Best/Fastest/Most Efficient way to do this?

[Sean Emer]

What are you trying to do?

-Sean Emer

[Matt Sonberg]

I guess I could have included this link: http://www.digmesource.com/Vert123.mov

[Michael Zoppo]

Well if you have photoshop, make a template for all the pictures (maybe a block solid with rounded rectangular blocks cut out) place it over each picture, save it, import it into AE, then use a mask(s) to animate the blocks in and out.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

mikey

[Rutger]

Hello,

There is probably various ways of doing this, but I would do it as follows.

– make a new composition that is the same size as the image that you want to use underneath.
– Create a black background
– add a white solid and add a mask (Rounded Rectangle) to create one window, size it so that you see a white window on a black background.
– duplicate the mask several times and position them so that you see several windows in a grid. you should now see several white windows on a black bacjground.
– create three black banners that are the same height as one of the windows and as wide as the overall composition.
– now animate the position of the black banners one by one so that they start outside of the image and slide over your windows (turn motion blur on for nicer look).
– you essentially now have a animation of white windows disappearing over time.
– Use this comp in a new comp that has the image that you want to use. Position it on top of your image.
– Under trackmatte select “Luma Matte”

This should do the trick.

Good luck

Rutger

[Matt Sonberg]

Swwweet. That second suggestion is what I was hoping for. The first one was how I created the clip in the link above. Thanks Rutger.