[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Thanks for your input. Unfortunately I need to find clips already edited in a timeline.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Yes. That is what I was trying to do…
Many thanks…

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

I would try a simple approach to this first.

Create a tall photoshop document, use brushes to paint line(s) trying to keep the top and the bottom of the image as symmetric as possible the usen the offset plugin in AE to simulate a long continuous movement. You can also create different photoshop documents to keep it visually different.

Another approach can be doing the same thing in illustrator (because of its vectorial nature) then find a combination of plugins (roughen edges, some kind of distortion etc) in AE to make the lines more realistic…

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Thanks a lot.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Thanks Dan.
Tweaking your expression did it.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Yes, sure.
I knew there was the “center in view” command somewhere and it was right under my nose… Maybe it was time to take a break.
Thank you very much!

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

At the moment I found a workaround. I use a push transition in a filler on the top of the clip I want to offset but I will check out the “kaleidoscope” effect too.
Thanks a lot.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Ok I solved it:

offset = comp("MainComp").layer("CompA").startTime

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

I tried both Rafael’s and Matt’s methods.
Starting from a DvcPro HD timeline both movies seems to be visually identical though exporting via compressor doubles render times.
So I made some test and tried an HDV 1440 x 1080 timeline with superimposed subtitles.
Both methods worked fine for video but compressor resizing was slightly better with the subtitles.
No visual difference with subtitles for the DvcPro HD timeline…
In the future I will use both methods depending on the final deliever.
Thanks

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Thanks!
Changing codec to prores, setting “always render in high precision YUV” and sending to compressor with frame control ON worked really fine! And no green line!!

I still don’t know why when sending to compressor and using frame controls ON in all other situations (wether I’m upscaling or downscaling) produces a green line on the left (on many different machines)…
I will try to ask in the proper forum…

Thanks again!