Cursor: expressions Pick Whip

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• AE CS5 small Question re: buttons missing Pick Whip

  Working through an exercise in this book and I hit a standstill. As you will see in this screenshot, I don't get a drop-down arrow next to my lower set of Achor, Position and Rotation properties, which in turn means I can't call buttons Pick whip that I need for the next step (to join the two composition properties).

  

  But the book tells me to bind the properties of anchor, Position and Rotation of two compositions together using their individual Pick Whip buttons. I went back on all stages of the exercise and did absoultely I've done everything asked so far. I also dug around as much as I could myself before posting here because I don't want to waste time everyone with what looks like a crazy simple problem.

  
  But I just. cannot. do these buttons appear. I don't see the whips to Pick for the layer set, not the properties.

  Help!

  You cannot use an expression selector until you make an expression. opt - win mac or alt + click on the stopwatch for the property to click.

• Expression for offset postion

  I have this expression.

  thisComp.layer ("Solid Black 3") .effect ("Particular") ("XY Position")

  Its simplely is a light parasite (cc lens flare) following the position of a particle (individual).

  Type of issuer in particular is the box and the actual particle lags 20px.

  I don't want to keyframe due the amount of key points and the speed of the movement.

  I can add something to the expression pick-whipped that would compensate for the position will be slightly behind the position of TCpaticulars?  -(if necessary)

  

  BTW, is there a flare better than cc particle in TC?

  You must add a value to the method of time to your expression. This will allow you to add or subtract the value of an asset at the present time, measured in seconds. By example, if I layer 1 and Layer 2 this expression applied to the layer 2 position property would make layer 2 track 1 layer.5 seconds.

  thisComp.layer("layer 1").position.valueAtTime(time - .5)
  

  Furthermore, this expression is directly referenced in the linguistic Expression of the help file section. It is on the first page.

• Scaling vertically by the Expression, please help ASAP!

  Hello, everyone! I had a bit of trouble within the last few days, and I searched almost every corner of the web trying to figure out how to write this expression. So I had two expressions. We were too complicated and not a new does exactly what I want. So first, here's my first expression

  X = 100

  Y = thisComp.layer("Soundkeys_1").effect ("sound keys") ("Output 1") * 1.33333;

  "CB = (CheckBox Control") effect ("Checkbox");

  If (cb.numKeys > 0) {}

  t = cb.key (1) .time;

  Y = linear(time,t,t+1,Y,.5);

  Note: this is a single bar of 63
  This was given to me by another Member on this forum about 6 or 7 months ago. What this did is whenever that time I had a key image of the box I get the bar down slowly during the second at the end of the song. The problem with the term is that it does not allow me to do the bars Ascend slowly upward more than a second (the opposite of what it).

  So my solution so far has been to use an expression that allows me to have less soundkeys layers for solids (have not really learned to test it so if you could tell me if it works or not which would be awesome) here is the second (new) expression, but the expression does not include the scaling upward or down scale.

  X = 100

  Temp = thisComp.layer("1-3").effect ("sound keys") ("Output 1") * 1.33333;

  Temp2 = thisComp.layer("1-3").effect ("sound keys") ("output 2") * 1.33333;

  Temp3 = (temp1 and temp2) / 2

  Y = [100, temp3]

  }

  [X, Y]

  Once again: it's just a bar of 63

  What are average effects soundkeys instead of having so many different ranges (not important). What I am wanting to add is to add to this expression with a slider effect, or 2 box keyframes, just something like it takes do you present in several layers at once (while keeping my current expression) [so probably using an adjustment layer]:

  

  But of course scaling upward at the beginning of the song and scaled down at the end of the song, each period of 1 second. Sorry for such a long post, but I really wish I could get there as soon as POSSIBLE for my promotional music channel . Thank you!

  PS: The only reason I'm writing is because I couldn't find anywhere, and the only thing that I thought were too advanced for me to understand, but what I didn't understand is that they used a slider effect to control the whole of the value of Y of the layers with keyframes. Hope that the additional information could be useful

  Hello again everyone. So my friend and I were finally able to come with two expressions that I needed to make it work! Basically what I had to do was to create a null with effect of cursor object and add pictures 4 keys (2 at the beginning) and 2 at the end where I wanted them. We hung out and then each bar for the layer of sound keys appropriate as well as the slider layer. These are two expressions that we could get to

  For a single bar that wasn't going to be an average, we used this expression:

  temp = thisComp.layer("1-3").effect("Sound Keys")("Output 1")*(4/3);temp = temp*thisComp.layer("Spectrum Scale").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");temp = linear(temp, 0, 100*(4/3), .5, 100*(4/3));[100, temp]
  

  This adds a variety of things to temp.

  1. in the first line, we have 'temp' on the expression of basic whipped pick multiplied by 4/3.

  2. in the second line, we have pick whipped for the layer time zero that we named "Slider Scale" and the effect being "Cursor" with the variable (keyframes) on "Slider".

  3. the third line is a little more complicated because we needed to have had a minimum of.5 without adding +.5 at the end of the last line. This created a problem because this would produce no output, even when we didn't she added, a.5 more that it should be. So we decided to add a minimum expression to the minimum.5 power and the maximum output identical to the first line "(4/3)". "

  For the bars, on average, it needed a little more coding and much more advanced work (in my opinion). This is the expression:

  temp1 = thisComp.layer("1-3").effect("Sound Keys")("Output 1")*(4/3);temp2 = thisComp.layer("1-3").effect("Sound Keys")("Output 2")*(4/3);temp = (temp1+temp2)/2;temp = temp*thisComp.layer("Spectrum Scale").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");temp = linear(temp, 0, 100*(4/3), .5, 100*(4/3));
  

  So, is a lot heftier of an expression at first glance, but really, it's basically the same thing.

  1. put off tension in the first line, we have him while temp1 is the first release used in sound tones multiplied by 4/3.

  2. in the second line, we have exactly the same thing that the first line only, we used the second exit in the sound buttons layer.

  3. the third line is where we started having to change everything. previously, he was referred to as "temp3" but we couldn't use it with what we wanted to do. So what we ended up doing was to change all the references 'temp3"just"Temp ". Then we did the same thing as we did in the first expression choose it whipping out of the slider control.

  4. in the fourth line, that's where we had to implement a different minimum and maximum so that the bars do not disappear when the audio reaches a point 0 or keyframes, we put in the slider were set as 0. So, we made minimum.5 flow and the 100 *(4/3) of maximum output using the expression "linear '.

  Due to the extensive knowledge of my friend in these types of templates and javascript, it only takes about 30 minutes to fix the problem. It does exactly what I wanted to do in my original post, and I am very grateful to have a friend who can help out me like that. I want to thank each of you in the community forum to help people at all times with the expressions, even if they are extremely simple. Help you a lot of people who simply can not find the answer they're looking for. I'll show you what I did with key images in the slider effect now

  

  2 last keyframes are exactly the same values but in the opposite direction. The end result is completely what I wanted (as shown in the OP) so if anyone wants to know how to intensify the multiple layers at the beginning and then downwards at the end please send them this. Thanks again to the community, as much respect!

• expressions - best practices for duplication of layers

  Hello

  I have a set quite complex of expressions on several layers.  These layers together form an overall effect for a footage item.  For practical reasons, I have these expression related to an object null controller so I can control them from a single location.  Now that I put it in place, I want to duplicate the layer group (element of film, various effects and controller object null) several times.  I made a pattern for an effect of images I want to duplicate several times so I find myself with many pieces of images with the effect applied.  When I duplicate the layer group, I'd love to put in place so that the variables of the expression will now point to the duplicated object controller.  I noticed that this problem occurs if the expression is a simple selector from one property to another.  Basically, a direct connection.  But if I try to store this selection of pick whip in a variable to be manipulated far, this feature no longer.  So my question is, how do I create a set up that will allow me to duplicate the layers and as if they were a whip simple direct sampling of one property to another update expressions?  Is this possible?  If not, how can I best configure this to allow me to complete my final result?

  Thank you!

  -Justin

  If you set things up so that your layer names ending with a space and a number, so that they increment when you duplicate them, you should be able to use the layer name to navigate to other layers in the game. For example, if your layers are named "layer 1", "layer 2", etc. and your levels of control are named "master 1", "master 2", etc., you could do something like this in your expressions to construct the name of the control on the fly layer:

  n = name.split("");

  CTRL = thisComp.layer ("Ctrl" + n [n.length - 1]);

  Dan

• compensate for the expression

  Hi, if I associate an effect (blur say) to another (say scale) via an expression by using the pick whip, can I offset the link?  In other words: If the scale settings range from 50% to 100%, can you do the blur start at 0% and go to 50%?  If this isn't the case, can I have some sort of "invisible effect" that has no effect, but which I can link the other effects?

  You can probably I'm very new to this.

  Regards, Matt.

  Yes you can. in your expression of field after you choose whipped your scale property you should have something like this:

  This.COMP.Layer("Your Layer"). Transform.Scale

  and just add a - 50 to compensate:

  This.COMP.Layer("Your Layer"). Transform.Scale - 50

  You can do mathematical operation as long as the expression of values is numbers:

  This.COMP.Layer("Your Layer"). Transform.Scale * 2

  even between two bound properties

  This.COMP.Layer("Your Layer"). Transform.Scale / this.comp.layer("your_layer").transform.rotation

  etc...

  Hope that helps

• Expressions and sliders

  Hi all

  The difficulty in trying to stop my wiggle expression, so I thought I'd use a cursor to combat it.

  Agitation is applied to the position, but I have not really given any keyframes.

  Basically, my problem is whenever I use the selection with the cursor icon, just the wiggle but totally changes the position.

  My goal is to have bustle for a while, and then touch frame to go to the full amount of wiggle to zero.

  Would be nice to know how to use effectively cursors properly when I do they seem to completely cancel the expression and I can't really do work how I want - I can't seem to find tutorials that show the method for something like position, however I can for cameras a null.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you

  If you wiggle and pickwhipped the cursor expression, which replaced the hustle with the expression that you have published, is that correct?

  I'm guessing you want something like this:

  amp = effect ("Slider Control") ("Slider");

  Wiggle(1,amp)

  Dan

• REF CURSOR as a column in a view

  Dear all,
  
  Can we use a slider ref as one of the columns in a view.
  
  Receive your answer.
  
  Thank you
  Madhu K.

  Not that I am aware, no. While you can select a cursor in a column

  select deptno,
         cursor( select *
                   from emp e
                  where e.deptno=d.deptno ) emp_cur
    from dept d
  

  If you try to create a view using this instruction, you will get an error

  SQL> ed
  Wrote file afiedt.buf
  
    1  create or replace view vw_dept_empcur
    2  as
    3  select deptno,
    4         cursor( select *
    5                   from emp e
    6                  where e.deptno=d.deptno ) emp_cur
    7*   from dept d
  SQL> /
         cursor( select *
         *
  ERROR at line 4:
  ORA-22902: CURSOR expression not allowed
  

  I would be very curious, though, what problem you are trying to solve. Choose a slider as a column in a query is extremely rare to do. So, I would tend to believe that you can address the problem more effectively.

  Justin

• How to access the Slider Expressions

  Where can I find the cursor Expressions?

  Thank you-

  You can add a Slider control effect to a layer. The effect of the Slider control is one of the effects options for expressions.

  BTW, I found this answer by using this search for the terms of your question.

• Logo bouncing in time to the music

  Hey everyone, I just got done logo and I'm bouncing in sync with my music (preferably only one bounce when the kick drum hits). I got regarding the connection of the pick whip of the image for the cursor on both channels of the song. But now I don't know how to control it there where she is every time the kick drum hits. AND when it bounces, it becomes too large. I always feel like the size of the increase when it bounces, but not as much. If someone could help, I would really appreciate it!

  If you want to convert/change/modify the values that you receive from the audio amplitude, you need an expression. There are several ways to do so.  one of the basic expressions is called "linear '. as explained here: After Effects Tutorial | Audio keyframes - YouTube .

  as the tutorial illustrates - you set the expression on the timer TWO CHANNELS. First, looking for the beach of the amplitude of two channels - for example, if you want just the kicks then look for when it is highest and where it is the most down (to a kick, not for all audio) - you can use the graph Editor to see the curve (choose speed non-graphical value graph) to find it easily. Let's say its 45 and 60.

  

  You Alt click on the stopwatch for both channels and the value of this expression: linear (value, 45, 60, 50, 200) - this means that it will convert the value 45 (low) amplitude and 60 (large) value of the amplitude with a value of 50 to 200 (but you can specify any value you want to convert to).  After that, you can pickwhip the parameter that you want to be affected by the present (in your case: scale) for both the times of channels and there you have it.

  

  It is another expression of the dance-with-Scripts-master Dan Ebberts to deal with audio into keyframes: http://motionscript.com/design-guide/basic-audio.html - simply copy the expression he typed, there at the value that you want to assign and set the parameters in the expression box on what is high and low in your audio amplitude and then set the factor so that it can multiply your value.

  and here's another way:

  How to convert Audio to keyframes in Adobe After Effects

  more geeks here according to the interpolation methods:

  Language expressions in After Effects

• Script: A single layer to set the opacity of the other layers?

  Hello

  I have a lot of layers in my computer whose name begins with "POINTER_".

  I need these layers to falter at the same time.

  But I can't the subcomp or use stencil alpha.

  I don't know that it is possible to make a script on an adjustment layer that would do just that.

  All he needs to do is to allow me to make keyframes this adjustment layer opacity associated then with the opacity of each layer starting by 'POINTER_ '.

  I'm not a guy of script, so it would be great if someone could show me how to do this.

  Thank you very much!

  see you soon,

  Chris

  You don't need a script to do this; you need an expression.

  You can easily bind properties between layers with expressions. In this case, you apply an effect cursor Expression to your layer zero (or just use the property opacity of an adjustment layer). ALT-click on the opacity for one of your layers property then use the pick whip to choose cursor effect or the property opacity of your layer of control. Now, when you change the value of a single layer, the others follow. You can copy and paste the expression resulting from your icon from selection for the other layers. (You can even choose to copy expression only and then paste that to the rest of the layers).

• How to build a rocket with a transparent background

  So I recently built a black stray light on bottom of a solid layer. There a lot of any apparent layers and pick whipped to the lens flare layer. It pulses, opacities and changes positions, she does all kinds of really cool stuff. I have a major problem, it is locked in the composition strong creation that it is a rectangular shape when they are imported into any composition. He draws up his ugly face when you try to use it by the edge top and bottom of the flare had fallen from top and bottom horizontal line of the rectangle. «I can't size the flare itself inside the composition, when you try to reduce the size of the rectangular shape of the solid is what changes.»

  I changed the blending mode to SCREEN and ADD. I tried out of key with the key light that both were adequate.

  Demand for this torch should be considerably smaller for animate around the edge of another animated object. Where the need for the flare to be as independent as a key on a blue screen that can be added to any composition.

  I searched the tutorials of AE and nothing that comes close tutorial building a rocket in AE or solve the problem I found.

  Adobe forums and creative cow forums with people trying to help him with this problem, but every question about it remains all the way back for 2010, although there are a ton of entry.

  I'm more than willing to do it again if anyone knows a good tutorial to make a rocket with a transparent background.

  The tutorial I used was amazing, and it seems not that there was a problem with this problem in his tutorial.

  If you know FREE plugins that work with AE 2015 for flares or Unmults, I am open to trying this.

  I followed the directions of Adobes to download knoll 3d flare plugin and should not be, I received the error at the opening. I also tried to download unmult-64 bit of mounds and could not successfully installed.

  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  I'm guessing that you're fairly new in After Effects for keeps is pretty simple.  As learn you more you will find all kinds of complexities to make things easier and better to work with.  Take tips from Rick above and use part of the resources to begin.

  

  In the picture above, slide A and B are which I assume that you are doing right now.  Solid Lens Flare applied was related to another layer, making the solid with passage of the torch in synchronization with the layer (in my example, a small solid yellow.)  The problem is that the rocket falls on solid boundaries, then at the edge of the round is cut when the solid is not filling the frame.

  In the example C and D, I used a sample single whip expression to bind the Flare Center of the plugin setting flared to the position of the solid yellow.  Doing it this way has two advantages: solid never moves, so the flare gets cut ever on the edges; and the rounded looks more like a real life lens flare, because the different elements of the flare shift and change depending on the position of the light source, defined by the center of Flare.

  I posted a project file with these two examples and a simple 3D so version.  The plugin after effects Lens Flare standard is very simple, without a scale parameter, so it does not really too well in 3D.  There are a number of advanced plugins Lens Flare to third, the most common being the video Copilot optical Lens Flare, but these come at a cost, of course.

• Problems with casting light 3D tutorial VCP

  Working in CS5 on this point, but I'm not able to whisk the position of the energy of Orange to light layer 1 layer.  I tried several times now.  I get this message:

  After effects WARNING: object of type found light that requires a number, array, or property

  Expression disabled.

  Error occurred at line 0.

  COMP 'street Footage '.

  Layer: 1 (Orange Energy.mov

  Good: 'Position '.

  Anyone know what they mean by '' number, table or property ''?  There was an earlier instance of pick - whip position layer in this tut and I had no problem.  But this time I'm stuck. I checked the reviews on the site and noticed others had similar problems, but no one seems to have ventured to a solution.

  Any ideas out there?

  Looks like you might be pick - whip to light itself and not the Position property of the light.

  Dan

• Connecting several puppet pins to a null object

  Hello

  right now I'm dabbling character animation and I'm looking for an implementation of a furry/wobbly character. (No speaker native, so sorry in advance.)

  I want to put in place the body like this: apart from the pins of puppets (1-13) for "fur", related to the Null1 pins of puppets (14-18, on the same layer) linked to the Null2.
  My goal is to animate the Nulls separately in order to get some kind of movement delayed the external part of the body.
  

  My question: How do to bind several pin puppet a null; What expression could I use?
  Because pick - whip the position of the pins of puppets to the position of the Null results naturally in a new position of the pins.
  I guess it has something to do with the compensation of each pin, but is it possible to do without getting offset-values into each pin-expression of puppets?

  Thanks in advance and sorry for the somewhat confusing questions,

  Hannes

  You need a point of reference, this could be the position of the value null in time = 0, like this:

  p = thisComp.layer("Null_1").transform.position;

  value + (p.value - p.valueAtTime (0))

  Note that nothing will happen until you animate (keyframe or an expression), the null value.

  Dan

• How to make a perfect cube

  How to make a cube perfect 3 in sequels?

  I create a square of the cube face then changing every time the anchor point (top, side and bottom both) I have duplicate 4 times and rotate to re-create the cube, but they do not affect the good way, I mean there is always a space or they merge... If I press ctrl or SHIFT the program don't help me make them aligned

  How can I solve this problem?

  to be faster you can just rell me how I Center the anchor point of a 3d layer? I mean Center the value of Z, the deep... If I put 0 as z's on the figure

  as on a 300 x 300 point Z index will be at 150, but on an irregular figure? How can I Center it?

  Ive done with solid, but I want to do with the rectangle tool, is possible? Z anchor into solid is easy to install, just grap to 150 if your solid is 300 x 300, but ho you can center the Z point with the rectangle tool? is it possible to make a cube with this tool without having to manually focus a layer? with solid is easy just put the Z anchor to the theoretical centre (I hope you understand me in this theoretical Center XD I don't know how to explain it) then double 5 times the layer and rotate 90 degrees to make the cube... but very easy with the rectangle tool is a mess D:

  No, there is none of these tools, but you can do with expressions.

  ALT/Opt + click Layer Anchor Point stopwatch and type [ (left bracket) 0 (zero) ,(comma), 0 (zero) (comma).] Then pick whip layer anchor to each form of size width (first number) or height (2nd number). [Then type 2] (divide by two, right support) and press enter on the numeric keypad.

  

  You can now change the size of your rectangle and Layer Anchor Point will be adjusted automatically.