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best way to animate/manage dozens of words/images
i’m shooting a rap video soon in which we will be compositing tons of those little “magnetic poetry” magnets onto the screen. at given points i want to have hundreds of them (we’ll probably just take digital photos of the magnets) moving around the screen. what is the best way to work on this without individual keyframes for each image? i have little experience with expressions but i feel like it might be the only way to go with this. thanks for the help.
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Digital Anarchy’s 3D Assistants is a great way to move many layers in 2D or even 3D space. Check out the tutorials at their website or on the Cow.
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A particle generator such as Particular or ParticleIllusion is great for animating this kind of thing.
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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Indeed.
One way is to set up a comp containing all the little words as layers. Then you make them each 1 frame long, and use the Sequence Layers Assistant to lay them end-to-end in the timeline, so they make a movie, with each word occupying a frame in time.
Then you drag that comp into your main comp and apply a particle generator effect to a solid in the comp. Particle Playground will do it, but I like Particular. In the settings for the Particle Generator, the Particle source should be the word-movie comp that you just made. Set it so that each frame holds, so the generator appears to be spitting out different words, when it’s really spitting out a different held frame of the word-movie comp.You see?
I’m not sure of the specific settings right now, but you get the idea.
Steve
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awesome! i’ll play around with it and see how it goes. thanks a bunch for the help.
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