[John Cuevas]

Can you post an example, there were many different cheesy sparkle trails back in the day.

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]

It would be easier for people to make suggestions, if you could post a screen grab(3rd icon above replay box from right).

Without seeing it, I would probably layer your video over a freeze frame of blank screen, then add the effectg Key > Extract and see if I could isolate the guide lines. You probably would need multiple keys to pull it off.

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]

Not sure what you can do now, but when you import your illustrator document, import it as a composition so it comes in as layers(you will need to layer everything in AI). Then during the import you will need to select for “Footage Dimensions” > Layer Size.

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]

Dave means you need to use a text animator and under the advanced animator properties change the grouping from Line to Character.

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 could do this with a LoopOut Expression. Create the 1 second fade to 50, 10 second hold, then fade back to 100 and a 10 second hold. Then add the following expression to opacity:

loopOut("cycle")

Here’s an example project: 9107_loopout.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 are missing the brackets. Write it like this [2048, (time*90)]

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]

Here’s a simple project(minus the audio) that shows how you place the effect and expression.

9088_audiobeatexrpession.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]

Seems to be a line missing from the expression that Dan originally posted. To use this expression, you need to select your audio layer, go the “Animation” drop down > Keyframe Assistant > Convert Audio to Keyframes. That will drive your color changes.

Then add a fill to your spectrum, alt + click the color stopwatch and add this expression. In my example I have it set to 3 colors, RGB, you can add more colors by adding a “, [0,0,255,255]/255]” to the end of the expression, just make sure you take the last bracket ] off the previous color.

threshold =10.0;

colors = [[255,0,0,255]/255,[0,255,0,255]/255, [0,0,255,255]/255];

audioLev = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider");

above = false;
frame = Math.round(time / thisComp.frameDuration);
n = 0;
while (frame >= 0){
t = frame * thisComp.frameDuration;
if (above){
if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) < threshold){
above = false;
}

}else if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) >= threshold){
above = true;
n++;
}
frame--
}

colors[n%colors.length]

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]

Here’s a project I made quite some time ago that I used to simulate a postcard falling, that uses sin waves to moved things back and forth gently. You might find it useful for a making a balloon float upwards.

7380_fallingfinal.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]

That is going to be really tough. First, when you shoot, move the sifter farther away from your green, you are apt to get less reflections. Also, check out this tutorial The Portal, from Andrew Kramer, starting around 5 minutes into it. He uses a pretty good technique for isolating green spill and removing it from your footage using keylight. I think it would help out a lot in getting the green off the sifter in your situation.

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.