[Lukas Parkes]

Thanks Walter. That’s just speeded up my workflow about 1000 times.

[Lukas Parkes]

Thanks.
Is it possible to do this with an expression in a precomposed layer so that I can temporarily turn it and and off?

[Lukas Parkes]

Hi Dave, will give it a go.

The project uses still images of people taking photographs. The images are static, on for 1 frame at a time. I’m ordering them and resizing them so they form one universal photographer, who moves about, points the camera around, zooms in and appears everywhere from weddings to riots – taking photographs.

I’ve been altering the anchor points so that I can resize images around the lens in each photo so that I get a natural looking zoom in and out as I flick past each of the stills in which the people are at different sizes. I have some of the sequences worked out, but for some, particularly close ups, the detail of things like the position of the hands around the focus ring of the lens are important, so I want a way of getting AE to make all the anchor points (lenses) to shift the position of the picture so that the anchor points are in the centre of the composition. Make sense?

[Lukas Parkes]

Hello Todd,

will have a go at this, though what I’m after is sampling the whole of a 720×576 frame for its average brightness in order to then create volume changes, so it would be a large area.

I was attempting to use openframeworks for doing this sort of thing, but the learning curve is a little steep, so will attempt to slowly chug through with AE

thanks

Lukas