[Mike Clasby]

https://www.motionscript.com/

https://www.jjgifford.com/expressions/

https://aenhancers.com/

Plus
Lots of expressions in Dan Ebberts Tutorials here at the Cow.

[Mike Clasby]

https://www.motionscript.com/

https://www.jjgifford.com/expressions/

https://aenhancers.com/

Plus
Lots of expressions in Dan Ebberts Tutorials here at the Cow.

[Mike Clasby]

Or if you have AE6.5, Transition>CC Scale Wipe

But I like Pete’s Smear too.

[Mike Clasby]

Checkout AE Flame:

https://www.andrewdavidson.com/aeflame/

[Mike Clasby]

Thes flash video files are flv files.

On a PC you can open the Temporary Internet Files and copy, then paste the flv’s into another folder (don’t try to run files straight
from the TempInternetFiles, PC’s don’t like that. There must be something similar on Macs. Then pick up this flv player (recommended by Lee over at the Cow Flash Web). Lee has all the latest on flv, his tuts on them are great.

FLV Player

https://www.martijndevisser.com/archives/000021.php

[Mike Clasby]

Go to tuorial by Author, click on Rick Gerard:

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=2&page=/articles/script_gen/authorsort/gerard_rick_script.html

His first two (especially the second) are what you want:

Expressing the Camera: A Five Minute Tutorial

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=2&page=/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly2/index.html

Animating The Camera: A Five Minute Tutorial

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=2&page=/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly1/index.html

[Mike Clasby]

First, unparent the layer (change to “none”).

Then set up a simple expression so that the ex-child layer matches the position of the ex-parent layer.

Select both layers, hit the “p” key.
Alt-Click the ex-child’s position stopwatch, this opens a box to write an expression for position (it says, position, in the timeline)
we’ll use the pickwhip (the littlemiddle gray box with the spiral in it) to write it for us. Drag the pickwhip in the ex-child layer, down to the position of the ex-parent layer. Now an expression
appears in the space that says, thisComp.layer(“layer name”).position, that tells your ex-child layer to take the position
of “layer name” (whatever the name of the ex-parent layer is). Now the ex-child follows (match the position) the ex-parent, ignoring
any other changes.

[Mike Clasby]

First, unparent the layer (change to “none”).

Then set up a simple expression so that the ex-child layer matches the position of the ex-parent layer.

Select both layers, hit the “p” key.
Alt-Click the ex-child’s position stopwatch, this opens a box to write an expression for position (it says, position, in the timeline)
we’ll use the pickwhip (the littlemiddle gray box with the spiral in it) to write it for us. Drag the pickwhip in the ex-child layer, down to the position of the ex-parent layer. Now an expression
appears in the space that says, thisComp.layer(“layer name”).position, that tells your ex-child layer to take the position
of “layer name” (whatever the name of the ex-parent layer is). Now the ex-child follows (match the position) the ex-parent, ignoring
any other changes.

[Mike Clasby]

I assumed the body was it’s own layer, on top of a seperate background layer, my fault. I’m now assuming the body is in a video, and therefore the anchor point of the video(with body in it) doesn’t move with the body.

So you need to get a good tracking point to which you can attach the head layer via pickwhipping the heads anchor point to the tracking point (expression). Hopefully the point is close to the neck, that pivot point for the head to attach to. I have to go now, but go to Adobe and check out these quickies on tracking.

Adobe Studio, Tips and Tutorials
https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/main.jsp

You need to sign in or register (It’s easy)

Track it!
Using the new Motion Tracker
Keep motion in perspective

[Mike Clasby]

I assumed the body was it’s own layer, on top of a seperate background layer, my fault. I’m now assuming the body is in a video, and therefore the anchor point of the video(with body in it) doesn’t move with the body.

So you need to get a good tracking point to which you can attach the head layer via pickwhipping the heads anchor point to the tracking point (expression). Hopefully the point is close to the neck, that pivot point for the head to attach to. I have to go now, but go to Adobe and check out these quickies on tracking.

Adobe Studio, Tips and Tutorials
https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/main.jsp

You need to sign in or register (It’s easy)

Track it!
Using the new Motion Tracker
Keep motion in perspective