[Sam Moulton]

here’s one that may get you started. You will have to replace some of the old plug-ins mentioned in the tutorial with ones that are now included.

https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=%3CFORUMID%3E&page=/articles/polevoy_george/flowing_title/index.html

[Sam Moulton]

also check your alpha. straight alphas tend to look funny until you add the footage to a project

[Sam Moulton]

this is a really good expression that solved a problem for me. It’s in my notebook. Thanks Dan!

[Sam Moulton]

this is a really good expression that solved a problem for me. It’s in my notebook. Thanks Dan!

[Sam Moulton]

you could do what you want but not without adding an expression to each child.

to control opacity try putting a slider on your null. The slider is tied to opacity of the null by the pickwhip, then add an expression to each child that looks at the value of slider on the null. Now when you animate the opacity the slider copies the values and any layer looking at the slider would follow. come to think of it, you may not need the slider.

I think there’s also a way for an expression to tell whether or not a layer is visible by using a true statement. I don’t have my notebook with me but I think Dan Ebberts wrote something like “if visibility(not the right term probably) = true then…” which you could add to the expression to turn transparency to 0 on each of the children. this wouldn’t turn off the eyeball, but it would make the layer invisible.

[Sam Moulton]

you could do what you want but not without adding an expression to each child.

to control opacity try putting a slider on your null. The slider is tied to opacity of the null by the pickwhip, then add an expression to each child that looks at the value of slider on the null. Now when you animate the opacity the slider copies the values and any layer looking at the slider would follow. come to think of it, you may not need the slider.

I think there’s also a way for an expression to tell whether or not a layer is visible by using a true statement. I don’t have my notebook with me but I think Dan Ebberts wrote something like “if visibility(not the right term probably) = true then…” which you could add to the expression to turn transparency to 0 on each of the children. this wouldn’t turn off the eyeball, but it would make the layer invisible.

[Sam Moulton]

I think it’s the same that some of the 3rd party plugins are missing in the educational version. I woujld call the adobe store.

[Sam Moulton]

The default camera has a 50 mm lens, the zoom is set to 900pixels and the z position is -900

This will be the same as the default camera. If you have allready added your camera you can just do a reset on all values for the camera options by pressing aa then doing a reset for all properties and then doing a reset for position.

[Sam Moulton]

you might want to try echo. the time offset numbers must be very small.

[Sam Moulton]

the pixel aspect ratio problem is with the image that you are rotating. it is square pixels and if you check the interpretation you should be able to fix it.