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  • After Effects Reverse Scale Expressions?!?!?

    Posted by Andrew Robinson on December 5, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Hi Guys,
    I’m kinda new to the world of expressions but I really want to start using them more often (would save me a LOAD of time at work. Anywho, at the moment I am working on some green screen work (Kinda like a Sin City recreation for an advert we are working on) I have had to track some actors in a car (using Mocha AE (for CS4)) and it has done an amazing job at tracking so i can stabilize this crazy Jib/dolly shot. At them moment, the scale keyframes shrink down the footage (mirroring the scale of the car as it moves back into the distance) but what I want to do is reverse the keyframes (with an expression) so the portions of the car stay the same (scale wise) as the camera moves back (so it should result in an effect similar to a dolly-zoom).

    so in short, I want to reverse the scale keyframes so that instead of the footage getting smaller, it gets larger.

    Could anyone give me any help/pointers?

    Thanks,
    Andi

    Stephen Kampff replied 14 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Scott Robert

    July 26, 2009 at 12:18 am

    Did you ever find the answer to your question? I need to do the same.

  • Dan Ebberts

    July 26, 2009 at 1:31 am

    Something like this should work:

    [1/value[0],1/value[1]]*10000

    Dan

  • Stephen Kampff

    August 26, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    Thanks Dan, saved me there. Works a treat 🙂

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