[Graham Quince]

Not that I know of, but if you only want to adjust one or two things, try using the Expression Controls in your effect and pickwhip their values to the bits you’re changing, then when you copy the effect, you can just adjust these values without having to collapse everything each time.

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[Graham Quince]

I don’t have a definite solution for you, but have you considered using the pickwhip to link your camera’s point of interest to the object you’re looking at?

You could copy the position data for each object and set it as keyframes, then either through an expression on Focus Distance like: length(point1, point2) you could set your focal point to always be the point of interest. You’ll still need to mess around with the other DoF settings to get this perfect but that could give you what you’re after.

Here’s a project file which illustrates what i’m (badly) trying to explain:
Camera DoF.aep

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[Graham Quince]

Unfortantely, I don’t think separate keys are available as an option. Tapping C and Shift+C can swap between them though.

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[Graham Quince]

Is this close to what you’re trying to achieve?

Displacement Map + Vegas

I’ve used a solid with a mask drawn on it and added the Vegas effect set to:

[Graham Quince]

Hi,

Motion Blur I think always occurs by default, as the Motion Blur option in the comp is just about the preview.

If you don’t want Motion Blur on in rendering:

• Add your comp to the Render Queue (instead of AME directly).
• Click on the Best Settings and change the Motion Blur settings to Off for all layers.
• Click OK.
• Then click on the button Queue in AME

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[Graham Quince]

Can you post a screenshot? From your post it sounds like two different issues.

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[Graham Quince]

Seeing as you’re on an Adobe forum, you could take a look at Premiere Elements. A basic two minute video though doesn’t require much in the software and you just need something that’s easy to learn.

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[Graham Quince]

It’s entirely possible to do this in After Effects, using keyframes and expressions and a bit of manual tweaking, but my guess would be that this is using one of the many oven-ready templates / info graphic web-based software.

To make in after effects, I’d create a solid, and use another solid as an alpha mask. Then I’d use a slider to set my value and this expression on the x position of mask solid, to create the growing/shrinking bar:

input = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
inputLow = 0;
inputHigh = 100;
outputLow = -100;
outputHigh = 100;

linear(input,inputLow,inputHigh,outputLow,outputHigh)

I’d then duplicate my layers, making sure the mask layer is parented to the bar layer, and manually keyframe the swapping of vertical positions.

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[Graham Quince]

I don’t know the tutorial but the creator does explain in the comments, he used a custom shatter perfect.

I take that to mean, that he created a layer with his text shapes on it, then added a noisy gradient to those shapes, so that they didn’t shatter in exact left to right order.

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[Graham Quince]

Hmm, this is a tricky one… if I was doing this, I’d be tempted to recreate the room as a series of 3D layers (2.5 d layers), then duplicate this room for each scene, making the changes needed (foreground characters etc…)

Once each scene is done, it should be a “simple” matter of arranging the precomps in 3D space and flying a camera through all the scenes.

Of course, if everything is already shot with a moving camera, then I think tracking is the only way. Are you using Mocha Ae?

To your original question, not sure what you mean by transform Can copy keyframes and then adjust their positions of course, and you can use Null objects and/or use expressions to loop keyframes or continue trajectories.

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