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shatter fx, reversed?
Hi all, I’m running AE6.5 and I’ve just done the tutorials on the shatter plug-in avail on the cow. however what I would like to do is to have a picture come together by reversing the shatter effect, i.e. from full explosion back to picture. i think it would work to do a normal shatter fx and render it out and then time-remap it. but is there away to actually reverse the fx in the shatter setup?
thanks for any advice
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4 Replies
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I think the only way to do it is to reverse playback of the layer–Ctrl/Cmnd + Alt/Option + R. Worked good for me.
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wow, thanks guys for the quick replies and great advice. i’d never even heard about time reversing a layer. i guess there is alot of stuff in AE that i haven’t heard of though. it worked beautifully! thanks!! 😀
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The other way to do it would be to nest the shatter animation in a comp, say “ShatterComp”, then reverse “ShatterComp” in second Comp using Time Remapping (right click on first and last frames, choose Keyframe Assistant/time-reverse keyframes.
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I did what Jim recommended and it works nicely, except for some resident pieces in the corners. I mask these out to the point where the mask was cutting down the size of the photo. At the point of mask interference, I quickly expanded the mask out of the way and had a clean reverse shatter.
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