[Alex Printz]

It’s doable but you’re likely going to need to work with a camera to do it. It’s going to depend on the depth of field, and if you want it to start out flat you’re going to need to distribute your layers visually in Z-space to create the false flat look at the beginning(note their scale will change).

You could attempt to do something with the 2d planar camera in DuIK, but it’s unlikely to produce the ‘screensaver’ view I imagine you’re looking for.

Your best bet is to do it by hand with a top-down view and a front-facing camera at the same time. I’ve done similar things to make a cutout world that a camera passed through before.

Good luck!

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

It sounds like it’s not possible, but an option would be to make the coat’s opacity a master controls property with the checkbox, then enable or disable it on your comp you need to (you might need to pass the controller through several comps). I will occasionally do this if I need to duplicate animation references with slight changes, just tweak a property within a master properties.

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

Are you looking to make a script or an expression?

I would do it as an expression myself, since each clip would only need 2 expressions (opacity and time remap). It would also be far easier to troubleshoot or adjust as needed than a script IMO.

Make an excel json with the footageName, footageStartTime, footageEndTime, and footageOffsetPoint(last one is optional if you don’t want your clips to play from their first frame).

You would need to do 2 parts of the same expression, determine if the layer’s source’s name is in the json as footageName, and if it is and the current property’s name is ‘opacity’ determine if it has a footageStartTime and footageEndTime and if ‘time’ is between those values return 100 else 0, OR if it’s property name is ‘timeRemap’ determine if it has a footageStartTime and footageEndTime and if ‘time’ is between those values to return ‘time-footageStartTime+footageOffsetPoint’ else footageOffsetPoint.

Finally, just stretch all the layers to the full length of the comp and put the expression on the timeRemap and opacity properties.

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

No, the best you can do is thisProject.fullPath, which will be the name of the AEP.

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

start to non-proportionately scale your shape layer, or try animating your skew angle (or a combo).

It’s because a true 90 degree skew would be infinite in one direction and zero in another.

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

y = transform.position[1];
align = thisComp.layer("Settings").effect("Settings")("Align");

if(align == 1) x = toWorld([220,y]);
if(align == 2) x = toWorld([960,y]);
if(align == 3) x = toWorld([1700,y]);

hasParent ? parent.fromWorld(x) : x;

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

Edit > Copy with Property Links

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

No, there is no way to do it like that where there is a single button.

You could make some sliders though to represent those frames (e.g., slider “start” at frame 1462)

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

No, one has to follow the other.

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Alex Printz]

Not by expression. Scripts could do it.

Alex Printz
Mograph Designer