any ideas how to do this creating a linear line of video

[Michael Szalapski]

When you ask how to do this, I assume you are asking for a more automated way to do it rather than doing it by hand.
One, still somewhat time consuming way, would be to make a composition of footage for every row you plan to have. Then make as many duplicates of that comp in another comp as you want boxes. Then offset each one in time by a few frames. If you just need the first part where all of the boxes are the same just cutting after each other, then you only need one precomp offset in time through the whole comp window.
(Doing this with the 3d layer switches turned on and having them set at different z distances and scaled up or down to look the same size might be a fun twist.)

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[Chris Wright]

that’s easy. it’s just a motion tile with randomized linear wipes using tile pixel width transition completion.

[Richard Altman]

thanks guys, chris, your idea sounds good, care to share some obviousness with me, i’d really appreciate it.

first off, a motion tile. where can i find that particular thing?

[Richie Tovell]

Nice Video, the music and the video look to be either created on (in part) or atleast inspired by the Monome midi controller, Primerily developed to control music software. I myself and a small handfull of other producers have started to use them to control live video apps such as Resolume Avenue, The monome and Resolume avenue both use layers or “rows” of clips in this way.

The way I would do this would be live, each row on the monome having it’s own video layer, The monome has 16 pads to a row, each pad triggers one of the loops, the 16 loops would then form the layer, this would be repeated using different footage for each row.

I know there are probably a few people out there that would aproach this in a different way, no problem there, what you have to bare in mind is that this is an AV composition, and would most likely have been created using tools designed specifically for simaltaineous Audio and Visual manipulation (Video sampling) and ( Live Video performance) as I have discribed above.

If you want to have a look further in to this side of AV work, it is something that is obviously of interest to you, trust me After Effects is not ideal for this kind of work, you need to be lookiinf at a programme like Resolume Avenue 3, and well, the tip about the monome is one of my little secrets, so keep it under your hat 🙂

Monomes come in many different sizes, from the small 40H up to the 256 pad version I use (16 rows of 16).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJwxbTKwONc

Resolume Avenue 3 has many effects similar to that used in your video. Have a look through them and chek out the software aswell.

https://www.resolume.com/shop/plugins.php

[Richard Altman]

hey guys, really appreciate the responses:

it was pretty easy but y’all pointed me in the right direction and that’s why: it was just motion tile, reduced to one line, then copied and placed to tile up screen, and it was staggered from bottom copy in timeline by 16 frames to top, got the exact effect. i will check out that video when i get back from work, thanks again everyone.

cheers,

ds3