George Goodman
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Just a small suggestion, though probably somewhat difficult to template.
If you separate the frame from the wheels and put a delay on the body with a some type of valueAtTime expressions, it would probably sell it more. The image looks really stiff but cars naturally have some suspension – so when it hits the ground, the wheels should stop, the frame should sink in a little, the wheels should then begin to move up and the frame a little slightly there after.
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Im sure there is a better way, but off the top of my head …
Let’s just say you filled one comp with 3 videos, could be more. On each of those videos you would put the same expression on the position property. Something like this
p1=[x,y];
p2=[x,y];
p3=[x,y];
if (index=1) p1
if (index=2) p2
if (index=3) p3If you we’re to use this, you are essentially defining the position of each individual video. So you would change x,y of p1 to the coordinates of the first video, then p2 with the second videos coordinated and so on and so forth until you have filled in the position of each video. The second part of the expression then takes the index of the videos (the order of it in the layer stack) and applies the position based on that.
So basically, after you setup your first comp, you could just duplicate it in the project panel a few times, then just rearrange the order of the layers however you want, and the videos would take on different positions. Then you could butt the different comps right up next to each other in a master comp.
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attach the blades to a null object and rotate the null object.
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You certainly can use illustrator to create shape layers … but that’s not After Effects 😉
Some of the blend modes etc. don’t work when you move them over though if you convert from .ai to shape layer.
There are actually a lot of reasons to build the shapes right in AE. First of, smaller file sizes and faster render times. Also, the shape modifiers, especially the repeater, are pretty powerful. I find that typically illustrator is just an extra step that is unnecessary for me and often becomes messy if you turn the .ai into a shape layer.
Stick with the Lynda stuff for sure! If you want more info on expressions, check out Dan Ebberts website motionscript.com – I also found this book to be very useful: https://www.amazon.com/After-Effects-Expressions-Marcus-Geduld/dp/024080936X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413554617&sr=8-1&keywords=after+effects+expressions
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George
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I agree with Walter 100% (he’s responsible for much sage advice around these parts).
I HIGHLY recommend using the Zorro the layer tagger plugin:
https://aescripts.com/zorro-the-layer-tagger/Getting into good organizational habits while you’re learning your way around is super important. I did not and had to gruelingly fight myself to fix the issue. (Whoops, did I just congratulate myself?)
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George
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I agree with pretty much everything that was said. But my big thing – and a lot of this has to do with my style – is shape layers. Shape layers are by far one of the most powerful and important features to understand IMO.
If you learn shape layers and get really good with motion curves (the graph editor) you can do some really awesome stuff.
I would honestly just go through all the Lynda basic training stuff though. Buy a subscription for a couple of months and just bang them out. You really should just have a basic understanding of everything that’s there. I also recommend making sure you actually do the projects, and not just watch them. That helps me retain things a lot better personally.
The last thing, and you’re pretty much there by posting this, is get online, find a community, and practice practice practice. Find what you like, and emulate it. Get stuck? Post here. You’ll find as you start doing all of this that you’ll develop you’re own style. But you’ll never get anywhere if you don’t make yourself do projects.
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Most likely caused by your radial gradient (ramp). You can add the scatter effect. Noise gets rid of the banding.
For the record, this is an expressions forum. This question would be better suited for the After Effects basics or After Effects Techniques forum.
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use and if statement, something like this
if (opacity <= x) 0
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use the scatter effect – reduces banding significantly (basically the same as the noise suggestion)
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I was just saying copy the mask of the adjustment layer causing that, then delete that adjustment layer, then create a new adjustment layer, paste the mask, then apply the effects you want to the new adjustment layer.
My guess was that you just duplicated an adjustment layer that was already in your timeline, and lately AE has been turning my duplicated adjustment layers into white solids. I’m guessing that this is a bug recently introduced.
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