Guy
Forum Replies Created
-
After Effects is more widely used and ubiquitous than Combustion.
It is my feeling that Combustion is used more for Visual Effects rather than motion graphics.
Not to say one or the other is better at either task, but that seems to be the case.
Combustion is used in some pipelines with flame and smoke, which tend to be used on higher end projects.hope this helps!
-
hey Dan, how would you do the same thing, but with opacity, fading up a layer over 10 frames, then out for 10 frames based on IN/OUT edits?
curious.
thanks
-
hey Dan, how would you do the same thing, but with opacity, fading up a layer over 10 frames, then out for 10 frames based on IN/OUT edits?
curious.
thanks
-
you need to warp, or bend a layer in 3D space.
CC Cylinder comes with After Effects and will bend it into a cylindrical shape, but you are limited to a cylinder.
A 3rd party plugin, Forge Freeform, will allow you to warp a layer in 3D space. -
there are check boxes in both plugins that allow for the use of the AE camera. look through the options and you will find this. Both Trapcode and Invigorator do not have this set as a default, so you must check it off to use the AE camera.
It works really well for both btw, good luck!
-
no, you are right. My Question was a little off, actually.
I am not trying to slip a clip, the timing of the clip should stay the same, I want to slip the IN and OUT points at the same time. I wonder if there is a way to do this?
-
ahh yes,and Particular would do this as well. But not quite as intuative as using a brush.
We will have to wait for this feature. -
not sure if PS paths translate to AE automatically, however if you try using:
Layer > Autotrace
a mask will be created around the alpha channel of your layer.
you can even autotrace many layers at one time.
-
As far as I know AE can not do this yet. I’ll bet the next version of AE will have this.
-
I would use a particle system like Particular to create the rain drops and the trails it leaves behind (using Particluar’s secondary particle system)
Then use a nice beveler like ReVision Shade/Shape to give it that 3D look w/lighting.
Then duplicate the layer and experiment with transfer modes to give it transparency.
Getting the behavior (motion) of the drops and trails will be crucial to sell the effect.
Very doable in AE though.good luck, hope this was not too general.