Eric Goldstein
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Chris,
Thanks for the recommendation.
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Sorry, I feel like I’ve been having a conversation with myself. Anyway, I found the answer to my question.
(thisComp.layer(“Rotating Lens Part”).transform.zRotation+88.7)*.673
becomes:
(comp(“name”).layer(“Rotating Lens Part”).transform.zRotation+88.7)*.673
Thanks for the help,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Hi Lloyd and others,
I figured out how to reverse the direction of the rotation using a negative sign. However, I now need to refer to a different comp. One of my expressions is:
(thisComp.layer(“Rotating Lens Part”).transform.zRotation+88.7)*.673
I assume I replace the “thisComp” with the name of the comp I want to use. So far I haven’t been able to get AE to take what I’ve tried.
Do I have to define the name of the Comp before referring to it? Or is there some syntax I’m not aware of? I tried using the name of the comp with and without parenthesis to replace “thisComp.” This didn’t work.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Hi Lloyd or any other expression gurus out there,
I’m using this expression to move x and y positions based on
z rotation from another layer:x =thisComp.layer(“Rotating Lens Part”).transform.zRotation;
[x+300.7, x+347.7, x]The values added to x for x and y are offsets to place the layer in a particular position. I think I might be able to do this by adjusting the anchorpoint rather than doing this in the expression.
Anyway, I need to reverse the negative to positive rotation coming from the controling layer in the formula. How could I do this?
Thanks again,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Hi Lloyd,
That’s just what I needed. I had the front parenthesis in the
wrong place.Thanks,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Hi,
Nevermind, I figured it out.
Thanks,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Hi Darby,
Would you like to send me your e-mail address? I can send you the project via You Send It.
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Hi Darby,
I think I found the problem. I think AE is running out of memory. I’m working on an 8 core system running Windows 64 with 16 Gigs of memory. As you know, AE can only address 4 Gigs. This project has a lot of large layers.
I took the project and scaled down the source layers – mostly Photoshop files. The new project with the scaled down files is not experiencing any of the problems I mentioned.
If you’d like to see the problem project. I would be happy to send the files.
Best,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
How about if I send it to you via You Send It?
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Hi Darby, It’s not the camera. Every other layer appears correct. It’s only these particular layers. I have tried different cameras; this has no effect on the problem.
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com