Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Yes, if there’s no need for accuracy in the number, that’s a more sensible approach: a slider for “magnitude” which gives you thousands, millions or billions.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I believe velocityAtTime() is a property to be accessed in this manner:
myLayer.position.velocityAtTime();
i.e. you want to pick whip your layer for the beginning part and add .position (if you want the velocity of the change in position, rather than change in rotation, or scale) and then the rest of the code in that line.
I didn’t investigate the full code, but that should at least address the error message.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Do you mean like this?
I don’t think there any (easy) way to do that with an expression. I would animate a path and use text on path for this.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Goody — that did it. Looking very nice.
(Did you also try removing the Math.floor from the expression?)
Next step might be making the particles persist longer, which would — if the formula is suitable — create surfaces over time.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer -
Looks like nothing more than Starglow (plugin) effect on the brightest highlights of the footage.
May require a copy of the footage and some curves and such to isolate the highlights, but that’s about it.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I would say the easiest way would be to make the text in one continuous flow. I’m unclear as to why it isn’t.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer -
Depends on your exact application, but in most cases you can’t see the lower numbers so clearly that you actually need to use a single slider. It may be easier to have separate sliders, one for the billions, one for millions, one for thousands, and one for 0-999, each using its own 0-999 range. And even if you need the counting to slow down to arrive at a specific number, that can be relatively easily keyframed with those four sliders. That’s one option to consider.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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In your case you could offset the Y position of the text layer (in the negative direction) by multiplying the line height by (number of lines minus 1)/2. You can get the number of lines by splitting the original text to an array at each space and getting the length of the resulting array.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer -
What you might want to do is print out a black reference grid image and shoot it with the lens in question. You can use that image as a reference for the amount of distortion you get. Then you can use Optics compensation in After Effects to see how much distortion there is (how much you need to undistort until the lines are straight horizontal and vertical at the edges). Then, depending on whether you want to remove or keep the distortion, you can use that amount of Optics compensation to distort the AE output or to undistort the camera input, whichever your aim.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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