[Liran Tabib]

Hi Vlajko
You can recreate this blur by creating a masked solid, duplicating the mask and changing the bottom mask’s mode to subtract and playing with it’s expansion and feather properties as seen in the attached photo.

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Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

Hi Reed

What you ask is pretty simple to do, copying the path data an pasting it to the position of the Electron layer.
But since this is with shape layers there are few things to check before copying and pasting:

1. Vector data must be copied from a bezier path so if you didn’t create the Oval shape with the Pen tool you’d probably need to convert it, here’s how:

Right Click on Content-> Ellipse 1-> Ellipse Path 1 and select the “Convert to Bezier Path” Command.
Now the Ellipse Path 1 changed to Path 1, so you can open it, select the Path Property and copy to the clipboard.

2. Now when you have the Vector data you need to paste it directly in the Position property of the Electron Layer.
So open the transform->Position property (or simply press P on the keyboard), Select the Position property and Paste.
now you can see that the Electron motion path is the same as the Oval Path. if it shifts a bit, you can move the Electron’s Anchor point or adjusting the path by selecting all of the keyframes and dragging to motion path the the proper location.

3. Looping can be simply done by copying and pasting the keyframes 4 or 5 times, I personally Prefer to use the loopOut() or loopIn() Expression on the position value.

If you find your self doing this multiple times I suggest taking a look at ArrowHead. It’s a tool I developed to create Arrows along paths But it’s great also for attaching layers to the path and animating them along it.
You can find it in: https://www.vdodna.com/products/arrowhead/

I hope this helps!

Best Regards

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

If I remember correctly adding wiggles on the same value create a mess.
but you have a few things you can do instead (without creating additional nulls):

1. Create three additional Slider Controls on the layer, wiggle them, and add the result to the existing expression instead of the last line of code:
[xSpread[0]+SliderX, ySpread[1]+SliderY, zSpread[2]+SliderZ]

2. If the wiggle can be 2D you can add a Transform effect to the layer and wiggle it’s Position value.

3. Wiggle the Anchor point of the layer (I recommend this one).

Best Regards

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

Glad I could Help!

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

Hi Noel
I believe that a simple wiggle() expression could solve this, assuming the layers are 3D.
Since the Amplitude value you enter is relative to the original 3D position of the layers they will disperse in a sphere which the Amplitude value is actually the sphere’s radius.

spreadRadius = thisComp.layer("Control").effect("Spread Radius")("Slider");
wiggle(0,spreadRadius)

Liran Tabib
http://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

Hi Yoshiko
Instead of copy / paste, Duplicate the original layer, containing the groups.
After that you can delete the relevant groups from both layers (group 1 in the duplicated layer and group 2-4 in the original layer, for example).
This way you’ll have one copy of each group divided in two layers, and without the need to reposition.

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

Hi Nate
you can use the AE’s Optics Compensation effect to remove the distortions, and the cool thing is that after you incorporate your graphics/cg elements you can reverse the distortion using another copy of the effect on top of everything (or on top of your precomposed result), using the same effect values but the opposite selection for the “Reverse Lens Distortion” checkbox.
This will give you the original distortion to the new elements as well.

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

You can use ArrowHead script, it enables you to create and animate multiple arrows at a time.
For the record, I am the Developer of ArrowHead.
Cheers!

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

Hi Georgie

Just put the Grow Bounds effect, before the CC Radial Fast Blur in the effects Stack as you can see in the picture below.

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com

[Liran Tabib]

Hi Senior
I like the gesture!

You can easily round the numbers using the built-in JS Math in AE:
round-rounds the number. 2.5->3
ceil– rounds to the closest number from the “top”. 2.5 -> 3
floor– rounds to the closest number from the “Bottom”. 2.5->2

change the last line of code to something like this:

Math.round(Text.length*startValue/100)

Liran Tabib
https://www.vdodna.com