[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Nicolas, if you choose to split the project into different parts, then you will have to make sure audio is separated into individual pieces properly as well.

Anyways, I would suggest to divide the topic into more parts, just to have more convenient workflow, and not a single massive .aep project.

Later, you would render out individual pieces and connect them together, either in Premiere if its simple sequence merge, or with AE (if some more complex transition work would be required between the pieces).

To begin with, I would do the following:
1. Create a master project, which has the structure which you are familiar with (including all folders/main comps/repetitive items which might be used later (if possible to plan this),etc)
2. Inside the master, pre-comp audio file.
3. Create ‘part comps’ of the master’s audio file. Each scene will have its own audio layer cut, from master pre-comp (N overall).
4. Save as this project N times with incremental file names and then work on every individual piece animation in each .aep file.

It is as straightforward as it sounds. Based on this you can see, that it is possible to face an issue where the same assets re-use is required for other portion, yet you might not have them in the same project file ☺ There are tools which allows to simplify this, but you can always import other project into panel and leave out only whats needed.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Francis,

please share the delay expression you are currently using to enhance it further.

Yet in general, it would be something like this, assuming you have a null layer with ‘Slider’ named ‘delay’ in the comp:
delayFrames = thisComp.layer("control").effect("delay")(1);
delay = framesToTime(delayFrames);
extraSpin = 15;
thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.rotation.valueAtTime(time-delay) + extraSpin

You could change ‘inded-1’ to ‘index+1’ if your parented layers stack has a different order (if parent is below)

Cheers.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Nicolas,

it all depends on the nature of the project. Could you specify the following:
1. How complex the whole edit will be?
2. Is it mainly video edit with visual assets here and there, or more heavy AE work required process?
3. Structurally, is your project has certain story parts, which could be clearly separated by meaning?

Cheers!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Nitai,

you can do it easily by applying layer styles gradient – it has more flexibility.

Select the layer, right click > Layer Styles > Gradient Overlay

Then, at colors section, choose ‘Edit Gradient’. Markers at the top of color band controls opacity.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Haha, yeah, unless they do code something. Otherwise – forbidden area!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Just a plain guess in terms of layers – just because they are indexed in the timeline this way from 1 to human kinds, not to make confusion when accessing.

Project selections & Folder items – thats another story where I don’t have a guess ☺ But indeed, thats an interesting topic!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Gus, if thats the case, then here is how I would do it:

1. Place text layer where you want it to be and move its anchorpoint to the center of circle shape.
2. Add expression below to the rotation of text:
xPos = thisComp.layer("circle").transform.position[0];
linear(xPos, 0, thisComp.width, 0, 360)

This will make rotation 360 degrees based on X position.

3. Create null layer and place it in the center of your text. Add expression to rotation of null:
-thisComp.layer("text").transform.rotation

This will invert rotation from interpolation and keep text layer in its original rotation.

4. Parent text to null, and null to circle.

Now whenever circle moves, text will follow. I am sure there is a better way to do it by setting anchorpoint to follow, but this is the simplest imo.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Andrew,

the most important thing – are you going to wrap those 10 pages of compliance info into stripped down version? Or, do you need to make the use out of it all?

In addition, there is not enough info – whether all copy will be covered by word-to-word voice over?

Cheers.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

If what Kalleheikki shown is correct guess, and if it’s as below, then it should be an easy approach.

What you need to do to achieve this:
1. On the text layer, draw an open path, which starts under the text / is inside the center of the comp and continues into a circle’s borders.
2. Reveal text properties and select mask inside the Path Options.
3. Link First Margin with circle’s X position and readjust its starting point. You might want to multiply the position value by 2 or 3 to speed up the path slide.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Matt, that sounds pretty strange. Any chance you have some effects/transformations applied to the layers itself? Based on this, it might be possible to spot a pattern.

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