[Mike Clasby]

You might want to check out these Detonation Film Freebies:

https://detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

Tutorial (for Premiere and FCP, but can do with AE) here:

https://detonationfilms.com/tutorials.htm

Then for the repeat of a machine gun (600 rounds per minutes if my Infantry memory holds up, so loop it every three frames if 30 fps comp), use this loop expression:

Loop_out(“cycle”,0)

See Dan’s tutorial “Animating a Walk Cycle”, by clicking his head above, for details (and project file) on looping.

[Mike Clasby]

You might want to check out these Detonation Film Freebies:

https://detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

Tutorial (for Premiere and FCP, but can do with AE) here:

https://detonationfilms.com/tutorials.htm

Then for the repeat of a machine gun (600 rounds per minutes if my Infantry memory holds up, so loop it every three frames if 30 fps comp), use this loop expression:

Loop_out(“cycle”,0)

See Dan’s tutorial “Animating a Walk Cycle”, by clicking his head above, for details (and project file) on looping.

[Mike Clasby]

I meant GOOD Luck.

[Mike Clasby]

I meant GOOD Luck.

[Mike Clasby]

I’m sure there is a way to stop the wiggle at the frame number 100, or time elapsed, Dan an others would know. But you can also add a Slider (Effect > Expression Controls > Slider Control) to a new Null layer, then highlight either the Amplitude or Frequency,
in your wiggle expression and pickwhip that to the slider, you get an expression like this:

wiggle (5,thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”))

I started out with:
wiggle (5, 50)

and pickwhipped the 50 (Amplitude I think). Anyway either will work and when you set a keyframe of “0” on the slider at 100 frames.
it stops that wiggle dead in its tracks, and more keyframes down the line will restart that wiggle. Oh, you need to set a keyframe >0 before 100 frames so it will wiggle before.

Anyway it works and is very controllable, an changeable.

God luck.

[Mike Clasby]

I’m sure there is a way to stop the wiggle at the frame number 100, or time elapsed, Dan an others would know. But you can also add a Slider (Effect > Expression Controls > Slider Control) to a new Null layer, then highlight either the Amplitude or Frequency,
in your wiggle expression and pickwhip that to the slider, you get an expression like this:

wiggle (5,thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”))

I started out with:
wiggle (5, 50)

and pickwhipped the 50 (Amplitude I think). Anyway either will work and when you set a keyframe of “0” on the slider at 100 frames.
it stops that wiggle dead in its tracks, and more keyframes down the line will restart that wiggle. Oh, you need to set a keyframe >0 before 100 frames so it will wiggle before.

Anyway it works and is very controllable, an changeable.

God luck.

[Mike Clasby]

And TimeWarp with AE7 (demo available), very cool.

[Mike Clasby]

I’d try the clone stamp tool.

A search for “clone” on the AE Support page, reveals several tuts:

https://www.adobe.com/support/products/aftereffects.html

It really depends on how her hair looks with the cloning.

Or maybe you’ll have to roto the top of her head and drop a copy of the wall behind once the vase is removed. Sounds like a tedious job, but maybe you’ll get lucky.

Hopefully some else has a better idea.

Can you key out the vase? Maybe you should try that first.

[Mike Clasby]

If I understand your question correctly. I don’t think you need all those solid layers, just put the “one solid layer that’s a heart shaped mask” above the clip (video, still, whatever you’re viewing), then animate the Mask Shape twirl down the Mask, set a keyframe, double click a vertex then you get a bounding box, make it bigger than the layer (or however big you want it to start), go down the timeline double click again and squeeze that bounding box down to nothing. You should have you clip go from full view to heart shaped, with the heart shaped clip shrinking to a full black screen at the end.

Is that what you want?

[Mike Clasby]

Aharon’s got that 3rd Displacement Map Tut up and running see, above in the forum. Now you can download the .mov and don’t need itunes to view the .m4v files.