[Andy George]

Check out this script Ease and Wizz I just stumbled on.

https://ianhaigh.com/easeandwizz/

Types of easing

Regular easing (from most to least dramatic)
Expo, Circ, Quint, Quart, Quad, Sine
Special types
Back, Bounce, Elastic

I have not used it yet myself but
I think it might be just what you need.
Looks very cool-

-Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Kristel,

You could use an expression to create exponential scale along the z axis-

Here is one I found at AEenhancers.com

accellMultiplier=5;
x=position[0];
y=position[1];
z=position[2]+(time-(Math.exp(time*accellMultiplier)));

[x,y,z]

This expression causes your layer to move backwards in z space exponentially over time. accellMultiplier lets you affect when the curve reaches “terminal velocity.” If you want to reverse the direction of the push, change the ‘+’ before the parentheses in the z definition to a ‘-‘.

-Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Josh,

I think this might be what your looking for.

if (toCompVec([0, 0, 1])[2] > 0 ) value else 0

There is a breakdown of the expression on Dan’s site

https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/invisible-facing-away.html

-Andy

-Andy

[Andy George]

You can also use the adjustment layer switch on the light so that
it only effects the objects below it in stacking order.

Here is a tutorial on it-

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Adjustment_Lights.php

Andy G

-Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Ryan,
It’s been years since I have been on an Avid (or a pc) so Im not
to sure what all export options are available to you.
Hopefully someone with a similar
work flow can chime in.

You don’t mention what format/codec your video is originally but I assume
it’s some sort of non-square pixel HD format?

When you set up your composition in AE try dragging and dropping the
footage onto the “make comp” button if you have not already.
This makes AE set up a new comp based on the demesions of the footage.

AE handles non-square footage just fine but if your still having problems
you could also try exporting your video to the size that it should be with square
pixels. For example if your working with a 720p video with an
aspect ratio of 960 x 720 export it at 1280 x 720.

Quicktime player seems to struggle with non square pixel formats
so you can probabbly ignore what you are seeing there. Though it
should play back your square pixel export at the correct aspect
ratio.

.M2t is not a good codec for AE. For more on that see this post
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/958786

Not knowing what your source is I would export (and render)using the Quicktime Animation codec.
It’s uncompressed so will probably result in a larger file than your
original.

-Andy

-Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Graham,

Not exactly what your looking for but maybe helpful.

https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers

This script renders each layer of a comp individually.
So you could just create 1 composition, drop your video in,
sequence layers and it should do the rest-

-Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Ryan,
I don’t think anyone is going to be able
to help without a lot more information-

Here are some questions to get you started-

Can you describe how it looks bad?
Pixellated? Bad colors? Aspect ration problems?
Frame rate issues?

How does the quicktime from Avid look in Quicktime player
before you bring it into AE?

How does the file look within AE?

How does the exported AE Quicktime look in quicktime
before you bring it back to Avid?

What are your composition settings?

What Codec are you using to export from Avid?

What Codec are you using to export from AE?

…

Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Sean,

Here are a couple of different scripts
on the topic-

https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1083
check out “catfish Supergenerator”

https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/
check out “crg_Text_from_File.jsx”

-Andy

[Andy George]

Trapcode Echospace can help take the grunt work out of it-

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-echospace/

Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Levi,
Can light in a precomp affect 3D objects in the main comp?
Short answer – No

When you hit the collapse transformations button you are actually telling AE
to ignore the lights and camera in your pre-composition and expose the 3D attributes of
the precomposed layers to your main compositions camera and lights.

So you should not be seeing your pre-compostions lights affect Anything
in your main composition including the precomposed layers.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7ed6a.html

-Andy