Sam Moulton
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I’d add a expression control to your pre-comp in the main comp, then put the tint filter on the original layer in the pre-comp. Then tie the property you want to animate to the slider something like this:
comp(“Comp 1”).layer(“PreComp1”).effect(“Color Control”)(“Color”)
for map black for example
and then
comp(“Comp 1”).layer(“PreComp1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”)
for Amount to tint.
now you can control the tint effect from the pre-comp and maintain 3D because your tint effect is applied to the layer in the pre-comp
i’m not very good at this but I hope you got it
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I think text layers always come in at the same size as the comp no matter what the width
just create an expression for source text and type in width
now change the size of the comp and you’ll see that it always reports the comp size. it doesn’t even help to pre-compose.
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I think text layers always come in at the same size as the comp no matter what the width
just create an expression for source text and type in width
now change the size of the comp and you’ll see that it always reports the comp size. it doesn’t even help to pre-compose.
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if your illustrator file is d1 size ae will probably think it’s rectangular pixels when it’s not. I’d make crop marks or import as a comp with cropped layers which is my favorite and then adjust the comp size before I do any animating.
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I was wondering when maintain frame rate in nested comps would be mentioned. That’s the easiest solution.
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you can do it if the sides of your box are not squares. using the jpg as a guide create a solid say 300 X 300 pixels, make it 3d, set the z anchor point to -100, rotate the x value of 1 by 90 the next by -90, the next rotate y by 90 and then last by -90. now you have a box with sides that are too big. create a camera with a zoom of say a million and then position it so the box is approximately in the same position. now use the mask tool to trace the angles of the box using your jpg as a guide and fine tune the orientation to make them line up. I did it in about 5 minutes using your jpg. You now have a 3d box that looks just like the jpg. the only problem is when you then move the camera. it gets real funky because the box isn’t square.
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PNTA i think it’s
just happen to have a friend that got a job there last summer. they have all kinds of stuff.
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I really like Filip’s solution. especially when you change the first line from
num=234567890123.123;
to
num = Math.floor(effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”));
and animate the slider to control the count. you can also use
num = Math.abs(effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”));
and get decimals. Now if I could only figure out how to limit the decimal places to say 2 in Filip’s great solution
Filip???
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I really like Filip’s solution. especially when you change the first line from
num=234567890123.123;
to
num = Math.floor(effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”));
and animate the slider to control the count. you can also use
num = Math.abs(effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”));
and get decimals. Now if I could only figure out how to limit the decimal places to say 2 in Filip’s great solution
Filip???
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I used many layers. should have saved the project but keying stills is always easier than keying moving footage. I used one layer for the top of the frame where the spears are, one for the main body of the dancers, one for the feet, and then 2 for the shadow. all of the top layers had keylight set to show the matte and they were screened over each other to fix some gray areas, then an adjustment layer was used with levels to clean up the matte. These were all combined in a pre-comp that was used as a track matte for the original footage which cut out the everything including the shadows. The shadows were keyed out and used as an alpha matte for a dark gray layer that could be blurred and laid over a floor plate using the multiply mode adjusted for look by changing the opacity. was that clear. that’s about as much two fingered typing as i can do tonight…