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Help with linking Envigorator to ReelSmart Motion Blur using expresssions?
I’ve got some type that I’ve extruded in Envigorator. Now, I’m animating it, and anyone who has Envig knows what a bear it is to animate basic things like position, since you can’t drag anything around (I’m using my comp camera and lights).
Now, I’d like to fake the motion blur I’d normally have by using ReelSmart Motion Blur. Adding RSMB directly to the Envig layer produces no effect, understandably I supppose, but using RSMB on an adjustment layer above it seems to work fine.
Here’s the problem. I don’t want that adjustment layer to affect all my layers. Just the ones that use Envigorator. Is there a way to turn off the adjustment layer for all layers except the ones I specify? Maybe by linking up an expression?
Now, if worse comes to worse, I could probably pre-compose the adj layer with the Envig layer, but I’d really like to avoid that, since animating is already such a pain. Having to dig down, make a change in position, then go back to my top level to see it’s effect would be reeeeeaaalllly painful.
Any advice?
Thanks,
GregAntifreeze Design
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7 Replies
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Expressions can’t help you in limiting the effect of a plugin to a certain region.
you’ll need to pre-comp.But to speed things up: Perhaps you can use some kind of 3d-proxy to animate (for example a normal text-layer with the same dimensions)
It won’t have any depth but for rotating and positioning, it should suffice.Then use simple pick-whip expressions, or even copy-pasting of keyframes, to link it’s rotation, scale, positions etc. to the Invig-object, and hide the text.
Pickwhipping works perfect across comps, just open up the two timelines side by side.
I sometimes do the same with a null-object with sliders that controls a plug-in in a sub-comp.
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Sweet. Worked like a charm. I created a null object, and linked the “Set 1” x, y, z, values (now in a sub-comp) to the null’s x y and z. For some reason I needed to add *-1 to the y and z expressions *(see below) because it was moving in the opposite direction on the y and z.
This also nicely solves my issue with not being able to drag Envig objects in my comp window. Zax should build something like this into their next iteration.
Thanks for the input!
-Greg
* Set 1’s y position:
comp(“ASSEMBLEinsert”).layer(“null EnvgSteakRanch”).position[1]*-1Antifreeze Design
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Note FYI, in AE7 you can now apply RSMB after another effect in the same layer
This is a new service provided by the SDK for version 7Pierre
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Without having to precompose? Nice.
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Does that mean all plugins can use similar functionality, or do they have to be coded that way.
For example, If I use the “set channels” effect and reference a layer that’s blurred, will I get the blurred channel without precomposing ?
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This is a new thing in AE7 API, so yes a plugin has to be coded a certain way for this to work, it won’t show up as a feature automatically.
Pierre
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