[Alex Dinnin]

I appreciate it was quite a complex effect to try and recreate.. I found the beauty of the old effect was it was shot mostly against a black background.

Made getting a Lume key a lot easier..

I’ve fudged a way, with a bit of Roto, Delay and echo.

thanks for the responses

Alex

[Alex Dinnin]

That’s amazing…. thanks for the prompt reply Dan.. much appreciated

[Alex Dinnin]

That’s fantastic Kalle, thank you so much.

I’m trying to work the expression out.. Are you adding the base layer then subtracting the lower level ???

thanks again
Alex

[Alex Dinnin]

This is great.. just tagged on to this.

Is there any way to specify a folder in the AE project to import the file into ??

Cheers

Alex

[Alex Dinnin]

I’m sorry. I don’t really understand what you Nader to do.

Could you try and explain a bit more ?

[Alex Dinnin]

I found something Dan had supplied earlier.. I’ve looked for blooming hours before resorting to asking for help..

then as soon as I hit post.. I find this about ten seconds laters..

s = Math.round(effect(“ZEROES”)(“Slider”)).toString();
outStr = s.substr(-s.length, (s.length-1)%3 +1);
for (i = Math.floor((s.length-1)/3); i > 0; i–){
  outStr += “,” + s.substr(-i*3,3);
}
outStr + ” MILLION”;

Thanks for reading

[Alex Dinnin]

Basically I need to set up a template composition

I was hoping I could change one line of text, basically adjusting the kerning, leading etc.. maybe reduce the size of a word

and rest of the lines would follow suit.

I have loads of 5 second animations to do.. and wanted to set up a template so I could use the script CompsFromSpreadsheet to do all the leg work..

then I just go into each comp.. solo the master layer.. fiddle about with it so it looks good and then all the other layers match the style..

all of the layers are white.. some have fill effects on them to change colour.. there are a few with text strokes rather text fill..

It just seems odd that we can tweak and animate so much in after effects.. but not something this simple…

I’ve created a workaround using precomps which works.. it’s just not what I was looking for..

thanks for all your replies

Alex

[Alex Dinnin]

It was a bit of a mexican standoff.. when they requested this.. I immediately said

“Nooo. TGA sequences can’t carry audio.. it’s in image sequence..”

and they replied so confidently

“TGA sequences DO carry audio.. all our other clients provide them to us”

I just started to doubt myself.. just needed a little bit of back up from some professionals..

thanks very much

[Alex Dinnin]

erm.. as I said.. it would be a TGA Sequence with audio embedded

[Alex Dinnin]

Thanks very much Dan