[Jay Brown]

Ok thanks everyone

I was misinterpreting, to a degree, what the loopOut function was about

Many thanks for your patience

[Jay Brown]

wow …. i thought I was just slow on the up take and it was quite an easy operation to fulfill

I guess I’ll lengthen the pre comp then :O)

[Jay Brown]

My problem is creating a loop with an expression though as i want to avoid making the pre comp too long just to make sure it lasts as long as it needs to in the main comp.

I am aware that after the out point its over you will not see the footage, hence me using a loopOut expression. (I thought this would loop the comp?)

If my first mail was too convoluted I basically want to have the record spinning indefinitely in the precomp so I dont have to worry about the actual length when its sits in the main comp.

[Jay Brown]

Hi

Comp 1
4secs long, 1 layer which holds a record image.
keyframe@ 0 degrees rotation at home keyframe@360 degrees rotation at end(4secs)

(so 1 revolution of the record over the timeline)

loopOut(“cycle”) in Expression:Rotation

Comp2
Now to see if my expression was correct I placed the above comp(4secs) in a new comp 20secs long, expecting the nested comp to keep looping (because of the expression).However after 4secs the record disappears.

[Jay Brown]

Thanks Steve

Would never have guessed the ‘backwards’ time angle

[Jay Brown]

Yeah Video Copilot is a very good resource site indeed

Id surprisingly not heard of Johns site b4

This guy posted his demo reel on the cow a while back on a question about Echospace…..Ive been using it for inspiration

https://creativebloc.com/recent_pure.html

I know its a combo of alot of hard work, not to mention echospace and particular …..but I think it is really tight and really like the control shown on the particle effect and the spiral of sunflowers.

Theres tons more stuff I could reference but this is the level I am currently trying to achieve with my own work, and seems to encompass just where my learning is at.

[Jay Brown]

Cheers Dave

What an awesome site…..will keep me going indeed :O)

[Jay Brown]

Thanks but im not asking how to create a custom brush, i was asking how to select it ie they are greyed out, please read the entire posting

[Jay Brown]

Hi

Tinderbox 4 plugin by foundry does rain and water droplets.

[Jay Brown]

.[david bogie] “Google RAID to find lots of helpful sites”

Its quite obvious to google something for a text book explanation….I also have a dictionary which does a similar job

Im asking asking on the forum for sage advice from professionals with experienced application