[Filip Vandueren]

Welcome to the world of keying and/or roto-scoping.
If you have the object on a very even-coloured background, you can key it out or use the auto-trace function.

If not, you might have to use the paint effects to paint the alpha for each single frame.

do a search for rotoscoping or look up the different key-effects in the manual.

[Filip Vandueren]

The text-animation preset including an underscore cursor is called:

Multi-line -> Word Processor

If you want to change the underscore into a full block:

add a scale- and anchorPoint-property to the first animator.
scale the underscore character way up (something like scale = [100,1600])
and then adjust the vertical anchorpoint untill it lines up.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Ron,

like I said, probably best to filter out all HTML-tags for the mail-system.

Also I noticed that special characters are not encoded in any way.
I think that could give problems on the Website when viewing on different platforms than the one it was posted on.
Don’t know if you’re viewing on a PC but on Mac it’s:

[Filip Vandueren]

Nope, It isn’t any better in 6.5.

[Filip Vandueren]

Well,

1. It’s just easier for long lists
2. It’s the only way to embed Images in a post
3. I like to use Fixed-width type in expression-source-code and color-code stuff

You know, just to make long posts or tutorials more legible.

Sorry about that 😉

[Filip Vandueren]

Hey there,

yeah, I didn’t test it. 😯

Here’s the fix, also fixes another bug when you use a really long fadeOut on a short layer.
But make sure that FadeOut+FadeIn length is more than the layerlength!


fi=0; // FadeIn in seconds
fo=1.5; // FadeOut in seconds
i=inPoint; o=outPoint;

(time < i+fi) ? linear(time, i, i+ fi,0,100) : linear(time, o-fo, o,100,00);


BTW: if you see &lt; in the email, that’s supposed to be <

[Filip Vandueren]

Hey there,

yeah, I didn’t test it. 😯

Here’s the fix, also fixes another bug when you use a really long fadeOut on a short layer.
But make sure that FadeOut+FadeIn length is more than the layerlength!


fi=0; // FadeIn in seconds
fo=1.5; // FadeOut in seconds
i=inPoint; o=outPoint;

(time < i+fi) ? linear(time, i, i+ fi,0,100) : linear(time, o-fo, o,100,00);


BTW: if you see &lt; in the email, that’s supposed to be <

[Filip Vandueren]

It doesn’t give me an error in 6.5

but try removing the spaces around the dots and see if that helps:

this_comp.layer(this_layer, -1).opacity.value_at_time(time – .1);

[Filip Vandueren]

Searching around in the AE5.5 prefernces text-file, I found this:

[“OS X Plug-in Section”]
“Load Non-Carbon Plug-ins” = “0”

see if changing that to 1 fixes the problem.
(I don’t have 5.5 installed anymore, but maybe it’s also just a tick-box in the pref-window, though I don’t remember ever seeing it there)

[Filip Vandueren]

There’s a feature in AE 6.5 called Autotrace.
It makes a mask out of a threshold value in R,G,B or alpha

Depending on your footage that could get you started pretty well.