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  • Animate depth

    Posted by Gary Lockhart on March 13, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    Hi all

    Longtime reader, first time poster. I am running Adobe AE 6.5 and ProAnimator 4.x (the latest version.)

    Is there a way to animate depth, say to start at a depth of 1 and end with a depth of 10? Layer cycling comes to mind, but is there another way??

    evangary

    Gary Lockhart replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Matt Rhodes

    March 13, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    Hi evangary.

    You can use the Pose Scale controls to animate the Z scale of the object.

    Briefly:
    – Create the first Pose at time 0 seconds.
    – Create a second Pose at time 5 seconds.
    – Select the second Pose and open the Advanced Animation Controls.
    – Change the Local Scale *Z* value to something over 100 (try 300 or 500).
    – Play back the animation. You’ll see the scale animate over the Transition.

    You’ll then want to edit the animation to your taste.

    Let us know if you have any more questions.

    Matt Rhodes
    Zaxwerks, Inc.

  • Jon Okerstrom

    March 13, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    Hi evangary,

    Create a pose with a given Z scale amount.. create a transition and a second pose, In the second pose, change the z scale.

    Jon

  • Jon Okerstrom

    March 13, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    Oops… Matt answered this one already… it’s good to know we think alike!

    Jon

  • Matt Rhodes

    March 13, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    Copy cat.

  • Gary Lockhart

    March 13, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    Thanks guys! I have had this program for over a year, used it in my video productions and yet I could not figure out nhow to do this. Doh!!!

    evangary

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