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Caustics/Waveform Effects.
New to AE 7 Standard…have had a class and a bit of experience. Can’t find reference to the caustics effect online that will solve the misunderstanding. (Did see the caustics/dropping the cow into water tutorial.)
I am trying to create an effect for a title for a film in which water is a central element. I have footage of sun reflecting off of the surface of water on left of frame. In the remainder of frame, I want to create an effect which shows the title text rising from beneath the surface of the water. I believe I can use the waveform and caustics effects to do this. Waveform is fairly straightforward. Caustics…is another matter. The effect is just not visible. In the process of stumbling around…I caused the effect to perform…it mimics the appearance of light passing through water/waves and onto an object. Good. I have been told I need to precompose for this effect. Have attempted this but no luck so far.
Obviously I am missing something. Can someone give me a shove in the right direction? Thanks!
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You don’t really need to post the same question all AE forums. Sometimes you will get wildly differing opinions so it can be helpful. it’s usually just a waste of bandwidth. Please be sure to go back and close all of your threads. We ask that you synopsize your solution, or explain your failure, and post such information back to each of your forums for the benefit of all future seekers.
Caustics and Wave World require tons of experimentation and testing. They are compound effects designed to be used as modifiers for other effects. They are supremely weird and ultra-repsonsive. The output is supposed to be subtle. You need to open the Effects Help PDF that came with the application and you might want to invest in Total Training’s AE series. It will be money well spent even if you only view the Caustics and WW segments. The investment will pay off handsomely if only in saved time on your title sequence.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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If you’re looking for help with a particular plug-in then your first stop should be all of the tuorials available here for free- just click on the AE logo at the top of your screen. And you can always search the forums too.
Jim Tierney wrote a great tutorial on using caustics:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/tierney_jim/caustics/index.htmlHope this helps,
-Chris
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Is this what you mean? https://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/files/caustics.mov.
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Got a 404 on that one.
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sorry about that. That little .(dot) after /caustics.mov have to be removed.
https://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/files/caustics.mov
morebo
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Yes, I have seen that one. I’ll try following it all the way through and hope that I can find what I am doing wrong.
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