Presenting 800 photos quickly

[Andrei Popa]

If you want to go fully random, try this.

Put them all in middle. Then add these expressions to size, respectively position:


dur = 3;
linear(time,inPoint, inPoint+dur,[0,0], [100,100])



seedRandom(index,true)
dur = 3;
cWidth = thisComp.width;
cHeight = thisComp.height;
rect = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time,true);
thisWidth = rect.width;
thisHeight = rect.height;
outSide = Math.round(random());//Here we decide if it goes out vertically or horizontally
x = outSide == 0 ? Math.random() < 0.5 ? cWidth+thisWidth/2 : - thisWidth/2 : random(cWidth);
y = outSide == 1 ? Math.random() < 0.5 ?cHeight+thisHeight/2 : -thisHeight/2 : random(cHeight);
linear(time, inPoint, inPoint+dur,value,[x,y])


Set the dur variable to how much time you want them to travel.

Then set the duration for each layer, in the timeline, equal to what dur variable you chose.
Select all layers, right click, keyframe assistant>distribute layers. Check overlap only if you want them to overlap.
You should now have what you wanted.

Andrei
My Envato portfolio.

[David Owen]

Andrei,

Thank you so much! I’ll give it a shot and report back.

– David

[David Owen]

The expression worked pretty well on position. I couldn’t figure out how to make use of it on scaling (“size”). I just set each pic’s scale to scale up from 0 to 100% over the duration. Is there an added benefit of using the script for this?

Also, when using it to present lots of pics quickly, it would create “trains” of pics in a single direction. I’m guessing it has something to do with randomization using time? How could I modify the expression to yield more random directions?

Again, thanks for your help!!

– David

[Andrei Popa]

I don’t know for a global fix on train of pics. But you can change the first parameter of seedrandom to anything else(something like seedRandom(1, true)). Basically, for each picture that you don’t like the direction, you can change this value and it will generate another.

The train has nothing to do with time, its just that most of the time, wild random is not that beautiful.

You can make it more organized if you want.
One method would be to create a chain of values(about 10-15) and repeat those. Being so many, I don’t think that it would be observable. You could even add an offset that modifies them each cycle, so they don’t repeat.

Andrei
My Envato portfolio.