Jonathan Alexander
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Seems silly to have to start doing that now when that wasn’t the case in 6.5. Oh well, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t the only one with the problem. I guess I’m the only one who finds it annoying. Maybe I shouldn’ work with so many comps open.
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This is such an easy thing to do in say Illustrator or even Photoshop, why is this not the case in After Effects? Or am I missing something?
Thanks for the tips though, the auto-trace will do just the trick as a work around, thanks!
–Jonathan
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Look into 3D sroke from Trapcode, it is a cool plugin that can be tweaked to maybe give the effect that you are looking for. Search the archives, this effect comes up all the time.
–Jonathan
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Instead of having to deal with a precomp, you could just use an adjusment layer with the effects>distort>turbulent displacement applied to it. Fool around with the settings and animate the evolution and offset turbulence and it should do some pretty cool stuff. Hope that helps. When all you need is some basic noise like that, I feel it better to be able to have the control within that comp to easily change the distortion settings rather than having to go between that and a precomp displacement map.
–Jonathan
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If you go under effects>transition> there are a few that can produce some cool transition effects and even better if you combine a couple. But, of course After Effects is way different than FCP. It gives you the power to make your own unique transition, as well your standard everyday ones that FCP can do.
Check out the transition effects though, there are some pretty cool ones.
–Jonathan
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Why not create your own single bubble in after effects or photoshop and then you can control it however you want. Should be pretty easy with some shapes and colored solids with some masks for shape and feathering to make a bubble in one comp and then use that bubble comp as a precomp and move it around all you want. Add a little turbulent displacement to it to give it a little bit of a wobble as it moves.
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I’m not sure if this will bring out a lot of the grain, but there is this effect in AE 7.0:
effects>color correction>shadow/highlight
It is something that came from photoshop I think. Anyways it is kinda like a fill light I guess you could call it. Maybe that will help a little. I’m not sure if it is an option if you are working with an older version of after effects. Hope that helps somewhat.
–Jonathan
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Awesome, I will give that a try. I was just going in the right direction, I added a null object with a slider, but after that didn’t know where to go. Your tips make sense, I will see if I can do it right though. I didn’t know that you could just highlight a value like that and pickwhip it, thats great! Thanks!
–Jonathan
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Awesome, I will give that a try. I was just going in the right direction, I added a null object with a slider, but after that didn’t know where to go. Your tips make sense, I will see if I can do it right though. I didn’t know that you could just highlight a value like that and pickwhip it, thats great! Thanks!
–Jonathan
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I’ve heard of this icarus and I tried finding it with not much luck. Are you sure it is still free? And if so, can you pass on a link to where you found it? Thanks!
–Jonathan