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  • Enable Time Mapping – n=3 n*time?!?

    Posted by David Del on September 19, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    I was just working through Dan Ebbert’s expression and it doesn’t seem to work for me – actually it looks like it speeds up the clip.

    https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/914977

    Here is the expression :

    n = 3;
    n*time

    I want to create a semi-stop motion, but without the fluidness. So from a video clip I want to take only let’s say every 2 seconds (an image) and then the next 2 seconds (an image) etc. I hope this makes sense. I also hope I can determine and change the time between images.

    Do I need to render it out as still frames? I have an audio track that goes along with it, so I want to keep the clip the same length as the audio…any ideas what I am doing wrong?

    I am also emailing Dan personally and hope he has a solution.

    David

    David Del replied 18 years, 8 months ago 17,657 Members · 2 Replies
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  • David Del

    September 19, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    After talking to Dan over email, I decided to use Posterize Time, which seems to work quite well (thanks Dan!), but I am finding strange happenings in After effects with Posterize time – first, but masks are no longer working. And after using the Colourama and Scribble Effect, my clips are becoming multi-coloured when I drop the Posterize Effect on them.
    Anyone know what is going on?

  • David Del

    September 19, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    Ok, I figured it out. I had to pre-compose the layer with Posterize on it and then work with the other comp for the mask and other effects to work right.

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