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changing between transfer modes with an expression or something else.
Greets to all 🙂
as in topic, does anyone know a method alouding to mix tranfers mode of a layer with some random freedom ? or just to change it in some authomatic way ?
I’ll be gratefull for any help 🙂
Alek. -
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You could duplicate your top layer a number of times. Set each duplicate to one of your preferred transfer modes. Then write an expression that changes the opacities of the layers.
Chris Smith
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thnx 4 advice, it’s simple , but is it the only way ?
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Use the effects Channel > Compound Arithmetic or Calculations.
Calculations is easier, but be sure a twirl down the “Second Source” triangle and set the layer below as the second source and second layer at 100%, then keyframe away on the Blending Mode.
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thank you 🙂 , that’s propably what i need 🙂
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hmmm , i’ve tryed that way as you wrote Yikes but it’s not working , i mean i don’t see any difference between 2 layers with keyframed modes :/ or i just dont get something 😐
https://www.fsk.waw.pl/aef/transfer_m.gif
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hmmm , i’ve tryed that way as you wrote Yikes but it’s not working , i mean i don’t see any difference between 2 layers with keyframed modes :/ or i just dont get something 😐
https://www.fsk.waw.pl/aef/transfer_m.gif
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Just listening to the wrong advise I think.
It’s wierd because the Effect Calculations works on Photos – the jpegs I tested it on, transfer mode switches with keyframes, but I see your’s are solids, and I can’t make it work of AE solids or solid colors I creae in Photoshop (even if I add a pettern to them). I don’t understand.
Showing my general AE ignorance I guess.
I guess you’ll have to go with Chris’s suggestion.
Sorry ’bout that.
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Maybe you could pre-compose the solids, thus effectively turning them into footage from AE’s point of view?
Just a shot in the dark.
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I just tried this and it works fine for stills, it won’t work with video though.
Through the footage in a new comp, trim it to one frame and then duplicate it as many times as you need for each mode you want to use (depending on the footage a lot of them will look effectively the same or cause the layer to drop out completely which might be a problem) then use the keyframe assistant to sequence the layers and trim the comp to the duration of the sequence of layers.
Now nest that layer into your main comp and enable time remapping, you can then put a random expression on the time value and it will randomly jump between modes.
It is very important to collapse transformations for the nested comp or else the layer modes won’t work properly.
Hope this works, it seems pretty neat to me. There was a plugin to swap the source of the layer, think it used to be free but can’t remember now what it was called, to use it you would need a different composition for each layer mode, not sure if the collapse transformations would work properly either.
Glenn Stewart
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Great Job Glennser.
I thought of a tut that might work, same method actually, but I never enabled collapse transformations and therefore it didn’t work for me. Ah, the devil is in the details.
Anyway, Alek, if you want a step by step of Glennser’s post, Click on Aharon’s head at the top of the page and scroll down to:
Lip-Synching Characters in AE
PS – Don’t forget the collapse transformations.
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