[Dan Ebberts]

Mike,

I doesn’t look like the expression has any friction or damping for motion in the x direction – as you’ve discover it just keeps moving at a constant velocity. Let me give it some thought.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Try these expressions for scale and position. You have to hard-code in the initial position of the camera.

// scale

base = thisComp.layer(“Base Layer”); // base layer
cPos = [320,240,-1343.5]; // camera initial position

s = value[0]*length(position,cPos)/length(base.position,cPos);
[s,s,s]

// position

base = thisComp.layer(“Base Layer”); // base layer
cPos = [320,240,-1343.5]; // camera initial position

ratio = length(position,cPos)/length(base.position,cPos);
center = [thisComp.width,thisComp.height]/2;
newXY = ([value[0],value[1]] – center)*ratio + center;
[newXY[0],newXY[1],value[2]]

These may not be exactly right, but something similar should work.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Try these expressions for scale and position. You have to hard-code in the initial position of the camera.

// scale

base = thisComp.layer(“Base Layer”); // base layer
cPos = [320,240,-1343.5]; // camera initial position

s = value[0]*length(position,cPos)/length(base.position,cPos);
[s,s,s]

// position

base = thisComp.layer(“Base Layer”); // base layer
cPos = [320,240,-1343.5]; // camera initial position

ratio = length(position,cPos)/length(base.position,cPos);
center = [thisComp.width,thisComp.height]/2;
newXY = ([value[0],value[1]] – center)*ratio + center;
[newXY[0],newXY[1],value[2]]

These may not be exactly right, but something similar should work.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Check out Trapcode’s Sound Keys plugin. It’s the only way I know of to do what you’re trying to do.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Check out Trapcode’s Sound Keys plugin. It’s the only way I know of to do what you’re trying to do.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Francisco was asking if it’s possible to write an After Effects script that will read in a text file listing the paths to the individual images in a photomosaic, load the images into AE, and assemble the composite image.

It is definitely possible, and is actually a pretty straight-forward application of scripting.

AE’s scripting environment is based on JavaScript but has a ton of custom objects that your script must interact with.

While I wouldn’t want to discourage anyone from trying to write such a script, you’ll probably have a hard time unless you’re fairly familiar with JavaScript and the AE-specific extensions.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

>Would this be possible using After Effect scripting?

Yes, I’ve done it. It’s a bit of work though.

>Is the After Effects composition file text based as are the Shake, Nuke and FF5 setup files??

Hmmm… I don’t know. I don’t think so though.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Have you tried selecting all the keyframes, copy, then paste to text editor (or excel)? You get some header stuff, but you also get all the tab-delimited values. Check it out.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Have you tried selecting all the keyframes, copy, then paste to text editor (or excel)? You get some header stuff, but you also get all the tab-delimited values. Check it out.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Did you try Layer>Transform>Auto Orient>Orient Towards Camera?

Dan