[Steve Roberts]

Yes. Any property that can be animated (i.e. has a stopwatch) can have an expression applied to it.

[Steve Roberts]

If somebody’s paying for this, get a wide bluescreen, not small. You want her to walk over the longest stretch possible so you have as many walk cycles as possible to choose from.
Mark the floor in regular intervals so her pace is the same length throughout.
Get a metronome so she walks at the same pace.
Shoot from as far away as you can to minimize perspective distortion.
Since she’s in silhouette, dress her in colours opposite the background. Maybe black, then light the background well. Yes, the background should still be a saturated green or blue.

This will be a lot of work matching her walk. Do some tests, maybe on a wall with a bright sky behind. Hey, why not do the final that way? Anyway, do the tests to know what needs to be in place on set, how to shoot it, and so on. Then try to cur a cycle together, with sitting and so on.

[Steve Roberts]

Which version of AE do you have? If CS3, are we sure that the Transmotion plug works in CS3?

Anyway, this thread might help.

[Steve Roberts]

… or wear a hat to keep ’em guessing …

[Steve Roberts]

Welcome, Darby!

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

AE calls ’em keyboard shortcuts.

CYCLE LAYER MODES (ADD, MULTIPLY etc.)
adobe livedocs

HIDE/UNHIDE A LAYER
Make/unmake shy? No shortcut for that.

TRIM A COMP TO WORKSPACE LENGTH
adobe livedocs: have to trim in/out points separately.

ADD/REMOVE KEYFRAME
adobe livedocs

[Steve Roberts]

Sorry, but you’re not telling us what the problem is.

Is the computer crashing? When?
Are you running out of hard drive space?
Is rendering too slow and you’ll miss the deadline?

Let us know.

[Steve Roberts]

Try masking loosely around the hand-shadow area, then using levels or curves to lighten the shadows. You might have to animate the mask.

Personally, I’d keep the hand shadows.

[Steve Roberts]

Just about any 3D app. Keep the arms, legs and head inside the ball, and as you bring them outside, make the ball bulge, then pop back into place as the head/limbs pop out.

If that’s not what you want Reggie, you’ll have to be more specific. 🙂

[Steve Roberts]

Just checking … we are talking “vector paint”, and not just “paint”, right?