[Nicholas Toth]

CC BEND IT

https://www.cycorefx.com/cfxdwn.php
decent tutorial on it

Or do some parenting to different parts of the tentacle….the more parts the less blocky it’ll look….

[Nicholas Toth]

I just jumped into the manual (which is nice that v7 shipped with a manual…) and picked out the speed expression because it is 1D (so they say…)

I set it up the same exact way thisComp.layer(“Particle”).speed to the source text of an empty text layer and I’m still erroring.
Do I have to rewrite it along the lines of calculating the particle’s position speed?

Nevermind, I just did that and it worked. I needed to track the transformation of the position with this:

thisComp.layer(“Particle”).transform.position.speed

Thanks Mylenium — I appreciate it.

[Nicholas Toth]

I just jumped into the manual (which is nice that v7 shipped with a manual…) and picked out the speed expression because it is 1D (so they say…)

I set it up the same exact way thisComp.layer(“Particle”).speed to the source text of an empty text layer and I’m still erroring.
Do I have to rewrite it along the lines of calculating the particle’s position speed?

Nevermind, I just did that and it worked. I needed to track the transformation of the position with this:

thisComp.layer(“Particle”).transform.position.speed

Thanks Mylenium — I appreciate it.

[Nicholas Toth]

Can’t get it to work properly.

the name of the text layer is VELOCITY and the layer we’re tracking is called PARTICLE.
I applied a numbers effect to velocity.

The error that I’m getting is

Error occured at line 1.
Comp: ‘particle’
Layer: 1(“velocity”)
Property: “value/offset/random max’

[Nicholas Toth]

Can’t get it to work properly.

the name of the text layer is VELOCITY and the layer we’re tracking is called PARTICLE.
I applied a numbers effect to velocity.

The error that I’m getting is

Error occured at line 1.
Comp: ‘particle’
Layer: 1(“velocity”)
Property: “value/offset/random max’

[Nicholas Toth]

NICE. That was easy enough. They mention placing it in other channels than the luminance channel…anyone ever do this?
It sounds almost like eating poprocks and drinking soda….

[Nicholas Toth]

detonationfilms.com has some cool blood splatter footage for free

[Nicholas Toth]

Change your ‘interpret footage’ on your file — right click in the bin — interpret footage.
Adjust your FIELDS AND PULLDOWN until it looks good.
Thats how I usually work — if anyone can explain the settings then I’d really appreciate it. The de-interlace filter looks like garbage.

[Nicholas Toth]

for its ease of use vs. price point, I’d strongly recommend just buying SYNTHEYE….
but this is coming from the cheapo who is trying to not use automatic duck and is losing his mind between AAFs and OMFs

[Nicholas Toth]

for its ease of use vs. price point, I’d strongly recommend just buying SYNTHEYE….
but this is coming from the cheapo who is trying to not use automatic duck and is losing his mind between AAFs and OMFs