[John Cuevas]

Pretty much is that simple.

If AE doesn’t find your files, it will tell you when you open the project. Double click one of the missing files and the explore will open, point to that file. AE will then look at that file and see if anything else is there that is missing and will relink to everything it finds.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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]

Are you looking for a counter with a comma? If so I just copied this one from Dan Ebberts.

startValue = 0;
endValue = 15000;
dur = 5; //seconds

s = "" + Math.round(linear(time,inPoint,inPoint+dur,startValue,endValue));
if (s.length > 6)
s.substr(0,s.length-6) + "," + s.substr(-6,3) + "," + s.substr(-3,3)
else if (s.length > 3)
s.substr(0,s.length-3) + "," + s.substr(-3,3)
else
s

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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]

Bounce can mean a few different things, can you link to an example(with the time-code of that example).

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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 need to toggle the Live Update Switch. Here’s a how-to:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/737571

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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]

I didn’t try only expanding the Y dimension, changed the x back to comp size and pow, the flare scales right back down. That’s a strange anomaly.

We were both right and wrong at the same time…LOL

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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]

Before you animate the motion tile property you need to place it in a precomp of the size size as your final composition. Then you can use it like offset and motion blur.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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]

Cassius, using AE’s Generate -> Lens flare the flare’s scale absolutely changes based on initial layer size, try it out. I thought it would be the same size too, until I started messing with it this morning.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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]

Pretty simple. Take your 2nd layer and place it on top of the layer stack. Enable 3D and animate the Y and Z position. There was also a little rotation added. To get the bounce I added an extra keyframe and changed the interpolation to bezier and messed with the graphs a little bit.

So this is what I did: 4623_3dtransition2cs5.5.aep.zip

These were actually some pretty basic concepts, which leads me to believe you are just getting started with AE. You would do yourself a big favor if you checked out the videocopilot training series or After Effects basics tutorials by Andrew Devis. AE is a really tough program and without a good foundation it can be extremely frustrating.

Cheers.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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, they will be larger, but you will have enough room to scale it down to 50-60% with some room to move it to it’s lower third position.

If you have the money, there are a few lens flare plugins out there(AE’s flares are rather basic), you might want to check them out. I personally like VideoCoPilot’s Optical Flares. With that one, you would create your flare and just adjust the center point to create the look you are after.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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]

That was some great work Jon, very impressive(made me cringe a bit thinking of the time it took), really appreciate that you shared that with us.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“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.