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  • Gradually increasing black bars (film-strip style?)

    Posted by Joseph Wentzel on October 7, 2021 at 3:01 pm

    Hey all, so I saw this video, and at about 46 seconds, there’s a series of black bars that travel right to left across the screen, but each one grows in size horizontally and speeds up.

    https://youtu.be/35Ce1Q2CG6M?t=46

    it lasts about 5 seconds in the video above.

    I was wondering if there’s a way to create this in AE, other than manually (I can probably do it with black shape layers).

    I already looked at fractal noise (stretched vertically), and a single shape layer with a repeater on it, but couldn’t quite get the same look.

    Thanks

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    Joseph Wentzel replied 4 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Andy Kiernan

    October 8, 2021 at 8:15 am

    either animate a black bar scaling on x in a precomp, then animate the precomp moving on x and duplicate, or, animate a black bar scaling on x and use the repeater and animate offset?

  • Eric Santiago

    October 8, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    It’s like a rolling shutter effect.

    This case reminds me of driving by a row of fence posts, as you drive faster the blur widens.

  • John Cuevas

    October 8, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    I made a precomp with a black bar that scales up on the x axis. Dropped that into a final, added an offset effect. For the position, I added an expression that moves it on the X axis by multiplying it by (time*time). Essentially, each frame it will be going faster and faster. Offset isn’t really moving, so I added a blur effect to the entire thing.

    Sample project attached

  • Joseph Wentzel

    October 8, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    Thanks all (and thanks for the AE file John).

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