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Very similar to rotoscoping, you would basically paint over the video frames with the graphics you want to animate and do them frame by frame, except maybe half the frame rate, so painting every other frame or every 3 frames, whichever you prefer. For the graphics that aren’t painting over video frames, you could maybe get away with some turbulent noise effects and time posterization to get the frame by frame look. Turbulent noise can displace the alpha channel of your graphic and make it look wiggly. Time posterization essentially reduces the frame rate.
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I’m not sure if you’re asking to copy shape layer paths to a mask on a solid layer, or convert many shape paths in one shape layer to separate shape layers with one path each. If you’re trying to do the latter, here’s a cool script for that – https://aescripts.com/explode-shape-layer/ I don’t know if he’s updated this yet, but v1.1 seemed to work better than 2.5
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After you’ve created your layer like Joe described, if you want to space them evenly, you could take advantage of the align and distribution tools, or you could use this fun script called Array which creates copies in an array based off of any transform property https://aescripts.com/array/
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Maxon’s reply (hypothetical): just wait until r16!
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I totally get it. I’m actually very interested in something similar. I’m not an expression guru, so I just do it manually. Something that helps to sell the effect when you do it manually is some soft body collision or squash and stretch.
I’ll be watching the thread for an expression that solves this 🙂
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Without knowing exactly what you’re trying to animate (I was somewhat unclear anyway), it’s hard to come up with a solution. Do you want a pendulum expression? Dan Ebberts wrote one for that on his site https://www.motionscript.com
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Looks like lots of precomps with lights and shadows. I’ve done similar things in AE and it’s very much possible to do there. I don’t know why a 3D package was suggested for simple animation consisting of flat planes, but you can do this in AE for sure. Getting the look from slide A to slide B will help you figure out what sections to “cut out” and transition. Once you’ve got your slides set up where you want them, I’d precomp them before “cutting” anything (good procedural habit). Use the mask tool to slice up the precomps. Obviously, you’ll need to duplicate the precomp as many times as you need slices. With AE CC the snapping tool comes in very handy to move the anchor point (Pan Behind tool) where you want each slice to pivot. Then go about rotating the slices to reveal the slide below it. I wouldn’t focus on the motion being very technical as I would the style of how you think it should move. The example you gave shows very quick movements, like 5-7 frames (at 30fps) max for each slice. Some of it feels like a transformers transition, which is one way to do it, or at least, one style to think about maybe.
Hope that helps.
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On my 6 core, I’ve got it spread out to using 4gb per core. And quite frankly, AE will be just fine with 32gb of RAM and a 4 core chip if you insist in using the machine while it’s rendering.
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It might be calculating the keyframes still and clicking anywhere causes it to stop. that was happening to me the other day as well in AE CS6. I haven’t tested it elsewhere, but you will eventually get the layer. I think what I figured out was to wait a few seconds before clicking anywhere else. Keep trying, but remember to wait a few seconds before you click on the layer or anywhere.
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You NEED more…oh never mind. You need a new computer.
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