Creating ITunes Cover Flow

[Dan Lacloche]

I’m trying to do an itunes cover flow thing, but I can’t figure out where to ad your expression. I am so not a coder. Can you point me in the right direction?

[Dan Lacloche]

Is there a tutorial on this? I can’t open the .aep file I only have AE 6.5

[Alex Dinnin]

OK.. sorry.. haven’t checked back here for a while

ok.. this is what I did.. made a new comp (BASE_COMP) with a load of square solids ( 400 x 400 pixels ).

I then made another comp and imported BASE_COMP into it, duplicated it and rotated it so it has some reflection. I also put a null in that comp with a slider on it.

ok.. back to the BASE_COMP and one of the solids..
make sure they are 3D layers.. pop this expression onto the position

x=comp(“REFLECT_COMP”).layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”) + 500;
range=300; //range when Z begins
center=thisComp.width*0.5; //center of comp on X axis
distance=x-center;
Zdist=400;

if (x <= center ){ Zpos=ease(center+distance,center-range,center,value[2],value[2]-Zdist); }else{ Zpos=ease(center+distance,center,center+range,value[2]-Zdist,value[2]); } [x,value[1],Zpos] and this onto the y rotation range=180; //range when rotation begins center=thisComp.width*0.5; //center of comp on X axis distance=position[0]-center; angle=ease(center+distance,center+range,center-range,-70,70); [angle] you will then have to play about with the position offset, for me they went it blocks of 250.. but have a play.. so when you go into the reflect_comp.. and you move the slider on the null.. it should work !!! this and what we wrote above should definatly help !! Alex

[Dan Lacloche]

After some tweaks, it works great…except the reflection is doing the exact opposite of what I want. When solid1 is on the left of the screen, solid1’s reflection is on the right. They meet and pass eachother in the center of the comp. I guessing I have to multiply some expression by -1, but I don’t know which??

[Rick Prince]

Can anyone give me specific instructions step by step to add more covers? I’d like to create about 20 and I’m having difficulty understand how the expressions involved.

Many thanks!

Rick.

[Judd Lillejord]

Thank you and if I were to do this in HD, what variable would I teak? Old keyframer but new to expressions somewhat. Thanks,
judd

[Colin Sebestyen]

Used this for a project. Thanks!

Made a few modifications so that the file references index placement and all the hard numbers refer to expressions sliders. This should make things easier on peeps downloadin’. The solids are easily duplicate-able. There is also a fill effect on each solid to generate a random color to keep track of the different solids. You can add as many as you like now.

http://www.movecraft.com/clients/movecraft/ITUNES_BROWSER_v2.zip

Thanks for the file,
c

ps. it’s in cs3, sorry old version-ites…

[Corbin Gross]

So how do I incorporate this into my project.

I’m having trouble understanding this part. I’m not that good at this stuff yet. So, where do I plug in these expressions. Or, can I just take that final project and replace the color block layers with the images I’d like to show.

I need to show about two dozen images and I thought the iTunesy scroll deal would make it more interesting than just throwing them on the screen.

Pretty cool expressions there at the end of the thread by the way. I opened up that project where you can adjust all the parameters. I played with all the sliders but can’t figure out how to scroll the darn thing.

[Ben Jones]

hey guys
i have a raw ae file set up in the key of the itunes coverflow, with the slider included, however im having trouble controlling the rate in which the discs change. i can’t find where the parameters have been written in, and im still learning the code. could you please help?

thanks so much in advance,

[Erik White]

Judd,
I am looking for your brother Joel. Please foward along my email address and ask him to drop me a line sometime! I hope that you are well. Thanks!
EW