[John Cuevas]

Puppet tool would work. You may want to look up some tutorials first, it’s not exactly super intuitive.

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]

What light are you talking about? I see the transition come in with large blur and dissolve out with a large blur.

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]

Just logged in and it looks like all the music is reduced cost, don’t see a single free track(cept for public domain). We just use one account for our entire company. Don’t use music much, mostly stock footage and the account pays for itself in free clips and 10% by the first quarter of the year, so it’s great for us.

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]

What are the requirements of the assignment? I only ask because for the most part(only watched once), your execution is good, but in some places, design wise, there are elements that add nothing. I’m thinking specifically of the strokes at :28, they add nothing to the video. Couple of other effects look pretty dated too, but if the assignment is just about execution and doing it competently you have done a good job.

Slipping in a matte painting should just be a case of rotoscoping and adding the painting to the background, like you did at13 seconds with the tracked graphic, what’s tripping you up?

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]

AEScripts.com has a script called Multiplane that would automate the 3D displacement-scale stuff…not too expensive. If you are doing a lot of pics it would be worth it.

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]

Agree with everything Ted said, and just want to add, the old axiom, “If you can’t resolve, dissolve.”

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]

Yes, as long as you have enough RAM.

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 would want to use one of the ease expressions applied to the “Skew” property of Distort Transform effect. Something like this:

myVel = transform.position.velocity[0];
linear(myVel,0,500, 0, -18)

Here’s a simple little project I made demonstrating the technique.
11234_skew.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]

Use an ease expression on the rotation property. ease(t, tMin, tMax, value1, value2)

t is your trapcode soundkeys layer, just pickwhip to it. tMin and tMax are the highest and lowest values of that you want to reference from those numbers. value1 & value2 would be your rotation, in this case -5, 5

I don’t have trapcode and used convert to audio keyframes, but your expression would look something like this.

t= thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider");
ease(t, 0, 40, -5, 5)

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]

give me a link

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.