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Clock Hands Rotating but I need a Slider Control or something to control speeds
I have a basic whimsical clock that has all 3 hands that will rotate from normal speed to as fast as I need it to go.
I can parent the hands together but what if I wanted to have a slider control that I could adjust that slider and change the speed of all 3 hands… ranging from normal speed up to whatever
I also need my “hour” hand to go all the way to 12. I can do that too and have the other hands follow
But a slider to adjust speeds of all 3 hands would be great
Currently my clock hands are at the 12 o clock mark. But what if I wanted to move my hour hand to start at 3 o clock and have the other hands follow?
I know the faster I adjust my hour hand, my second hand will be “flying”. At any rate, any help that you might have will be grateful.
Thank You!
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6 Replies
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Controlling speed in AE is tricky. You’re better off controlling the total degrees rotated. If you keyframe the slider to go from 0 to 360 your hour hand will go from 12 to 12 and you can ease it however you want.
Dan
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Thanks Dan – I dont need to do variable speed – I just need to set it and forget it. I will duplicate the CLOCK comp 3 or 4 times for different speed of clocks.
Any tips on how I can link the 3 HANDS to one slider???
Thanks a million!
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What a coincidence, I was just responding to a post by Dan (from 2 years ago) on a very similar topic (rotation speeds and expressions) when I noticed this thread. The post is at:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/15551#15559
and might help you out a bit.
My response was regarding motion blur using this technique.
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You could link the hour hand to the slider and use this for the minute hand:
thisComp.layer(“hour”).transform.rotation*24
and this for the second hand:
thisComp.layer(“minute”).transform.rotation*360
Dan
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Yes, you CAN link all three hands to the one slider:
Create a null called controller_null with an angle control on it.
On your hour hand’s rotation, put:
thisComp.layer("controller_null").effect("Angle Control")("Angle")On your minute hand’s rotation, put:
thisComp.layer("hour hand 2").transform.rotation*12On your second hand’s rotation, put:
thisComp.layer("minute hand").transform.rotation*60Keyframe the angle control from (for example) 0 to 1 to get a 12 hour animation.
– Paul
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Awesome! Thanks everyone for all your help!
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