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Hi Bobby, you had accidentally applied the radial wipe effect to the black solid.

If you do exactly what you did in the video but make sure you have the red solid selected when you add the wipe effect, it should work.

Got it…

So you have the logo that knocks a hole in the black solid as it scales down right now. What I think I’d do now is to simply add a new red solid behind the black solid to ‘fill’ the hole that the logo is making.

On that red solid, you can add the radial wipe effect similar to how I described above and you should be able to have it wipe on…

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Looking back you your post, you mentioned green screen… are you planning on keying out the green to make it transparent? If so, if you were able to make it transparent without making it green, would that be preferable — note that it will be hard to key a green color with a soft fade to red.

Basically, if your ultimate plan is to make the green…

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I may not be understanding exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

In your illustration with 3 stages (A, B, C), is the green circle representing your green RDA logo, and then its transition to red? And do you just want that logo with the color transition over a black background?

I will add, that if you simply want your logo to transition from red to green, your set up may not be quite right… I don’t think you need the black solid or the green background below it. I think you could do this more simply, but I may not be following your full intent.

When you apply radial wipe, I’d first adjust the completion property to be about 80% (based on your illustration). It should cut a wedge shape in your logo. If you drag the completion value you’ll see how the wedge wipes in a radial fashion.

You can drag the start angle to rotate the whole wedge shape to where you need it.

And you can scrub the…

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There is an effect called Radial Wipe (Effects > Transitions) that should work for the reveal you are looking for.

You’ll animate/keframe the completion property to do the reveal and you can set it to clockwise or counterclockwise.

You’ll want to offset the wipe center to be above your logo to match your illustration.

There is also a feather…

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For the scale animation , select your logo layer and type an ‘s’ to reveal the scale property.

I think you wanted the logo end in the position/scale that it is on the screen, so go ton6 seconds in the timeline and click the stopwatch icon next to the scale property to enable key frames for scale and it will automatically add a key frame at tha…

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Assuming your RDA 5.png has transparency, where the red is opaque and the black is transparent, then for your 1st request, you can make the opaque portion knock out the black solid below it by setting the black solid’s track matte (TrkMat) property from ‘none’ to ‘Alpha Inverted’ in the timeline.

You should then be able to see the greenscrn1.png…

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it should be a less-than sign:

else if (newSquash < squahLimit*-1) newSquash = squahLimit*-1;

If you needed to do this again, you can do it with a couple text animators, which would allow you to format the text any way you needed — adding italic or bold words, or even changing the font as needed.

To do it with animators, you can start by simply adding the typewriter animation preset (animation presets>text>animate-in). At this point the…

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you can link the text in a text layer to the comp’s name… the idea here would be to enter the lower third text to the comp name, then the text layer uses the comp name and when you render the file will also have the comp’s name…

The expression that goes in the text layer’s source text property is pretty simple:

thisComp.name

Then in the project…

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With just AE, you can choose ‘Convert Audio to Keyframes’ and then use expressions to drive the scale of the crystals. I think is probably the method in the tutorial you mention, and you probably found the limitation that while it could separate left and right stereo tracks, it cannot further separate by frequency.

There was (probably still is)…

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I think you can actually do this with a text animator, but rather than using opacity, use scale. You’ll also want to change the smoothness to 0%

Something like this should work, add it to the position property and set the ‘target’ to be the layer that you want it to maintain 200px from.

target = thisComp.layer("LayerToFollow") ;
rect = target.sourceRectAtTime() ;
x = target.position[0] + rect.left + rect.width + 200 ;
[ x, value[1] ]

The expression assumes that the text layers are…

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This might work for you.

Create 4 text layers and name them ‘Days’, ‘Hours’, ‘Minutes’, ‘Seconds’. Then add a slider expression control to the Days text layer and set key frames to have the slider count down from 10 to 0 (or however you want it).

On the Days text layer, add this expression to the Source Text:

days = Math.floor( effect("Slider…

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From what you describe, it sounds like you have a list of words in a text layer, where each word is separated by a return (i.e. each word is on it’s own line). If so an expression on the source text could probably work for you, try this:

Twirl down the text layer’s properties to get to Text>Source Text and enable expressions for Source Text…

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Assuming you are using a shape layer and a straight path with two points, you could try this on the ‘dash’ property:

n = 10 ; // number of dashes
shp = content("Shape 1").content("Path 1").path ;
p1 = shp.points(time)[0] ;
p2 = shp.points(time)[1] ;
d = length( p1, p2 )
d / n / 2

If its curved, the math would be much more difficult.

If you are OK…

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There is a script on aescprits.com called CompsFromSpreadsheet that would probably make things easier for you. It’s not free, but there is a short tutorial/overview you can check out and I think you can try it before you buy it. Probably worth checking out.

You can also use expressions to get a comp’s name and use it in a text layer… the…

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I would think they record them reading and the add the ‘mean tweet’ graphic and keyframe the text animating on.

To set up a text layer to read on is pretty simple, on the text layer add a text animator for opacity and set the animator’s opacity to 0. then, in the animator>range selector keyframe the ‘offset’ property to reveal the words as they…

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Should have mentioned that after you parent the shape layer to the text layer, change the shape layer’s transform>position property to 0,0 to center it on the anchor point of the text layer, then proceed : )

The issue is that some characters are actually left of the anchor point (like T, Y, V, O, etc.) compared to more square characters (like H, D, R, etc). To fix that, you can use the sourceRectAtTime() ‘left’ attribute which can give you that left-shift value relative to the anchor point.

Here’s my typical process for these (assuming left justified…

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Sorry, I did miss that.

It could be that AE is having an issue with cached frames… have you tried edit>purge>all memory & disk cache?

Whenever you apply loopOut() to the time remapping property of a nested comp the frame at the last keyframe will always be blank.

To fix this, simply goto the last keyframe, hit page-up to move the CTI one frame earlier in the comp, add a new keyframe for time remapping and then delete the lat keyframe — note, you cannot simply nudge the last…

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I botched the rate… this should fix it:

r = 1 ; // rate to draw each petal in seconds
n = 4 ; // number of petals
a = 300 ; // size
n2 = n / Math.abs( ( ( n % 2 ) - 2 ) ) ;
t = time * 2 * Math.PI / n2 / 2 / r ;
x = a * Math.sin( n2 * t ) * Math.cos( t ) ;
y = a * Math.sin( n2 * t ) * Math.sin( t ) ;
value + [ x, y ]

If you use the Write-on effect and apply this expression to the Brush Position property it will draw a rose curve with a set number of petals:

r = 5 ; // rate in seconds
n = 3 ; // number of petals
a = 300 ; // size
t = time * Math.PI + r ;
n2 = n / Math.abs( ( ( n % 2 ) - 2 ) ) ;
x = a * Math.sin( n2 * t ) * Math.cos( t ) ;
y = a * Math.sin( n2 * t ) *…

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For my set up, i was thinking you’d want each text layer lined up by their y-axis (like it is on a single line of text), and then the expression would go on the Position property rather than the Source Text property.

I don’t think you’ll be able to do this with a text style expression, as style is applied to the whole text layer, not a partial string.

If you want one name regular (or light) and the other bold, I think you will need to make them separate text layers and then use a sourceRectAtTime() expression to make the second text layer follow the first, as…

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I don’t think you will be able to do what you want with a text style expression since style is applied to the entire text layer, not just a word or partial string of text.

I think to pull this off, you’d want each word on a separate text layer and use sourceRectAtTime() expressions to make them work like a single line of text.

Would you only ever…

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If you’re looking to learn more on expressions, there are several links to help you get started here: https://motionarray.com/learn/after-effects/getting-started-with-after-effects-expressions/

motionscript.com has been around for a while and is one that I used a lot when learning expressions.

Also, the second part of the first expression (the For…

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To learn more about expressions you can find a lot on the web by searching “After Effects Expressions”.

I learned a lot in the After Effects Expressions forum here at the Cow. Dan Ebberts has a great site too: Motionscript.com.

This site lists several good resources for expressions: https://motionarray.com/learn/after-effects/getting-started-with-af…

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Create an empty text layer, add a slider control and add this expression to the source text property:

n = effect("Slider Control")("Slider") ;
nums = '' ;
for ( i = 1; i <= n; i++ ) { 
	nums = nums + i + 'r';
}

You can do this with a text animator and an expression. Try This:

Create your text and add a text animator for position (Animation > Text Animator > Position). Set the y position value to something other than 0 — like 100 (this will be the amount of vertical movement).

Then, for that animator, add an expression selector (Animation > Add Text…

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I think you could use a valueAtTime() expression here.

You’d animate the first layer, and then you’d use an expression on the other layers to use the first layer’s animation, but offset in time.

Try this:

On your second layer, add this expression to the opacity property:

target = thisComp.layer("MyFirstLayer") ; // change MyFirstLayer to your first…

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Have you tried leaving the layer 3d but enabling auto-orient towards camera? I think it might accomplish what you are trying to do…

Thanks for pointing out that Shutter Encoder does do WebM : )

My comment on H.264 wasn’t that you should use it for what you are doing, but just to compare the result of how an AE h.264 render looks vs that from a compression utility. With 2-pass capabilities, a compression utility will produce better results for codecs that use predictive or…

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I think you’ll want to keep rendering from AE in a high quality codec (Animation, ProRes, DNxHD/DNxHR, etc) and then compress to a codec like WebM… AE (particularly old versions) can’t do a good job of rendering to codecs like WebM and H.264…

You can render to H.264 in CS6 and then compare it to the two step approach using AE to render the same…

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You can get close if you connect the circles with a line and then use an adjustment layer with blur and threshold… I used the Beam effect to connect each circle and the result is close.

I think it might be hard to achieve with CC Sphere. You can get close with Card Dance.

Try this:

Make a tall, thin solid to use as your ribbon.

Duplicate it and add the Ramp effect setting the black color of the ramp to 50% gray, then hide that layer.

Add Card Dance to the ribbon layer and set the rows to a high level (like a few hundred) and the…

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A better option in Photoshop is to use ‘save for web’ then choose GIF, Black – White, and Diffusion.

You still need to darken the image a bit with an adjustment layer, but you don’t need to convert to black and white.

Also, you can probably apply that to footage and export as an animated gif that can then be imported into AE… probably not as good…

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Found this: https://aescripts.com/retrodither/

It’s really similar to the bitmap mode in Photoshop… not sure if Photoshop is an option, but if so try this:

Open image in Photoshop, choose Image>Mode>Grayscale, and add a black layer above it and set the opacity to around 75%.

Then choose Image>Mode>Bitmap, set the resolution to 72 and the method to Diffusion Dither, and you will get…

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Dust and Scratches effect?

It can remove small details like those, but it would remove details across the entire frame.

Since the dead pixels shouldn’t move for a given camera, you might try applying Dust and Scratches to an adjustment layer and then use tiny masks to mask only those areas. You should then be able to copy/paste that adjustment…

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Try this:

Create a new solid and add the Grid effect, setting the Size to ‘Width Slider’, the Width to about 100 (or whatever seems right to you) and the color as needed.

Once you have that grid the way you want, make the layer 3D (click the 3D option in the layer’s Switches), type ‘r’ to see the rotation property and set the X Rotation to -90.…

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There is probably a more elegant way to do this with a single text animator for Fill Color, but this seems to work — note I am assuming your text looks something like this: “John Doe, Jim Smith, Jane Jones”

It’s easy to make a text animator work on words, but I couldn’t figure out a way to split it at the commas and colorize based on that result,…

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You could try working in a comp that is 2x or 3x the size you need and then render out to the required frame size, or drop that comp into a smaller comp and render the smaller comp.

Using sourceRectAtTime() makes this pretty simple.

Vertically center:

rect = sourceRectAtTime() ;
y = rect.top + rect.height / 2 ;
[ value[0], y ]

Align bottom:

rect = sourceRectAtTime() ;
y = rect.top + rect.height ;
[ value[0], y ]

Apply either of those to the anchor point property of the text layer.

I think the Block Dissolve effect will do this… you’ll need to do a little math to get the blocks the correct size and uncheck the ‘soft edges’ option.

It always seems to use the same ‘random’ pattern though…

One way would be to make the % a separate text layer.

Another way would be to use a text animator to affect the scale of the %. To do that add an animator for scale to the text layer and set the scale to 47.5%. Then add an expression selector to the animator and add this expression to the amount:

if ( textIndex == textTotal ) { 100 } else { 0…

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