[Chris Wright]

ok, I figured it out, the anchorpoints you use have to be a little outside the actual shape or exactly right on it so that the scale will work correctly. If you don’t put the anchorpoints just outside/on the shape, the first 1% (2 frames) of the scale animation will look exponential. Look at my example animation to see what I mean. But the 99% rest works perfect.

slider = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
first = comp(“controlComp”).layer(“Right_corner_CTRL”);
l=first.toWorld(first.anchorPoint);
second = comp(“controlComp”).layer(“Left_corner_CTRL”);
s=second.toWorld(second.anchorPoint);

v = length(l,s);

[slider-v,slider-v]

ae cs4 aep.
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=D5SQK333

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[Chris Wright]

https://videocopilot.net/tutorials/depth_charge/

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[Chris Wright]

I’m not surprised. That’s the wonderful world of technicolor with brown tinting. Almost impossible to do unless you get tiffen’s 3 strip https://www.tiffen.com/dfx_v2_three_strip.html then add brown tinting and a load of grain..or tweak my ae projects.

Here’s a technicolor 3 strip look of the 1970’s
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=V6J1HBY2

I made a John Wayne Western Technicolor/Sepia tone Preset project
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=RDODR18H

You can try my inglorius bastrds preset to get that skin tone.
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=DH4QBGXG

soften edges look
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=UJOXBT6G

here’s my friend’s FCP plugin. You’ll want to hue change the blue.
https://pistolerapost.com/pluginz/

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[Chris Wright]

select all the comps you want to be date appended

update

https://www.mediafire.com/?mbp6v3v33axriib

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[Chris Wright]

here it is in _MMDDYY format

https://www.mediafire.com/?o537xb0v3lt1xe9

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[Chris Wright]

yes, another nice thing about them is that they fully support the new DSLR’s colorspace transform and encoding, so there’s no gamma or color shift, really nice.

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[Chris Wright]

valueAtTime would know what’s going on on each key right?

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[Chris Wright]

without a screen shot, I’m totally lost. Perhaps you are looking for a scaler that compares the comp size to the nulls and will rescale the null’s world value according to the width and height of the comp constantly changing. That could be either a simply .width and .height
or could end up being a tricky transform such as comparing the length of the anchorpoint of the comp to the nulls. It all depends on me reading your mind, lol.

C = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”);
d = length(toWorld(anchorPoint),C.toWorld([0,0,0]));

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[Chris Wright]

if I remember correctly, AE names the file as the comp you add to the render query, so basically if you append the comp with a date, the rendered file will be called the same. One way is have the script rename the final comp using simple expressions.

here’s the script i made.
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=CX2WVCKG

also, you can use various batch software out there that will post-time stamp the filenames using the operating system’s code. But they are not free, although I could probably write a simple visual basic script that does the same thing.

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[Chris Wright]

the expression uses a weird exponential forumula so a linear function will not work.

a simple way is use effect posterizetime with a keyframed slider. I’ll see if I can make an expression though…