Kyle Hamrick
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Update: Transposing the Orientation into the individual Rotation values was definitely the key. Nothing a couple pickwhips and some basic code couldn’t handle.
I’m still playing with getting exactly the effect I’m looking for, but I’m well on the way.Thanks!
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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Thanks for the thoughts, Filip.
I’ll give this stuff a shot in the morning. Really great thought on the Orientation, and the trouble it would have reconciling those as an average. I should be able to just transpose that over to the rotation properties instead, and that should fix that aspect.
I’ll let you know how this works out. Thanks again!
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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Thanks, Roland.
Yay for chainsaws!
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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Audrey, I think you might be misunderstanding my question. I’m talking about the markers you add manually to a layer in AE, just for your own reference purposes.
Not talking about tracking. This is just a workflow thing.
(Also, even if Boujou did what I was asking, I think for $10k, I’ll deal with manually deleting them…)
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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…or just no gradients on shape layers with ray-traced 3d? Not available in the shape layer’s menu, but you can copy/paste it…
Kyle Hamrick
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Thanks for the response Dan. Definitely more elegant than my solution.
Your post just barely beat me submitting my edit saying that I’d gotten it working. =)
Mine is still using my earlier expression nested into the “Separate XYZ” effect, but it’s just as easy to copy/paste that. I was outlining my post a little more clearly in the hopes that it’d be helpful for someone else in the future.
Between your answer and mine, I think this thread has now served its purpose in that respect.
Thanks again!
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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Aha. Yeah, that makes sense.
…any way you can get fewer of them onscreen at once? 2 or 3 seems a lot more doable, spacing-wise. Maybe you can cheat the movement at the bottom and top to be faster, so you can get them out of each other’s way a little easier?
Maybe you can position them on the circle, but animate them on/off in a different way, aside from having them revolve around it?
Obviously, without seeing your actual example, it’s hard to offer anything too specific. Just throwing out suggestions.
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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Just off the top of my head:
Couldn’t tell for sure whether you’re going for a circle or an ellipse. If it’s a circle, what if, instead of the motion path, you set these all to be parented to a single null? Make the null at the center of your circle, attach text, offset anchor point… voila. Repeat at appropriate intervals. You can then set up a simple rotation expression to keep the items level while they rotate around.
Let me know if you’d like more details on how to do any of this, if it works for your particular idea….
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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Without seeing the specific footage, it’s hard to be too helpful, but it sounds like you’re probably on the right track. I’d imagine that you’ll be using a combination of effects and light roto work. If you can get rid of the sky and have even a thin horizon line, you’re in business. Roto-ing the ground back in isn’t too hard.
The one thing I can recommend on your roto – work rough, and then refine. You may end up only needing to have one keyframe per second, or one every ten frames, etc. You’ll probably save yourself a significant amount of work.
Kyle Hamrick
Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
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^^^^^ What Kevin said.
If you’re the kind who likes tutorials, Andrew Kramer has a couple that, while looking totally different from what you’re going for, use a very similar technique to accomplish it.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/
Check out
#18 “Light Streaks”
#25 “Light Streaks 2”Kyle Hamrick
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