[Mike Clasby]

I loved Vol 2, the parts on Color Correction, Keying, Motion Tracking/Stabilizing, intergrating with 3D apps (specific info on the most common 3D apps) and especially Expressions (plus a huge Bonus Chapter on expressions)were well worth the price of admission. Lots of real world examples, nuts and bolts stuff.

And they cover the basics of the effectsm except of course the 2 new ones in AE7. Good stuff, I think if you only could have one book this would be the one.

[Mike Clasby]

I loved Vol 2, the parts on Color Correction, Keying, Motion Tracking/Stabilizing, intergrating with 3D apps (specific info on the most common 3D apps) and especially Expressions (plus a huge Bonus Chapter on expressions)were well worth the price of admission. Lots of real world examples, nuts and bolts stuff.

And they cover the basics of the effectsm except of course the 2 new ones in AE7. Good stuff, I think if you only could have one book this would be the one.

[Mike Clasby]

Looping

Basically you set keyframes for your animation, then add this loop expression to the keyframed property:

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/ebberts_dan/layer_looping/index.html

For details on looping in AE see Dan Ebberts “Animating A Walk Cycle”, the comp “intro” (part of the downloadable Project files) where he goes into detail on the loop variations, including setting a keyframe 1 back from the last then looping from there, so you don’t get that little stutter from the last frame in the animation repeating itself.

[Mike Clasby]

Looping

Basically you set keyframes for your animation, then add this loop expression to the keyframed property:

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/ebberts_dan/layer_looping/index.html

For details on looping in AE see Dan Ebberts “Animating A Walk Cycle”, the comp “intro” (part of the downloadable Project files) where he goes into detail on the loop variations, including setting a keyframe 1 back from the last then looping from there, so you don’t get that little stutter from the last frame in the animation repeating itself.

[Mike Clasby]

Dan Ebbert’s is the Wizard of expressions, and does what you want here:
https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/random-2.html

but with narrow solids instead of a masked layer, but it works for your setup too.

If you don’t know how to do it, just copy Dan’s code (the expression)from the page, then hit “P” on the layer to be randomized, then Alt + Click the position stop watch and Paste the expression into the box, click outside the box and Ram preview… magic Random Horzontal moving layers.

[Mike Clasby]

Dan Ebbert’s is the Wizard of expressions, and does what you want here:
https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/random-2.html

but with narrow solids instead of a masked layer, but it works for your setup too.

If you don’t know how to do it, just copy Dan’s code (the expression)from the page, then hit “P” on the layer to be randomized, then Alt + Click the position stop watch and Paste the expression into the box, click outside the box and Ram preview… magic Random Horzontal moving layers.

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s four ways to get the beat (to make the cuts):

1)
Filip Vandueren
Date: Jan 1, 2006 at 4:05:40 am
Subject: BPM based markers: a script

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=867359

bpmMarkers: https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/jsx/bpmMarkers.jsx

2)The old fashioned way:

RAM Preview (press “0” on the numeric pad, or sound preview (press the “.” on the numeric pad) and then you press the “*” key (again numeric pad) when you here each beat, when you’re done, there will be a marker at each beat.

3)Select the layer with the audio, then Animation > Keyframe Assistant > Convert Audio to Keyframes, and you get a new layer above, the “Audio Amplitude Layer”, scroll down the graph, useful if you want to use Expressions to tie Effect animations to the audio.

$ and the simpilest, select the layer with audio, hit “LL” and you get the Audiowaveform of the layer, you should see the beats, then go down the timeline, and with the “*” (numeric) you can set markers for cues to cuts.

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s four ways to get the beat (to make the cuts):

1)
Filip Vandueren
Date: Jan 1, 2006 at 4:05:40 am
Subject: BPM based markers: a script

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=867359

bpmMarkers: https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/jsx/bpmMarkers.jsx

2)The old fashioned way:

RAM Preview (press “0” on the numeric pad, or sound preview (press the “.” on the numeric pad) and then you press the “*” key (again numeric pad) when you here each beat, when you’re done, there will be a marker at each beat.

3)Select the layer with the audio, then Animation > Keyframe Assistant > Convert Audio to Keyframes, and you get a new layer above, the “Audio Amplitude Layer”, scroll down the graph, useful if you want to use Expressions to tie Effect animations to the audio.

$ and the simpilest, select the layer with audio, hit “LL” and you get the Audiowaveform of the layer, you should see the beats, then go down the timeline, and with the “*” (numeric) you can set markers for cues to cuts.

[Mike Clasby]

By looping do you want the 5 animals to slide left to right and then repeat themselves, 1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,1,2…

In the main comp,

I’d just animate that really wide comp with position to get it to slide left to right, then add this loop expression to the Position property:

loopOut(“cycle”, 0)

For in depth on looping see,

Dan Ebberts demonstrates
Animating a Walk-Cycle

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/ebberts_dan/layer_looping/index.html

See the “intro” comp in the downloadable aep file.

[Mike Clasby]

By looping do you want the 5 animals to slide left to right and then repeat themselves, 1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,1,2…

In the main comp,

I’d just animate that really wide comp with position to get it to slide left to right, then add this loop expression to the Position property:

loopOut(“cycle”, 0)

For in depth on looping see,

Dan Ebberts demonstrates
Animating a Walk-Cycle

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/ebberts_dan/layer_looping/index.html

See the “intro” comp in the downloadable aep file.