• Adobe After Effects

  Seamless animation question

  Posted by Tim Jones on September 18, 2017 at 3:32 am

  I create graphics for a daktronics led ring that has a starting and end pixel point. Is there a way to create graphics so that when things run off the right side of the video (ending pixel) it runs back to the left side (starting pixel)? So that the ring looks seamless?

  Kevin Camp replied 8 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Cassius Marques

  September 18, 2017 at 12:13 pm

  There are several ways you could do that. Add an adjustment layer on top of everything, add a transform effect and subtract your composition width in the X value of the position property. Then add a cc composite effect with rgb only checked off.

  Another way to do it is to create a composition thats 3x as wide. Animate things in this one. Then duplicate it two times and displace it one time fully to the left and the other to the right. You’ll still may run into problems if you need things to do more than one “revolution”.

  Cassius Marques
  http://www.zapfilmes.com
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  Kevin Camp

  September 18, 2017 at 7:22 pm

  you can also try the offset effect (probably as an adjustment layer as Cassisus mentions)… simply animate the offset position, as the pixels go offscreen to the right, they will appear on the left.

  Kevin Camp
  Art Director
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