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  • Camera 1 to Camera 2

    Posted by Sylvermonk on July 30, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    I am currenlty working on a project in AE that contains two (2) cameras. Each one is focused on a different text in 3D Space, and both contains wiggle expression in point of interest and position, and a length expression in focal distance. Over the timeline, camera 1 is merged into camera 2. This is because I have an expression for each camera to blur the text as if it were a transition. Camera 2 starts from where camera 1 left off. But the dilemma is this:
    When Camera 2 begins, there is an abrupt “bump”, mainly because of the wiggle expressions and the position and point of interest are different than Camera 1 (just the way the wiggle works: in random sequence).

    I am trying to find out if there is an expression that can allow my Camera 2 to be relative to camera 1, so that I can keep my expressions the same and blur my text, but without the “bump”.

    Any solutions?

    Lord Scales replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Dan Ebberts

    July 30, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    I’m not sure if this solves your problem, but you can get the same property on different layers to wiggle in the same way by setting the same seed in both layers prior to wiggle(). Like this:

    seedRandom(1);
    wiggle(3,30)

    Dan

  • Lord Scales

    July 31, 2007 at 1:17 am

    [Dan Ebberts] “I’m not sure if this solves your problem, but you can get the same property on different layers to wiggle in the same way by setting the same seed in both layers prior to wiggle(). Like this:

    seedRandom(1);
    wiggle(3,30)

    Dan”

    If I’m not mistaken, I had the same problem and only a

    seedRandom(1, true);
    wiggle(3,30)

    worked.

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