[Graham Quince]

I think there’s a text preset for this, but it needs tweaking.

On your text layer, to go Effects and Presets > Animation Presets > Text > Animate In and look for Fly in from Bottom.

You’ll need to expand the Animator options on the timeline and in Advanced, change Units to Index, Based on Words. And you’ll need to adjust the position data of the Animator too.

Thank that should do it.

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[Graham Quince]

Don’t worry about the colour correction, that’s applied to the footage in Premiere. When you use Replace with after effects composition Premiere creates a composition off that footage, and continues to apply effects to that composition.

So, you now get to handling tracking in AE, but when you save and return to Premiere, that program will add your colour correction and positioning to the embedded comp.

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[Graham Quince]

When I saw this effect, I immediately thought it’s probably been made in Particular – you can have a ring emitter and I bet this is quite simple.

But if you don’t have Trapcode Particular, then you can get close with Radio Waves, CC Ball Action and Turbulent Displace. It’s not exactly the same, but I only spent 2 minutes on it:

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[Graham Quince]

So – this is an interesting one connected to comp size.

Andrew is working at 1280 by 720 and I just tried to replicate it with an HD comp. Bouncey looks totally normal, until I set the Origin and Direction coordinates to match Andrew’s.

And i think the same is true with the pointing left.

I think it might be best to approximate the positions of the origin and direction, rather than copying the coordinate values.

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[Graham Quince]

I work for Frog Education, an LMS provider (mainly schools) in the (mainly) UK

Before two weeks ago, our biggest challenge was from “free” services offered by leaving by MS Teams and Google Classroom. My role is to support and advise schools in how to use our product to its fullest. When Covid-19’s impact was becoming clear, we offered up our quiz system with question-bank and video lessons free to any school affected. Loads have jumped on the offer – (still open if you know a struggling school, no obligation, not a sales tactic)

Two weeks ago the phone stated ringing asking me to recommend web conferencing systems (which we don’t do directly but can integrate with). Trouble with web conf is its hard enough to get 4 people to connect with mics, headsets and bandwidth. Getting 30 kids is near impossible. Those same schools have been calling this week asking for other options. I’ve been involved in creating tools to make it easier to get started, making it so you can teach with no prep.

Several things have been really rewarding / surprising.

1) The schools using Frog well, have stepped up their game. The head teachers / principals have issued instructions/ guidance on how all remote lessons should work and what is required. One school has said there has to be homework set which involves a video, resources, task and assessment for every lesson plus homework. Another school that every lesson has to use a noticeboard to share resources (this is apparently the first time the senior leaders in school know what is in each lesson).

2) Several Trust have approached us because of the Quiz offer and said “no we need more and here’s the order for 20 schools, and we need the see the staff trained by this week”. Normally we spend a month working with a school.

3) Schools who were cancelling their contract have changed their mind and asked to renew.

I start remote working from today. I’ve done short bursts of home-based before. Because we’re web-based I can work from anywhere. I will be accessing some files via VPN. We’re using Slack for team comms. The big challenge is our telephone support. We’ve set up a redirect system for phones and schools know to email. One issue we have always had is that schools block a lot of web conf services. I have to cycle through Uber conference, jitsi, whereby etc. as they can’t install Skype or team viewer.

One tip I have picked up from a school, which is applicable to everyone. Get your network manager to disable auto-force password resets. If your network forces a password change every 6 weeks, you’ll have to visit the site to set a new one!

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[Graham Quince]

I played with Mettle’s Skybox unpaid for my own copy like 3 months before Adobe bought it . And I did exactly this with a few old comps, skybox created comps with cameras looking in different directions and you Linda fly the main comps camera in your 3D environment and AE makes the 360 video for you. It’s a little limited, but pretty effective.

Here’s a playlist of different experiments https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL58-kYtQUHvOrFDyz5QVAdliIbkmawS9t

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[Graham Quince]

I just tried those link and they’re not working for me. For what it’s worth, I think you’re on the right track, if you know you need stereo-180.

AE’s system was previously SkyBox, which AE bought, if you’ve played with that, you’ll see it actually creates comps with separate cameras which it then stitches together. What you doing is effectively the same thing but for 180. Nice one.

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[Graham Quince]

It’s been a little while since I played with motion paths, but I don’t think it forces every particle down a single set of coordinates, I’m fairly certain each particle will follow its own motion path based on its origin point.

Have you tried a really wide emitter and one motion path?

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[Graham Quince]

Lots of possibles here. Plus with the image layers you’ve chosen it’s kinda hard to tell what’s going on, but…

1) have you got any 2D layers inbetween the 3D layers in the timeline?

2) have you got any adjustment layers, including 3D ones? Adjustment layers break 3D space arrangements.

3) can you try precomp it each building, then using collapse transformation? This might make your project easier to manage and see what is going on more easily.

4) you’re faking 3D with 2.5D and sometimes AE just can’t cope, but check the layer order in the timeline and I think 1) and 2) are the most likely culprits/solutions.

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[Graham Quince]

Instead of zooming, try using a 3D layer of the eye and moving towards it with a c9mp camera. This will look quite different, more natural (expected) and get you closer to what you’re after.

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