[Jeff Mcbride]

My guess would be it is 3D Motion Tracked into the frame and the rotoscoped out as the character passes through, great effect!

[Jeff Mcbride]

Or even easier and better, get UnMult. It’s Free.

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/unmult.html

[Jeff Mcbride]

What I’ve done is create a Lens Flare over a Black solid then duplicate it. On the bottom layer in TrackMatte settings choose Luma Matte “Top Layer” Now if you select Toggle Transparency Grid in the comp window window (Checkerboard icon) you can see thru the Flare. But, the intensity won’t be as strong, so I like to add a black solid (or whatever the background will eventually be) underneath both layers and then adjust both the Flare Brightness properties back to normal.

Then just drop the bg layer and render, making sure to include Alpha Channels.

[Jeff Mcbride]

Hit Ctrl-M or Apple-M or go to Composition Make Movie. Unless you really need the export function, then I dunno.

[Jeff Mcbride]

Well I figured out my problem. The control layer wasn’t the first layer in the stack. There were layers above which I didn’t realize would make a difference, does the (index-1) tag always reference the top most layer? Thanks for all the help!

[Jeff Mcbride]

If I switch to RotationY, AE automatically switched back to yRotation.

If I drop the transform property I get the error:

Class ‘Layer’ has no property of method named ‘yRotation’ Expression disabled.

So neither of those suggestions seem to work, unless I have something else screwed up.

I’m running 7.0 Pro. Thanks again for all the help!

[Jeff Mcbride]

My setup right now is this:

Layer 1 – No expressions, Keyframed yRot changes
Layers 2+ – Expression on yRot property:

delay = 2; //number of frames to delay
d = delay*thisComp.frameDuration*(index – 1);
thisComp.layer(“Layer 1”).transform.yRotation.valueAtTime(time – d)

It doesn’t change the yRot of any of the secondary layers based on the keyframes set in Layer 1. Is this the correct setup?

[Jeff Mcbride]

Would the answer be then to rasterize the vectors in a Pre-comp and use the Write On effect in the comp above?

[Jeff Mcbride]

Perfect! Thanks a lot!

[Jeff Mcbride]

Not really hosed. I’d have to have done something to be hosed. Thanks for the encouragement though. (sarcasm)