[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

A couple of ideas:

1) Motion blur with excessive settings, 360 degrees or more.

2) Add particles closer to the camera that pass by faster.

3) Sound effects implying speed (“swoosh”).

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Here’s a very similar situation you can modify to suit this purpose, i.e. apply the expression to transparency instead of scale and use value 0 and 100 instead of -11 and 11:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/30927

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

I don’t know of any easy ways to accomplish this in AE, as the dot sizes depend on the individual band heights, but here is one attempt. You need to add an audio layer and link it to the audio spectrum and adjust the effect height. (AE CC2014.)

9458_audiospectrumdots.aep.zip

Looks like this

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Another good method is using the color channels, most likely the green channel as it is usually the smoothest (least grainy) to create a alpha (mask) channel out of.

Duplicating the green channel as an alpha channel and using levels, you can get something like this (rapid test):

From there you can paint in the full whites with brush or feathered lasso tool + fill, after which you can use the burn tool set to shadows at about 5% strength to fill in the blacks and the dodge tool set to highlights at about 5% strength to fill in the whites:

With the following result:

It’s a quick test so the background is not all clean but you get the basic idea. And you probably don’t actually want that much hair flying off.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Cropping doesn’t affect just one layer, it affects the entire image. So if you have saved the file after cropping (overwriting the original) you unfortunately won’t be able to get retrieve anything that fell outside the cropped area. Unless you have an earlier version of the same file, I’m afraid the only option is to recreate it.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

See this page
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/spell-checking-language-dictionaries.html

under “Remove or edit words in dictionaries”

You could either remove the words you want to be checked for that are currently on the omit list in the active custom dictionary, or create a whole new (empty) custom dictionary whereupon you’d only use the built-in dictionary, not any of your additions to it.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Adobe Illustrator doesn’t work in the same exact way as AutoCAD.

In current versions (CC) of Illustrator making rounded corners is very straightforward:

Draw a shape, select the desired corner(s) with direct selection tool (hollow arrow), and drag the little circles that appear inside the corners (or type in the exact value at the options bar). Done.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

I’d probably add a Point control for the solid with the expression

step = 100;// the amount of pixels you want to move
effect("Point Control")("Point")*step

For “every 5 frames” you could set the frame rate of the comp to 5 fps.

And then animate using the point control.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

For top left corner pin position when the corresponding null is named “top left”:

fromComp(thisComp.layer("top left").transform.position)

…and others in same manner.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

The usual way would be to add a hand-animated mask to exclude the shirt area from the key.