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  • series of quick camera shakes with abberations

    Posted by John Mayer on October 17, 2013 at 7:06 pm

    I’m mind boggled about doing that seem rather simple.

    I am trying to achieve a series of transitions that involve camera shakes with camera abberations effect. It take me a while to make a single one and I am barely satisfied with.

    What I do is to separate the logos in 3 layers different in additive blend mode and apply a wiggle on each of them, but it doesn’t look professional and it take a while to tweak, I need to do this about 10 times for each logos. Heck. I won’t bother getting a pluggin that can do it.

    Wiggling is the hardest part because I am doing it manually. Maybe I can make it more simple with a slider control effect expression, but I never used it yet.

    A concrete example is this YT Slideshow, which is about the same thing I try to achieve:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAZeWzyEiY

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    John Mayer replied 12 years, 6 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    October 17, 2013 at 8:25 pm

    I don’t see your example, but check out this thread from last year. I even uploaded a example file. See if that gives you a start. Camera Twitch/Shake Colour transition

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Mathew Fuller

    October 17, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    You could try this.

    Use this expression as an interactive, keyframeable Wiggler. Apply it to the property of the layer you wish to wiggle.

    wigfreq = 3; //wiggle frequency
    wigamt = 30; //wiggle amount
    wigdetail = 3; //detail of noise
    wiggle(wigfreq, wigamt, wigdetail)

    ~ Mat

    My Work:
    https://www.morecompletefx.com

  • Kevin Camp

    October 17, 2013 at 11:26 pm

    to build off mathew’s expression, this one will ‘bump’ at every comp layer marker, so you can trigger the wiggle by adding comp markers.

    freq = 10;
    amount = 50;
    detail = 5;
    decay = 10; //how fast it slows down

    n = 0;
    if (thisComp.marker.numKeys > 0){
    n = thisComp.marker.nearestKey(time).index;
    if (thisComp.marker.key(n).time > time){
    n--;
    }
    }

    if (n == 0){
    value;
    }else{
    t = time - thisComp.marker.key(n).time;
    a = amount/Math.exp(decay*t);
    wiggle(freq,a,detail);
    }

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • John Cuevas

    October 18, 2013 at 12:19 am

    I’ll be saving this one into my cool expressions doc…thanks Kevin.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Cassius Marques

    October 18, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    Have you seen VideoCopilot’s plugin Twitch? Because it seems that example used just it.

  • John Mayer

    October 21, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    thanks, indeed Twitch is about the answer I looked for, so I bought it 🙂

    I appreciated the scripts bits tho, could use if for other purposes.

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