[Richard Herd]

I’m not sure how they did that, but here’s how I do that:

Solid layer > Effect > Audio Spectrum

choose the audio layer.
Make sure the start point and end point go from edge to edge.
Add a mask over the entire lower half of the image.
Add an Adjustment layer > Effect > Polar Coordinates: set interpolation to 100% and type of conversion to Rect to Polar.

Thickness is its own value — and you’ll find plenty of stuff to tweak.

Hope that helps

[Richard Herd]

[Mark Suszko] “A level playing field and real competition is good for the capitalist market system.”

The standard rebuttal is that because increased competition creates lower returns, the competition causes asset bubbles. (See also “the coercive laws of competition” 😉

[Richard Herd]

Dan Ebberts said this a few days ago about loops: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/227/32538

[Isaac Someah-Kwaw] “I could use to trick the lights into interacting with the flat video as if it still had z-depth.”

do you mean like a volumetric light effect?

[Richard Herd]

Well I had hoped it was easy.

Twirl down the camera options and mess with z-rotation, see what happens. You might need to search for After Effects camera tutorials.

Sorry :/

[Richard Herd]

You can animate it with shape layers and a repeater. If you have you used expressions before, modifying a “drag me” expression on the radius or scale parameter will get you there too:


//applied to a blur effect, for example, causes the blur intensity to increase as the to points get closer;

point1=transform.position;
point2=thisComp.layer("dragme").transform.position;
delta=sub(point1,point2);
distance=length(delta);
linear(distance, 0, 80, 40, 0);


I can’t remember where I got the dragme expression, but I didn’t write it.

[Richard Herd]

Following up. This great, because I’m making a series of training videos. The intro is in After Effects, but the titles of the videos differ: “Pre-Enroll” and “How to use the report function,” for example. This is super helpful because now I can scale the text using your rig concept. Thanks again!

[Richard Herd]

Sorry for the delay. But yeah, I use Inertial Bounce all the time!

[Richard Herd]

What is your comp size in After Effects?

[Richard Herd]

[Bill Davis] “They interchange well, but they each must be learned separately.”

Understatement of the year!

[Richard Herd]

Please describe your import and export process…in exact detail. Frame size, pixel aspect, etc. thanks.