[Steve Roberts]

I think you’re being recursive, saying a=b=a or something. Lose the “temp”, and the = out of the second line. If I get your intention, your expression should say, in effect:

-“New Variable Name” is equal to a real value taken from another layer, then
-the position is now [ New Variable Name , New Variable Name , unchanged property ]

Your expression should really read:

KeyframeVal = thisComp.layer(“soundkeys”).effect(“Sound Keys”)(“Output 1”);
[KeyframeVal,KeyframeVal,position[2]]

The last line looks incomplete, but it is being applied to the position property. AE takes the last line of a script (as far as I can tell) and applies it to the property in which the expression, er, resides.

Hope it works … I’m not at AE right now.
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

I think you’re being recursive, saying a=b=a or something. Lose the “temp”, and the = out of the second line. If I get your intention, your expression should say, in effect:

-“New Variable Name” is equal to a real value taken from another layer, then
-the position is now [ New Variable Name , New Variable Name , unchanged property ]

Your expression should really read:

KeyframeVal = thisComp.layer(“soundkeys”).effect(“Sound Keys”)(“Output 1”);
[KeyframeVal,KeyframeVal,position[2]]

The last line looks incomplete, but it is being applied to the position property. AE takes the last line of a script (as far as I can tell) and applies it to the property in which the expression, er, resides.

Hope it works … I’m not at AE right now.
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

1. draw the line on a solid with the pen tool.
2. apply effect>render>stroke to the solid. Set to “only”, not “in original”.
3. animate the end point of the stroke effect.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

It depends on your animation. Designers of computer displays for movies often render at 256 colours because the animation has a very limited colour palette. However, if you have any smooth gradients, such as a clear sky at twilight, you will see separate bands of colour at the thousands setting.

If your animation consists of solid colours with no gradients, no blurs, you might be able to get by.

Make sure your computer’s monitor is set to millions or more in your computer’s display settings.
If you’re showing the final on video, you should also get a TV and hook it up to your computer through a camcorder from your computer’s firewire port. More info is in the manual.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Good advice.

In case you’re worried about not looking like an professional, don’t. Since there are many standards for many types of delivery, professionals always check with the person or persons receiving the rendered material, just to find out what specs are required by those specific individuals.

Imagine if you guessed wrong and had to re-render at film res. Always talk to the techies.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Good stuff. Guess I’d better upgrade. 🙂

Thanks,
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Cool — but there has to be an easier way … ?

[Steve Roberts]

Search the COW for “film look”. Include the archives in an advanced search.

The Search Posts button is to your top left.

You can also search Google using “film look” and “after effects”.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Yep, there’s an Illustrator thing that requires releasing to layers, if I recall. I’m a little behind on my Illy versions, so I don’t know of an automatic way of doing it except by dragging each sub-layer (or whatever) above its, er, parent layer.

The point of this being, with recent versions of Illustrator, something often needs to be done in Illustrator before importing into AE as a composition.

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Make a layer with a render>ramp effect applied (radial). Pre-comp it. Apply transition>gradient wipe to the layer that you want to wipe away. Use the ramp precomp as your gradient. Animate the gradient wipe transition completion.

Steve