[Noel Powell]

[Kalle Kannisto] “You can use modulo (%) expression with the loop end time as the divisor.”

Thanks Kalle,
I understand what the modulus operator does, but I’m failing to understand how you’re suggesting I use it. Could you give an example? I appreciate your time.

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[Noel Powell]

Thanks for the reply. I did try in CC 2014 and it was also quite slow, although in different ways from CC 2015. After an hour chatting with Adobe, they were stumped. Although after that, through the process of eliminating layers and effects, I was able to find the source of the problem.

It was the Posterize Time effect. If I turn that off, my comps run smoothly in CC. My comps have a lot of expressions, a lot of effects, and a lot of nested compositions. With the Posterize Time effect added on top of all of those, CC couldn’t handle it. It’s strange the CS5 handled it just fine though.

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[Noel Powell]

Thanks for the response, Kevin. I actually had the slider control set to 9, and there was indeed a layer # 9. I would try the expression with the actual number in there, and it would work fine. Then I’d highlight the “9” and pick-whip the slider control, which was set to “9”, and it would return the error. So there must have been something else going on.

Anyway, the Layer Control works great.

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[Noel Powell]

NVM, I just figured it out. I should have thought of this before. For anyone else who might want to do this – you can have the user define the layer using the Layer Control, rather than a Slider Control. Then in your expression, just pick whip the Layer Control.

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[Noel Powell]

Ok, thank you Dan. BTW, your article on Random Motion Expressions has been a huge help to me. Thanks.

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[Noel Powell]

this is a bit late, but I was able to recreate the datamosh transition look in After Effects using a combination of displacement map, motion tracking, and the echo effect. You can see examples in the first 90 seconds of this videotutorial. There’s also some examples in my demo video
It’s not a perfect reproduction, but I think it’s pretty close, depending on the footage that’s used.

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[Noel Powell]

Brilliant. Works great. You’re my hero, Dan. Thank you.

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[Noel Powell]

I know this is late, but this After Effects template has exactly what you’re talking about. It has 40 old film-looks to choose from. It’s called Creation Film Effects. https://www.creationeffects.com/creation-film-effects.html

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[Noel Powell]

Works perfectly. Thanks so much for your time, Dan.

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[Noel Powell]

Hi Dan, I too am trying to get random jump cuts at irregular intervals, but this expression, and the one on MotionScript.com don’t seem to produce true jump cuts, since footage with jump cuts would only cut forward in time. These expressions make the footage go forward and back and anywhere between the inPoint and outPoint. I’m wondering if there’s an easy solution to this?

What I thought would work, was to change the minVal and maxVal. So I tried this:

maxCutLength = 1 //Maximum amount that the footage can jump forward
minVal = time;
maxVal = time + maxCutLength;

While this does a better job of making the footage move more linearly in time, it still jumps back in time, as well as forward in time.

-Thanks

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