[Doug Nash]

Yikes, Mike! Extraordinary. Thanks so much for the deep thinking. I’m calling it quits for the day, but I’ll give all this a shot tomorrow.

I really appreciate the considerate help.

[Doug Nash]

Thanks Darby. This is the approach I have already been experimenting with. However, there seems to be no way around all the other miscellaneous characters showing up in the random offset. I only want random numbers to appear, then transform in the proper letters.

I have a suspicion this may be a case where I’ll need to combine an expression along with a text tool animation. I just don’t know the first thing about doing that…

[Doug Nash]

Thanks so much for the speedy help, ninguem. I just tried your expression, but unfortunately, it’s not what I’m trying to do. Using the text tool, I’m animation on my word graphics. However, my goal is to have a series of rapidly changing, random numbers appear in the exact spaces where the letters will then appear.

In essence, I want it to look like the numbers quickly build on, then turn into letters. Make sense?

Thanks.

[Doug Nash]

Bump. I’m interested in this exact thing.

[Doug Nash]

Thanks, and that’s what I’m already doing. But from a production standpoint, this just isn’t cutting it. This project will be evolving in the coming weeks, and I’ll need to have the hundreds of numbers move back together and explode apart many more times in other scenes. So, I really need a more “elegant” way to control all of them from a single source. Just the process of scrolling and selecting all the keyframes each time I want to change a curve, becomes a nightmare.

Anyone know of a more automated approach?

[Doug Nash]

Thanks so much. I’ll give that a shot and report back.

I’m a bit shocked that this wasn’t taken into consideration with MoGraph. Perhaps in the next version.

[Doug Nash]

Anyone have experience with this? I’ve searched through seemingly every similar post on Creative Cow, and have had very little success in finding a workable solution. I’ve seen most people suggest going with the multishader. However, I don’t see any way which that will work for my project. The video clip I need to map on to the clones is over five-minutes long, and 1.5gigs.

Again. All I want to do is simply randomize the start and end frame for the big clip, across all my clones.

Thanks.

[Doug Nash]

Not to throw another wrench into your gears, but do you have the computer power to even render an image that large? I regularly max out our 2x dual core Intel Macs (8gigs RAM) when just attempting 8K film frames. I can’t imagine rendering something twice that size.

[Doug Nash]

Thanks SO much! I’ll dig into this, and see if I can understand the steps.

[Doug Nash]

Thanks, but I already, and only work in square until I set up my renders. Although, that certainly doesn’t mean that there isn’t some issue with the FOV, but judging by the way the animation looks in EIAS, I still think it has more to do with the rotation order, or orientation.

Out of curiosity, have you had success going from AES to C4D? The only script I have seen on AE Enhancers leaves MUCH to be desired…