COW Tutorials: After Effects Horror Text on the Wall – Part 1

[Justin Productions]

*Haha*! Wuhu! A new tutorial! Great ending by the way, I liked it. I haven’t really learned something, except maybe how you treated those keyframes, but my guess is you’ll be using a displacement map on the next tutorial. Maybe blending modes too? Can’t wait!

Once again; excellent tutorial.

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[Dotan Baytman]

Very nice effect
i have a question you set a keyframe on 1:09 and then drag it to frame 25
why cant you just create a keyframe at that time already?

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

[dotan] “you set a keyframe on 1:09 and then drag it to frame 25
why cant you just create a keyframe at that time already?”

Because I like the way it looks at 1:09 but I want it to look that way at frame 25. So setting a keyframe on the frame I like(1:09), and then moving it to a different frame brings that look (or that value) to the new frame (25).

And yes, part 2 will involve displacement maps transfer modes and something else… Go to the creative cow AE podcast to see part 2 now, or wait until friday for the full-res version.

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Aharon Rabinowitz] “I like the way it looks at 1:09 but I want it to look that way at frame 25. So setting a keyframe on the frame I like(1:09), and then moving it to a different frame brings that look (or that value) to the new frame (25).”

I do stuff like this pretty often. When it comes intricate 3D moves with lots of speed changes, it can get really tricky to do something like this. I actually wrote to Adobe to see if they can do something about this.

My idea is that I may have a keyframe at :25 but have my timeline indicator parked at 1:09. What I’d like to be able to do is to keep my timeline indicator where it is but make interactive changes to the value of the keyframe at :25. Right now there is no way of achieving that. My email to the folks at Adobe was to allow for a modifier key and a mouseover, over the keyframe so that scrubbing the values can be initiated.

Ant thoughts on this and perhaps other methods to get this working elegantly?

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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[Steve Roberts]

Have you tried dragging your main comp into a temporary “viewing comp”, and turning off the “sychronize all related items” pref?

The you could change KF :25 in the main comp, but set the viewing comp to 1:09 and watch the effect there?

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Steve Roberts] “Have you tried dragging your main comp into a temporary “viewing comp”, and turning off the “sychronize all related items” pref?

The you could change KF :25 in the main comp, but set the viewing comp to 1:09 and watch the effect there?”

Hi Steve, without precomps, the prefs for “sync related items” doesn’t come up as an issue for what I’d like to do. The issue is how does one interactively scrub the values for a keyframe while the timeline indicator is parked, away from the keyframe.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Steve Roberts]

[RoRK] “The issue is how does one interactively scrub the values for a keyframe while the timeline indicator is parked, away from the keyframe.”

Hi Roland … isn’t the issue how to interactively scrub the values for a keyframe while you’re looking at a different frame in the comp?

Creating a new “viewing” comp and nesting the working comp within that would be a workaround.

Heh … unless I’ve misunderstood again today … 🙂

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Steve Roberts] “Creating a new “viewing” comp and nesting the working comp within that would be a workaround.

Heh … unless I’ve misunderstood again today … :)”

Hmm. Me thinks you’re right. Nice workaround that should work. But for the long run, I’d much prefer if the AE folks at Adobe provided a more elegant solution.

Thanks for the tip.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Steve Roberts]

[RoRK] “But for the long run, I’d much prefer if the AE folks at Adobe provided a more elegant solution.”

Indeed. 🙂

[Bausdtown]

Thanks! Great tutorial!
I just tried to work out a graffity effect, but didn’t get it right. Just didn’t know liquify. Now you showed me the way!

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