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  Follow the bouncing ball…

  Posted by Dvsq_dv1 on November 15, 2006 at 8:10 pm

  Hi all,

  I’m new to AE, but old hat at Final cut pro and the adobe suite. I need to do a sing along thing in a video I’m producing. Does anyone know of a good tutorial or a simple way to do a bouncing ball in AE that I can bring into FCP?

  I know it’s vague, but I don’t know how to explain it better. Any help would be great!

  – D

  Graham Quince replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Graham Quince

  November 20, 2006 at 5:45 pm

  Dunno about bringing into FCP (PC user here), but the bouncing ball is relatively easy, if time consuming.

  Highlight a layer in your comp, preview the audio by hitting the ‘.’ key on your numberpad and then at every time you want the ball to be down, hit the ‘*’ key on the numberpad. It’ll leave a marker on the layer at the point in time.

  Now, all you have to do is animate the ball to be down at each one of those markers. I think someone wrote an expression to convert markers to keyframes, but you’d have to search the archives for it.

  Graham

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