[Carl Larsen]

That’s a “Hitchcock zoom.” Dolly the camera back, while zooming in.

Carl Larsen

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[Carl Larsen]

or you could try mokey from imagineer systems. It was designed for this sort of thing – and you can often get away without shooting plates.

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[Carl Larsen]

Eric –

I addressed some of the issues you are facing with multiple animators in the latest episode of the After Effects Podcast.

Hopefully, this helps. Check it out.

https://podcasts.creativecow.net/after-effects-tutorials-podcast/file-management-in-after-effects

Carl Larsen

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[Carl Larsen]

Jerry,

You should be able to import a file sequence into AE by simply invoking the file>import dialog box, navigating to your sequence, selecting any of the images, making sure the “sequence” option is checked and clicking ok.

If this is consistently giving you problems, you may have a corrupted sequence.

As an alternative, you may want to try opening the sequence in quicktime pro and then exporting a .mov to whatever codec you want to use in AE. In this scenario you’d go to file>open image sequence> navigate to your images> choose 5o fps> and then choose save as… from the menu.Then import the saved .mov into AE and continue working.

I hope that helps.

Carl Larsen

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[Carl Larsen]

Roger –

Here’s what you’re looking for:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing.php

Jayse did an excellent job explaining how to do this in his tutorial.

Carl Larsen

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[Carl Larsen]

It sounds like you’re trying to accomplish what I demonstrated in my last two tutorials: Tracking a Child in After Effects.

To track the position of a child layer (layer 2), use this expression on the layer you want to effect (the effect position on Layer 1).

L = thisComp.layer(”child_layer”);
P = L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint);

where P[0] gives x, P[1] gives y, and P[2] gives z.

Carl Larsen

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[Carl Larsen]

looks like “CC ball action” to me.

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[Carl Larsen]

The arrow is rotating about the geometric center of the layer – which isn’t perfectly centered when you add the arrow head.

You can either move the anchor point manually using the pan behind tool, or you could re import the graphic as two separate layers; one for the circle and one for the arrow head. In the second case simply parent the arrow to the circle and animate the rotation of the circle layer.

Carl Larsen

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[Carl Larsen]

The quick answer is that motion tracking is tough…and given enough time around it you tend to get a sense for what features will track well and which ones won’t. Sometimes hand tracking (at least a portion of the shot) is the only answer.

In the mean time, I’d suggest you check out Eran Stern’s tutorial, “a walk in the park” to address some of your out of screen difficulties. I’d also suggest taking a look at Mocha for After Effects if you foresee yourself doing a lot of tracking work – it’s really spoiled me.

Carl Larsen

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[Carl Larsen]

Check out the flexify plugin from flaming pear.

Carl Larsen

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