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Preset or expression to change multiple shape colors in a pre comp?
Has anyone rigged a preset or expression that will allow you to change multiple solid colors in a precomp with specific colors you can define?
For example:
I have a precomp with three shapes in it. Each shape is either 255 Red, 255 Green or 255 Blue.
I’d like to use this comp over and over with varying colors, but I need to specify which colors they are, so a simple hue shift won’t work.
I’ve tried using the Change to Color effect, which gets me ~90% of the way but I don’t like the sloppy edges and unpredictable jittering that happens during animation.
Ideally, I’d need a preset or effect that just allows me to specify three different colors, and then make four or five versions of this preset I could then just drop on the same precomp over and over to get nice color variation while still staying within my specified color palette.
Any ideas, folks?
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2 Replies
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if you want to keep you current set up using RGB colors, you could probably use colorama to r-ecolorize the solids.
you’d need to set the input phase>get phase from to ‘hue’ and then you’d determine the 3 colors to use to colorize those rgb colors to in the output cycle. if you think of the output cycle wheel as a clock face, the way the wheel breaks down (when hue is selected for input) is red = 12, green = 4, blue = 8. deselecting the ‘interpolate palette’ option may make it easier to seet he colors.
colorama doesn’t play nice with a layer’s alpha, so you’d also want to add cc composite, with composite original set to ‘stencil alpha’
once you have those 3 colors set and cc composite, save that as a preset. when you need it, select the 3 layers and apply the preset.
if you don’t mind changing your set up a little, you could use tritone, which gives you three color chips to set, and it works with alpha, so the set up is easier. tritone uses a layer’s intensity (or luminance) so it would require you to change your RGB layers to white, 50% gray and black, but then setting the remapped colors is a little more straight forward.
Kevin Camp
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The Tritone method worked great, actually! Thanks for the tip.
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