[Lyle Hirsch]

I absolutely agree with you about it getting old fast, but it’s an effect the client has pretty much insisted on. It’s being matched up with a beat to produce a slide show of sorts, and they want these scenes cutting at different angles, and flying apart throughout this looping clip.

That said, it sounds like I was on the right track with my original ideas, and that I’m just gonna have to strap in for some tedious busy work.

Thanks for the help, Dave. Appreciate it!

[Lyle Hirsch]

Thanks, Dave.

That idea sounds like what I was originally tinkering with, but I was finding that with all of the cuts I needed to do (literally, hundreds) it was making the project really unwieldy. But, it’s likely I’m just confused.

If I understand your suggestion, replacing the video in the composition would still require me to maintain individual pre-comps with different videos set for the two halves, no? If this is wrong, could you please elaborate?

Thanks again.

[Lyle Hirsch]

I’ve created a pre-comp were a video has been split into two layers, and masked into halves. Those halves are animated to split apart, and slide off screen to reveal a new scene behind it. (Video cuts in half, and flies apart to transition scenes)

Right now, that pre-comp, obviously, always plays the same video clip, seeing as that’s what I manually set up in its timeline. My hope is that I can somehow make those video clips variables, or something, that I can swap out dynamically without having to manually create a unique pre-comp for each individual transition with static video layers defined in each comp for each transition.

My hope was that I would be able to make the effect once, and re-use it multiple times without having to manually create each unique transition clip, or maintain dozens of different unique transition comps for this project.