Re-creating Apple's cover flow in AE...
by Chris Pass
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May 19, 2008 at 7:01:43 pm
Ok, so I'm trying to re-create Apple's cover flow for a project I'm doing. Instead of album art, each piece will be a piece of video. It scrolls through the video. When it stops on one, the camera will move in for a full screen view of the footage, move out after the footage is done, and onto another.
This didn't seem too hard, but I'm having a hard time doing this without making one huge mess in my composition. I thought Trapcode's echospace might be able to accomplish this, but after about an hour with it, I'm not getting my results.
Re: Re-creating Apple's cover flow in AE... by Jeremy Allen on May 19, 2008 at 7:12:05 pm
I guess it depends on how strictly you want to replicate the look. I did something similar a while back using an animation preset I made.
Basically, just animate one video however you want. Then animate the camera in and out. Now select all the video's animated properties and save as animation preset. Put the rest of your videos on the timeline at frame 1. With the playhead at frame 1, select the un-animated videos and apply your preset.
At this point all your videos will be animated similarly. Now you'll need to sequence them down the timeline. Now copy the camera keyframes and keep pasting them down the timeline for each video. Unless all your videos are the same length, you will need to tweak the camera animations to fit each one.
Did I get anywhere close to answering your question, or were you wondering more about how to actually animate/rotate, etc..?
Re: Re-creating Apple's cover flow in AE... by Jeremy Allen on May 19, 2008 at 8:00:13 pm
Oh, you might've figured this out, but I forgot to mention... When you make your animation preset, it will be based on the animation of your first video. So, like the camera movements, you will need to go back and tweak the "hold time" of each video, so it animates out at the right time.
