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  Creating a film strip effect

  Posted by David Bralha on January 1, 2015 at 5:47 pm

  Hey guys,

  So I’m trying to create a “film strip” effect with my animation.

  So think of one of these: https://www.infobarrel.com/media/image/138955.png

  Now imagine that the camera is stationary, and the film strip is flashing by very quickly, and on each film “square” is a stick figure that is moving, stop-motion style.

  My question is, how can I do this without having to create a separate composition for each “square”, because if I only use one composition, it’ll change every square, instead of one at a time. Also I’ve found that I can’t use a loop, because I need my stick figure parented to the square to move along with it, and I don’t want my stick figure looping – I want him independent of the loop, moving on his own.

  Could anyone guide me through this? I’m still fairly new to AE.

  Thanks

  Walter Soyka replied 11 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  January 2, 2015 at 7:04 pm

  David, you can do all this from a single source comp. Use multiple layers of that precomp, and use time remapping [link] on each one to control which frame it shows.

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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