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get average hsl value from multiple frames
I’m not sure how to put this…
How to set the opacity of a layer based on the average brightness of the underlying layer which is let’s say a movie clip but I need this value to be constant, so the value would be a combination of an average from the image area and from the time range (?)P.A.T.
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5 Replies
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This should get you close:
L = thisComp.layer(“Your Movie”);
startRange = L.inPoint;
stopRange = L.outPoint;
accum = 0;
n = 0;
for (i = timeToFrames(startRange); i < timeToFrames(stopRange); i++){ rgba = L.sampleImage([L.width/2,L.height/2],[L.width/2,L.height/2],true,framesToTime(i)); accum += rgbToHsl(rgba)[2]; n++; } linear(accum/n,0,1,0,100) Dan -
Works fine, thanks a lot!
Would it be possible to adapt this so it would get the average brightness of all the underlying layers as if they were a composite?
P.A.T.
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Sure, you’d just need to add an outer loop that cycles through all the layers you’re interested in, adds the result to an accumulator total variable and (at the end) divides by the number of layers. The exact code would depend on which layers you’re after.
Dan
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Could I turn the last value (the 100 at the end) into a variable that would get its value from an external text file?
P.A.T.
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Sure, just put a valid JavaScript statment in the file, like this:
maxOpacity = 75;
Do an eval() of the file, as in the other recent threads, and change the last line to this:
linear(accum/n,0,1,0,maxOpacity)
Dan
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