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help with echo
I used a tutorial on here once before. I don’t know the name of it, but I’ll describe it. It showed you how to make a streak behind a star using the echo effect. I am trying to do that same effect but I can’t get it to work. The echo effect just isn’t working right for me. I created a layer (The layer is text, it has colorama and ramp effect applied to it), animated it, pre-composed it, then applied echo and nothing. I want the text to be echoed, and it’s not doing it. I’ve tried everything I can think of. Any help would be appreciated thanks.
Brandon
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3 Replies
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Echo will only affect animatable properties. If you make a solid and animate it to scale or rotate for instance, place that comp in another comp and apply Echo to it there, you should see the trails.
Properties that are not keyable will be ingored by Echo.
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Or you may simply need to increase the number of echos and increase the delay and/or composite arithmetic type (add, behind, on top, multiply, etc.)
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If you don’t need too much echo but just a little bit of an effect, I have had good success with things like stars and text by duplicating the layer (i am assuming it is masked ot keyed on somehow) and using the “sequence layers” keyframe assistant. Then drop your original one atthe top of the layer stack. I might also pre-compose all the duplicates so I can effect them seperately. The following is grabbed from the help file:
To arrange layers in a sequence:
-In the Timeline window, hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and select layers in sequential order, beginning with the layer you want to appear first.
-Choose Animation > Keyframe Assistant > Sequence Layers.
-To overlap ends of layers, select the Overlap option and type a duration in timecode for how long the layers should overlap.
-If you selected the Overlap option in step 3, select a Transition option to specify which layers’ opacity After Effects adjusts to create cross dissolves.
If none of the selected layers uses an alpha channel or mask, select Dissolve Front Layer.
If any of the selected layers uses an alpha channel or a mask, select Cross Dissolve Front and Back LayersIt’s really much easier and intuitive than this makes it sound.
here’s a sample of how it looks… please note, I’m not trying to spam the forum so I am not linking to the product page of the royalty free compilation i’ve built… here’s a direct link so be sure to resize your browser window as flash will try to play scaled up. https://nycrenderfarm.com/nychd/dotsph.swf
Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com
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