My 5 COW Posts
Re: Trigger Mr. Ebbert's Squash and Stretch?
by Mike Clasby on Oct 11, 2009 at 1:50:36 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Here is an expression for having a marker trigger Dan's squish and squash. Put the expression on Scale. (Copy the expression, Alt-Click the Scale stopwatch, Paste):
n = 0;
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
if (marker.key(n).time > time){
n--;
}
}
if (n == 0){
value;
}else{
max_dev=20; //...
Re: Old label style
by Mike Clasby on Aug 18, 2008 at 7:09:11 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Maybe easiest to haunt the thrift store/rummage sales and buy an old label maker, then film that.
Or... I just Googled Label Maker and got this site. Just type in your word and it makes it onscreen, then copy the gif...
Re: Shell Casing Effect
by Mike Clasby on May 4, 2008 at 6:24:34 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
There's a freebie long magnum cartridge here:
http://www.detonationfilms.com/SpentBrassChroma.html
No pistol I know uses that, but for a small fee they sell auto-pistol cartridge footage....
Re: Brand spanking new user in need of guidance to get started.
by Mike Clasby on Mar 1, 2008 at 9:11:06 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Here a freebie beginner course from Andrew:
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/ae_introduction.html
Curt has an eight part tut on a News setup, here:
http://leaders.creativecow.net/leaders/murphy_kurt/...
Re: Random layer position constrained by another layer's alpha
by Mike Clasby on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Oh, I see what you're trying to do.
Yes, you probably can, err, maybe Dan can, ask over at the Cow Expression Forum:
http://forums.creativecow.net/viewforum/227
I think if you combine this position expression from Colin:
minX = 0;//Minimum x depth value
maxX = 1000;//Maximum...
Re: applying lightning effect removes footage?
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:53:50 am
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Are you using Advanced Lightning? If so click the little "Composite On Original" box at the bottom of the plugin parameters....
Re: Making a camera follow an object
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:54:04 am
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Here are two post on Camera move, using Nulls to control the AE Camera:
This post by Chris Smith on how he uses Nulls with camera movements:
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=878237
Here is an AE project file (aep) for a nifty camera...
Re: making text bounce
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:54:16 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I found the no-creeping version for when you have an initial x velocity (thanks to the cow for tuning up the Search engine). If you change the last line of Dan's to this:
[position[0] + Vx0*(-Math.pow(2,-time) +1), floor - y]
Then you...
Re: Change particle type
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:54:26 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
1) You can do it with something like CC Particle World, by dropping your image you want to be a particle into a comp the size of your final comp, name it something like "My Particle" then put that in...
Re: Speed ramps&Slow downs w/ Pict sequences
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:54:40 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
300-like Speed Ramps & More!
http://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/timeremap/index.htm...
Re: Animating text in 3D
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:55:14 am
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Here are three ways for 3D Text in ae:
1) Invigorator. Here's a link from the "Look Here First" thread (above):
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=881579
2) Quick and Dirty. Not that dirty really. For a quickie that looks fine unless you...
Re: opacity delay
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:55:38 am
in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
I just had a Copy/Paste malfunction, here is all of it.
This expression on Opacity should do what you want (Copy the expression, Alt-click the opacity Stopwatch, Paste, then click outside the expression box):
delay = 5; //number of frames to delay...
Re: 3d page flip, hide backside
by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:55:52 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Here's a reply to an earlier post, two ways.
Name: yikesmikes
Date: Aug 25, 2007 at 12:42:35 pm
Subject: Re: pictures on both ide of a jpeg
You don't really need a solid. Here are two ways, first with an expression and parenting,...
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