[Aza Allen]

Thanks Tim, yeah, that was exactly my problem, the titler was being stretched to fit. I created a new sequence put in my nested sequence, that fixed it! Thanks again!

Aza

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

My source is 720×480 widescreen and I’m outputting to 874×480 square pixel QT.

The rest of my video looks great, except for the titles, which look like the pic.

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

I found this post and thought it might help me, but it needs some tweaking…

I have text aligned on a 3d path (spiral, pretty much exactly like Eran Stern’s tornado here: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Tornado_Text1/video-tutorial.php

He has the tornado going around his subject, but I am trying to animate the camera along the spiral so the words appear when I need them to (with music)

I’ve tried pasting the mask data from my words onto the position of my Null (Camera is parented to null) and using your expression to rotate the mask along the X-Z axis, but the path remains along the X-Y axis, so it’s a bunch of guesswork to get the camera to line up with the words in the spiral.

I’ve tried rotating the spiral around the camera, but I also want to add some other objects to the middle of the spiral so it gives a cool sense of motion around the spiral, but getting all the anchor points to line up and the camera to go to the right words at the right time is a tedious hassle, and I’m thinking there’s got to be an easier way. Thanks All

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

…basically I need to add falloff, I tried changing falloff settings in Soundkeys, but that didn’t work.

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

Trapcode Sound Keys from Red Giant Software would help immensely with your project and any other like it…

https://trapcode-content.com/products_soundkeys.html

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

… Okay, well, I ran into an issue… oops, (this may be asking too much now) technically the expression does exactly what I asked for it to do, but I didn’t realize that the way Soundkeys animates is by also using the numbers between each integer value so that the animations can ramp/ease in/out…

So… is there a way to modify this once more to have decimal values between the beats?

What I am trying to do is use Soundkeys in conjunction with VideoCopilot.net’s “Sure Target 2.0” ( https://www.videocopilot.net/presets/sure_target_2/ ) to drive an animation.

So I may have been going about this all the very wrong way, but I am working on a music video that is all text, and I’m trying to hget words to fly up on the screen with the vocals of the track (which I am using an A Capella version of the track to try and use soundkeys to drive the animation, and Sure Target to focus the camera on the words, or groups of words sang)

The expression is basically posterizing the camera movements instead of transitioning smoothly.

Is there any way to do this – I am sorry I didn’t state my original intentions up front, since this may change everything we’ve discussed.

Thanks,
Aza

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

Thank you so much Dan!

That works!

I am good at math, and bad at expressions, which seems odd to me, seems like the two would go hand in hand…. I never get a chance to sit with them, but I need to make time for that.

Thanks again!

Aza

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

…I would even be happy if someone could let me know how to modify the code I’m attaching so that it might work with my purposes…
(This is the code from Dan’s link above, I’m just not quite sure I know how to modify it to work for this)

Thanks all,

Aza


threshold = 10.0;

audioLev = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider");

above = false;
frame = Math.round(time / thisComp.frameDuration);
n = 0;
while (frame >= 0){
t = frame * thisComp.frameDuration;
if (above){
if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) < threshold){
above = false;
}

}else if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) >= threshold){
above = true;
n++;
}
frame--
}

n

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

Thanks for your response Dan!

Yes, (forgot to mention in my post, sorry) I used the settings as follows –
Range1: type = On/Off Trigger
Falloff = None
Output Min/Max = 0..1

…and if I do that, it counts up 1 for every frame the beat is present inside the box (instead of 1 for every beat, and the beat lasts 3-5 frames)

Is there a way to get it to just use one frame while the beat is present and reject the rest, so that every time the beat hits it only counts one frame?

Thanks all,
Aza

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com

[Aza Allen]

Well, I did it by hand last time, but now I’m running into an issue on a larger project where I need to count up from 1. I saw the expression that you linked to above, but I’m not sure how to modify it for SoundKeys.

I can get sound keys to go from 0 to 1 each time it’s activated, but it goes back to zero, how do I get it to go up to 2, 3, 4, etc?

Thanks for any help I can get!

Aza

Make sure to check out our website http://www.makeyourfriendsuncomfortable.com and my personal website http://www.ruesterprod.com