Kalleheikki Kannisto
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COW Coin
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Looks like the problem is the path itself in Illustrator. It shouldn’t have those extra triangular loops. Need to expand the shape in Illustrator and edit them out.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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You need real brush strokes with paint. No way around that, if you want a convincing effect. If you have a lot of text to do, you can get by with 3-5 different brush strokes scanned in and separated from the background, then composited and deformed with the puppet tool to match the lettering shapes. It looks like a font has been used to generate the outlines, you could use a mask channel on a group folder to do that, converting the text to a selection and then to a mask.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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It requires two layers to cross fade the video, so you would need a setup where both videos changed randomly every .88 seconds, with one of them offset by .44 seconds (or minimally by the duration of the fade). Then you need an expression for the fade (transparency) of the top layer that happens every .44 seconds, alternating between fading from 0 to 100 and 100 to 0. The alternating fade is a bit of a challenge. I’m thinking it might be along these lines:
linear(Math.abs(time-Math.round(time/.88)*.88), .44-fadetime/2, .44+fadetime/2,0,100)
You’d have to define the variable “fadetime” and it can’t be more than .44 sec.
That formula has a good chance of being wrong. Also, it needs to use the time value without time remapping, so you may have to source it from a different layer that doesn’t have time remapping applied to it.Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Text animators can be used for this. Set the anchor point grouping to word, and range selector to words and index. Then you can move, rotate, scale etc. each word separately using one animator for each.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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It requires either a cumulative expression (one that adds the value from every frame up to the current frame with a loop) which is workable only up to a certain length until it becomes extremely slow, or using Soundkeys, which has a built-in option to accumulate the values.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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You can offset a dashed path with trim paths. Complete information on this can be found here: https://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-hidden-gems-weekly-dashed-lines/
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Ok, I see. Try shift-enter, that’s a forced line return. Don’t know if that works for this, but it might.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Color values are arrays with 4 values in the range of 0 to 1 for R, G, B and alpha, whereas rotation is a single number value in the range of 0 to 360 (or multiples thereof) for angle. In order to use this for rotation, you need to replace the last line with
random(360)Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I would try REVision DeFlicker. Very hard to predict how much it can do in this case, but at least worth a try. If you can share a 5 second clip, I could give it a try.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Depends on what you’re trying to do, but making the second rectangle the color of the background would “hide” it.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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