Brian Charles
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You may have better luck with 2 layers One expanding the other revealing.
You could use Shatter with a gradient map and animate the threshold. The gradient map would be letters on a black BG.
Particle Playground is best controlled with a gradient map, it is a great tool but is complex and a bit difficult to explain in a short reply.
To control it you’ll need to set the persistent and ephemeral property mappers using another layer.
The brightness of the pixels in the other layer can control various properties like scale, life, speed, opacity etc.
You can use a simple Gray Ramp as the controlling layer or have different values in each of the RGB channels and select which channel controls which property.
Most properties have min and max values (which you can animate). There is a lot of power in this particle system.
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Card Wipe might be a solution combined with the page turn.
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Card Wipe might be a solution combined with the page turn.
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A bit of a kludge but this works bases on Z position, won’t work otherwise. Attach to Opacity of layer.
T = 100;
camZ = thisComp.layer(“Camera 1”).transform.position[2];
myZ = transform.position[2];
diff = 100 -(camZ+myZ);
if (diff > ( 20)) {
T = diff ;
}else{
if (diff < 0); T = 0; } T -
Not shure this will help but try trashing After Effects preferences. Hold down Command + Option + Shift as After Effects launches.
I have FCP 5.1 Universal installed and After Effects runs without a problem.
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Actually you determine where renders are saved. Click on the output file name to set the save location.
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Start with an image of an inkblot.
Add an elliptical mask.
Animate the mask from the center from 0 until it reveals the entire image.
Apply Vector Blur and play wit the amount and ridge softness.
Use as a track matte.
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Done. specialcase’s suggestion worked.
Thank you for your help.
An upgrade to the lab (50 seats) is currently not in the budget.
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We’l give this a try. Thanks for your response. Will keep you posted.
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Thanks for the reply.
The machines were all running Motion and DVDSP prior to ugrading to 10.4.8.
All Apple RAM and 6800 256MB video card. These are very capable systems.