[Jhbrewer]

I implemented most of your suggestions and they really helped the animation. I think I’m going to leave it be for now, so thank you for all your help.

[Jhbrewer]

I implemented most of your suggestions and they really helped the animation. I think I’m going to leave it be for now, so thank you for all your help.

[Jhbrewer]

Thanks for your suggestions! I’ll tell you how well I’m able to implement them.

And I am also not familiar with a 32-bit feature. Can anyone enlighten me?

[Jhbrewer]

Thanks for your suggestions! I’ll tell you how well I’m able to implement them.

And I am also not familiar with a 32-bit feature. Can anyone enlighten me?

[Jhbrewer]

Okay, I was able to use time remapping to manipulate the “velocity” of change with the gaussRandom expression. I haven’t figured out how to do the flares and such, but that’s all secondary.

If anyone has any ideas on that stuff, it’d be greatly appreciated. And also, I’m not using the font for this stuff. I don’t want to buy it for $100, so I’m using a page at a font site that generates bits of text in the font. I then take it into Photoshop and manipulate it to fit my needs, so I can’t use the animate in or out stuff.

[Jhbrewer]

Okay, I was able to use time remapping to manipulate the “velocity” of change with the gaussRandom expression. I haven’t figured out how to do the flares and such, but that’s all secondary.

If anyone has any ideas on that stuff, it’d be greatly appreciated. And also, I’m not using the font for this stuff. I don’t want to buy it for $100, so I’m using a page at a font site that generates bits of text in the font. I then take it into Photoshop and manipulate it to fit my needs, so I can’t use the animate in or out stuff.

[Jhbrewer]

Good news! Kind of.

I was able to create a baseline for what I want. Here’s the expression I attached to the mask opacity property:

(1/(gaussRandom(1, 8))*100

I was able to get it to do what I want (thank you Algebra II!). I read the description of gaussRandom and the “within the range 90% of the time” hooked me, and it only took a few minutes to figure out how to make it suit my purposes to be out of the range 90% of the time, basically a semi-random on/off. Here’s what it does. First, it generates a random number that will be between 1 and 8 90% of the time. Then, this number is put under 1 (inverting its extremeness) and is multiplied by 100.

However, the change is much too fast. I was wondering if anyone knows how to force the expression to run every 5 frames or something. I don’t really care how, I just need it to slow down. Wait! An idea! I’m going to try to precompose it and then time stretch! I’ll try that now. Post any ideas anyway.

[Jhbrewer]

Good news! Kind of.

I was able to create a baseline for what I want. Here’s the expression I attached to the mask opacity property:

(1/(gaussRandom(1, 8))*100

I was able to get it to do what I want (thank you Algebra II!). I read the description of gaussRandom and the “within the range 90% of the time” hooked me, and it only took a few minutes to figure out how to make it suit my purposes to be out of the range 90% of the time, basically a semi-random on/off. Here’s what it does. First, it generates a random number that will be between 1 and 8 90% of the time. Then, this number is put under 1 (inverting its extremeness) and is multiplied by 100.

However, the change is much too fast. I was wondering if anyone knows how to force the expression to run every 5 frames or something. I don’t really care how, I just need it to slow down. Wait! An idea! I’m going to try to precompose it and then time stretch! I’ll try that now. Post any ideas anyway.

[Jhbrewer]

I’ll try a wiggle expression. I’m not very familiar with applying expressions, but I’m pretty good with algebra and I’ve coded a little (and I mean a little) in C++, so maybe that’ll help. I think I’ll wiggle the masks’ opacities (separately, of course) for starters. I may have to keep the first couple or three, as they MUST coincide with the sound.

As for the picture you linked, that is a 24 logo, but the one on the show’s intro doesn’t have the reddish blur behind it. It’s more like there is a backlight partially illuminating all of the bars, so I put in two eight digits and turned their opacity down to 40%. I keep forgetting, but I need to blur those.

I wish there was a copy of this on the net, I would capture it and upload it, but I was borrowing a capture card from my friend and he needed it back. Bad luck.

Thank you, this’ll keep me busy for a few hours.

[Jhbrewer]

I’ll try a wiggle expression. I’m not very familiar with applying expressions, but I’m pretty good with algebra and I’ve coded a little (and I mean a little) in C++, so maybe that’ll help. I think I’ll wiggle the masks’ opacities (separately, of course) for starters. I may have to keep the first couple or three, as they MUST coincide with the sound.

As for the picture you linked, that is a 24 logo, but the one on the show’s intro doesn’t have the reddish blur behind it. It’s more like there is a backlight partially illuminating all of the bars, so I put in two eight digits and turned their opacity down to 40%. I keep forgetting, but I need to blur those.

I wish there was a copy of this on the net, I would capture it and upload it, but I was borrowing a capture card from my friend and he needed it back. Bad luck.

Thank you, this’ll keep me busy for a few hours.