[Rafael]

Hello Dan, thanks for answering.
It does not work well. tarting from keyframe ‘A’ to keyframe ‘B’, the layer behaves strangly, it sort of shakes. What I am looking for is a spring effect that occurs after the keyframe B is done calculated on the speed.
It seems like yours was closer to the answer.

[Rafael]

The hand-held was made in post, it looks to me a little unatural for a hand-held shot. By the way this is a building here in Los Angeles, not very windy. As for the type you can simply make typographics elements in Illustrator, add some blur & dirt in Photoshop then makes some keyframe in After Effects and add some noise and dust and glow flickering with some wiggle expression to feel organic.

[Rafael]

The hand-held was made in post, it looks to me a little unatural for a hand-held shot. By the way this is a building here in Los Angeles, not very windy. As for the type you can simply make typographics elements in Illustrator, add some blur & dirt in Photoshop then makes some keyframe in After Effects and add some noise and dust and glow flickering with some wiggle expression to feel organic.

[Rafael]

Hello, thanks for helping.

I hope this help clarify what I am trying to do:
I start with a compostion in 3D. I have 10 text layers placed in my composition.
The 10 text layers (no keyframes) are parented to a Null object named ‘leader’ which is animated )position+rotation) in the composition.
I want the 10 text layers to follow the ‘leader’ with a delay that augments for each next Text layer. Maybe a slider for the time in-betwween each layer could be cool.
So far I have an independent invisible Solid for each Text Layer to which it is parented. Each Invisible Solid layer has those expressions:

[position]:
delay=thisComp.layer(“Slider”).effect(“delayer”)(“Slider”)/30*index;
thisComp.layer(“leader”).position.valueAtTime(time-delay);

(for each axis Rotation]:
delay=thisComp.layer(“Slider”).effect(“delayer”)(“Slider”)/30*index;
thisComp.layer(“leader”).rotationX.valueAtTime(time-delay);

[Slider]:
delayer = 13

It kind of works, but I feel it could be simpler.

[Rafael]

Hello, thanks for helping.

I hope this help clarify what I am trying to do:
I start with a compostion in 3D. I have 10 text layers placed in my composition.
The 10 text layers (no keyframes) are parented to a Null object named ‘leader’ which is animated )position+rotation) in the composition.
I want the 10 text layers to follow the ‘leader’ with a delay that augments for each next Text layer. Maybe a slider for the time in-betwween each layer could be cool.
So far I have an independent invisible Solid for each Text Layer to which it is parented. Each Invisible Solid layer has those expressions:

[position]:
delay=thisComp.layer(“Slider”).effect(“delayer”)(“Slider”)/30*index;
thisComp.layer(“leader”).position.valueAtTime(time-delay);

(for each axis Rotation]:
delay=thisComp.layer(“Slider”).effect(“delayer”)(“Slider”)/30*index;
thisComp.layer(“leader”).rotationX.valueAtTime(time-delay);

[Slider]:
delayer = 13

It kind of works, but I feel it could be simpler.

[Rafael]

Hello Mylenium,
thank you for responding. I am indeed looking for something very simple, no glow bo blur. But the move of the lens flar is what I am looking for. I am a little confused over your file, as I couldn’t find out if your project is built in a 3D space.
But I posted a shape (super simple) of what I am looking for.
it’s there on my ftp:

https://www.rafaelmacho.com/client/public/simple_shape.aep.zip

[Rafael]

Hello Mylenium,
thank you for responding. I am indeed looking for something very simple, no glow bo blur. But the move of the lens flar is what I am looking for. I am a little confused over your file, as I couldn’t find out if your project is built in a 3D space.
But I posted a shape (super simple) of what I am looking for.
it’s there on my ftp:

https://www.rafaelmacho.com/client/public/simple_shape.aep.zip

[Rafael]

Hi Mylenium,
Yes I have seen your tutorial. I don’t need that rendering quality as there is in your project. Other problem is that your project is taking so long to render on my G5 dual CPU. I am more interested in the motion of the layers than a render.
Here is a project that I am working on to which I want to add a lens flare, but no nlur or gradient, more flat lens flare instead.

https://rafaelmacho.com/client/personal/pine_trees_B_5_small.mov

[Rafael]

Hi Mylenium,
Yes I have seen your tutorial. I don’t need that rendering quality as there is in your project. Other problem is that your project is taking so long to render on my G5 dual CPU. I am more interested in the motion of the layers than a render.
Here is a project that I am working on to which I want to add a lens flare, but no nlur or gradient, more flat lens flare instead.

https://rafaelmacho.com/client/personal/pine_trees_B_5_small.mov

[Rafael]

Thanks Chris.
I was rendering 16 bits. I somehow found a way to make it look smoother by using Color Finesse adjusting the rgb gain and gamma within a layer adjustment.