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Friends:  Darby Edelen  Fernando Guerrero  Helena Masterson  John Percival  Michael Szalapski  Todd Kopriva  Topher Welsh | | | | |  | VC Reflection on a 3D Compby Ervin Tia 2 weeks agoHello, I'm trying out the reflection effect and it works great on a simple, single-image layer. Please show me how to implement it properly on a pre-comp layer with 3D spaced layers. Thanks! HERE'S MY | Re: VC Reflection on a 3D Comp
by Kevin Camp 2 weeks ago
if you wanted to use the effect, i believe you'd need to add it to each layer in the pre-comp... or, try duplicating the comp, scale the duplicate -100% on the y axis (so the scale would be 100,-100 )
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| | | | | Range selectors (stop speed variation?)by Chris law 3 weeks agoHi, im animating text with range selectors and Im just wondering, is there anyway to make it so no matter how many letters in a word, they all animate at the same a speed, because theres a variation w | Re: Range selectors (stop speed variation?)
by Kevin Camp 2 weeks ago
you could do this with expressions.... first, in the range selector advanced settings set the units to 'index'. then select the end value and choose animation add expression and add this expression to
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| | | |  | loopOut dropping last frame of sub-compby Greg Neumayer 3 weeks agoI'm having issues with loopOut. I've applied it in it's default mode to "Bird", which is a 8 frame flapping sequence. I can see in the time remap that it's cycling through the 8 frames, but for some r | Re: loopOut dropping last frame of sub-comp
by Kevin Camp 3 weeks ago
whenever you time remap a comp, it always ends up with the last frame as blank... what i normally do after adding time remapping to a nested comp is go one frame before the last frame and add a keyfra
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| | | |  | Burning Footage to VHSby Ollie Inglis 3 weeks agoHi guys, wasnt exactly sure what forum to post this on - but i am trying to figure out how to burn footage from a mac pc onto a vhs tape so i can then recapture it. What equipment would i need any lin | Re: Burning Footage to VHS
by Kevin Camp 3 weeks ago
there's an effects called twitch from videocopilot that could help with that effect: https: www.videocopilot.net products twitch the page has a walkthrough video and tutorials using the effect. the co
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| | | |  | How to Loop In and Out?by Mark Walczak 1 month agoHi everyone, I have two linear keyframes within a Time Remap that allow me to recreate a timewarp that I was given from an Avid clip. I'm quite accustomed to using loopOut("Continue"), as well as the | Re: How to Loop In and Out?
by Kevin Camp 1 month ago
you need to set conditions to loopIn when time is before the first key, use the value when between the keys and loopOut after the last key... this should do it: if (time = key(1).time){ if (time key(2
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| | | | | Subtle Colour Flickering Effectby Ollie Inglis 1 month agoHi there, new-poster here. I have been trying to find out how to achieve this flcikering colour effect i have seen in a music video for a while now, and just cant seem to do it. The effect i am trying | Re: Subtle Colour Flickering Effect
by Kevin Camp 1 month ago
try adding a new adjustment layer (layer new adjustment layer) and then adding the hue saturation effect to the adjustment layer. key frame the 'master hue' value to do something like 10-20 revolution
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| | | |  | rubber band effect between two objectsby Steven J Casey 2 months agoCan someone point me in the direction of a tutorial or script to achieve this effect I have a logo in center and need several other logos to fly out from behind. I'd like them to appear tied to the ce | Re: rubber band effect between two objects
by Kevin Camp 2 months ago
the beam effect would be another possibility, if the layers are 2d you can use the expression pickwhip to link the ends of the beam to the layers. if they are 3d layers, then you can use dan ebbert's
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| | | |  | How to animate along multiple masks?by Sébastien Lavoie 2 months agoHi, I am trying to animate a null along some text. I selected my text layer, used the *Layer Create Masks from Text* and then tried to copy paste the mask onto the position property which works when p | Re: How to animate along multiple masks?
by Kevin Camp 2 months ago
you should be able to copy paste more than one mask path onto the position property, but you do have to do it one at a time... select a mask path, copy, select the position property, move the cti to t
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| | | |  | Damping a rapidly changing valueby Paul Roper 2 months agoHello, I'm looking for a way to damp the decay of a rapidly changing value. Specifically, I have a particle system generating explosive bursts, and I have linked the birth rate to the intensity of a l | Re: Damping a rapidly changing value
by Kevin Camp 2 months ago
you could try smooth()... try something like this: br = thisComp.layer("White Solid 1").effect("CC Particle World")("Birth Rate"); this is your particle system's birthrate br.smooth(.2,5); Kevin Camp
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| | | |  | Maddening render issueby Tobias Van Kleeck 2 months agoHello all, So, I'm attempting render a 2 minute animation that is comprised of some not-particularly-large images for back ground textures and then a bit of type and shape layers. A lot of precomps bu | Re: Maddening render issue
by Kevin Camp 2 months ago
check you ram settings. you can see this happen when disk caching kicks in. if you can monitor disk activity when the slow down starts, and you see an increase in disk usage, then that's likely part o
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| | | |  | Create Negative Value.by Allen joaquin 2 months agoHi, well basicly here's what i have: I've got 2 solids with optical flares applied an i have 2 diff flares on each solid one on the left and one on the right. Screenshot:(http: gyazo.com d5f817001702b | Re: Create Negative Value.
by Kevin Camp 2 months ago
since the value of position is multidimensional, you need to single out the dimension by using it's index -- x = 0 , y = 1 , z = 2 . if you want to keep y separate (so it can be different than the oth
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| | | |  | Handheld camera simulationby Daniel Waldron 2 months agoI am slowly pushing in on text with a camera in my composition. I want to give it a kind of random, handheld feel. Not too shaky, but definitely slight variances in the rotation and point of interest | Re: Handheld camera simulation
by Kevin Camp 2 months ago
if your text is 3d and you are using a 3d camera for the move, try adding wiggle to both the camera point of interest and the camera's position. Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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| | | |  | Gaussian blurby Ben Hartley 3 months agoVery simple problem but something that has annoyed me for a long time now and would LOVE to know how to fix it! When you add gaussian blur to a layer it always blurs the edge of the frame, how do i st | Re: Gaussian blur
by Kevin Camp 3 months ago
last one... possibly the best option: add set matte and uncheck the option to 'composite matte with original'... it seems to hold up well no matter how much i blur the layer. Kevin Camp Senior Designe
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| | | | | toComp 3D null with Z offset?by Navarro Parker 3 months agoI'm using the standard 3D null to 2D position expression: L = thisComp.layer("null"); L.toComp(L.anchorPoint) But in this case, I want to attach a Shine source point to the null. And since those lines | | | | |
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| | | |  | LHe sync issues, all of a suddenby David Jahns 4 years agoI'm not an engineer, just the most tech savvy editor at a shop with 11 FCP Stations - 9 with LHe, one with a K3, and one LHi, all using FCP 6.0.5. All of the LHe stations are about 2 years old Mac Pro | Re: LHe sync issues, all of a sudden
by Kevin Camp 3 years ago
hi david, we've been having audio sync issues with one fcp station, and it happens to be the only one with the ms office suite installed on it. our it guy is currently on vacation right now, so i can'
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| | | | | trapcode alternatives?by james isbell 3 years agoHi, As much as I really want my hands on it I can't because I'm a student :( So are there any real alternative to any of the trapcode effects. I'm not expert (at all) but it seems that the price tag i | Re: trapcode alternatives?
by Kevin Camp 3 years ago
cc particle world is a standard ae effect that can do a fair amount of what particular can do (not sure if it comes with the educational version though). videocopilot.net has several tutorials that us
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| | | | | Download Trapcode CS3 for MACby Paulo Credidio 3 years agoHi everybody, I'd like to know if someone knows where can I find the Trapcode CS3 for MAC. I looked for it in a lot of sites, But can not find it. Thanks for the answers! Paulo Credidio | | | | |
| | | | | Particular and 3d invgby john younger 4 years agoIs there any way to make 3d invigorator and particular interact together Specifically i want a little flame trailbuilt in particular to come in and around a logo in 3d built in 3d invig... thanks in a | Re: Particular and 3d invg
by Kevin Camp 4 years ago
the easiest way is to create the particle system exactly how you want it, except for wrapping around the layer. then duplicate that particle system and place the layer(s) that will be in the middle of
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| | | |  | Particular questionby Dan RAPAPORT 4 years agoHello I need to make an effect of an image which separates in different pieces of same size each. Like one image to 20 images. I need to change the image of each piece (but a precomp should help me ea | Re: Particular question
by Kevin Camp 4 years ago
if i'm under standing what you are looking for, it sounds like you want card wipe. it will divide up a layer into a specified grid, has jitter controls that can make the tiles (cards) move fly around
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| | | |  | Gas Ringby Simon Roughan 4 years agoIm trying to make a gas ring like on a stove top in Particular. I want to make a ring of light emitters, then use the gas flame preset and tweak it a bit. But as soon as I make the emitter type a ligh | Re: Gas Ring
by Kevin Camp 4 years ago
upon further investigation, you should set the solid's scale to 0,0,0. that way the z depth of the solid will be 0 also -- setting the size of the solid to 1x1, inexplicably leaves the depth of the la
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| | | | | How to get this look?by Dotan Stern 4 years agoHow can i create this look of outlines http: www.artbeats.com creative_samples 10 page=3 | Re: How to get this look?
by Kevin Camp 4 years ago
the figures look a lot like threshold (although levels or brightness & contrast could be use, they're just more work) and then tint, tritone, colorama or some other colorizing effect.... i think the t
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| | | | | stop email notification for new postsby Kevin Camp 4 years agofor some reason i started getting email notifications on just about every post in the after effects forum starting yesterday. i checked my profile settings, and the notification state is set to 'none' | Re: stop email notification for new posts
by Kevin Camp 4 years ago
thanks. my i-t guy would have started to get a bit irritated with me after a while... i'm one of those types who spend more time in the forum than i do in my inbox ;-)Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ,
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| | | |  | Disk Crashby Glenn Pniewski 5 years agoG4 Quicksilver 867MHz 1.5GB RAM OSX 10.4 Hi all, Hope you can help me recover. Have a boot drive on the above machine, and had only about 8GB free out of 75GB (I use external firewire drives for FCP m | Re: Disk Crash
by Kevin Camp 5 years ago
you need to get that drive on a bootable system to see if you can access the drive and it's files. if you can access that drive then you should be able to copy over many of the files to another drive.
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| | | |  | Maintenanceby Dan Browne 5 years agoI am a PC tech in a Mac world at the moment and I'm in need of some help. On PC there where several tools I used for maintaining my computer, it kept it nice and fast and so I never had many troubles | Re: Maintenance
by Kevin Camp 5 years ago
use disk warrior to defrag if you have lots of large files (osx will defrag files smaller than 20mb automatically). i'd use the disk utility to repair permissions after installing anything new (softwa
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| | | | | OS 10.1.3 & Classicby Nicholas Toth 5 years agoHey everyone, Posted a few weeks back about a problematic AVID system that went down with a system update. Its a quicksilver, its not a bad machine, but its not working. The deal is, I need to install | Re: OS 10.1.3 & Classic
by Kevin Camp 5 years ago
do you have the original os install disks or any install disks with 10.1.3 and 9.1 (or 9.0.4) if so, you should be able to do an archive and install... that should move the current os to a folder call
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| | | | | Monitorsby Dan Browne 5 years agoWho knows if this is an OS X problem or if its like a hardware malfunction or whatever, but we have a G5 computer, and 2 Cinema HD 23" monitors from apple. Whenever we start up the system, both monito | Re: Monitors
by Kevin Camp 5 years ago
that's a good call... and probably more likely than a bad monitor profile.Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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| | | | | Slo Mo 24PN in FCPby Michael Colin 5 years agoGreetings. Am posting a show shot on HVX200 in 24PN. There are shots I'd like to use slow mo on (didn't know that while shooting otherwise would have done it in camera), and it looks pretty bad just u | Re: Slo Mo 24PN in FCP
by Kevin Camp 5 years ago
you have two options in after effects (cs3)... bring the footage into ae. make sure ae sees it as 23.976 and is not trying to separate fields (select the footage in the project window then choose file
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| | | |  | Mail App emergencyby Harry Pallenberg 5 years agoOk I get all my current mail for one project via the webmail. I log in by pointing my browser to mail.womeninboxes.com horde then fill out username password That server is about to go down so I want ( | Re: Mail App emergency
by Kevin Camp 5 years ago
yep, you need to know somethings about your email provider. do they support pop or imap and what is their incoming mail server. you won't need the smtp server (you would need it to be able to send ema
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| | | |  | Group many adjustment-layers to one presetby Dino Muhic 5 years agoHi, I made a Film Look I really like and which behaves exactly how I want it to on nearly all szenes or light situations. It's a mixture of different plug-ins and many other adjustment layers (Glow, M | | | | |
| | | |  | CC Compositeby Butch Golden 5 years agoI have AE 7 but need this CS3 effect for a proj. Are there any workarounds I want to composite a slightly blurred image with an unblurred one so it "comes into focus" re: Andrew's toot on SlideShows. | Re: CC Composite
by Kevin Camp 5 years ago
i believe the student version of cs3 comes with all the 'pro' perks now, for what that's worth.Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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