Greg Neumayer
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What you’re describing sounds like how one might illustrate “sound” coming from a loudspeaker. You could try the radio lines effect but crop it. However, note that AE doesn’t do animated vector graphics. You might look to Flash if you want animated vector graphics.
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Thanks!
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As an intended timesaver, when you add a comp to your render queue it will automatically adjust the render range to your current work settings. However, you’re free to change this in your Render Setting “start” and “end”.
Big timesaver: CMD-SHFT-D will duplicate a selected item in the render queue AND give it the same output name. (which saves you from re-navigating down to the preferred folder for your render). CMD-M your comp to drop it into your render queue, set your filename, settings, etc. CMD-SHFT-D to duplicate it and only change your output name and your “start” and “end” to have a second movie on a different part of your sequence.
If you’re doing more than a couple, you might find it easier to just drop “CompA” into “MasterForDupesComp”, duplicate “MasterForDupesComp” 10 times and set each of them to the preferred work area, and drop them all into the queue as individuals. You’ll have 10 shells that each render different parts, but all reference the same “CompA”.
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I’m not sure what you’re asking, but the distortion of the footage comes from the displacement map effect being applied to a layer that contains white concentric radiating circles (visiblity turned off).
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Well, for true 3D shading or hard extruded edges you’ll need a 3D app or plugin, of course. But, for example, if I were to want those waves in my sample to have more substance to them, I would do the same procedure, but add a duplicate of my ring layer (currently turned off and only used for the distortion source.) Currently my distortion layer is (appropriately) black and white, so I’d probably also add some sort of coloring–tint or my favorite: Colorama. Or you could use it to mask some footage of something more interesting like fire footage. The different transfer controls would help me make it look less “stuck on”, and give it translucence, if that’s what I was going for.
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Hmmm. I’m afraid I’m at a loss there. I don’t work in or with avi usually. (I’m mac/quicktime based). Are you working on a PC?
Try another codec. Try quicktime, and/or an image sequence. Still getting the problem?: It’s not your codec.
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Thanks. There’s a lot you can do to make the effect cool, and now that I’m looking at it, I probably abandoned radial waves for more control simply using animated masks over a solid.
Here are some refinements that are fun to play with:
1. Once you’ve got your animated solid ring, try adjusting (or animating) the width of the feathered edge. A fairly tight leading edge, and a soft trailing edge will look a lot more realistic, like the shockwave is trailing off.
2. Notice that I’ve decreased the opacity of each additional ring, to give it less and less effect as additional rings happen.
3. I’ve also added a bit of particles and lens flare/hotspot to add to the effect.
4. You could try a hint of camera jiggle/bump at the moment of impact (although this would technically only happen if the camera operator was startled, not from the wave–which hasn’t reached the camera yet)
5. If you get really crazy, you can try mapping in some animated fractal noise (turbulent wavy works great) into your ring coming off. Instead of a more or less solid ring, you get something that looks like heat distortion or trailing vapors. (Also try pre-effecting the distortion with a pucker (flo motion) at the center so that all of the “vapors” are more or less pointed toward the inital point of impact)Fun, fun!
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Hard to say, it is. (in my best Yoda voice)
Can you post a sample?Try using a different font to rule-out font issues. Also, make sure that you’re turning on the collapse transformations button for your text layer (the little sunshine). This will make sure that the text is continually rasterized if you scale it over 100%.
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Agreed. AE has a “flowchart” window, but honestly I’ve only rolled my eyes the few times I’ve opened it. It’s not useful to me unless it has a thumbnail preview, not just a layer name. (let alone the ability to make changes to comps via the flowchart, like disconnecting nodes).
AE’s more recent “composition mini-flowchart” is a much needed improvement because I can at least step forward and backward through my comps. BTW, does anyone know a keyboard command that will walk back up-stream through comps I was in? I realize that an interface is needed because the flowchart may split into multiple paths, but I’m just looking for that “double click down into a comp” and “some-keyboard-shortcut” back up to where I just was.
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I’ve uploaded a sample here:
https://www.antifreezedesign.com/user/cow/radialRings.mov/Let me know if you have trouble viewing it. (there’s a jpg there too)
Cheers.
-GregAntifreeze Design
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