Rotate the bulge tool?

[Mylenium]

If that should failo, you can find alternatives with built-in rotating routines in third-party plugins such as lenscare’s flAir package or BorisFX.

Mylenium

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[Mike Clasby]

Methinks a master AE Magician should be able to do it with the effect, distortion map, but I’m not clever enough to generate the distortion map to make it work.

Rotating an adjustment with Bulge doesn’t work for me, but rotating “My Layer To Be Distorted” with keyframes gives you the Equal but Opposite of what you want, the Bulge is effecting the layer as it rotates below, so…

Precompose the Adjustment layer and “My Layer To Be Distorted” (select both, Layer>Pre-compose, then Move all Attributes) , then rotate that precomp in a equal and opposite direction, either manually or with this expression on the precomp’s rotation:

– comp(“Comp 1”).layer(“My Layer To Be Distorted”).rotation

This expression comes from pickwhipping the precomp’s rotation to the “My Layer To Be Distorted”‘s rotation (it’s in the precomp) and then putting a minus sign in front.

So animate rotation in the precomp and the Bulge will rotate in the comp the way you want.

Oh, yes, you’ll probably need to go and make that precomp larger (Ctrl K) as when it doing it’s unseen counter-rotation magic, it clips off the edges of the layer, you’ll see.

[Dan Ebberts]

Another way would be to sandwich the Bulge effect in between two copies of the Transform effect. Use the top copy of Transform to do the rotation, link the bottom Transform’s rotation to the top’s with an expression like this:

-effect(“Transform”)(“Rotation”)

Dan

[Mike Clasby]

Yikes, why didn’t I think of that? Much more elegant and no precomposing. I don’t use Distort>Tranform enough.

[Warik]

Thanks Dan,

Your suggestion worked perfectly. Thank you for such a simple solution.

Warik

[Charlotte Warren]

I had the same issue and the workaround I did was to rotate the layer I wanted to bulge then bring the whole comp into another comp that I rotated back faking the angle of the bulge.

[Filip Vandueren]

Instead of precomping you can add a transform effect before the bulge, then an inverse transform after (or rotate the layer after)