[Nate Vander plas]

Well, I should have thought of this before posting. I trashed the preferences and now if I start a new project, I have my handles back. Unfortunately I still have no handles in the project I was working on, even if I import it into a new project. Oh well, I wasn’t too far along yet.

[Nate Vander plas]

Great list of resources, but does anyone know of tutorials specifically for Turbulence FD? I’ve played with it but haven’t figured much out on my own.

[Nate Vander plas]

If you’re looking for a REALLY easy way to attach puppet pins to nulls, check out this script:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=2229522

Huge time saver for me!

Nate

[Nate Vander plas]

If it’s just one image, this would work:
https://www.motionscript.com/expressions-lab-ae65/pendulum.html

If you have more than one image, you could just stagger your layers in time, I think.

[Nate Vander plas]

Thanks guys! That’s what I was looking for Filip!

[Nate Vander plas]

Not sure exactly what you’re trying to do, but generally if you pre-compose (select your layer(s) and hit cmd+shift+C) you should be able to do whatever you want to the layer, like add a mask.

[Nate Vander plas]

You could try a Displacement Map. Basically you make a grayscale map for warping your image. This would probably be easier to make symmetrical than the Mesh Warp effect.

I do have one question about your project- will most people be viewing the “screens” from the front, or from all sides? In other words, are you sort of trying to create a texture on the objects, or just projecting a video on a weird shape? If it’s not supposed to be a texture, then you may not want to warp your video so that way it will look right from the front.

Nate

[Nate Vander plas]

Thanks Walter! I will try these out and see if they work for us.

[Nate Vander plas]

Yeah, I had severe doubts about AE being able to handle it. Maybe I’ll try posting this in the Final Cut forum unless someone here has any other ideas.

[Nate Vander plas]

Here is the edited code that I tried to put in the previous post:

minSpeed = 0;
maxSpeed = 400;
minSize = .02;
maxSize = .4;

s = thisComp.layer("Particle position").transform.position.speed;
linear(s,minSpeed,maxSpeed,maxSize,minSize)