How to create transform transitions in after effects?

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

If I understand correctly your question, you can link the first Null to a second one that controls the second animation. Start that animation before the first one ends and apply EasyEase to the last keyframe of the first animation and the first keyframe of the second animation. This should provide a smooth transition.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Fernando Guerrero]

Hello Tudor

Thing is, the first null does not stop,

The shot in question is the following:

A video was stabilized x-y, then I use this stabilization information to move the still background by linking the tracker info on the video to the anchor point of the background. So now our subject is stabilized and the background moves with the coordinates given by the stabilization. I want to reverse this effect smoothly, I want the subject to loose the stabilization and the back to regain it’s stillness.

Does this makes any sense?

I want to cross-fade the keyframes of two nulls.

tnks

f3

Fernando Guerrero
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[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Right now I can’t think of another way of doing this except to manually adjust the keyframes – maybe there is an expression that can adjust (increase) the x-y offset gradually so that in the end it matches the shake from the null and eliminates this way the shake… hmm, interesting. Any expression wizards out there?

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Fernando Guerrero]

I think exactly the same, manually, but I refuse to believe this is the only way!

I remember 3dMax has a way to crossfade two animations and create “smooth” running-to-walking animations.

Let’s summon the wizards once again to see what happens//

Fernando Guerrero
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[Cassius Marques]

Hi Fernando…check this thread here…

Kevin explains how you can smoothly interpolate 2 position values. See if it helps.

[Fernando Guerrero]

Thanks a lot

I’m trying to make this work for there are multiple pre-compositions involved and a bunch of layers.

When the project is finished, I’ll post the results. I estimate around december/january

Tnx again

f3

Fernando Guerrero
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[Conrad Olson]

I wrote a blog post about how to do something similar in Nuke. You might be able to adapt it: https://conradolson.com/a-simple-nuke-expression-example

Basically you need to create an effect control slider that acts as a multiplication factor for the stabilization data. Then you can animate that slider between 0 – 1 to dissolve in the animation.

If you have two sets of data that you are mixing between I think you could take the second data and multiply it by the inverse of the slider (1-slider). That way you will get all of one data at 0, all of the other data at 1 and a mix in the middle.

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[Kevin Camp]

hi fernando,

i think the expressions provided in the thread that cassius linked to could work here (conrads nuke solution sounds very similar).

how you would do it would depend a little on what you have set up…

it sounds like you tracked some footage and applied the track to the subject, so the subject now has keyframes for position and anchorpoint, and it looks like the subject moves with the footage.

what you’ll need to do is parent the footage and the subject to a null.

add an expression slider to the null 1, and then try this expression for the anchorpoint of the null:

L = thisComp.layer("subject"); //set to your subject layer
linear(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"), 0, 100, value, L.position)

and this for the null’s position:
L = thisComp.layer("subject"); //set to your subject layer
linear(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"), 0, 100, value, L.anchorPoint)

if you tracked rotation, then try this for the null’s rotation:
L = thisComp.layer("subject"); //set to your subject layer
linear(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"), 0, 100, value, L.rotation*-1)

if you animate the slider value, at zero it should be shakey, and at 100 it should be still.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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