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  • to express, or not to express…

    Posted by Editor1 on July 12, 2006 at 1:18 am

    i am hoping to use a wiggle expression to “cut” randomly amongst four videos, decreasing the frequency of the wiggle to zero until video “x” “holds” the frame. i have been working on wiggling the z position parameter, but am thinking it won’t work because i have four videos to cut amongst and not three, (-1, 0, 1) being the useful numbers there, yeah? i am pretty new to expressions, and not great at math… i guess my question is should i focus on another parameter other than the z position, like opacity or just turning layers on and off (can i do that with an expression)? or should i just take the time to cut/ keyframe this.

    (also, in a perfect world- as the frequency of random “cuts” decreases, the expression would “choose” video “x” more and more often as it gets closer to “holding” the frame.)

    thanks so much in advance!

    Filip Vandueren replied 20 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Filip Vandueren

    July 12, 2006 at 3:39 am

    I was preparing a whole post about how to script this, but scrap that:

    do it by hand: Random cuts have the tendency to not look random enough, they look just like bad cutting, I doubt you’d be satisfied by the result.

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