Kevin Camp
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simple choker works on the alpha of a layer, so applying it on the layer beneath the track matte, or on the luma matte/track matte itself won’t work (neither really has an alpha at that point).
the most straight forward way to do it would be to pre-comp the track matte and layer being matted, then apply simple choker to the nested comp.
select the track matte and associated layer and choose layers>pre-compose. this will make those layers into a single layer (nested composition). add simple choker to that layer and you should get what you are looking for.
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if the flip was simply pivoting around a central x-axis of each bar (and all the bars are the same height), then a fairly easy way would be to pre-comp the text and bars, then use the effect card wipe to do the transition.
set the columns to 1, the rows to 5, flip axis to ‘x’ back layer to ‘none’ or to anther layer and then animate the transition completion.
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[John Stanowski] “By the way, when you say the master should be 1080 60p, do you mean that literally as opposed to 1080 59.94p?”
i was being lazy and using the ‘nominal’ terms.
comps would be 1920×1080, 59.94 fps.
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[John Stanowski] “I was wondering if I could render out a “master render” which I could then use to re-render for each station and have it conform to their specs.”
the best method would depend on how many different specs and if anything else needed to change for each station (logos or whatnot).
but assuming the spot itself doesn’t need to change, you could create a ‘master’ that would need to be the highest common denominator of the formats that are needed. so if you need 1080 60i and 720 60p, the master would need to be 1080 60p.
a 1080 60p file can quickly be re-rendered to 1080 60i and also quickly be re-rendered to 720 60p… or d1 standard, 720×486 60i, etc.
you’d have to test to see how much time is saved by having to output a master file, and then having to re-render that master to the other formats.
as for mixing the interlaced with the progressive, having interlaced footage will hurt you when you need to change the frame size. you should de-interlace (enable ‘separate fields’ for interlaced footage in ae) for any interlaced footage, essentially making it progressive. then let ae handle re-interlacing at render.
if separate fields makes some of the finer detail a little jittery on 60i footage, try enabling frame blending for those layers. it usually smooths that out.
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parenting should work just fine, but you need to use a light as an emitter.
create a new light, name it ‘Emitter’, parent the light to the null and then set particular’s emitter to be a light (it will automatically use the light named Emitter.
if you need the emitter to be a point, set the light to be a point source. if you need the emitter to be directional, set the light to be a spot light.
you could also choose to use a 3d layer as the emitter. just create a solid that is the size you want for the emitter, make it 3d, parent to the null and then choose ‘layer’ for emitter type and select your 3d solid.
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with a text layers you can also use linear wipe to create the matte…
text layers are a bit of an anomaly in ae, in that regardless of size or position, ae always sees them as the size of the comp. that means linear wipe’s completion percentage is relative to the comp, and when you move the text layer, it is independent of the wipe completion, thus effectively masking the text layer..
it works the same as using a track matte, it’s just another method to accomplish a similar effect.
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try this:
target = thisComp.layer('center layer'); // your center circle layer
area = [800,800]; // value in pixels
dur = 3; // value in secondsseedRandom(index,true);
p1 = target.position;
p2 = random(p1-area,p1+area)
linear(time-inPoint, 0, dur, p1, p2)Kevin Camp
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to do the circle wipe, i’d probably use the circle effect. you can either set the blending mode to ‘stencil alpha’ to reveal the layer over a black background, or set the color to black, click the invert option and set the blending mode to normal.
the advantage of using the circle effect over animating a circular mask, is you can adjust the enter property separately from the radius after the animation… if you animated a mask, you’d need to change both mask keyframes if you wanted to adjust the placement.
as for a fade with highlights fading in first, look at the gradient wipe effect.
you can stack both on the same layer to combine them. if you set the circle effect blending mode to ‘normal’ you’ll want gradient wipe on first, then the circle effect, if it is set to ‘stencil alpha’, then it won’t matter.
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try adding the effect cc force motion blur.
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this counter expression is pretty straight forward:
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/counter.htmlthe first six lines are the parameters, just change those as needed… commas = true; dollarSign = false; dur = 3, etc
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