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Adding Fade In & Out using Scripting
Hello,
What I would like to do is import a video and add a simple fade In at the beginning (2-3 seconds) and fade out at the end. This seems like something scripting in AE should be able to handle since this will be a repetitive task for many videos.
Does any one have a simple sample I can use that will get me going on this? This would be much appreciated. Having the general idea on the code involved will enable me to adapt it to using the script from the command line, which is my goal.
Thanks,
Jason
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Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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You could also apply this expression, so that the fade will update even if the layer timing is changed later:
// set this value to the length of the dissolve you want, in seconds
dissolveTime = 3;// if we don't have enough time to do both full dissolves the way we want, set the dissolve time to half the total duration.
if (outPoint - inPoint < dissolveTime * 2) dissolveTime = (outPoint - inPoint)/2;// use linear interpolation to go from 0 to the nominal opacity value (100 by default, but adjustable or keyframable) as long as we're within dissolveTime seconds of the layer's in point,
// and vice versa for the out point. Otherwise, simply return the nominal value.
if (time-inPoint <= dissolveTime) linear(time-inPoint,0,dissolveTime,0,value)
else if (outPoint-thisComp.frameDuration-time <= dissolveTime) linear(outPoint-thisComp.frameDuration-time,0,dissolveTime,0,value)
else value;Walter Soyka
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There is also a “Fade In+Out – frames” preset in the “Behaviors” section that fades in and out by however many frames you enter, base on the in and out points of the layer. Harry Frank has a preset called “graymachine auto fade” on his site that uses layer markers to determine the fade duration.
Erik Waluska
EAWmedia
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