Kevin Camp
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i’m sure there’s a script out there, but if the values are simply numbers, then you could pretty easily hack your thru this…
if you want to try, try doing this:
- add a slider control effect to a layer (I’d add it to the text layer that will contain on of the sets of numbers).
- add a key frame at the first frame, and then add another one second down the timeline (values don’t matter)
- and just so you can see those values in the text layer, twirl down the text properties to get to the ‘source text’ property, add an expression (animation>add expression) and drag the expression pick whip to the slider value. if you scrub in the timeline the text values should follow the values in the slider.
- now, select the keyframes ‘slider’ property and choose edit>copy.
- open a text editor (like note pad or text edit) and choose edit>paste into a new file.
you’ll see some after effects header info and then your keyframe value info. if you were to change one of the values of a keyframe and then copy>paste that back into after effects, the keyframe value would change to the new value.
so, if you wanted, you could edit the spreadsheet a little (or better to make a new one to copy>paste from one to the other…) you could set up a column for the keyframes (measure in frames) and a column for the yes or no value. select those columns and copy>paste them into the copy of the ae keyframe data in the text editor. then do a select all in the text editor and paste that into the slider in after effects.
the slider values should change with the new data, and if the text layer’s source text is linked to the slider value, the text layer should also update.
a couple notes:
depending on the text editor, you may need to make sure it is set to ‘plain text’ rather than ‘rich text’ (setting often found in the file or format menu).also, in the spread sheet, if you leave the first column empty, start the frame number in the second column but make sure you include the empty first column when you copy paste, you should have the correct number of tabs when you copy paste into the ‘plain text’ file in the text editor.
Kevin Camp
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looks like the smear effect… it’s a bit of a unusual effect, but try this:
- bring in an image or footage layer to a comp
- create a mask around the area you want to move (or smear) then set the mode from ‘add’ to ‘none’.
- create a second larger mask that encompasses the first mask and some other area of the screen (could be the whole screen if you want), setting it to ‘none’ also.
- add the smear effect and set the source mask to the first mask, and the boundary mask to the second mask
- drag the ‘mask offset’ point to some where outside the first mask.
- scrub the percent property to ‘smear’ the portion of the pixels defined by the source mask towards the mask offset point.
it’s a little funky, but you can add to the fun with the mask rotation and scale properties.
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possibly….
particular can use multiple lights as emitters, they just need to be named Emitter1, Emitter2, etc… then set particular emitter type to light and they will all start emitting particles.
i’m not sure what the limit is on light emitters, but in theory, you could place lights as needed and use then as emitters. you’d need to set your particle system up to only emit one particle, but it might work….
i don’t know if that’s any easier than hand placing flowers though….
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try this:
target = thisComp.layer("Null 1"); //change this to the layer you want to target
mul = .001; //change this to effect how much change in scale
d = length( position, target.position );
xScale = mul * value[0] * d;
[ xScale, value[1], ]
the expression assumes that neither layer is parented (or if they are they are parented to the same layer). if the layers are parented to other layers, we’ll need to add a layer-space transform function.Kevin Camp
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not sure if any are better than the other for quality… if the settings are the same, the mp4s should be nearly identical.
Some may be easier to use if they already have a YouTube preset, but you can look up recommended YoutUbe encoding settings and create your own.
I’d also add Handbrake to the list…. for simply creating mp4s, it’s a good choice and faster at encoding than streamclip (which i love, and use to encode about everything else and it’s great for quickly rewrapping media to a different container too)
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you might try the cc burn film effect… it will generate a random blobby texture as a matte to dissolve the layer away.
to add glowing edges, try adding the glow effect after the burn film effect, setting the glow based on property to alpha channel and the white color chip to the desired color. fiddle with the threshold, radius and intensity to see if you can get the effect you are after.
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it will run AE fine. We still have a couple similar MacPros and they run the later creative cloud version pretty well, not as fast as the the later Core i7 iMacs (ours our 2015 iMacs).
It does run somethings much faster than the iMacs do… software that can better utilize more cores run faster on on the MacPro. MPEG Streamclip is one that we’ve noticed runs faster on the old 2009 (or 2010) MacPro than the 2013 iMacs we have.
Kevin Camp
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i can’t seem to replicate that issue with the mirror effect…. it may just be an artifact that got cached. try choosing edit>purge>all to force AE to re-render cached frames and see if it goes away.
if not, try doing the same effect and settings on a new layer (some other image or footage you have) and see if the same issue exists. If it does, let us know what version of AE and OS you are using; if not then we’ll need to troubleshoot the layer/comp that mirror is applied to.
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Adobe’s Media Encoder may render/export a DV stream.
I know mpeg streamclip will (free). using streamclip means you’ll need to render out the comp in some other codec/format (like prores, lossless animation, etc.) and then compress it to dv (i think there are 3 to choose from: dv, dvcpro25 and dvcpro50)
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if you were looking for what to buy for ‘right now’ i’d go with 64gb ram, 8gb vram. i think that configuration better fits where adobe’s software is ‘right now’.
if you have 8 or 10 cores, i feel like 32gb of ram is pretty low…. i have a 4-core i7 iMac with 32gb, and i’ve been requesting 64gb.
maybe a couple years adobe’s gpu accelerated rendering will be at a point where having more vram will be a bigger priority.
Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW