Posts by felt_tips

Madlistudio said
Hi forum,

I got some situation when buyer email me reporting error with my project. and the problem usually is because different platform AE conflict. I use Windows. and i know most us like to use Mac in design field. Sometime simple Color Control Expression not working on Mac. Thinking again how is that possible to happened. right? Is it because after effects problem or machine?

What should i do in that case? i mean problem with different platform .

Thanks, Madli

Ae projects are fundamentally cross platform. I’ve never seen the issues you’re talking about.

As I understand, expressions are parsed internally to Ae, so there shouldn’t be a Mac / Win difference.

Much more likely is that you have a fundamental problem with your expression, that the user has created a situation that brings it out. Or maybe the user has a different language version of Ae. If that’s the case, you need to write expressions in a specific way to make them work universally.

motionvids said
People won’t buy video bundles if they can’t preview what they’re getting.

Preview what they’re getting and quickly.

The Audio Jungle player also needs to be able to be made so you can easily skip ahead in the track.

There is so much stuff on Envato, and the pricing is so low, that there’s inevitably a mass of lower quality items to sift through. Incredibly, there’s plenty of stuff that’s very high quality too. Incredible at the price, but finding it is a big problem. And I think it’s also a problem for authors who are producing high quality work, that all too often their work is getting lost in the melee.

motionvids said
So I have three .mov videos rendered from FCP in Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) format. I’ve done some work on these files in After Effects and now I want to export them to a .mp4 with the H.264 or Animation codec.

The sound playback within After Effects works like it should. RAM preview is giving me sound as well.

Yet when actually outputting the file, the sound just dissapears. I’ve tried rendering the file into a .mp3 as well and it still doesn’t play any sound at all.

All sound switches are enabled in the timeline and I’ve checked the audio option in the rendering output window. So is it just that AE can’t output audio from an Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) .mov format? Any help is appreciated.

I’d avoid using Ae to export h.264 / mp4 stuff. It isn’t recommded. Adobe Media Encoder is the way to go.

Fundamentally, there’s no reason why Ae shouldn’t be able to output the audio from the Prores file to the h.264 or whatever. If you’re doing something wrong in Ae, then almost certainly in the Output module settings. What audio format are you encoding to?

FLV is dead and gone. I’ll be more than happy to encode my stuff to h.264. I’m not sure I’ve got an encoder that does h.265 yet. Are there any released yet?

I think this is gradually becoming a big problem. The world has moved on and Videohive is being left behind. Video rollovers? HTML 5 support? Something more than the most basic tools to search the thousands and thousands of files?

And I totally take Doru’s point – it appears that energy is being poured into the “Yet another bundle bundle” or new offshoot site X, while the existent marketplaces that are generating the revenue are by largely neglected. I’d go out on a limb and suggest that authors aren’t that fussed about the “Yet another bundle bundle” and that we’d rather see energy poured into a marketplace that’s a rather more modern and full-featured marketplace.

I say both of these are easy enough to implement from a code point of view. I suspect it’s the media encoding (and serving) that’s the big deal.

But why not “involve the authors”. Make HTML 5 / h.264 previews an option that the user can select. Users will create their own h.264 previews and upload them. Get a spare reviewer on board for a month, to do the quick check of the preview and voila!... large portions of the site will be available on iOS etc.

We’re often told that this stuff is a lot more difficult than we think. I’m prepared to believe it. But I’d like to be informed what exactly is a lot more difficult than we think, and why a lot of sites that are a lot smaller than Videohive have it and have had it for a long time.

vovkacg said

felt_tips said
Why not just make an original idea? That way you’re safe. Base it on something if you want to, but just not another piece of motion graphics. Base it on a photo or a building or a poster.

I couldn’t say for certain what the rules are regarding the above, but song lyrics are copyrighted. That doesn’t stop countless websites publishing them.

Movie intro outro sequences: If you make something too close to something that exists, it’ll be rejected on the grounds of being a copy, I guess.

Thanks. Just a pure interest. I watched a new blockbuster yesterday that has a cool intro title sequence and thought why there are no templates that utilize some concepts from well-known movies as there are hundreds of them. Of course a fresh idea is much better, but I guess lots of people would like to build their own presentation that looks like a Hollywood movie intro.

There were (and are) those kind of templates – i.e. Transformers titles. It was generally argued that since the originals were so famous, that a pastiche file was an okay thing – there was simply no doubt that the file was a pastiche.

But the problem was where to draw the line. The fact that a copy of the Transformers title sequence was one of the number one best-sellers on the Hive was causing untold confusion amongst less experienced designers, who couldn’t tell the difference between this and copying any other type of file.

So I think that Envato decided rightly in the end to not allow blatant lookee-likees either.

Let me Google that for you

25::60 is a “not enough storage” error.

Hard drive full, I’d guess.

Why not just make an original idea? That way you’re safe. Base it on something if you want to, but just not another piece of motion graphics. Base it on a photo or a building or a poster.

I couldn’t say for certain what the rules are regarding the above, but song lyrics are copyrighted. That doesn’t stop countless websites publishing them.

Movie intro outro sequences: If you make something too close to something that exists, it’ll be rejected on the grounds of being a copy, I guess.

Leupsi said
Hi, is it possible to link an effect to two controlers?
For example i have a composition “1” and a composition “2” ready to render.
In both compositions there’s an angle control effect to customize the color from the “3” precomp.

Now i want to link the effect controler from comp “1” and “2” to the precomp “3” to affect the already created effect in it.
If i change the color in comp “1”, comp “2” should adopt the same color and the other way round, too.

So easy said, two layers in different compositions with an angel expression control, should affect an effect in a third composition.

Hope you can understand that! Best regards, Julian

No… expression links only work one way. You can’t link effect 1 to follow effect 2 AND effect 2 to follow effect 1. That would be circular.

As Creative suggested, linking to the sum of both of them is the closest you’re likely to get.

Does this explain the dreadful sales in May?