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Hello everybody!
(This post was co-authored by Tim Kurkoski (After Effects Product Owner), Andrew Cheyne (After Effects Engineering Manager), and Victoria Nece (After Effects Product Manager).)
This thread has been sitting here for quite a while without a response. To start, we want to apologize for that. We haven’t been ignoring you or your feedback – this is just a particularly complex topic. That said, it’s time for us to check in with you, clarify a few things, and give you an idea of what we’re looking at for the future of After Effects, especially when it comes to performance.
To start, we fully understand that you want After Effects to be as fast as it can be – utilizing your computer’s hardware resources to render as fast as possible. Over the last several years, we have been working on the performance of After Effects constantly. Sometimes those performance gains…
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Same here - the introduction of Motion Graphics Templates and Responsive Timing has made this even more acute.
In a broadcasting house, where branding moves from prerendered flow-tv Airlooks to user-rendered typographic mogrts for rapid-production SoMe clips, we constantly hit the performance of After Effects and the dynamic link rendering.
Our rapid-turnaround users working to brand their clips in Premiere have a hard time understanding why simple-looking designs involving shapes scaled to text strings are slowing down their timeline and making their playback jagged. They are not After Effects users and are used to live rendering everywhere, also online.
Worth noting is also that a video editor using Premiere would usually have a less capable machine than an After Effects motion designer. This is exacerbating the Performance issue, as the rendering moves from big pre-production and motion design machines to laptops for SoMe editors.
So yes, performance is the top priority, but especially for expressions, text rendering and Essential Graphics in Premiere!
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I have just discovered that it works if i call comp.openInEssentialGraphics() first.
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Here's a diff
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Yep - The only thing needed to script this would be the ability to get to the source property in a master comp from it's master properties when used as layer.
Something like:
thisComp.layer("Fancy sign").masterProperty("Title Text").source;
thisComp.layer("Fancy sign").masterProperty("Fancy Slider").source;
Should be able to return a reference akin to:
comp("Fancy Sign").layer("Text").sourceText
comp("Fancy Sign").layer("CONTROLS").effect("Fancy Slider")("Slider")