[Filip Vandueren]

HI Mirek,

the reason there are so many keyframes is because I converted the expressions to keyframes, that’s much faster to render.

If you change the animation of the leader, you should delete all those keyframes and reactivate the expressions of the followers (clik on the = sign next to the stopwatch)

There are some controls in the effects window of the leader that alllow you to set the wigglyness and the delay between each bubble

[Filip Vandueren]

Try to set the position property to animate click the stop watch, select the position and then paste.

[Filip Vandueren]

Try to set the position property to animate click the stop watch, select the position and then paste.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Dan,

you can use the “mode”-setting in the fractal noise layer and set it for instance to “hard-light” or “overlay”, to combine the grey noise with the blue of your solid,

or if you keep it to normal you can remap the greyscale noise using a “tint” (simple)or “colorama filter” after the noise.

(fex. try the carribean preset under Ouput Cycle Presets).

[Filip Vandueren]

Try animating one particle layer, and then assigns a bunch of “followers” that repeat the same motion a bit later, but more “wigly”.

Here’s an example with expressions and precomposing:

You can download the project file here:
https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/bubbles/bubbles.aep

Hope this helps

[Filip Vandueren]

Try animating one particle layer, and then assigns a bunch of “followers” that repeat the same motion a bit later, but more “wigly”.

Here’s an example with expressions and precomposing:

You can download the project file here:
https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/bubbles/bubbles.aep

Hope this helps

[Filip Vandueren]

If you render a quicktime movie via the render-queue, it doesn’t have “Prepare for Internet Stremaing / Fast Start” Enabled,
You can enable this feature if you choose your Comp and then go “File / Export /Quicktime Movie”

Without that Setting, the suicktime plugin in the browser usually loads the entire clip before it starts playing.

The Wussman example didn’t even use a html-page, it just points straight to the quicktime.mov files.

[Filip Vandueren]

On the Mac there’s a text-file in the preferences folder-named “Adobe After Effects 6.5 Shortcuts”
You can hand-edit that file to create custom shortcuts, I’m sure it’s there somewhere on the Windows-version.

I’ve done the same because of the french-keyboard we use in Belgium.

[Filip Vandueren]

I think it would be handier to expand the pier-image to a few different layers in photoshop, that you can mask-animate one by one, just animating the masks; or adding some wipes might be all you need.
But by breaking it up in smaller portions, you’ll save yourself the headache of oddly-shaped masks.

As for the image of the sea, take a look at the combination caustics + wave world, it may be all you need. I’m sure there are plenty of tutorials around for that stuff.

Or, for something a bit closer to your look try this:

• create a solid with fractal noise (low detail)
• Add a posterize filter (7 levels is ok)
• add a Find-Edges filter, tick eth invert box
• now animate the evolution and maybe sub-offset of the fractal noise

That gives you the lines you have, add them to anoother bluish fractal noise and tweak untill it comes close to your still-design.

[Filip Vandueren]

1. How do you apply tracking data to the position (and rotation) of a mask? Can I write an expression to do this? I just can’t fathom that you can’t do this in AE.

You can’t, you apply the mask to a solid, and apply position and rotation to that solid. Use the result as a track-matte

2. Can AE map keyboard shortcuts? For example… Windows/Tracker Controls

On the mac there’s a file called “Adobe After Effects 6.5 Shortcuts”. But It doesn’t list the functionality to open that window AFAIK.

3. Is there a parameter in expressions that measures the luminance flicker of a source layer. For example, have a Trapcode LUX beam flicker in sync with a source image.

No there isn’t one, but I’ve heard of a plugin that can do this, I’ve never tried it though:
Create Keys From Image
I believe this could generate a value that changes with the luminance of certain pixels, and you can target that value in your expressions.