[Mike Clasby]

Just listening to the wrong advise I think.

It’s wierd because the Effect Calculations works on Photos – the jpegs I tested it on, transfer mode switches with keyframes, but I see your’s are solids, and I can’t make it work of AE solids or solid colors I creae in Photoshop (even if I add a pettern to them). I don’t understand.

Showing my general AE ignorance I guess.

I guess you’ll have to go with Chris’s suggestion.

Sorry ’bout that.

[Mike Clasby]

Just listening to the wrong advise I think.

It’s wierd because the Effect Calculations works on Photos – the jpegs I tested it on, transfer mode switches with keyframes, but I see your’s are solids, and I can’t make it work of AE solids or solid colors I creae in Photoshop (even if I add a pettern to them). I don’t understand.

Showing my general AE ignorance I guess.

I guess you’ll have to go with Chris’s suggestion.

Sorry ’bout that.

[Mike Clasby]

My mistake, Mea Culpa,I thought vector Paint would turn the interior of you Vector Paint Stokes into an Alpha, and the I thought Effect > Render > Paint bucket could fill that Alpha.
I original said Fill, not Paint Bucket. Well I was wrong in so many ways, but below is a way to use Paint bucket with your Vector Paint stokes of the outline, and it seems to work, but might be to cumbersome or too much of a hack for you or not satisfactory results.

On your vector Vector Paint layer
Vector Paint
Current Frame
As Matte

Pre compose the Vector paint layer – Layer Precompose – Move All Attributes

Then in the now Precomposed layer, use the Paint Bucker Effect.
Fill Point to within the bounds of you previous Vector Paint Stroke(s) (you might need to animate (keyframe) the Fill Point to keep it within the bounds for that frame)
Color & Alpha
Tolerance until it fills middle
Color to White

Set the Layers transfer Mode to Stencil Alpha (not within the Plugin, but to the layer it’s self)

You end up almost there, but an thin blackish outlines of your stroke are visible, so back in the Paint Bucket Plugin,
Change the Stroke dropdown to Spread and tweak that slider that appears, until that outline disappears.

You might want to look at Timothy Kurkoski’s tut:

Turning vector Paint into Masks
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kurkoski_tim/paint_to_mask/index.html

[Mike Clasby]

Would Render > Fill work?

[Mike Clasby]

Use the effects Channel > Compound Arithmetic or Calculations.

Calculations is easier, but be sure a twirl down the “Second Source” triangle and set the layer below as the second source and second layer at 100%, then keyframe away on the Blending Mode.

[Mike Clasby]

Use the effects Channel > Compound Arithmetic or Calculations.

Calculations is easier, but be sure a twirl down the “Second Source” triangle and set the layer below as the second source and second layer at 100%, then keyframe away on the Blending Mode.

[Mike Clasby]

You want to employ a track matte.

First put the text layer above the newspaper layer where you want it.

Parent the text to the newspaper (parent column in the timeline, pickwhip or select from drop down).

Animate the position of the newspaper across the screen, the text layer above should stay affixed.

Now make a new solid layer (Ctrl Y), any color.
Draw your mask on the solid layer.

Now in the modes column under TrkMat, select alpha matte for the text layer, the solid layer with mask layer’s little eye will go out and they will merge into a track matte.

This should reveal the text on the paper as it passes under the mask (the mask being the shape you create with the pen tool or the rectangular or elliptical mask tools). To reverse the reveal, select Alpha Inverted Matte in the Modes Column.

Any trouble look up track mattes in AE Help.

[Mike Clasby]

How about “Morphing In After Effects”:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph/index.html

[Mike Clasby]

I’m assuming you used this expression:

temp = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);
value + [temp, temp]*20

Modify the last line to:

value + [[0], temp]*20

If you wanted to just expand horizontally it would be:

value + [ temp,[1]]*20

Note: if you want it to only expand up, not both up and down, move the layers anchor point to the bottom of the layer(Pan Behind Tool (Y) is easiest).

[Mike Clasby]

I’m assuming you used this expression:

temp = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);
value + [temp, temp]*20

Modify the last line to:

value + [[0], temp]*20

If you wanted to just expand horizontally it would be:

value + [ temp,[1]]*20

Note: if you want it to only expand up, not both up and down, move the layers anchor point to the bottom of the layer(Pan Behind Tool (Y) is easiest).