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Derek Boettcher
July 8, 2015 at 12:02 pm in reply to: wiggle query

There is a bit in animation effect called the wiggler, it allows you to do the same thing as the expression but only to a specified timeframe. Andrew Kramer has a great tutorial on it at videocopilot.net

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
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Derek Boettcher
July 8, 2015 at 11:57 am in reply to: animate shapes query

Not really, there are some plugins you can get that can give elements random motion, but not specifically what you are looking for. If it is the exact same motion, separate the x,y,z motion from one of them and copy the keyframed z position and paste it onto all the other layers by hitting cntrl (cmd) + a and then paste
Then select the objects in the order you want to animate on and right click- keyframe assistant and then sequence the layers to overlap by 2-3 frames. If you are adding rotation, just follow the same steps for the z position
I hope that helps, I just got through animating about 600-800 elements, so I know how you feel. There is a gift of it on the homepage of http:\\cofchrist.org

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com
Derek Boettcher
July 7, 2015 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Data entry text effect

Ask the guys on the expressions thread, I believe that has already been done by then.

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
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Derek Boettcher
July 7, 2015 at 6:40 pm in reply to: Word on a path, hits a “paddle” reverses as different text

To smash your word, put your anchor point for the text on the side that will hit the paddle, and unlink your scanned so it is no longer uniform, and then adjust the horizontal scale until the word is indistinguishable. Keyframe your source text option under your text options so that your second word appears when the weird is smashed up. The keyframe will be a hold keyframe so it will be an instant change. Then you can copy and paste your movement and scale keyframes and just reverse their values to change the motion back.

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com
Derek Boettcher
July 7, 2015 at 4:51 am in reply to: Title card stepthrough process

You are misunderstanding one of the key concepts of compositing. When you set the track matte to alpha on your footage layer, it will cut out the text shape (assuming the text layer is directly above) in the footage, and will automatically hide the text layer. The alpha is the portion of your layer that is opaque vs transparent. You won’t need to do any keyframimg of opacity on the text (unless you want to) and it will create that step through effect like you asked for. You do have to keyframe the position and scale (or 3d position) of the text layer though.

The tint effect allows you to remap the black and white values of your layer to other colors, allowing you to “tint” it up to two separate cookies are a time. You then can keyframe it’s strength, altering it to be fully, partially, or nonaffective or anywhere in between.

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com
Derek Boettcher
July 7, 2015 at 3:52 am in reply to: How is this block transition done?

I think you are over thinking it, that just like line a basic opacity case in and out with a slight linear pan in.

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
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Derek Boettcher
July 7, 2015 at 3:49 am in reply to: Title card stepthrough process

This is an easy one, make a text layer, Kristen’s it from the side, then make it scale up or move in 3d space until one of the letters completely folks the screen with the color of the text. Then do your footage beneath the text later, and set its track matte to alpha. If you don’t see the track matte option, hit f4 after selecting your layer. If you want to add a tint to it either drop the tint effect on an adjustment layer or on the footage and keyframe it out.

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com
Derek Boettcher
July 3, 2015 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Minimal camera? No camera?

all the aperture does is adjust the depth of field. If you don’t want to rack focus or blur the background/foreground then just turn off DOF in the camera settings and don’t worry about the aperture. AE has swapped the aperture from a typical camera: so the larger the number the larger the aperture, the smaller the DOF. On a real camera the F/stops are reversed, the smaller the Fstop the larger the aperture, the smaller the DOF, just and FYI.

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com
Derek Boettcher
July 3, 2015 at 4:13 pm in reply to: Motion blur working on translations but not rotations!

Golly, sorry about that.

I was on my phone and the autocorrect went haywire apparently. What I meant to say was: check* the motion blur on the original layer, or precomp* the whole think and apply a pixel motion blur to it.

Sorry for the confusion. I just wasn’t near a computer to type it.

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com
Derek Boettcher
July 3, 2015 at 2:53 pm in reply to: Minimal camera? No camera?

I believe ae made 50mm the standard, so change your camera focal length to 50. Then just turn the camera on and off to check

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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
https://bthmedia.com

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