Wiggler Unresponsive in After Effects CC

I recently installed AE CC on my Mac desktop and laptop. The desktop is an iMac 2012, OSX 10.8.3 and the laptop is a Macbook from 2008, same OS. For some reason, the Wigglers (any of them) in After Effects don't work on my iMac but they do work on the laptop. I deleted my preferences but that didn't work. When I apply any of the Wigglers and then preview, the numerical values change as they should but there's no visual animation. This also happens on another iMac under a different Adobe ID. Why does the Wiggler work on my old laptop, but not the two new desktops I tried? How can I fix this? Thank you!
Zack

If the numeric values in property values are changing but you don't see anything changing in the compositiion window then you have a cache or live update problem.
Create a new small comp say 640 X 480, add a 100 X 100 pixel red solid. Set a position keyframe at the first frame with the solid on the right side of the comp move down the timeline 100 frames and drag the solid to the left side of the screen. Verify that you have two keyframes in the timeline and that you see the motion path, click on the Position property selecting both keyframes (they turn yellow) open the Wiggler pannel set the frequency to 4 and the value to 100 and click Apply.
Spatial wiggles will show up in the comp window, Temporal wiggles are visible in the Graph Editor:
You should see keyframes created for every frame and the path should be all over the place. Now preview...

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johnster1991 wrote:
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System Manufacturer: To be filled by O.E.M.
System Model: To be filled by O.E.M.
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Windows Dir: C:\Windows
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System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
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joshweiland wrote:
I re-read your original post...
Mr.Nicklebe wrote:
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This is very odd. Since it detects the full 16GB, I doubt that your RAM is faulty/unseated/etc. If that were the case, it would not be recognized as 16GB.
What CPU and motherboard are you using? It's possible that a setting in your BIOS is to blame.
I've seen this happen before on computers with integrated graphics. They will use a portion of your system RAM as video RAM. But this is typically only 256MB-512MB at most...not a whopping 8GB!
Yeah pretty odd I know. My BIOS only reads 8GB of the RAM (doesnt mention 16GB at all I dont think), Resource Monitor and DXDIAG say 8GB of available memory and 16GB of total memory. I did Memtest 86 for 12 hours last night and whilst it came up with no RAM errors it also only detected half of my RAM anyway.
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FEATURE REQUEST: After Effects style Placeholders and Proxies

If you feel the needs in efficient proxy workflow, welcome to the club and don't hesitate to submit feature request.
Here is the adjusted to less than 2000 symbols feature request text:
***After Effects style Placeholders and Proxies***
It would be nice if PrPro offered AE style Placeholders and Proxies workflow. There are cases, where they are extremely useful, e.g.:
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3. Adobe Dynamic Link. PrPro communicates with AE projects via single instance of headless AE, which creates a bottleneck and entails the need to render DI for complex comps. Although AE allows to set DIs as proxies and, hence, enjoy the best of both worlds, instantly switching between DI and dynamically linked comp and no needs to replace anything in PrPro timeline, with hundreds of dynamically linked comps PrPro timeline becomes unresponsive and takes forever to render (for my rig test 30 min sequence built out of 935 dynamically linked comps, which are just source footages in their own comps, hence, the equivalent to rendered DIs set to proxies, takes around 27 hours to render, while 30 min sequence built out of the same 935 source footages renders in real time). Meanwhile, PrPro doesn't currently allow to link offline dynamically linked comps to rendered DIs.

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If I can't get this working I will probably just buy Vegas, even though Vegas is a big old crash monkey. No Wacom problems at all though.
Any ideas?
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i - Illl try to answer these bellow...
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Have you installed the recent updates? (If not, you should. They fix a lot of problems.)
Just don'e this - not tried to render since
What operating system? This should include specific minor version numbers, like "Mac OSX v10.6.8"---not just "Mac".
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If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)?
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Has this ever worked before? If this worked before by doesn't work now, what has changed on your computer in the intervening time?
I had a similar problem two days ago, i thought it could be a problem with some animated png sequences and a "matte feather" effect so i replaced the sequences with non animated versions and it seemed to fix the problem.
Tell us about your computer hardware. Include CPU type and number of processor cores, amount of RAM installed, GPU, number and sizes of connected monitors, number of disk drives, and how any external drives are connected.
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro6,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
Processor Speed: 3.5 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 6
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
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Boot ROM Version: MP61.0116.B07
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Are you using OpenGL features in After Effects?
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Does the problem only happen with your final output, RAM preview, or both?
Doesn't appear to hang on RAM preview
Are you using Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing?
Yes
Are you using the ray-traced 3D renderer?
No
If the problem is with output, give your exact output settings (both render setting and output module settings). Screenshots help.
Best Settings - Outputting as Apple Pro Res 4444
Hope this is helpful,
thanks,
Jonathan

After Effects CS5 hangs on startup

After Effects CS5 (MAC, german trial version) needs 5-10 minutes to start up, hangs on the message "MediaCore wird initialisiert". On another Mac (small macbook!) it works fine. I did a reinstall, no effect. No plugins are installed.

Some of you appear to be having different problems. Let's keep this thread focused on QT32 server related hangs only. Please start a new thread if:
1. you are never seeing an AE splash dialog come up
2. the splash dialog does not say "Initializing MediaCore" during the hang you are seeing
3. killing the QT32 Server process in the Activity Monitor (mac) / Task Manager (windows) does not result in unfreezing AE.
Please note that if the Activity Monitor says QT32 Server is "unresponsive", that can be normal and does not, by itself, mean you are experiencing a QT32 Server hang problem.    If (2) is happening but not (3), then you are likely experiencing some other plugin related issue than the QT32 server. If all the above do apply to you. Make sure you've tried the firewall fix mentioned above first.
If that doesn't help, on Mac please get the following information:     Repeat the hang with only AE running, then go to the Activity Monitor and select the QT32 Server process.   Then press the "Sample Process" button at the top of the window.   When the sample is complete, please post the first page of the resulting text file.

After Effects + Flash - Dynamic Content. How to integrate special effects.

Hello World of Adobe.
I am currently working on a project involving data driven dynamic content. This data is being incorporated into the video at runtime.
I have done these types of projects before, with success, and am looking to step up my game.
So the question:
How can I use effects such as - Blur, wiggle, distort, shatter etc. on dynamic content.
For instance:
John Doe puts his information into a text feild. That data is sent to flash environment, where it is "injected" into the video at the proper time and location. His name appears in fancy lettering surrounded by fancy environment factors. The name however, blurs in and out of focus.... maybe distorts a bit, then shatters.
An example:
These guys over at XMPie seem to have this figured out.
http://www.xmpie.com/PEVideo
"Starting with either an original After Effects movie or an existing template from an online library, the user can incorporate variable text, images, and other footage with exciting special effects like animate, wiggle, shatter, blur, warp, distort, and more"
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you!

Thank you for your feedback.
So essentially there would be a After Effects project template on a server waiting for certain input data. Then it would be rendered and .flv encoded and sent to the video player.
Do I have that right?
This could be a problem given the render time, as my client wants the video shown soon after user data in inputted. But may be a solution for a more rich experience, not generated at run-time.
Are there any plugins or specific scripts you can point me to?
Also, regarding flash, if I were to export cue point data for these custom feilds, does flash support any additional effects... such as blur, opacity etc. That can be placed within the .flv metadata?

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