Cassius Marques
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[Steve Ogden] “Because sometimes you have tons parameters, effects, etc. on Layer A and you don’t want to have to make all the adjustments twice. Yes, you could parent and then pickwhip every parameter, but that’s no fun when you have hundreds of parameters.”
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adding a cc composite effect with RGB unchecked would put your original text back over it
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you could convert those null’s position to screen space (using the toComp method) so you could apply to the points of the corner pin. But Walter’s solution is more robust because any camera lens effect (such as DOF) will already be applied by default.
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I guess you only need the answer for the first question. That alone would make it follow the text anyway.
if you mean horizontally then:
start of ramp
L = thisLayer;
rect = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = L.toComp([rect.left,0])[0];
y = L.toComp([rect.left,0])[1];
[x,y]end of ramp
L = thisLayer;
rect = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = L.toComp([rect.left+rect.width,0])[0];
y = L.toComp([rect.left,0])[1];
[x,y]If you want vertically then:
L = thisLayer;
rect = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = L.toComp([rect.left+rect.width/2,0])[0];
y = L.toComp([rect.height,0])[1];
[x,y]L = thisLayer;
rect = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = L.toComp([rect.left+rect.width/2,0])[0];
y = L.toComp([rect.height,-150])[1];
[x,y]This are the results of me messing with code posted by someone (probably Dan) somewhere here. I’ve used before, its not perfect but it works.
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That would absolutely change the start and end position of that layer, would it not?
He expressed the need to keep initial and final position.
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There is no “align to spline” or similar effect in After Effects. One which you could have the layer have its own position while following a spline field. (like those available forces and effectors in 3d apps)
So you’ll have to either animate the layer’s position, or link it to a layer that follows the spline, but since you’re always attributing that motion to the position property, you’ll have to chose one or the other.
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You are waaaaaayyyyyy overthinking things. Just interpret your footage to half its frame rate if you want to see every frame. I’m not sure that was the case there, it just seems so because its slowed down. Thats what sells the effect on that example, IMO.
There absolutely no need to cut the clips into frames. Set two hold keyframes for opacity with 100% and 0% on the topmost layer with a loopOut(); expression.
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is there anything more than toggling opacity down and up every 2 frames?
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If its a field that accepts strings you just need to add (“any string”) + before the result (which is Math.floor…)
such as
frames = 15;
clockStart = 1;
rate = (1/thisComp.frameDuration) / frames;
clockTime = clockStart + rate*(time - inPoint);
("$")+Math.floor(clockTime);Cassius Marques
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I expected them to be aligned because you could move the whole rig inside the composition with a master instead of moving the outside comp. But I know sometimes we do whichever is simpler/faster.
Anyway I guess I could dig through the math to make it work for whatever position those comps are. But I wont cause you already have a pretty neat animation there =].
Good luck.
Cassius Marques
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