[Andy Stokes]

Hi Rick,

Create a 720×240 comp then drop your 2280×720 comp into that and scale to 33.3%

That should do it.. OR am I missing something ?

Cheers,

Andy

[Andy Stokes]

Thx for the replies guys.. As I had expected there was no “quick fix”..

In the end I windowed the vhs footage and repeated them which the client loved.

Cheers,

Andy

[Andy Stokes]

Hi Colin,

THanks for pointing out the obvious…. Sometimes I make things more complicated than they need be..

Cheers,

Andy

[Andy Stokes]

Hi Colin,

THanks for pointing out the obvious…. Sometimes I make things more complicated than they need be..

Cheers,

Andy

[Andy Stokes]

Hi Mylenium,

Thanks for your reply… I’m actually using the index expression on all the layers to offset parameters from the layer above..

Thx,

Andy

p.s: Great AE tutorials on your site by the way. They’ve helped me alot to understand expressions.

[Andy Stokes]

Hi Mylenium,

Thanks for your reply… I’m actually using the index expression on all the layers to offset parameters from the layer above..

Thx,

Andy

p.s: Great AE tutorials on your site by the way. They’ve helped me alot to understand expressions.

[Andy Stokes]

Thanks matt. I’ll give it a shot.

Alternatively I will just split the layer and move above/below the invigorator layer…

Thx.

[Andy Stokes]

Thanks Bar3nd, but importing didn’t work either… Also, I usually always increment save, just not recent enough this time !!

I’m so annoyed as there was alot of new expression setups I had been experimenting with. I’m hoping there might be some way of even opening the .aep in a text editor or something and recover part of the file at least…. although guess i’m dreaming… I need a beer now…

Cheers,

Andy

[Andy Stokes]

Thanks Bar3nd, but importing didn’t work either… Also, I usually always increment save, just not recent enough this time !!

I’m so annoyed as there was alot of new expression setups I had been experimenting with. I’m hoping there might be some way of even opening the .aep in a text editor or something and recover part of the file at least…. although guess i’m dreaming… I need a beer now…

Cheers,

Andy

[Andy Stokes]

Hi Matt,

You can simply add a Null and parent your camera + interest to that, then move the null. Another way I like is to make a camera “rig”. Try this :-

1)Create a null, position it at 0,0,0. Name it MASTER.
2)Duplicate + position new null at 0,0,-1000. Name it ZOOM
3)Position camera at 0,0,-1000 + interest at 0,0,0.
4)Parent ZOOM to MASTER and camera to ZOOM.

Now you can easily rotate / position MASTER and use the Z position of ZOOM to zoom in/out. Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Andy