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Re-creating Apple’s cover flow in AE…
Ok, so I’m trying to re-create Apple’s cover flow for a project I’m doing. Instead of album art, each piece will be a piece of video. It scrolls through the video. When it stops on one, the camera will move in for a full screen view of the footage, move out after the footage is done, and onto another.
This didn’t seem too hard, but I’m having a hard time doing this without making one huge mess in my composition. I thought Trapcode’s echospace might be able to accomplish this, but after about an hour with it, I’m not getting my results.
Anyone know a good method to do this?
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I guess it depends on how strictly you want to replicate the look. I did something similar a while back using an animation preset I made.
Basically, just animate one video however you want. Then animate the camera in and out. Now select all the video’s animated properties and save as animation preset. Put the rest of your videos on the timeline at frame 1. With the playhead at frame 1, select the un-animated videos and apply your preset.
At this point all your videos will be animated similarly. Now you’ll need to sequence them down the timeline. Now copy the camera keyframes and keep pasting them down the timeline for each video. Unless all your videos are the same length, you will need to tweak the camera animations to fit each one.
Did I get anywhere close to answering your question, or were you wondering more about how to actually animate/rotate, etc..?
Let me know if you need more help.
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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.2
DualCore G5 2.0 GHZ, 2GB RAM, OSX 10.4.11AE7 on both for now.
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Ok, that may work. I’ll give it a try.
I’m just looking to re-create it as close as I possibly can.
Anymore suggestions?
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Oh, you might’ve figured this out, but I forgot to mention… When you make your animation preset, it will be based on the animation of your first video. So, like the camera movements, you will need to go back and tweak the “hold time” of each video, so it animates out at the right time.
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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.2
DualCore G5 2.0 GHZ, 2GB RAM, OSX 10.4.11AE7 on both for now.
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You know, I really should search the topics before I post. I found a massive thread on this.
Thanks much for the help though!
-Chris
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Where? set a link here so i can go there. i am always looking for ideas and help to do stuff and i would like to see the thread you found.
thanks!
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https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/7127#9716
I was trying to avoid expressions (because i am “expressions stupid”)… but it seems I can’t. Guess I’ll have to learn it sometime!
-Chris
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Thanks! thats great!
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If your willing to do it in Apple Motion, Noise Industries has a free plug-in to do it; http://www.noiseindustries.com/
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Yes they just came out with this plug-in and it works very well. And you sure can’t beat the price!
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just in case this hasn’t come up, PhotoPresenter includes similar possibilities.
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