Psudo Voxels

[Mike Clasby]

These two expressions seem to work. Enable Time Remapping on your footage layer and put this expression on time remapping (Alt Click the Time Remapping Stop watch, then paste it in):

(index -1)/29.97

I’m assuming your frame rate is 29.97, and I think there’s an expression to just grab the number of the frame, but I don’t know it, so like I said this seems to work.

This will give you frame 0 for layer 1, frame 1 for layer 2…

To get your Z offset, add this expression to the position of a 3D layer:

position+[0,0,(index-1)*1]

Now duplicate the layer (Ctrl D) 199 times.

Done.

Or, if you want more flexibility, delete all but that first layer, and on a Null add a slider control (Effect>Expression Controls>Slider Control) name it something like “Z offset”) and link (pickwhip) that last “1”, in the position expression to the slider, giving you an expression like this:

position+[0,0,(index-1)*thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Z offset”)(“Slider”)]

You need to put that on the first layer, along with the time remap expression, and dup it 199 times. Now a 2 on the slide separates them by 2 pixels, a 5 by 5 pixels each, etc…

[Mike Clasby]

It might just be easier to render your 200 frame movie as a sequence, png, maybe, then import that and drag them into a comp, check “Create Single Composition” and don’t check “Sequence” if that pops up.

Then just add the position expression for the offset. Put the expression on one layer, select that expression, Edit>Copy Expression Only, then select all the other layers and Paste.

[Quejet]

your first method worked the best

i still need to refine my keying on him, it was a quick 10 second job.