After Effects does not allow Mocha shapes to be pasted


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After Effects does not allow Mocha shapes to be pasted
by Steve MacMillan on Sep 20, 2009 at 12:04:09 am

I have After Effects CS4, Mocha 1.5.2, and AE Mocha Shape. Shape was working, but now if I export Mocha roto shapes to the clipboard, I cannot Paste onto a clip on the timeline in After Effects. The Paste menu item is grayed out. Is this a Shape license issue? Mocha runs off of a Dongle and my Shape license is in the root/Library/Application Support/Imagineer Systems/FLEXlm/Licenses folder.

Any ideas why this wont work for me?

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Re: After Effects does not allow Mocha shapes to be pasted
by Martin Brennand on Sep 20, 2009 at 8:52:08 am

Hi Steve,

Are you getting an error message when you switch back to After Effects, or it just won't let you paste?

Clipboard problems are more commonly an issue with After Effects in Windows, but have you also tried closing and re-opening AE to purge the clipboard memory?

Martin Brennand | Product Specialist | Imagineer Systems

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Re: After Effects does not allow Mocha shapes to be pasted
by Steve MacMillan on Sep 20, 2009 at 7:52:25 pm

No error messages. I have restarted my Mac, and still no joy. I'm frustrated and confused. How can I be sure that the Shape plug-in is seeing it's license? I can manually apply the Shape plug-in in After Effects without any errors, but not paste any data to it.

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Re: After Effects does not allow Mocha shapes to be pasted
by Steve MacMillan on Sep 20, 2009 at 8:10:38 pm

Also, by pasting into a text file, I have confirmed that the Shape data is on the Clipboard. After Effects does not want to know.

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Re: After Effects does not allow Mocha shapes to be pasted
by Martin Brennand on Sep 21, 2009 at 10:05:51 am

If your licence isn't working you will get an error dialog when you switch into After Effects, so that is not the problem.

What are you selecting in the timeline to paste into?
Also, what version of OSX are you presently running?

Martin Brennand | Product Specialist | Imagineer Systems

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Re: After Effects does not allow Mocha shapes to be pasted
by Steve MacMillan on Sep 22, 2009 at 4:15:23 pm

I see what I'm doing wrong.

I failed to notice that the Mocha Shape export dialog defaults to Combustion and not AE shape data. Its working now.

Thanks Martin for your attention in this.

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