[Patrick Grossien]


minLife = 30
peak = 6
minFreq = minLife/(minLife*(24/peak));


this seems to be working somewhat – but why 24? 😀
and what would be truly accurate?

I’ll then create a maxPeak and minPeak to add to the code for easier control.

[Patrick Grossien]

Thanks again Dan, I dropped a little thank you tip in your jar! 🙂

I got this to work the way I wanted it to. Even though I had a little bit of trouble getting the frequency correct, because I wanted a max amount of 2 curves per path and therefore it needed to be linked to the life span / speed of the bubbles.

Through trial and error I got that timing to work with the following, doing the same thing for the min and max values.

(minLife is at 30 at the moment)
minFreq = (minLife/720)


I was trying something along the lines of
minFreq = (minLife/(minLife*60));

which didn’t work exactly how I want it

Maybe you can unravel for me how frequency in connection to time could be calculated, so that a variable can be set to the amount of peaks the bubble is doing per path and not the amount per sec as freq. is doing it now.

Best,
Patrick

[Patrick Grossien]

You’re the best! Thanks a ton. This looks like I might get it to work the way I want. I’ll take some time to test it out and will report back.

You’re amazing! Thank you 🙂

[Patrick Grossien]

Oh man, I guess I’m just totally overworked. I can’t see the simplest things today….

Yes that’s it and the script works like a charm like that.

Thanks a million!

[Patrick Grossien]

I tried it in a clean comp with a simple circle and it jumps at

00:12:24

00:24:24

it always switches 24 frames after the given second.

If I use 11 seconds as hold time it jumps at

00:11:24
00:22:24

so it’s as if I’m missing something in the overall comp settings or preferences then?

holdTime = 12; //time to hold each position (seconds)
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
seedRandom(seed,true);
random([thisComp.width, thisComp.height])


[Patrick Grossien]

Thank you Dan for helping me out!

There’s no time remapping in there.
I’ve randomised an ellipse with turbulent displace and rotation.
Scale has looping keyframes from 00:00:00 to 00:12:00 (also tried 00:11:59)
and the repositioning always happens after 12sec and it’s multiples.

[Patrick Grossien]

Oh man, life can be so easy… damn! 🙂

Thank you both!

[Patrick Grossien]

Ok this was ages ago, but I’d need a hint on how to do the best possible software upres.
You used compressor. Do you remember how you used it? Which settings….

Thanks a ton!

[Patrick Grossien]

Ah ok, that clarifies it! Thank you a ton!

[Patrick Grossien]

Dan, you’re the man! It looks spot on (no pun intended 😉 ).
Thank you so much.

Just that I understand how this works:
When I grab the info from the layer, it always refers to it’s actual position on the comp?
Because I would’ve guess that width and height are static values.