[Roland R. kahlenberg]

If you want lots of snowflakes then just use the recipe I provided in th earlier post to create a single snowflake. Then use it as a Layer Map for Particle Playground.

You’ll want to create the layer map precomp only as big as you need them when used with PP. Too big and it’ll become a memory hog. If things run slow, you’ll want to create a property mapper to act as a particle killer. Perform a search here at the COW on how to create a particle killer map.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

If you want lots of snowflakes then just use the recipe I provided in th earlier post to create a single snowflake. Then use it as a Layer Map for Particle Playground.

You’ll want to create the layer map precomp only as big as you need them when used with PP. Too big and it’ll become a memory hog. If things run slow, you’ll want to create a property mapper to act as a particle killer. Perform a search here at the COW on how to create a particle killer map.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I just logged in again and read what I wrote earlier – I may have messed up. let’s hope Dan jumps in with a workable solution.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I just logged in again and read what I wrote earlier – I may have messed up. let’s hope Dan jumps in with a workable solution.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

See if this helps you out &page=/articles/kramer_andrew/sky_replacement/index.html” TARGET=_blank>Andrew Kramer – Skyreplacement/Motion Stabilization

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

This would look better with 3D layers. Assuming both layers have the same dimensions, you would select either layer and:
1) set its y-axis for orientation to 180 degrees
2) set its x-scale value to -100% (ensure that you first deselect the constraint proportions checkbox
3) set its z-position to -1 (could be any value <0 and >-1)
4) then make the other layer a child to this layer.

Once you’ve done this, it’s a matter of animating the parent layer in 3D space.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

This would look better with 3D layers. Assuming both layers have the same dimensions, you would select either layer and:
1) set its y-axis for orientation to 180 degrees
2) set its x-scale value to -100% (ensure that you first deselect the constraint proportions checkbox
3) set its z-position to -1 (could be any value <0 and >-1)
4) then make the other layer a child to this layer.

Once you’ve done this, it’s a matter of animating the parent layer in 3D space.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Ideally the TimeRemapped layer should be a nested comp (for non-movies) and the TimeRemap value should point to the nested layer’s source – not the comp where it is being nested. Then depending on the loopout type you’ve chosen, there are restrictions to make it work – such as the first and last keyframe values should be identical, otherwise there will be a jump in the way the loop occurs.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Ideally the TimeRemapped layer should be a nested comp (for non-movies) and the TimeRemap value should point to the nested layer’s source – not the comp where it is being nested. Then depending on the loopout type you’ve chosen, there are restrictions to make it work – such as the first and last keyframe values should be identical, otherwise there will be a jump in the way the loop occurs.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Thomas S. Knudsen] “After Effects now default to interpret 720×576 Photoshop files as “square pixels” which is a little strange. I tried to fix it in the interpretation text file wichout success.”

See if this works – put it at the end of the interpretation_rules.txt file.
# Photoshop 720×576 is non-Sq
720, 576, *, “8BPS”, * = 768/720, *, *, *

I always thought that AE’s Motion Blur should look better. Bear in mind that a layer’s quality setting affects the quality of the Motion Blur.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files