[Mike Clasby]

.sit’s are like .zip files, compressed for download, get Stuffit, the Expander is the freebie.

https://www.stuffitsoftware.com/stuffit-mac.html?aUS011

Originally for Apple, it works fine on a PC, now my main expander.

[Mike Clasby]

Select the layer, Right-Click > Open Composition

[Mike Clasby]

Click on Andrew’s head above then hit the link for his site:

https://www.videocopilot.net/

There is lots of stuff on guns and wounds, the exploding head tut… yucky good. He sells a DVD that has muzzle flashes.

Detonation films has some freebie muzzle flashes, here:

https://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

They also have a few tuts. I think the freebies are DO quality, and they and others sell higher quality.

[Mike Clasby]

Whoah, Dude, thanks.

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s an expression for layer markers to trigger the time remapped sound layer.

Add this expression to the Time Remapping stopwatch, then drop markers wherever you want the sound to play. You need a marker at the beginning if you want it to play at the beginning. No marker, no sound. Put markers on the layer by hitting the “*” (asterisk key) on the Numeric Pad.

n = 0;
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
if (marker.key(n).time > time){
n–;
}
}

if (n > 0) t = time – marker.key(n).time + inPoint else t = inPoint;

valueAtTime(t);

This expression works for me anywhere in the timeline, the original needed to start at time zero, but this works from layer’s the inPoint.

This expression was hacked from a Dan Ebberts expression from here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/869363

[Mike Clasby]

You mentioned that AE Camera moves are a Pain… I agree, here are two threads on using Nulls with Camera moves, the second even has a project file, very helpful.

This post by Chris Smith on how he uses Nulls with camera movements:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=878237

Here is an AE project file (aep) for a nifty camera move Australian commercial by John Dickinson, very cool:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/872881?

[Mike Clasby]

Ooops. Methinks your right. I knew my reading skills were questionable. Well at least he has options now.

[Mike Clasby]

Oh yes, for color correcting your face to match the scene, see this gem:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/coots_brendan/greenscreen.php

[Mike Clasby]

Andrew adds sunglasses to a Demon, here:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/Demon_Face_Warp.php

In the process he stabilizes the footage, then adds the sunglasses to a null, so the glasses move with the demon later on.

I know here’s doing a demon face in the tut, but I’m thinking you head replacement is more like adding sunglasses.

If the shots or you head where at the same angles and had the same timing, no easy feat, then it might look OK, interesting to see hoe far you can push it, but like Jerzy said, great for cardboard cutout faces, like that commercial where all the faces are old guys screaming like young girls that first saw the Beatles back in the 60’s.

Anyway Andrew’s tut is worth a try.

[Mike Clasby]

For a walk-thru, Aharon has a 3 minute video tut that uses a similar method, here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/outline/index.htm