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  • Creating a reusable Train Ticker split flap effect.

    Posted by Kevin Reiner on April 5, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    I have been tasked with creating a transition resembling an old train ticker similar to below, but wiping on with only one rotation for each tile:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OqmAaCp_Q8

    and then here is the storyboard frame of what we’re trying to do:

    Split Flap Storyboard

    I did successful tests with multiple shapes that were triggered by the luminance of another layer that had a wipe from black to white. (I’m this technique for easy changes of direction, shape and length of transition.)

    AE Test Project

    So do to the final transition, I was going to chop up the incoming and outgoing videos and mimic what I did with the shapes. However, I’d like to be able to make it a template so that once all of the hard work is done, I can apply it easily over a cut of 2 videos. Any advice in this? Right now I’m having trouble figuring out how to map the A and B video layers to layers inside a precomp. Hope that makes sense. The biggest problem I’m having is coming up with the terminology to make successful searches for help.

    I am setting this up for multiple editors of different skill levels, so I want make it rather user friendly once done.

    Thanks and I hope all are well,
    Kevin

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    Greg Gesch replied 6 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Greg Gesch

    April 5, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Hi Kevin, you might look at the Card Dance Effect (or the Card Dance Transition for that matter).

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