in After Effects Help: Animation presets overview and resources

Here are my 17 most used AE presets, with a convenient little download and training video. http://www.graymachine.com/?p=2750.

Adobe Bridge Freezes While Previewing Animation Presets

Hello
I know this question has been asked several times over, but I do not have a resolution so I thought would ask again. Like the previous posts, when I browse presets from the Effects and Animations menu, Adobe Bridge opens. I can scroll through the animations, but once I choose one, the play button scrubs and appears to play, but never does, and then the program freezes. I have read the blog posts and installed the fixes posted on the adobe blog, but nothing helps. All of my Apple Software and Creative Cloud software says it is up to date.
Here are my settings:
Adobe After Effects 12.2.1.5
Adobe Bridge 6.0.1.6
Apple Quicktime 10.1
20-inch, Early 2008 iMac OS X
Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63b)
Any guidance you can offer is much appreciated!
Thank you,

Thanks for the quick reply Rick. Yes, 4Gb is not a lot, but when I bought the machine I was not doing any video and it sure seemed like plenty in 2008. I probably should upgrade...
I did close down everything else, but the problem still exists. I can navigate to a thumbnail, but once I click on it and try to preview, the program freezes and I have to force quit.

How to save expression together with animation preset?

I am trying to understand expressions and animation presets.
I have one single slider control, which controls the opacity of a layer, where the value is the slider value + slightly changed using an expression.
I can save the slider control as an animation preset, but the expression gets lost.
Yes, this is so basic that it can be, this is the way I like to learn. And as far as I know, expressions can be saved together with animation presets. I hope someone can tell me how!

The reason that the expression is not removed when you delete the slider is that the expression is only reading the slider value, the slider doesn't know that the expression is there. There's no reverse link.
You can build more professional effects but that involves editing the xml file that tells AE what effects are applied. This still would not generate a reverse link to an expression.
Enabling or disabling an effect only changes the way things are rendered. If you have keyframes on a Lens Flair Brightness and you disable the effect the Lens Flair will not render but the keyframe values will still be available to an expression. Again, there's no reverse link. Since an expression slider does not make a change in the pixel values of a layer turning the FX switch on or off will have no effect on an expression reading the value.
The "trick" in creating an Animation Preset that uses expressions and is removed with the "effect" is removed from the Effects Control Window is to only write expressions for properties that are available in the effects used. You could do this by applying the Transform Effect, or the Levels Individual Controls Effect, or the CC Composite Effect to the layer and writing the expression there instead of placing your expression in the Layer's opacity property. Take a look at this screenshot.

Animation preset is showing but the drop menu for it isn't?

When I choose fractal noise the animation preset is showing, but when I click on the drop menu for it to select curtain, no options show at all. The only options that show are "None" and "Save Selected Effects As Animation Preset." Can someone help me make the curtain noise show? thanks

You probably have permissions issues on your presets foldrs so AE can't access them. Check that.
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Copy Audio Filters and animation

I'm laying a music clip over a section of my movie. While sections of the clip may be revised by my composer from time to time, the audio effects I'm applying, and their timing, will NOT be.
Is there a way to either
a) replace the audio in a clip, maintaining the effects and audio animation, or...
b) copy and paste audio effects and animation from one clip to another.
I'm working in FCPX on a canister tower running Yosemite.
--Jay

Copy the audio clip that's in the timeline. Use the replace function to replace it, and then select the new clip and use Paste Attributes (Shift-Cmd-V) and select the items you want to put them back onto the clip.

Effects and presets

Animation presets in After Effects using the Effects & Presets panel.
I use After Effects CS6 and try to make a animation preset and get this message:
After Effects warning: Adobe Bridge is not installed. Please download and install it to use this feature.
I am new to After Effects, but does this mean, that I have to purchase Bridge to use any animation presets ?
Are there no built in Animation Presets in the After Effects CS6 ?
I have ticked in the Show Animation Presets, but I still can not find any.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Chears.
Ola

If you have not installed Bridge or it is out of date, you can find animation presets in the Effects and Presets panel. Just search snow there and you'll find:
By the way, any animation presets you create will be also available here if you store them in the default directory. Custom animation presets will not have a preview mode in Bridge. In my entire 20 years of using AE I probably have browsed animation presets about 5 times using Bridge. I know some prefer that method, but I find the Effects & presets panel much more useful.

How do I fix my animation presets for text that won't load? It seems to get locked in loop and I am forced close Adobe Bridge.

How do I fix my animation presets for text that won't load? It seems to get locked in a loop when I click on one and I am forced to "fore close" Adobe bridge which After Effects uses to locate the presets. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

What is your exact workflow? The proper procedure is to select your text layer in AE, find the text preset you want to use, then drag or double click that preset to apply it to your project.
It also helps if we know your version of AE and OS down to the decimal point. You didn't give us much to go on.

Missing Animation Presets in After Effects 2014 CC

I upgraded from CS6 CC to 2014 CC and cannot now find the Animation Presets anywhere on my system. I deleted CS6 CC because of space considerations. They were in it. Can't find them anywhere on my system. Standard install. WIndows 7 Pro, 6 GB i7 blah blah blah! Was told by Tech Support that I couldn't BROWSE them because I don't have Bridge CC. I do have CS5.5 Premium Bridge, but can't reach it from 2014 CC. Even using it outside of 2014 CC I can't find Animation Presets. I can't find the folder they're supposed to be in, find everything else.
Help!

Hello Rick Gerard,
Thank you for the prompt and apparently correct answer. However, this did not solve my problem. Perhaps I was not totally clear in my original post. To that end, before I posted I went to the panel for Effects and Presets inside AE 2014 CC. That was what lead me to start trying to Browse Animation Presents and finding out that Adobe Bridge 2014 CC was not installed, etc. Okay, I can live without that.
The Animation Presets DO NOT SHOW UP in the Effects and Presets panel as you have displayed in the graphic. In fact, searching for Animation in that panel's search box produces no result. Looking at a list of Animation Presets from Adobe's site and searching for several of them produces nothing. The Animation Presets cannot be found. They are not in any folder inside or outside the install. Even searching my entire system for *.ffx (I believe that is correct) turns up nothing.
Something may have gone awry when I deleted (actually uninstalled) CS6 using Windows' own uninstall function. I only did that because my then hard drive was crammed to the max and functionality had degraded. I replaced that drive and now I'm a happy camper again except for not finding the Animation Presets.
IF I deleted/uninstalled them inadvertently, what are my options for getting them back? Deactivate and reinstall 2014 CC? What about reinstall/reactivate(?) CS6? Thanks once again and also in advance.

After Effects Autoscroll - Vertical Animation Preset Issue

Hi After Effects Community,
I am hoping someone can assist me with an issue I have been unable to work out when applying the Autoscroll Vertical Animation preset in After Effects CC. I have already spent ages working way through the forums and googling topic but not quite found the answer, so here goes:
Trying to create scrolling credits for a film I am are editing. Normally, I use the titler in Premiere Pro CC for this and then use the scroll setting. This works to a point but it is very limited in terms of editing/formatting and I have been trying to create a template in After Effects where by you can simply go in and edit the text in the layers and drop the new credit roll into any project.
Taking advice from a source online (Trish Meyer I think), I created a new comp (1920 x 1080 @ 25fps and 2 mins long) and then created a precomp inside this and created all my text. I adjusted the size of this comp so that all the text layers fit onto it. This made it very long (dimensions of precomp are 1920 x 16000. Other settings matched the main composition). I then went back to my main comp and applied the Autoscroll Vertical Animation preset behaviour effect. I thought this was it as the effect did create a scroll but I found that it didn't start the roll from the beginning of my text, rather half way down, and also only scrolled so far before it stopped scrolling.
Does anyone have any advice or recommendations as to what I need to do here to create the desired effect? Ideally I need it to roll through the credit text and then slowly stop on last line of credits before fading to black. I notice that the Motion Tile section of the preset effect has numbers that are red (numbers relate to Tile Centre) and assume this links to the expression attached to this effect.
Do I need to animate the centre of the tile? I saw something online about there being a maximum number of frames the After Effects can render or something like this which is why the animation stops. I must admit I can't believe that this is such a hard thing to learn how to do as I would have thought it is a basic that most film makers would need to do at some point yet it is not well covered online in the form of tutorials etc.
Anyway, I would be so grateful if anyone is able to help. If it is easier I am willing to upload my AE project file so that people can take a closer look to see in more detail what I have tried to explain here.
Many thanks,
Alex

One way to create the correct timing is to create 2 keyframes for position that are 1 frame apart. set the y value for the second key frame to be the number of pixels per frame movement that you need (say 2 pixels). then add this expression: loopOut('continue') the movement will not happen until time hits the first keyframe, so timing can be adjusted in a more familiar way, then the code just continues that movement.
You might add this animation and expression to a null, then parent the credits to the null to make it easy to adjust the credit position separate from the animation. Also, you can split the layer at the point you want it to stop moving and undo the parent for it.

How do I apply effects and Presets bought online to the actual programam, on mac

I bought some 'film looks' for free on www.rodypolis.com and I want to know how to make them useable on AAE for mac.

The location of the folder into which to put animation presets is given in After Effects Help, here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7c30 a.html
Start here to learn After Effects: http://adobe.ly/bjBT3P

GS-06: Animating with animation presets | Learn After Effects CS5 & CS5.5 | Adobe TV

Animate layers quickly and easily by using animation presets. Drag and drop animation presets onto layers in the Timeline panel and combine them for a unique result.
http://adobe.ly/ytXsgl

Hi. So I'm following along, and it's been very helpful for a newbie! Your methods are thorough and I'm learning quickly. For some reason though, when I add the "rotate over time" preset, it says the transform effect is missing. Additionally, when I open the project, it says the "glow" effect is missing also. Any ideas?

How can I add 3ds Model into After Effects with animation and camera rotation?

Hi all!
I'm on my way to my final project of Multimedia Animation of my bachelor last year.
I have good knowledge of After Effects & 3ds Max.
I want to do a short movie with aliens being shot down.
So, my question is: How can I import my 3ds model with the animation(keyframes) into After Effects AND rotate the whole character and it's animation as I move the camera?
for example, having a alien being shot down at the same time I'm recording with the HD camera around, that means that I have to define planes and angles, the problem is that I'm not parenting the character correctly with the plane.

Element doesn't do pre-anaimted objects, so that would be the limiting factor. Of course it could still be handy for otehr scene elements. On that note, using AtomKraft and exporting the model as an Alembic file with animation might also be something to look into...
Mylenium

Soundbooth CS5: Effects and/or rack presets for 5.1 audio?

Hi,
Are there any Soundbooth CS5 effects and/or rack presets (either Adobe or third-party) for working with 5.1 audio? I have effects and presets for both mono and stereo, but none show up for 5.1 files.
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Hi Shawn,
I understand, but at least with stereo files I can add an EQ, compressor, etc. that applies to all (both) channels. Is there not a similar capability for 5.1 files? I don't so much need per-channel editing (I can always split the channels out to separate files in that case), but basic EQ/compression is really what I'm looking for.
Best,
Chris

After Effects won't import any animation presets from Bridge.

I just installed Creative Cloud. It seems to be working fine, except that when I try to apply Animation Presets into After Effects through Bridge, it gives me an error message saying "Can't import file xxx.fxx: unsupported filtype or extension"
I'm not trying to import a "file" or anything.... simply trying to apply an animation preset to a video clip on an AE timeline. Never had any issues doing this with CS5. Anyone know what's going on?
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See this thread:
Re: Using bridge within AE 2014. Going through lessons in classroom in a book. All of a sudden can't apply any presets.

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