[Jim Dodson]

Did you try clicking the “Continuously Rasterize” swith?? (looks like a sun)…

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

Yes that was way cool! and Very “Cow” of you!! Thanks a lot — great textures!!

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

Well, here’s “a” way – not sure if it’s the best way…

The “CC scatterize” effect will take a flat piece of art and twist it into the shape of a DNA strand.

So if you can make a ladder (using paint for example) or using stroked masks and precomp that art then apply “CC Scatterize” to the precomp.

Now at frame zero, set right twist to “2×0.0” and make a key frame & set left twist to “0 x 0.0” (its default) and make a key frame there as well.

Now go 10 seconds in and set right twist to “4 x 0.0”
and left Twist to “2 x 0.0”

This will twist your ladder into a twisted helix and then spin it.

Try adding “Scatter” amount to 1 or so which turns it all into little balls of energy — if you animate the scatter amount between 1.0 and 4 or so it will add a little vibration to your dna.

And now you can animate it’s journey so it will turn and move left to right.

If you email me at “jdpix at pacbell dot net” (no spaces) I’ll send you the test .aep project I made…

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

Is your text a different color than your background?

Black text will disappear into a black BG for example…

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

Here Here!!

My whole AE experience has been enhanced by Andrew’s tutorials and products!!!

Many thanks!!

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

Thanks Flip — that was a great help!!

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

Also — adding the “remove grain” filter to your compressed footage will be a great help in reducing noisey keys — make sure you use “temporal filtering” as follows (from AE 7 help):

To add temporal filtering to a sequence
Apply the Remove Grain effect to your image.
Place the Remove Grain preview region over the area of the image that has the most subtle changes from frame to frame or that has the most moving image detail.
Select Enable in the Temporal Filtering controls.
Adjust the Amount value to 100%.
Create a RAM preview of the sequence or render it.
If you see unwanted streaking or blurs around moving objects, reduce the Motion Sensitivity value, and then preview or render it again.
Try the following techniques if you want to improve the results:
To quickly reduce the noise of a sequence that has a lot of buzzing noise, set the Noise Reduction value to zero and the Temporal Filtering Amount to 100%, and render the sequence.
To speed up previews, apply temporal filtering to your sequence after all the settings for a single frame have been adjusted.
To retain a layer

[Jim Dodson]

I’m gonna take a whack at this:

If by “blue man” you mean a solid color in the shape of your eventual construction worker.

Then you would make a mask in the shape of your construction worker as moldyboot discussed
(set that 1st mask to “add”)

— then animate a seond mask that starts as a blob (at his left knee cap) — set that 2nd mask to “intersect”
now skip ahead some frames and hit the stopwatch on the second mask’s “shap” (to make keyframes) and stretch this 2nd mask to incorporate more of the body outline — making keyframes on the masks shape — and it will reveal the blue man as it grows — eventually you will need to make the second mask cover 100% of the outline mask and you will have revealed your blue man —

you can make a copy of that reveal mask and use it to reveal the full photo using the same technique — does that help at all?????

[Jim Dodson]

Here’s a whacky idea that might help — make a copy of your clip above your original (hold down option + shift and drag clip to the track above your orig). Now set that top layer to composite mode “add” — this will brighten up the clip — you can export that out (or nest it) and try color correcting the new brightened image — this has had miraculous results for me in similar circumstances and hey, it’s worth a try…

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

Thanks for doing that math, Matty C. — do you see any workaround without making all the clips the same length??

My workaround was to download Keyboard Maestro
https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

and I wrote a hotkey macro which invokes edit–duration then type 1. thern hits enter twice then moves the mouse to the right — and I assigned the whole thing to F2 so I can just hiot F2 a bunch of times —

It worked — but I do miss the functionality of highlighting a bunch of clips and just typing in their durations once for all of them…

Jim Dodson

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