[Declan Smith]

It’s difficult to know exactly without seeing the shot, but I would break this problem down into two.
First you have the crew member hanging about. From your description, there are enough clear frames to remove the crew member using the clone tool before the actor / door opens, so fix this problem by duplicating the layer and using the clone tool, then trim the length of this layer to suit.

Next the opening door. This I would tackle by using mocha AE to track the door then create a stabilised precomp in AE and paint over the offending frames. How to paint, an with what depends on your footage. There is an excellent script called mocha import for doing the import and stabilised precomp creation and a search will yield some tutorials.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

For the first part of your question, limiting the value, you could change your expressions thus:

temp = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”) ;
if (temp > 30) {
temp=30;
}
[position[0], position[1] + temp];

For the second part, making your values jump you could try:

temp = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”) ;
if (temp <= 5) {
temp=0;
} else {
temp = 30;
}
[position[0], position[1] + temp];

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

Thanks for the clarity.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

I don’t wish to seem glib, but my understanding was that one of the main selling points of Creative Cloud was that users could get updates and new features rapidly as they became available with no more having to wait for large product releases, or Major releases as that was the ‘old’ way software was delivered. Has the model now changed back to traditional product releases ?

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

Try the expression below. Some explanation.

startTime – The time that the counter will start
endTime – The time that the counter will stop
beginVal – The first number the counter will register
endVal – The highest number the counter will count to.
padLength – The number of leading zeros required

startTime = 0;
endTime = 4;
beginVal = 0;
endVal = 32;
padLength=4;
t = linear(time,startTime,endTime,beginVal,endVal);
str = '' + t.toFixed(0);
while (str.length < padLength) { str = '0' + str; } str;

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

"it's either binary or it's not"

[Declan Smith]

To muffle the audio you could try adding a lowpass filter to your audio track and set the cutoff to a low value, try 350Hz as a starting point and alter to taste. In terms of making it get cleaner over time, you could either split the audio track and remove the lowpass filter from the right hand side and then mix the two together for the transition. A second way is to keyframe the lowpass filter so the cutoff goes from the low value up to it’s maximum value,

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

Have a look at this thread.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/227/25459

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

This thread lives again!

The bit that is truncating the decimal point is where it says ‘toFixed(0)’. If you want two decimal places, then this needs to change to ‘toFixed(2)’. The full modified expression as below:

"$" + (effect("Point Control")("Point")[0].toFixed(2)).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

I’m guessing that your scale x value is <=0 or that the variable x is evaluating to 0.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Declan Smith]

Without seeing your exact settings it’s difficult to know exactly, however, the default behaviour is that the width adjustment will grow from the middle. What you need to do is use the Anchor setting to offset this and crank the width up enough so that the vertical lines are off screen. Below is a screen shot on a 1920×1080 comp. If you set the anchor width to 1920 and the Width slider to 1920 you will get vertical lines at the left and right hand side of frame. Expand this a few more pixels in both and you will lose these lines, i.e. set the anchor to 1930, 540 and width to 1940.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”