Robert Morris
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Thanks guys! I’ve been looking at Ayato’s stuff for a while, but I guess I missed this tutorial. That’s exactly what I’m trying to do. Well, maybe I can just add some fake motion blur and be done with it. Thanks for the heads up!
I might even try the Particular approach that Steve suggested. Overlapping particles don’t bother me. But since that’s the case, I guess I could even go with Ball Action, as my particles would just be simple ball shapes anyway. That way, I wouldn’t need to use time remap either. Just adjust the scatter keyframes and add a blend with original filter.
Hmm… now that my brain is crunching on this, I wonder if my DOF particles might be achieved through expressions? Not the shatter part, but some just moving past the camera. It’s off-topic, so I’ll post a new thread. Thanks again!
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Thanks for the info. Yeah, I’ve tried every test using the comp camera with DOF turned on. Makes sense why it doesn’t work, but I wish it did.
As far as running shatter backwards, it’s too bad there isnt’ a more efficient way of doing it. I thought I saw a tutorial at one point about particles that come together to form a logo. I’m still trying to find it. But maybe they used the same method of reversing the time remap.
I guess maybe I’m just trying to do things AE isn’t meant to do yet. Wouldn’t be the first time. But maybe someone else has an idea?
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Thanks for the info. Yeah, I’ve tried every test using the comp camera with DOF turned on. Makes sense why it doesn’t work, but I wish it did.
As far as running shatter backwards, it’s too bad there isnt’ a more efficient way of doing it. I thought I saw a tutorial at one point about particles that come together to form a logo. I’m still trying to find it. But maybe they used the same method of reversing the time remap.
I guess maybe I’m just trying to do things AE isn’t meant to do yet. Wouldn’t be the first time. But maybe someone else has an idea?
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Thanks for the tip! Looks like there are some great options out there.
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I’ve gotten a similar error if my sound card is doing other things as well, such as playing MP3s, or even if I had opened up the Quicktime player and played a clip with sound while AE was open. I’m on a PC running Windows XP and my sound is just onboard Legacy drivers. Let me know if you solve your problem.
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That’s EXACTLY what I needed! I know about a lot of AE plugins, but I had never seen this one. Thanks a million Barend!
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Steve,
Thank you for your thorough response. It’s true that AE’s next upgrade should probably take a few more steps in the 3D realm. It’d be nice to be able to curve things in 3D space, and make use of AE’s camera and DOF. I may try to find some workaround for now. I’ll give Invigorator or Freeform a shot as well. I’ve gotten the effect I want by taking each letter and moving it back and forth in 3D space. But this will be tedious, as it’s an entire title sequence. There may be a way to do this with parenting and expressions, but I don’t know expressions well enough to know how to make something move in Z space in a back and forth motion, while parented to the letter next to it.
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Steve,
Thank you for your thorough response. It’s true that AE’s next upgrade should probably take a few more steps in the 3D realm. It’d be nice to be able to curve things in 3D space, and make use of AE’s camera and DOF. I may try to find some workaround for now. I’ll give Invigorator or Freeform a shot as well. I’ve gotten the effect I want by taking each letter and moving it back and forth in 3D space. But this will be tedious, as it’s an entire title sequence. There may be a way to do this with parenting and expressions, but I don’t know expressions well enough to know how to make something move in Z space in a back and forth motion, while parented to the letter next to it.
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Also, when you zoom into something like at the end of the tutorial, you can turn on motion blur for the layer and that REALLY helps to obscure any pixelization.
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How about a way to just bend a layer in 3d? Say I have a line of text that I want to bend in Z-space like a wave?
P.S. – sorry for the double post