[Espen Jakobsen]

Alright! Your method seems to work pretty good! It can be a bit tedious parenting the corner pins to the tracking data, but still, it works! Thanks alot! I wasn’t aware of either the beam or corner pin effect, so I wouldn’t have figured this out on my own.

Here’s my take on it:
https://espenja.com/feedback/connect.mov

Too bad my footage dosen’t have too many moving objects though. The one in the example looks like a living thing. I also tried to do the nice drop shadow effect from the example.

[Espen Jakobsen]

Ah! Good thinking, thanks! Going to try it later. Been browsing Dan Ebberts’ scripts for some time now, strange I hadn’t noticed that one. Yeah, first saw the effect in a Dstrukt showreel.

Thanks
Espen Jakobsen, Norway

[Espen Jakobsen]

Thanks! Why didnt I think of that….will try it as soon as I get back to work.

[Espen Jakobsen]

Maybe they used a technique similar to the one in andrew kramers’ earth zoom tutorial?
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=15

[Espen Jakobsen]

You could precompose the text animation, and then put the mask onto the nested compostition. Select the text layer and then press Cmd + Shift +C. But yeah, it would have been nice if the masks in AE could be unlinked, like in Photoshop.

[Espen Jakobsen]

By default the keyframes seem to get a bezier temporal and linear spatial interpolation, but if I change the spatial to bezier too, the handles still dont show up. What am I doing wrong?

Here the other day I got the handles, and in the keyframe interpolation the temporal was bezier, but the spatial was locked (greyed out) and it said linear. I’ve tried different combinations of temporal and spatial with different interpolations, but the handles arent there. Should I reinstall or something?

Espen Jakobsen, Norway