[Michael Becke]

Thanks for all the answers, YikeSmikes – that tutorial was very useful, thanks!

Mylenium – I totally agree that the most realistic would be to animate the masks individually especially since some vines have curles on them… so if I have enough time I’ll try that.

Eric – Interesting point with the noise… I’ll try add that to the tutorial Yikes added.

Jason – I’ll give it a try and see if I can get it looking any good

Thanks all again
Michael

[Michael Becke]

Thanks for all the answers, YikeSmikes – that tutorial was very useful, thanks!

Mylenium – I totally agree that the most realistic would be to animate the masks individually especially since some vines have curles on them… so if I have enough time I’ll try that.

Eric – Interesting point with the noise… I’ll try add that to the tutorial Yikes added.

Jason – I’ll give it a try and see if I can get it looking any good

Thanks all again
Michael

[Michael Becke]

Your question is a little unclear, but I think I may understand.

You want the text of the stars’ names to have a wave colour inside it?

If that is the case:

– Create some text
– Put some footage of a wave below it… I’m assuming you can easily get this
– in the “mode – T – TrkMat” column to the left of the timeline … turn track matte to alpha ( top option of 4 )

Now you’ll have text with a wave texture.

Hope that helps,
Michael

[Michael Becke]

Apologies for any wasted time… but here’s his post incase others are looking.

Thanks YikeSmikes,
Michael

ame: yikesmikes
Date: Sep 27, 2006 at 6:01:43 am
Subject: Re: Wiggle (or is it?) – position – only X!

Wiggle X Only:

[wiggle(5,30)[0],value[1]]

Wiggle Y Only:

[value[0],wiggle(1,100)[1]]

Wiggle X and Y seperately:

[wiggle(5,30)[0],wiggle(1,100)[1]]

[Michael Becke]

Apologies for any wasted time… but here’s his post incase others are looking.

Thanks YikeSmikes,
Michael

ame: yikesmikes
Date: Sep 27, 2006 at 6:01:43 am
Subject: Re: Wiggle (or is it?) – position – only X!

Wiggle X Only:

[wiggle(5,30)[0],value[1]]

Wiggle Y Only:

[value[0],wiggle(1,100)[1]]

Wiggle X and Y seperately:

[wiggle(5,30)[0],wiggle(1,100)[1]]

[Michael Becke]

Thanks Steve,

That was just what I needed… much appreciated!
And now I also know you can simply pick whip to add to the expression 😉

Thanks,
Michael

[Michael Becke]

Thanks Steve,

That was just what I needed… much appreciated!
And now I also know you can simply pick whip to add to the expression 😉

Thanks,
Michael

[Michael Becke]

I just wanted to check if you’re sure you’re duplicating the layer and not the effect… since sometimes AE crashes for me when I have multiple copies of the same effect on one layer.

Cheers,
Michael

ps – maybe a link to the tutorial would help.

[Michael Becke]

I would like to know how to keep a layer’s mask position and scale to behave independantly to the layer itself, but haven’t found a way yet… so I use track mattes instead. Put a mask on a solid just above your layer, thus keeping it independant.

Hope that helps.

[Michael Becke]

I couldn’t find a 2pass setting in AE, so unless someone else finds it I would suggest a program like Windows Media Encoder or Sorenson Squeeze…

I made up some WME settings and uploaded them:

The “bit rate VBR (peak)” is a 2 pass encode setting. (in the second image)

Hope that helps,
Gecko