[Filip Vandueren]

If you’re using Corner Pin with those dots here’s a project with some scripts:

scalepin.aep

Recipe:

1. On the layer “Corner Pinned Footage” there’s a Point Control, a Slider Control, and the Corner Pin-effect with some keyframes
2. copy the Point control and it’s expression to your Corner-Pinned layer
3. Convert it’s expression to keyframes !
4. copy the “scaler” Slider Control leave it set to 1.00 for now.
5. now apply this expression to each of the corner-pins:
   c=effect("Point Control").param("Point");
   // c is the scaling-center
   s=effect("scaler").param("Slider");
   // s is the scale

   c+(value-c)*s

6. Now you can scale the cornerpin using the scaler-slider

[Filip Vandueren]

If you’re using Corner Pin with those dots here’s a project with some scripts:

scalepin.aep

Recipe:

1. On the layer “Corner Pinned Footage” there’s a Point Control, a Slider Control, and the Corner Pin-effect with some keyframes
2. copy the Point control and it’s expression to your Corner-Pinned layer
3. Convert it’s expression to keyframes !
4. copy the “scaler” Slider Control leave it set to 1.00 for now.
5. now apply this expression to each of the corner-pins:
   c=effect("Point Control").param("Point");
   // c is the scaling-center
   s=effect("scaler").param("Slider");
   // s is the scale

   c+(value-c)*s

6. Now you can scale the cornerpin using the scaler-slider

[Filip Vandueren]

I haven’t been experimenting with the textSelector motionscripts, so I prepared a motionscript using one layer per letter:

there’s a hidden text-layer that has keyframes for sourceText with the different phrases. Just the duplicate the letter layer as much as you need it.
the first layer in the comp is a null that has a few controls: text-tracking, text-center, and the amount of hopping over each other.

It renders extremely slow though, so be sure to convert the expression to keyframes as soon as possible. Especially Motion Blur is a disaster.

there are probably numerous bugs, (for instance, as sooon as you throw away the “ANAGRAMS”-layer or delete all of it’s keyframes, you get tons of errors.
And there’s probably sopme way to speed it up a bit?

download the project file:

anagramscript.aep

[Filip Vandueren]

I haven’t been experimenting with the textSelector motionscripts, so I prepared a motionscript using one layer per letter:

there’s a hidden text-layer that has keyframes for sourceText with the different phrases. Just the duplicate the letter layer as much as you need it.
the first layer in the comp is a null that has a few controls: text-tracking, text-center, and the amount of hopping over each other.

It renders extremely slow though, so be sure to convert the expression to keyframes as soon as possible. Especially Motion Blur is a disaster.

there are probably numerous bugs, (for instance, as sooon as you throw away the “ANAGRAMS”-layer or delete all of it’s keyframes, you get tons of errors.
And there’s probably sopme way to speed it up a bit?

download the project file:

anagramscript.aep

[Filip Vandueren]

No, AE will rasterize all those layers.

Try to recreate the same look using 2D.
Try using parenting with nulls to achieve complex animations and rotations, that’s stuff you can’t easily do in Flash.

[Filip Vandueren]

Do a reshoot and look into using a Polarising Filter to minimze reflection.

You can’t replace the glare on the glass with information you don’t have, ie. the eyes behind it.

Depending on your footage, you could try masking the glasses and applying a levels-filter that brings up the contrast (you’ll need to up the black input slider very high).

But, if there’s no information in there at all (if the glasses are completely white), you won’t have anything to recover.

[Filip Vandueren]

Is it because my composition is dv ntsc and not square so it looks pixelated on my computer monitor?

If you have pixel aspect correction on, then the type will look awfull on the screen, but it will look ok when you export it to a tape.

It’s the icon in the previex windox to the right of “Active Camera”

[Filip Vandueren]

Recipe:

1. text layer
   
2. adjustment layer on top of that with Distort -> CC lens
   
3. black feathered circle on top of that
   
4. smaller copy of text on top of that.
   
5. Animate the text-positions and the lens-center position

[Filip Vandueren]

I believe Image Capture adds a Color Profile while importing, iPhoto does not, that would account for the slight difference. (in color presumably)
There is an option to override this in Image Capture.

[Filip Vandueren]

Not sure, but if you have weird settings like a very high baseline on every character or a lot of left-margin before your paragraph, it get’s very non-intuitive to select characters.

Try double-clicking the T-symbol for that layer in the layer-palette, that should select the entire contents of the layer, use your arrow-keys from ther on out.

Also make sure you’ve still got the same font installed, but you’ll probably have had a warning if that were the case.