Pictures changing too soon in "running film strip"?
by Scooter Barsnack
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Jul 1, 2009 at 5:46:29 am
I'm trying to create a film strip continuous running with a different still in each frame. I have the "film negative" coming in from frame right and disappearing into the distance, center frame. My created still of the film negative has 4 frames to it. I've used an offset filter on my film strip to create a continuous flow and all seems to work fine. Now is the part I can't seem to figure out:
How can I get each picture to stay visible in their individual frames for the length of time it takes the frame to come in view and disappear out?
The picture stays in the frame and moves perfect with the strip, but I can't figure out how to keep in that frame for the period of time needed w/out it changing to another picture? I can't figure out if & how I need to stagger the stills in my time line or is there an expression I should be using? Am I neglecting some set up in my early stages? I hope I'm able to be understood! I'm on AE 5.5 with limited 3D Filters. Here's some info on my steps & process, if it could help you understand what I'm doing..
In one Comp, I've created a film strip temp that has 4 frames to it's length. I've added and OFFSET FILTER to have it continuously run for a length of 2min 05sec. In another Comp: I've brought in this "Comp. of the film strip" I just created and added 100 stills beneath it, sized and placed in it's own frame of the film strip. All is well. I then take this Comp and place it into my Final comp window; add a Basic 3D effect (I have no effects like Freeform,or Invigorator to create this film strip thing I want to do) and successfully manipulate the strip to run on it's edge into the distance with a different still in each frame, but my pictures are changing while in view before they go out of frame..
How can I get each picture to stay visible in their individual frames for the length of time it takes the frame to come in view and disappear out?
Re: Pictures changing too soon in "running film strip"? by Stuart Elith on Jul 1, 2009 at 6:48:40 am
Marty, the part I don't understand is why you want the image to change at all... it sounds like you've put an image into each of the film squares (you said you put 100 images in place). Why can't you just make each of those images the correct frame and treat them as still frames so they don't change?
Since I probably haven't understood you properly, there may be a good reason why it has to be that certain way. To work out how long each still should be on screen before changing, can you just take a look at how many frames it is on screen for, then make it change some time after that?
Re: Pictures changing too soon in "running film strip"? by Scooter Barsnack on Jul 1, 2009 at 8:05:45 am
Thanks for the reply Stuart,
No, I don't want the still images to change but they are. My film strip has 4 frames to it. I've applied an offset filter so it will continuously loop. So, in my setup, I'm basically reusing those frames over & over to give all 100 stills a frame.Think of the effect I'm going for like, your standing looking down a set of railroad tracks. A train passes by next to you and in each window (frame) is a still picture, You see that window (frame) & the still picture until it disappears in the far distance. But what's happening is, before that (frame) picture disappears, another picture replaces it in that window (frame). I want that original picture to say viewing until in fades out. It might be something to do with my time line and offsetting the placement of the clips, but I'm not sure and how I could go about it.
Right now I have 4 clips stacked directly on top of each other creating 1 stack. (Each clip in the stack is assigned to it's own frame in the film strip clip I created). Each clip is the same length and each stack is butted up to one another. (the head of next stack or 4 clips is at the tail of the current ones playing.) So I have approximately 25 stacks butted head to tail that spreads out to about 2min 5sec length. Know what I mean? It's when the time line indicator comes to the next stack of clips that the picture changes in the frame window but the frames haven't completed their entire pass. It's like the speed that my film strip needs to run faster so the picture (frame) will be out of view before the nest stack of pictures come to view. Thing is, the film strip & the pictures in the frames are not independent at that point.
