Brian Charles
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I make popcorn on my iPhone every evening. 😉
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Try using a shape layer to make the initial circles then use this as a base for the disco ball. See the following:
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Ken Stone has an on-line tutorial for frame rate conversion using Compressor.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/converting_frame_rates_compressor.html
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Expressions are placed on the property you wish to control with the code. You need to alt/option click on the stopwatch for the property and then paste the code there.
Expressions are NOT the same thing as After Effects scripts. Scripts in After Effects are like macros which control production workflow, they are jsx files and are either simple jsx or compiled jsx which are placed in the Scripts folder inside the After Effects application folder. They are then available either through the Edit menu (Edit>Run Script) or through the Window menu if they are the appropriate type of script and have been placed in the Scripts UI Panels folder in the Scripts folder.
Plain scripts can also be invoked from the Edit >Run Script command when they are located elsewhere on your computer, they don’t have to be placed in the Scripts folder to work.
You were trying to run an expression (something that drives effects parameters or keyframes) as a Script, just won’t work.
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You may want to post this question to the Live Events forum.
https://forums.creativecow.net/livestageevents
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You can use the 3D Layer distributor script from https://www.aescripts.com to place the text layers in 3D Space.
Precomp these and use as a track matte for the video.
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An alternative (and there are many) is to make the stripes 3D and use CC Repetile to expand the layer’s dimensions enough to cover the camera move.
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Mike – have no idea why one works and the other doesn’t.
Sorry for the delay in reply, I was off the grid for a couple of days.
Have you tried the Trapcode Forum?
https://forums.creativecow.net/trapcode
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Using your settings I made a circular path for the emitter (using an expression) and saw little of the distortion that’s in your file. Not really sure what the issue is but here are a few ideas.
The distortion seems to be occurring exactly at the position of the roving keyframes on the emitter.
It may be a combination of factors, sub pixel positioning of very thin lines, time-sampling in Particular and the motion path of the emitter.