Mark Dyson
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Thanks, Kalle.
Yeah, that sounds about right. The set is an old warehouse so there’s a bunch of background details like windows and such that the arms are occluding. I’m going to try your warping suggestion but methinks the roto will be the way to go because of all the sharp edges involved. I think I’m just in denial. I’ve already made a slew of clean plates from using Mocha Pro on this scene to remove an errant camera guy—in fact I may use that tool to erase the original arms, too.
Good catch on the mesh warp; was just doing some 2D character animation on another project with puppet and had that plugin stuck in my head.
Many thanks again!
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Precisely what I shall be doing. Just finished setting that up and it’s working a treat.
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How annoying. I took pains to specify CS6 when I was searching out tutorials.
Oh, well, thanks for letting me know. Other ways to skin this fish than to submit to rental software.
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Nice! Takes the Numbers effect completely out of the picture. Works a treat, thank you!
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Just in case I wasn’t clear in the original question: simply parenting the layer containing the Numbers effect to the main text layer does not work. The Numbers effect has an absolute position attribute which appears to override the layer’s position. So far as I can tell, any solution has to involve redefining the effect position directly and not the layer’s position, unless there’s some sort of override or switch I don’t know of.
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I’ve managed to kludge together a workaround for now but I expect there’s a more elegant way. I pick whipped the position attribute of the Numbers effect to the position of the parent text line. That made the numbers jump to the anchor point and then I manually added an offset in the expression to shift it over to the gap in the text line where I wanted it to appear.
thisComp.layer(“We are”).transform.position+[280,-25]
Still interested in better solutions if there are any. Many thanks in advance!
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Okay, fair enough. Thanks!
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Makes perfect sense; thanks!