Mike Clasby
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Maybe these will strike a cord, get you goin’, etc:
With Particle Playgound, “Text that Blows away like Sand”:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/eriksson_emanuel/sand.php
With Particular, “Building Up Particles “, reverse this maybe:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/lee_james/particle_build_up.php
Also, methinks, Shatter can do this.
And I think the quickest (dirtiest?) would be CC Ball Action (Decrease Grid Size and Ball Size, Up Scatter) followed with Scatter or CC Scatterize (uncheck Randomize every frame). I think I’d try Ball Action and Scatter first.
Andromeda Strain a fun oldie, but I remember squirming in my theater set when the virus mutated en-mass, every virus in that population at the same instant… hmmm… I couldn’t buy that one.
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Hmmm, sounds wonky. Do you have the box in a precomp, then not have the Collapse Transformation/Continuously Raster Button clicked on(looks like a little sun, next to shy-guy). That would cause that.
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I think an animated Mask (Animate Mask Shape and/or Mask Expansion and/or Mask feather) on an Adjustment layer, with the effects Fast Blur and then Levels (Individual Controls)(reduce the Input White of the Red and Green.
Aharon does essentially the same without the mask, here:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Film_Flash/video-tutorial.php
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Drop the .ffx files in you Presets Folder (Programs>Adobe>AfterEffects…) then start up AE. Select a layer, Animation>Apply preset will give you a box to navigate to the presets.
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I suggest you use the Text Tool (then can go 3D) and Dan’s Universal Countdown expression:
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/up-down-clock.html
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Does the camera layer cover the whole timel line? Alt Home, move the camera inpoint to time zero.
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I tried a hack but can’t get a decimal, ask Dan and Filip, here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/forum/adobe_after_effects_expressions
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If the layer extends the length of the timeline it will be in the whole movie. To Trim the layer, go to where you want the Polygon layer to appear (move the time indicator-thingie), then hit these keys, Alt [. Go to where you want it to end, and hit this, Alt ]. You’re all trimmed up and ready to go.
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Or a large elongated black cylinder in case Borat was your model.
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To my eye (uneducated in Apple Motion), Apple Motion’s Membrane looks like a direct copy/ripoff/whatever of the freebie Sinedots, especially Sinedots 2. You can get it here:
https://www.philipp-spoeth.de/aftereffects/sinedots.php
and here:
https://www.philipp-spoeth.de/aftereffects/sinedots2.php
This is early stuff from philipp-spoeth, who went on to do this:
https://www.frischluft.com/frischluft/index.php
Maybe he was involved in Membrane, or someone else had the same idea (“ripoff” above was a bit harsh, since I know nothing of the origins of membrane, but they looks alike to me).