[John Cuevas]

Hi Dan,

Right now I have 4 sliders for inputs, the outputs are to control the scale of 4 different colored bars(using some scripting you helped someone else with). In the project attached, my 4 inputs are B1 = 25, B2 = 25, B3 = 10, B4 = 50, for 100%, but the outputs are 24.09, 23.82, 8.48, 45.45. Trying to set this up to demonstrate/illustrate the ease and quickness of beverage formula changes but it’s been anything but easy and quick.

Really appreciate you taking the time to look at this.

12723_percentage.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Is it possible to contact the owner of the footage and ask for permission to use the footage? I’m often surprised how often people let me use their footage with only a credit or ‘footage provided by…’ graphic.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

One trick to for the rendering/previews is to just edit all that out after you finish the video or put a big speed ramp on that part. People will get it. You can even mention it as you start your render…”okay, let’s preview that and we’ll just skip ahead”….

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Looks very much like this old technique:

Flowing Title Effects

Project files are way out of date, but if you follow the steps you will get basically the result you are looking for.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Have to do quite a few of these projects. What I like to do is rough cut my audio in the editor, drop that into AE. Next I’ll use layer markers to mark up the entire audio waveform for when events need to happen. For each major section or scene, I’ll make a precomp, put just the audio for that section in it, then create animation, leaving myself a 30 to 60 frames at the end for transitions. Usually at this point, I’ll figure out if I have to adjust the audio, because it’s too slow/fast, and either I’ll do that simultaneously with the audio in my other app or just make a note of it for later.

Depending on the nature of the video, I might render out all the precomps separately and edit the final in another app, or do one large render and just mix it with the audio in another app. I’ll also render out the adjusted audio and bring that in for my final edit, either to use it or adjust the original.

Anyway, that’s the method to my madness.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

She writes on glass plane, then when they are finished they just dissolve to a frame on the right side that is blank(just some masking). Notice she isn’t behind any of the text when it dissolves out. Then they just cut to the next shot, since jump cuts didn’t bother them.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

The camera was matched(can be done in C4D, AE, other programs) for end position of the video shot(where it transitions to the 3d model, and the start position of the 2nd video shot(where model dissolves back to video). After that it’s a matter of building the 3D models, animating and than keyframing the camera between the two points.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

There is no difference from Source Text and Source Text 2. I just duplicated the layer and AE added the 2, if you click the Source Name at the top and change it to “layer Name” you will see they both come from the same asset.

The top layer, is just for the color change. It has a fill effect with 2 hold keyframes(select both keyframes and press Cntl+alt+H) so that it changes from white to red when the blur is done animating.

Layer 2 to 5 have the box blur applied to them. Rather than having keyframes on each layer, on layers 3-5 alt+click on Blur Radius then used the pick whip to layer 2 Blur Radius. Then you can just adjust the blur on layer 2 and it layers 3-5 follow.

Hope that helps

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Think you can do that with the Fast Box Blur set to horizontal only, and then compositing multiple layers of it on top of it self. Here’s a sample in CC 2018

12176_blur.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You shouldn’t copy the tracked bit, after you track the footage you would “apply” the tracking data to the selected layer, in this case the null.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.