[Mike Clasby]

Are the individual videos flat of curved?

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s a film reel that might work for you:

https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aft65sd3dlayers.html

[Mike Clasby]

Ooops, didn’t see you Dan. It takes me longer to look stuff up. Oh, well, more options are good, I guess.

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s a nifty Dan expression for starting and stopping an expression at a given frame:

startFrame = 0;
stopFrame = 241;

if (time >= framesToTime(startFrame) && time < framesToTime(stopFrame)){ //your expression goes here }else{ value } Set startFrame and endFrame as needed.

[Mike Clasby]

The simplest way is, on a New Solid (Black if you want transparent) Effect>Text>Numbers, and set the Decimal Places to 0, and keyframe the Value/Offset to 1, then 30 down the timeline, uncheck Proportional Spacing.

Dan has a nifty counter expression here, but it’s pretty scary, and there’s reading involved to set the parameters. But it’s way cool:

https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/counter.html

[Mike Clasby]

For me Drop Shadow shows any masked outlines. I don’t understand what you’re saying, “As the masked layer aproaches the mask”. How many layers, how many masks, and where are they.

You can always try precomposing, Layer>Precompose, it solves about half of the problems when AE doesn’t do what think it should.

[Mike Clasby]

Oh, yeah, put Feather to 20 or 30 in that Linear Wipe.

[Mike Clasby]

If you mean that first link I asked about, try to get the logo with an alpha (or you need to key out the white), then duplicate the layer and add the following:

Logo, top layer

1) Rectangular mask that matches the movement of Linear Wipe below (animate Mask Shape, starting at the top, then putting at the bottom as the Linear Wipe below drops down. This will control the Blur and Glow on the leading wedge of the transition.

2) Fast Blur to 40 or more

3) Glow

Logo, bottom layer

1) Linear Wipe, animate top to bottom reveal (Wipe Angle to zero). Coordinate the Linear wipe and the rectangular mask above so they descend at the same time, by animating Transition Completion.

So the bottom layer is the basic reveal and the top layer adds a glowing strip as the reveal happens.

[Mike Clasby]

I get nothing from that link.

Do you mean this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfIF4RJ30-0

or maybe this newer on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkB5KDbP5Ho

Or another?

[Mike Clasby]

Your best friend will be Transition>Radial Wipe with a duplicate number layer underneath that’s darker. Animation Transition Completion. A really nifty plugin.