Erik Waluska
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The shortcut is Alt + SHIFT + (P, T, S, etc.).
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“The ocean is keyed to continue moving, using the write in code part.”
I’m not sure what that means. Are you talking about a time expression?
One thing I would suggest is just making a short loop of your ocean animation, rendering it out as a movie and then importing it back in, set it to loop 1000 times or whatever and just use that instead of rendering the entire 8-minute animation. That will greatly speed up your render time.
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I don’t believe that’s possible in AE — at least I don’t know of any way to do it. That seems like something you might be able to do in Flash.
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Yes, I got it now. In that case Twixtor or frame blending would probably be the first things that I would try since that’s exactly what they are for.
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It’s hard to offer any suggestions without knowing how you are making the mouth shapes. Shape layers? PSD files? Masks?
You could maybe use twixtor or frame blending, depending on how many tween frames you need. If the mouth shapes are too different then that option may not work very well.
“I dont think I can feasibly do inbetween shapes for the mouths since the dialogue is not so predictable.”
I have no idea what that means. Could you elaborate?
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You’re welcome, glad I could help. If you figure out the repeater thing be sure to post back.
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You’re welcome. Glad I could help.
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You might be thinking of this one:
https://www.sternfx.com/tutorials/53#video -
First read this to understand the basic concepts of clipping masks…
AI help: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/clipping-masks.htmlThe clipping masks need to be on every layer that you want to clip. You can copy/paste them into each layer but you will likely have to manually go to the layer palette menu and select “make clipping mask”. When you copy/paste in Illustrator use Cmd/Ctrl+C to copy but use Cmd/Ctrl+F (paste in front) to paste so it stays in the same place. For reasons that I don’t understand, if you just Cmd/Ctrl+V to paste the layer usually ends up in a different place.
When you bring it into AE choose “composition – retain layer sizes”.
Also, be sure the document color mode is set to RGB not CMYK or it can cause problems or just not import at all.
HTH
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Ah, I see what you mean now. Honestly, I haven’t fooled with shape layers enough to know all of the ins and outs but you’re right, it appears that the rotation is independent of the anchor point. Another way you could do this is to just duplicate the layer and add this expression to the rotation property of the duplicate layers (not to the original layer though):
thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.rotation+20
Change the 20 to whatever rotation value you want and each layer will rotate that amount past the previous layer’s rotation.