[John Cuevas]

You could drag each video layer and drag it on to the new comp button, that creates a new comp the length of you video layer. Do that for each
video layer and add text to each comp. Then take each of these completed comps and drag them on to the create comp button and if you selected them in the order you want them be in your video, choose single comp in the dialogue box and they will be correctly sequenced. Otherwise, just order them from top to bottom, use the animation assistant sequence layers.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If you are using the tutorial above with the beam effect, you can set the “length” to 100%, then animate the “Time” from 0 to 50% to have the line animate on.

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]

If they are all connected, I would just create a camera and a null. Enable 3D on the null, parent the camera to the null and then rotate the null on it’s Y axis.

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]

Please post a timecode of the transition you want to create.

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]

Can’t tell, it is only playing in real time for a couple of seconds. Sometimes the number of particles will just slow down the CPU/GPU to the point of skipping. Shouldn’t since it looked like you had a RAM preview though.

Does it skip when you step through it frame by frame? If it doesn’t I wouldn’t worry too much then, probably just a playback problem that won’t effect render.

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]

Open the info panel, and you they have to be layer markers, not comp makers, but just alt-click each marker and the duration will pop up in the info panel.

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 problem was that your “Layer 5 Eyeline”, didn’t have the continuously rasterize button pressed(looks like a little sun). That button makes AE know that your layers are vector and will maintain crispness no matter the scale.

Here’s a good explanation of Continously Rasterize/Collapse Layers Button, it’s a process you need to know when using AE.

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]

Post a picture with your comp window & timeline please. Twirl open the layer that the lines are on so we can what effects you have used.

thanks

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]

I don’t think there is a way to get a random time offset in CC Particle World. I think you would need to create multiple layers of the effect, with a different texture layer for each one with different start time animations.

Trapcodes Particular supports random start and looping capabilities for particles, and if you are really up for a challenge you might be able to do it with Particle Playground.

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]

Does it need a C4D tag that AE needs to see to interpret correctly? Otherwise I would suggest rendering out the hologram layer with an image buffer from C4D and composite it in AE.

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.