Andrew Somers
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As a suggestion:
1) Start with the FINAL design (in illustrator might be easiest).
2) Make sure the curves are all concentric, and mark the center point of the curves.
3) Import into AE, and set the anchor point exactly to the marked center point. then duplicate the layers.
4) Create a shape with a perfectly vertical edge that is large enough to completely cover the artwork, and line up the edge to the anchor point of the artwork. Use FILL only, no stroke.
5) Now duplicate this shape layer and set them so that one is immediately above each of the artwork layers.
6) Set one art layer to “Alpha Track Mask” and the other to “Inverse Alpha Track Mask”.
Now as you rotate each of the artwork layers, more or less of the design will be visible. If everything is aligned and concentric, you should be able to start with a circle and then expand.
Andrew Somers
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“I didn’t use any camera in this demo”
Hi Mark,
If you don’t add a camera layer, the AE uses a default camera that may or may not have settings you want.
Add a camera layer and make sure “Depth of Field” is turned OFF. There might be some other camera settings that might need adjusting, I’ll look when I’m back in the studio.
Cheers
A
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Can you screenshot your LIGHT and CAMERA settings too please, for the ray traced version only
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What are your MATERIALS settings for the white solid and the photo? While your at it, what are your settings for the LIGHT and the CAMERA?
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Reel Smart Motion Blur uses maps for vectors (speed and direction) using the R and G channels for the vectors and A to indicate areas of motion (B is empty).
https://revisionfx.com/faq/motion_vector/
You can use maps with expressions you yourself write using the method
sampleImage()Also, there is the old PixelBender, and while the official plug in was discontinued, there IS this workaround at AEscripts 9I have not tried it yet):
https://aescripts.com/pixel-bender-accelerator/
And the PixelBender toolkit is still available here:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/archive/pixelbender.htmlWith Pixel Bender you can pretty much do anything. However it is SLOW (not multi-threaded and not GPU accelerated) although the third party plugin is supposed to fix all that.
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There are audio visualization plug ins built into AE, including audio spectrum. If you google “after effects audio spectrum” you’ll find about a thousand tutorials.
And you can do what Steve suggests regarding the glow look. I’ll add that I suggest being in LINEAR mode and using the ADD transfer mode to blend the multiple blur layers.
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I *think* you can only “separate dimensions” for the transform of the LAYER, and not the sub-transforms for individual shapes within the layer. So make a separate layers for each shape, and if needed parent them so they move as a group.
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After Effects has had optical flow slomo for OVER A DECADE, and there are multiple ways to implement it.
You can use time remapping and set the layer: Choose Layer > Frame Blending > Pixel Motion.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/time-stretching-time-remapping.html
Or you can use the TIMEWARP plug in:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using//time-effects.html#timewarp_effect
And here’s Andrew Kramer’s tutorial circa 2007 (like I said it’s been there over a decade):
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And I forgot to mention that if you hold down SHIFT when you click the output options for ProEXR it should bring up a secret menu with additional settings.
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No problem – yea, Adobe could really do a better job labeling things. Half the problem with colorspaces in AE are that things are in “adobespeak”, and contradictory or non-intuitive.
Here’s something: While the ProEXR plugin doesn’t do integer layers, Fnord did release the source code, so I suppose it could be added with some effort:
https://github.com/fnordware/ProEXR
The ProEXR plugin renders out each layer in the AE comp as a separate layer in the EXR. Plus you have full control over the alpha channel. The “Layer composite” option is the full render (what you’d get with OpenEXR) to RGBA in addition to all the layers.
Andrew Somers
VFX & Title Supervisor
https://www.GeneralTitles.com