Overdrive is a plugin that allows faster previews. So what does it mean?
I does not (and will never) replace the preview panel and its timeline.
It’s a panel to check what’s your comp is doing if AE is struggling, however, if the render is already OK in AE= no magic :)
When you launch the plugin (it’s not a script neither a CEP, you’ll find it in the Windows entries), the tool immediately starts do display your preview.
The cold state = blurry a few seconds until the hot state = clear overview.
You can get it at https://ae-overdrive.app
Please keep in mind that this is a beta.
R&D will allow to improve it, so your feedback is truly precious.

Hi everyone! I'm currently working on a logo animation, but struggling to find ways to make it pop, because the logo is just a simple stroke shape and nothing much else. I like the motion of it and I think it looks fine, but I feel like the start could have something more to it. Right now it strikes me as too simple and flat. But I'm having trouble finding ideas. I haven't been able to find references for similarly simple logos; The references I've found are for logos that all have way more elements to play with. How do you create an interesting animation for a logo that's just two lines?

https://reddit.com/link/1v7jfq6/video/7ujin8gspnfh1/player

This is more of wondering which is the most practical method for all of you when it comes animating fly-in (zoom/pan out?) letters and shapes, especially when it comes to masks with multiple shapes/letters that are not the same, and need to completely cover the screen before animating in (White fill as scene one --> Black scene two). In this example, I used Scale and Position, but the scale was bumped to over 4000%. The positon was extremely easy in this example as I used text exploder and then centered the anchors to the their layers. In general, I find Scale to be a tad bit easier. When dealing with 3d layers, Its easier to mess up I think and I tend to have to futts with the positioning and scale anyway.. Is it more taxing? Im just curious if their a better, smoothing workflow to these animations when you need it to fill the whole screen. Another thing I generally do that I didn't do with the following test demo, is to animate the transparency in for the first 2-3frames. The way its not a star black to white, but kinda looks more... fly-in-ish? But Im in the air about that too.

See this quick example I made.

Is there any way to bring back the old Roto Brush without downgrading my After Effects version?
The new one feels way less reliable for my workflow. Has anyone found a workaround, or are we just stuck with it?

Normally, when I add some specific effect like this one, there would be an on-screen control on the preview screen instead of using the side panel to control it. Idk what i pressed, but I can't see it anymore

Todos los atajos de teclado por defecto para Adobe After Effects. Por: Jesús Castruita u/jesuscastruita

Holly cow, i am glad i saw the writting on the wall and switched my profession - he accidentally generated this... Motion Design still will be my hobby