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A Universe (like starfield glow)
I have a thousand photographs through which I want a camera (like a star wars space ship) to zoom through and around and stuff.
My first attempt I placed 20 photos into photoshop, with each photo as its own layer, and then grouped them so when I imported into AE, each group would be a comp. Then, for testing, I duplicated that layer four time, and made the camera zoom around. It looked decent, but wrong for the relative nature of star fields in space. The illusion of perspective of great distance was not maintained.
My second attempt I used the foam plug in by setting a single photo as the render layer and then zoomed the camera around. It looks looks decent oo, but wrong because there are too many of the same photo, and they still look like “bubbles.”
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
RH
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4 Replies
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You might want to give this Dan Ebbert’s expression a try. Put it on Position of a 3D layer. Alt click the position stopwatch and paste it in:
minX = 0;
maxX = thisComp.width;
minY = 0;
maxY = thisComp.height;
minZ = 0;
maxZ = 1000;seedRandom(index,true);
random([minX,minY,minZ],[maxX,maxY,maxZ])Change the vales as needed, like:
maxX = thisComp.width * 3;
in line 2 will make it 3 times as wide as the comp. Also change the maxZ to more than 1000 pixels if you want them deeper.
You can put the expression on one layer, then highlight the expression and Edit>Copy Expression Only, then select all the other layers and Paste, a great way to put an expression on lots of layers at once.
Aws an alternative to this you might consider placing the photos in a grid (expressions are available) and then to that comp apply Card Dance. This would be a bit of a pain to setup, but very controlable in shape after that. Ask if you need more.
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To make Dan’s expression very controllable just add a slider to Z depth by highlighting the 1000 in
maxZ = 1000;
then pickwhip (drag the “@” to a slider (Effect>Expression Controls>Slider Control, double click it and rename it “maxZ”, put it on a Null layer, then when you change the slider the layers will accordion in or out. Aharon (click his head on the main page and scroll down) has a tut or two on Expression Controls if you need a walk through.
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Thanks. I’m giving those a try right now.
Do you know if there is a Expressions Dictionary, somewhere…anywhere? Like a Websters dictionary type of thing.
RH
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IT LOOKS AWESOME!
thanks.
RH
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