[Dustin Brown]

Here’s an idea. Create two separate elements: arrow head and arrow base. Make the base in it’s final state either using Illustrator or the stroke effect in AFX or however you want. Then use a mask to uncover the base over time. For the arrowhead (again it’s a separate element), just animate it’s motion path to follow the mask which is uncovering the arrow base, then use Layer>Transform>Auto-Orient to get the arrow head to bank along the path.

It’s a pretty dirty solution, in terms of it not being a pre-made effect, but it should get the job done and it’s not hard to set up.

Good luck,
Dustin Brown

[Dustin Brown]

Thanks, Walter. I ended up just using each pass as its own track matte. That seems to be going swimmingly.

-Dustin

[Dustin Brown]

If I use Luma, no matter what blending mode I use, I loose the reflection in the glass:

https://www.dustinbrown.com/temp/luma.jpg

Inverse Luma gives me my reflection back, but I’m right back to square one and I can’t see my transparency grid with inverse luma:

https://www.dustinbrown.com/temp/invLuma.jpg

Any other suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Dustin

[Dustin Brown]

Will do, Harm. Thanks.

[Dustin Brown]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, Kevin. I appreciate it. One other thing that seems to happen sometimes (not always) is I’ll get a message saying “Insufficient media. This transition will contain repeated frames.” There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to when this happens, as I’m creating all of my clips the same way.

Any suggestions there?

Thanks,
Dustin

[Dustin Brown]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, Vincent. None of my source footage comes from a camera, it’s all digital frames rendered out of 3D animation software. So it sounds like I’m doing the right thing by using the progressive (no interlacing) option.

Good to know.

Thanks again,
Dustin