Wiggle puzzle

[Kevin Camp]

[adam taylor] “Is it possible to record the wiggle so if i’m happy with it i can then bake it into the track rather than rely on wiggle hopefully hitting the same spots?”

yep… select the property that has the expression, then choose animation>keyframe assistant>convert expression to keyframes.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Adam Taylor]

thanks Kevin…perfect!

how i wish Adobe still included a printed manual. trying to find info like that on the web based manual is a nightmare.

regards
Adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Darby Edelen]

[adam taylor] “how i wish Adobe still included a printed manual. trying to find info like that on the web based manual is a nightmare.”

Really? I mean, it still has a table of contents… but you get a near instantaneous search of all of the documentation as well.

Personally I <3 the online documentation 🙂

Darby Edelen

[Adam Taylor]

thats fine if you have a good internet connection, and know the correct description or name of what you are looking for. If you don’t the searching can take much longer.

I much prefer to be able to sit down away from a screen and just thumb through a big fat block of pages, you often hit upon stuff you weren’t looking for but which turns out to be really handy.

I like the randomness of page flicking – you don’t get that with online digital manuals.

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Todd Kopriva]

> I much prefer to be able to sit down away from a screen and just thumb through a big fat block of pages, you often hit upon stuff you weren’t looking for but which turns out to be really handy.

You can print the PDF, which you can download from any of the pages of After Effects Help on the Web.

The benefit of doing that is that that PDF is new as of… [checks calendar]… twelve days ago. Any printed manual that you would’ve gotten in the box would have been necessarily incomplete and, well, crappy. (I get to say that since I made the crappy books that you got with the previous few versions.) I think that it’s great that I get to keep improving the After Effects documentation—largely based on your feedback—for months after the software has shipped.

Regarding searching the After Effects Help document: If you have any trouble finding what you’re looking for, let me know. As many folks on this forum already know, I’m more than happy to serve as a sort of living index for After Effects information. It helps me, too, since I can then go and look at what keywords I can add, et cetera, to make finding things easier for the next person.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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