Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Moving forward on the timeline, the checkbox reverts to “a”.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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As I see it, you will need to multiply the distance of the nulls from the point where they are enlarged, along the lines of the following image.
“Distance” here would be the distance between a given null and the point where the enlargement happens (whether it be a static point or another null that controls that location). “Multiplier” would be the multiplier (from 1 to maximum enlargement) with which that distance is multiplied to get the nulls to spread out near the point of enlargement.
Now, since the nulls need to move together, you’d start the expression with a simple fixed offset from a master null (like the first null in the string). Then you’d use the multiplier to change the distances. A piece of sine wave between two flat sections should work for the formula, which I’m not going try and guess at here.
Once the motion of the nulls looks good, then you can set the objects to scale to fill the distance between the nulls.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Maybe: https://aescripts.com/templater/
Haven’t used it, but I would assume Excel would be easy to turn into a Google sheet.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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This would be a place to start.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/data-driven-animations.html
You can convert Excel to CSV and bring in the data that way.
Whether you will actually be saving any time this way depends on whether all the spreadsheets are describing the same properties using the same formatting or not. If they are, you can set up one file that knows what to do with the input data and swap it for the next data source (CSV) for automatic replacement. If the spreadsheets all contain different information formatted differently, you will have to make a separate template for every spreadsheet, which pretty much defeats the purpose of using this method.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Did you see this?
Although, if I needed to do this, I would just take a screenshot of the audio waveform and use that.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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You can use audio to keyframes result with a simple piece of expression code that sets the threshold of when to stretch the pixels.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Might be as simple as clearing the cache.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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There are a few file formats that support alpha, but MP4 is not one of them.
In general you want to export intermediate files in uncompressed (or minimally compressed) format to avoid (or minimize) progressive lowering of quality at each export stage.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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If you only have one version of AE on the computer where it does work, I have no idea. if you have two, it might have opened in a different version…?
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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The correct workflow is to render individual shots in After Effects and bring them to Premiere for editing. You don’t need to use a green background and keylight, you can render with transparent background in AVI format and get better quality that way.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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