Apple Motion Dissolving And Replicator

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Apple Motion Dissolving And Replicator

Posted by Jay Martin on February 28, 2011 at 6:26 pm

I’m using the apple motion replicator effect to create a “TV WALL” effect (basically a grid of 100s of video clips)

How would do I apply a dissolve to dissolve each screen so they all dissolve individually one at a time, not all at once.

Thanks for the help!!

John Martin replied 15 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 12 Replies
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Mark Spencer
February 28, 2011 at 7:21 pm

Use a sequence replicator behavior on opacity set to 0, adjust the spread, then adjust your replicator build style to determine how the animation moves through the replicated cells.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net
John Martin
February 28, 2011 at 7:28 pm

Thank you much! Amazing response time on this forum!!!

I’m seasoned in AECS5 and C4D… I’ll try your advice now!
John Martin
February 28, 2011 at 7:44 pm

Do I tweak the opacity within the replicator I have now, or do I make a new replicator just for opacity?
Mark Spencer
February 28, 2011 at 7:54 pm

Neither. You add the Opacity parameter to the Sequence Replicator behavior, and set it to 0 – this will animated the opacity of every cell to 0 (or from 0 or through, depending on the choice you make). If you haven’t used the Sequence Replicator behavior yet, you may want to play with it on a simpler test project – it’s incredibly powerful.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net
John Martin
February 28, 2011 at 7:55 pm

I was able to add a replicator behavior, and brought up opacity settings within this, but it doesn’t seem to be applying an opacity behavior to my “group”. Any suggestions?

Thanks.
John Martin
February 28, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Thanks, I got this far, but for some reason it doesn’t appear to be applying the effect I’ve added.
Mark Spencer
February 28, 2011 at 8:06 pm

You apply the behavior to the Replicator itself, not the group. Once you add a parameter, you need to change it’s value to see any animation. I think it might benefit you to read through the built-in help on how to use the sequence replicator behavior, might save some time.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net
John Martin
February 28, 2011 at 8:30 pm

Thanks, I got it working. My problem was I had opacity settings keyfamed within the replicator, which was conflicting with new keyframes in my sequence replicator behavior.
Jay Martin
March 1, 2011 at 10:40 pm

Hey Mark, thanks for all the help with motion.

Any suggestions on how I would achieve this “Video Wall”/”TV WALL” effect in After Effects? I’ve tried the tiler, the griddler, CC tile, but haven’t been able to figure out how to stagger the screens so they all play a different portion of the video clip while. Is there a script to use for this? Would you use a particle generator??

THANKS!
Mikey Bouchereau
March 5, 2011 at 6:53 pm

To do this in after effects try Echospace from trapcode, it adds a good replication feature to after effects.

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