[Adriano Moraes]

There are lots o threads around the cow covering this. But anyway what I used to do was press the function button + M…but I don´t know if that happens on a mac too.

Another thing you could check is Aaron’s tutorial on how to change AEs shortcuts.

Cheers.

[Adriano Moraes]

There´s another thing I usually do ti give me more of a visual reference.

Before I start animating I select the sound layer on the timeline and play it (pressing ” , ” on the keypad) and I keep hitin’ ” * ” on the same keypad to add markers to the layer whenever I feel necessary (say according to the beat or some special moments).

That along with Jason´s tips can help a lot. Helps me all the time. But don´t forget, it´s a bit of a pain down in there anyway.

It takes time and pacience. So good luck.

Cheers.

ninguem.

[Adriano Moraes]

Well. Sad news. I just want to thank you for all the knowledge you gave me.

Thanx Aharon!

All the best!

Lacking words.

Cheers!

Thank you again.

ninguem.

[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there again Paul. It got better after some examples but I still don´t seem to understand what you´re trying to achive. As I could see on the Custom Camera view there is still some background showing.

I guess if you don´t want to (or can´t) make the bounderies of the image bigger somewhere else (like in PhotoShop or wherever) you may try Motion Tile effect and mirror the edges. It will give you a little Xtra piece on that “cardboard”.

Did you get where you wanted? Please share your solution so we can at least understand where you wanted to get mate.

All the best.

Cheers.

ninguem

[Adriano Moraes]

Actually I didn´t really understand.

If you rotate de camera the layer stays put…that´s why you can see the BG. So I´m a bit puzzled.

Have you tryied parenting the layer to the cam? Or linking it´s Z rotation to the cam´s z rotation parameter?

Is it a big comp? Is the BG 3D too?

I´m sorry if I got it all wrong I´m just trying to understand.

Is that it?

Anyway.

Cheers.

ninguem.

[Adriano Moraes]

Yeah I understand it now. And I agree with Darby. The text animator seems to be the best solution.

Good Luck!

Cheers.

ninguem.

[Adriano Moraes]

By the way the random expression there is also just an example. Would you care to tell me the expression you used to randomize the values.

Well again

Cheers.

ninguem

[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there, if I understood what you want I guess this would do the job.

Create you tex layer then apply this expression to the source text parameter:

if (time < 4) random(1,10) else value;

This will get random numbers untill it reaches 4 seconds and then stop at the text you want.

You can off course adjust the values.

If you want them to come one by one to the final value I guess there is a text preset already for that.

I hope I could help.

Cheers.

ninguem.

[Adriano Moraes]

Thank you Dan!

I gotta visit Motionscript.com a little more (and deeply) and finally LEARN the stuff.

Thanx again.

Cheers.

a.ninguem.

[Adriano Moraes]

Sorry if I didn´t get what you´re asking for, but I guess posterize time would do it for you.

Was that it?

Hope it helped.

Cheers.

ninguem