My "watch later" list and my "favorites" list are both completely full of videos on this channel. I always learn more than I thought I was looking for *thumbs up*.
Well, I love your Pelargonium graveolens under the most interesting thing in your house, giving it the most interesting scent.💚 And of course your tutorials are without comparison, thank you.🙏
At 5:00 what I always do is parent the text to the null whilst holding down Shift. That makes it jump to the position of a Null. From there you can easily position it in the mouth. (Just a little tip)
Dear Evan Abrams. Thank you for making such awesome tutorials. Thank you for making things on such a timely, up-to-date, basis. Thank you for helping us out with After Effects. Thank you for being named Evan... as it is also my name. Evan Abrams, did you go to school to learn this software? How on earth did you learn how to code expressions?
I'm glad the channel is helpful. Expressions are a language like any other language. You learn by practice and making use of it a little at a time. You start with basic things and build on it one use at a time.
Hi Evan, Just stopped by to thank you for all the great tuts you're showing here, they are really awesome. I think you're the next Andrew Kramer! Keep up and many thanks from Romania!
Good evening Evan, I'm so glad I found your channel. I started learning after effects after I've seen Dave2D's laptop reviews where at the end of the every video he has a little blueprint-like animation of the main laptop parts and aspects, coming on the screen in a pleasant way. I would like to know if you could do a tutorial on how to make those animations a bit more automatic, and by that I mean not animating every single button on it's own. I've already managed how to make those lines drawing contours of the parts of the laptop, but I'd like to see some universal tips on making a large composition of somehow similar animated objects.
So what you're seeing is typically called a "write on". We can cause a very simple write on when we use the trim paths modifier in a shape layer. So if you would set only two keyrames, one at 0% and one at 100% for none of the paths completed to all the paths completed. You can have one trim paths govern an entire group, or all the contents of a shape layer if you choose. It's all about where in the hierarchy of the shape layer you place it. Then you just need to be able to generate the specific paths, which I would recommend you do in illustrator and then convert in Ae. Would that speed you up at all? You might also use the tracing functions that make masks in Ae if you have images you can trace easily, but that's on the image to be of high enough contrast in meaningful areas.
ECAbrams thank you for the reply. I have images but they are not perfect 90% degrees shots so i just have to rely on the dimensions given in spec list. If i got that right, you mean i should do a plan like yours in this video in Illustrator and then ctrl+c ctrl+v similar objects in AE and place them in a right order?
I'm suggesting you draw the thing you want to see "write on" in illustrator. Group things you feel should be animated together into layers in Ai, and then import those layers into Ae. You can then convert those layers into shape layers and use a trim paths to animate on the paths in groups or individually or however you prefer. I'm not sure any of the things we do in this specific video are of much help to replicating what you've seen in Dave2Ds video.
Thank you very much. Now I have another struggle: I want to make an animation, where a laser dot appears, moves to it's position, focuses and starts spinning with a reasonable acceleration, blurring into continuous laser circle. I tried to do this two ways: 1) create a dot, path it to a needed position, then rotate with time*time*time*time and add motion blur. The problem is that motion blur literally blurs the dot at great speeds, making it invisible after 3-4 seconds of spinning, while I want It controversially get brighter and brighter. 2) create a dot, path it, create a vegas effect of the same radius, add and expression to it's length to grow with time, forming that laser tail, blur it. The problem is to make it glow like a really bright laser beam and to gradually blur it into a circle (may be with some wiggling and effects to show that it is spinning with an incredible speed) Both times I stuck at the transition from accelerating to constant rotation. I mean I know how to write complex equations in after effects, but I can't figure out how to configure that transition and how to motion blur it properly. Also I don't know how to motion blur the dot while it is getting adjusted to the position from which it will start to spin - the dot's speed is too low to make CC Motion Blur even visible.
There was a free plugin from Motion Boutique called "Connect Layers" that was a simplified version of Plexus. Now they have created a "pro" version and unfortunately it's not free anymore, but it's a good cheaper alternative to plexus (US$ 50 instead of 250)
ECAbrams how do you get it to render while you are scrubbing? Mine won't render until I press enter and then it takes forever. It used to render like yours. I feel like something got pressed and now it won't render right.
perhaps it's something in the preview settings? I think the way that works changed on an update a while ago. Have you installed any updates recently perhaps? Either way, everything about how that goes should be controlled in the preview window so you can tweak it to taste.
+Tomasz Czajka I don't record any myself, but I've been interviewed on a few. I really should have remembered which ones so I can point people to the episodes.
Great tut! How would I add an object using lines such as a rectangle or polygon if I want to highlight the border of a property in drone footage for example?
Hey man thanks so much, just discovered your channel and I'm trying to learn more about 3d fx. This one was really informative with how 3d space can work on x y and z. Thanks again, subscribed.
I really love your tutorials Evan Abrams, it helped me so much with my skill on After Effects, thank you. I'm wondering if there's a way to make I don't know like my face (on a green screen without background, just my face) turning into pinapple. I know there's some mask tricks and keyframes, but Inever can find a good tutorial showing like "How to morph your face into text", do you know how to do it? or if there's a way to do it, like my face turns into happy birthday ....thank you
i was making a music video for my band and i was thinking of putting lines like this in the video and guess what you uploaded this just at the right time :D another interesting thing is that we are Psychic Magicians (my band name)...what if I asked you to do this in a psychic way :o haha btw thanks for the great tutorial. Have a great day :)
+Anirban Das maybe so. Ideas have to come from somewhere right? Or perhaps the same environmental factors that led you to want a thing also made me want to make a similar thing. We can never know.
Hey! I had a question about the way to do it without Plexus. You know that solid that you added the beam effect on? Why did you have to add an expression on that when you can turn that into a 3D layer and just use an expression to link the position of each of the nulls? I mean, it's WAY easier that way. I think. Thanks!
So the beam wouldn't be 3d. It would be like having the beam on a pane of glass that's floating out in 3d space right? So far as I am aware the beam isn't defined by 3d points even if it's on a 3d layer.
Hey there, always appreciate your tutorials. Question, are you able to fill in some of the shapes that are drawn between the dots and provide a kind of polygon look? Thank you for your help!
Man I like your channel and I couldn’t get after effect in my country somalia I have a exam presentation the day after tomorrow could you help me out especially the lines because I am presenting pregnant lady abdominal examination I would really appreciate it thanks
Hi! I am really having a hard time understanding why nothing of this works on my project! I can increase the size and distance at their maximum and still nothing happens! Any ideas?
Heyo... I'm sure you're busy, but i was wondering if there was a way to make a stroke [similar to that created by the Write On effect] that starts off thin, but grows thicker at the base as time goes on. I'm not hugely well versed in AE, so I'm probably overlooking something.
Is the process the same if you want to parent a 3D layer onto a 2D track? Im trying to parent a 3D callout onto a 2D track onto my footage. Thanks for the awesome tuts
Pretty much. But you only need the one good point, and that point may not be exactly where you want it. I would duplicate a null that is close, parent the callout to it, then be prepared to manually push the new null around a little to get it right where I want it.
Hi! I've been trying this tutorial for several times and it doesn't work as supposed to! I even tried your project file and the plexus renderer doesn't render at all... So i'm thinking that there some settings that should be ajusted... Otherwise my plexus pluggin works perfectly! If you have any idea I would appreciate it! Thx!
Hi! great video! but I have a problem. I want to apply plexus on that 3D text using the path geometry, but It can't find it from the solid and I can't apply it to the text, cause it says, it needs to be 2D layer. how can I do that?
+David Stuller perhaps convert the text to a mask and make use of that on the solid layer? Plexus will make the text 3D so it doesn't have to be on a 3D layer. That would make a hyper cube or something right? Instead you would have to transform within the plexus plugin to put its results at the expected coordinates. Does that make sense?
A bit off-topic, but something really strange happens when tracking and using that to stabilize. When I play it back it's fine but when I render it, no stabilization is applied..
So to be clear, none of the nulls should be moving. Meaning that the null's position isn't changing. But the camera's perspective is moving. Nulls may appear to wobble only because the camera's motion is jerky or inaccurate to the scene. So you could try smoothing out the rotation and position of the camera, but that may not make it more accurate to the scene. The best thing to do is use a more detailed solving method and tell the 3d camera solve more about the camera and scene in the effect to bring the average error down.
Thanks Evan! Is there a way to motion track and camera track on the same layer? I want to individually motion track an element but also have a 3d camera for the scene. When i do this my nulls on the motion tracked object no longer stick. Thanks!
PLEASE HELP. Im having trouble parenting the end point of my beam to a Null. Im getting the message: After Effects warning: Bad Argument: couldnt find layer named '1' Expression disabled. The Null is named '1' (obviously) so I can't figure it out.
Interesting. Sometimes you may be looking at a source name instead of a layer name? Maybe that's it? Or the name is not actually 1? Or the expression is not communicating the name correctly?
When I select 2d source, it reveals a lot more track points. But when I right click on them it only gives the option to delete them. Is there a way to attach the plexus lines to these 2d track points ??
I'm not sure I understand. What is generating these track points? I start with a 2d source as well right? The footage layer is two dimensional but we use a 3d camera solve on it. How are you generating these 2d track points?
I used the 3d camera tracker, but in the options it has "show track points" and an option for 2d, when I change it to 2d it gives way more points to track but not sure if I can add lines to these ? sorry if im still not making it clear
When you click that option, it's just displaying the same points in a 2d way, rather than in perspective. Notice they all seem the same size or distance away from the camera? There aren't more of them, they are just more easily visible. But in order to interact with these points beyond deleting them, you need to be set the option to "show track points: 3d solved" that switches your interaction to have more options.
Can I send you a quick screenshot of both through a facebook message? It seems there are points in the back on one and then not at all on the other? even when I scrub through the clip with the 3d selected the points dont ever appear in the back.
Hi guy, Does anyone know how to adjust the lines so they come on when you want i.e. following the start of this clip, each tooth was highlighted one and after another. Thanks.
Help me please! His point size to see them is 15 and mine to see them is 145 but my lines wont show then i drag the maximum disctance up. Please help this is critical
Sorry for wasting your time i found it, they acutaly there where, just they was so small so i found the line width and took it up! Btw did you order that dinosaur head anywhere, it look so cool, i want it too.
+EvanAbrams - Truly excellent tutorial (same for your others as well). Have some science-y communicator work coming up this will be perfect for! Also watched your flickering transitions in Premiere (and logo fly through) vids tonight. Please let this comment serve as my vote for more Premiere tutorials from you. If you can share ways to avoid bouncing to AE for common graphics and effects tasks in Premiere that could save tons o' time. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see what I can do. I suppose it will depend on what a "common" graphics task is. Any time a keyframe is involved it's usually going to be better to take it to Ae where keyframes are much more accessible. But any effect based thing can usually be handled by the premiere effects panel.
Thanks for the quick reply! I completely understand the vagueness of "common" in this context. Notwithstanding actual VFX work, I find that when I want titles that "feel" more upscale I always turn to AE. Of course I know about templates in AE that can be imported/used in Premiere, but perhaps if you had tricks or tips that could elevate native Premiere titles (motion, shapes, etc) such that one could avoid the AE journey that could be a great start. Of course if you've got some motion graphics voodoo to share, don't let me stop you. ;)
''Put Lines on Things''
Best title ever! xDD ♥
then the intro was even better
I was just about to say the same thing!
My "watch later" list and my "favorites" list are both completely full of videos on this channel. I always learn more than I thought I was looking for *thumbs up*.
Mr Evan Abrams, you have no idea how many times you have saved my ass. I owe you big.
my lord what a genius type of human being! quickly subscribed!
I never thought help like this could be free. you are a kind being!
I can't watch this channel's videos at the library anymore.
This guy is too funny and I look dumb laughing to myself
Well, I love your Pelargonium graveolens under the most interesting thing in your house, giving it the most interesting scent.💚 And of course your tutorials are without comparison, thank you.🙏
At 5:00 what I always do is parent the text to the null whilst holding down Shift. That makes it jump to the position of a Null. From there you can easily position it in the mouth. (Just a little tip)
Good tip. Like the thing we do at 5:25 to put the nulls on the text right?
Oh haha I apologize. That one slipped passed me. ;)
Dear Evan Abrams. Thank you for making such awesome tutorials. Thank you for making things on such a timely, up-to-date, basis. Thank you for helping us out with After Effects. Thank you for being named Evan... as it is also my name. Evan Abrams, did you go to school to learn this software? How on earth did you learn how to code expressions?
I'm glad the channel is helpful. Expressions are a language like any other language. You learn by practice and making use of it a little at a time. You start with basic things and build on it one use at a time.
YOU ARE INSANELY HELPFUL. Way moooore helpful than my current professor in uni. KEEP BEING AWESOME, MAN!
This tutorial was so clear and easy to follow, thank you!
Thanks ECAbramas!! Great tutorial as always!
You're the kind of teacher to have a few beers with!!
i needed this now and im blessed with this one. totaly life saver.
I already know how to make this effect , but your way of explaining , helped me explore it more , your such a great ae teacher...btw big fan
Glad to provide new insights.
Thanks a lot Evan. Fast, clear and funny tutorial as usual! You're the best one!!!
So helpful. Thank you for making this easy. Simple, well spoken, succinct. Thanks again!
You are very welcome!
amazing , good thing not alot of poeple know about this.
This is rad. I've been watching your stuff for a while and this is my favorite video to date. Keep it up.
your tutorials are SO GOOD AHHHHHHHHHHHHH sorry I'm excited
Outstanding! Exactly what I was looking for. Just realized AE has some JavaScript functionality, which is pretty sweet.
A really enjoyable tutorial. Cheers.
Hi Evan,
Just stopped by to thank you for all the great tuts you're showing here, they are really awesome.
I think you're the next Andrew Kramer! Keep up and many thanks from Romania!
I'm glad you dig it. Stay tuned for more coming soon!
Awesome like all your tutorials! Big THANKS!
If you use a layer selector control with that expression you can more easily swap which layers the beam uses. ;)
Awesome tutorial!!!
Amazing tutorial, as always. I've been learning a lot with you, and also, having fun (can you believe that?).
Good evening Evan, I'm so glad I found your channel.
I started learning after effects after I've seen Dave2D's laptop reviews where at the end of the every video he has a little blueprint-like animation of the main laptop parts and aspects, coming on the screen in a pleasant way.
I would like to know if you could do a tutorial on how to make those animations a bit more automatic, and by that I mean not animating every single button on it's own.
I've already managed how to make those lines drawing contours of the parts of the laptop, but I'd like to see some universal tips on making a large composition of somehow similar animated objects.
So what you're seeing is typically called a "write on". We can cause a very simple write on when we use the trim paths modifier in a shape layer. So if you would set only two keyrames, one at 0% and one at 100% for none of the paths completed to all the paths completed. You can have one trim paths govern an entire group, or all the contents of a shape layer if you choose. It's all about where in the hierarchy of the shape layer you place it. Then you just need to be able to generate the specific paths, which I would recommend you do in illustrator and then convert in Ae. Would that speed you up at all? You might also use the tracing functions that make masks in Ae if you have images you can trace easily, but that's on the image to be of high enough contrast in meaningful areas.
ECAbrams thank you for the reply.
I have images but they are not perfect 90% degrees shots so i just have to rely on the dimensions given in spec list.
If i got that right, you mean i should do a plan like yours in this video in Illustrator and then ctrl+c ctrl+v similar objects in AE and place them in a right order?
I'm suggesting you draw the thing you want to see "write on" in illustrator. Group things you feel should be animated together into layers in Ai, and then import those layers into Ae. You can then convert those layers into shape layers and use a trim paths to animate on the paths in groups or individually or however you prefer. I'm not sure any of the things we do in this specific video are of much help to replicating what you've seen in Dave2Ds video.
Thank you very much.
Now I have another struggle:
I want to make an animation, where a laser dot appears, moves to it's position, focuses and starts spinning with a reasonable acceleration, blurring into continuous laser circle. I tried to do this two ways:
1) create a dot, path it to a needed position, then rotate with time*time*time*time and add motion blur. The problem is that motion blur literally blurs the dot at great speeds, making it invisible after 3-4 seconds of spinning, while I want It controversially get brighter and brighter.
2) create a dot, path it, create a vegas effect of the same radius, add and expression to it's length to grow with time, forming that laser tail, blur it. The problem is to make it glow like a really bright laser beam and to gradually blur it into a circle (may be with some wiggling and effects to show that it is spinning with an incredible speed)
Both times I stuck at the transition from accelerating to constant rotation. I mean I know how to write complex equations in after effects, but I can't figure out how to configure that transition and how to motion blur it properly.
Also I don't know how to motion blur the dot while it is getting adjusted to the position from which it will start to spin - the dot's speed is too low to make CC Motion Blur even visible.
There was a free plugin from Motion Boutique called "Connect Layers" that was a simplified version of Plexus. Now they have created a "pro" version and unfortunately it's not free anymore, but it's a good cheaper alternative to plexus (US$ 50 instead of 250)
Some kind of a contemporary Bob Ross Show :)
I was looking forward to do something like this for a while! Thanks alot for another great tutorial!
Hey sorry for going off-topic, but what kind of cam do you use? It looks real good
+ethan.ua it's an old canon 60d. It is decent but I am losing my love for the light sensitivity as newer technology gets cheaper.
ah thanks for sharing that :) the footage was super
ECAbrams how do you get it to render while you are scrubbing? Mine won't render until I press enter and then it takes forever. It used to render like yours. I feel like something got pressed and now it won't render right.
perhaps it's something in the preview settings? I think the way that works changed on an update a while ago. Have you installed any updates recently perhaps? Either way, everything about how that goes should be controlled in the preview window so you can tweak it to taste.
An amazing tutorial,thanks!
Now I know about the Beam! Worth it just for that 👍
Beam is an oldie but a goodie sometimes :)
I love it but it would be nice if in the vid description you could put where in time the tut without the plugin begins.
Awesome dino! I have a triceratops head on one of my walls!
great tutorial!
Great video! Do you record any podcasts? I like listening to your comments :D
+Tomasz Czajka I don't record any myself, but I've been interviewed on a few. I really should have remembered which ones so I can point people to the episodes.
It would be great!
very nice, Evan. Thanks for sharing.
dude that was bloody awesome!
As always, excellent!
love the tutorials man
Great tut! How would I add an object using lines such as a rectangle or polygon if I want to highlight the border of a property in drone footage for example?
Hey man thanks so much, just discovered your channel and I'm trying to learn more about 3d fx. This one was really informative with how 3d space can work on x y and z. Thanks again, subscribed.
I really love your tutorials Evan Abrams, it helped me so much with my skill on After Effects, thank you. I'm wondering if there's a way to make I don't know like my face (on a green screen without background, just my face) turning into pinapple. I know there's some mask tricks and keyframes, but Inever can find a good tutorial showing like "How to morph your face into text", do you know how to do it? or if there's a way to do it, like my face turns into happy birthday ....thank you
Evan thanks a lot! you are the best menthor :)
Great tutorial thx.
this is pretty neat.
literally made all my wildest dreams come true. gonna use this for some call out titles.
In my wildest dreams, I'm fighting ninjas on a speeding train, but I never win. I wonder if that means something.
ECAbrams Have you tried motion tracking the ninjas? Might turn the fight in your favor. Also heard if you apply a mask it helps... 😶
ECAbrams but in all seriousness. thanks man. learn a lot from you!
APPLY A MASK!!! I love it.
i was making a music video for my band and i was thinking of putting lines like this in the video and guess what you uploaded this just at the right time :D another interesting thing is that we are Psychic Magicians (my band name)...what if I asked you to do this in a psychic way :o haha
btw thanks for the great tutorial. Have a great day :)
+Anirban Das maybe so. Ideas have to come from somewhere right? Or perhaps the same environmental factors that led you to want a thing also made me want to make a similar thing. We can never know.
GREAT TUTORIAL ,, thank you soo much
up load more videos , you'r the best
that was awesome thank you so much !!!
Thank you so much!
Hey! I had a question about the way to do it without Plexus. You know that solid that you added the beam effect on? Why did you have to add an expression on that when you can turn that into a 3D layer and just use an expression to link the position of each of the nulls? I mean, it's WAY easier that way. I think. Thanks!
So the beam wouldn't be 3d. It would be like having the beam on a pane of glass that's floating out in 3d space right? So far as I am aware the beam isn't defined by 3d points even if it's on a 3d layer.
Might you know why Adobe isn't fixing this issue? Because it would make things a whole lot easier with this effect and expressions.
loove that tut! thanks for that! greets from Poland :)
Dziękuję! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Hey there, always appreciate your tutorials. Question, are you able to fill in some of the shapes that are drawn between the dots and provide a kind of polygon look? Thank you for your help!
In the plexus plugin we can ask it to render lines, points, and faces within certain rules. Is that what you're after?
@@evanabrams2735 yes I believe so. Being able to render the face of the shape would be awesome.
6 people hate putting lines on things, LOL! Seriously though, loved this, thanks!
Cool. Btw where can i study about script AE?
Thank you very nice tutorial
Man I like your channel and I couldn’t get after effect in my country somalia I have a exam presentation the day after tomorrow could you help me out especially the lines because I am presenting pregnant lady abdominal examination I would really appreciate it thanks
Pls do more plexus tutorial
Amazing tutorial :)
You sound like my 11th grade ecology teacher, he was my favorite teacher.
I do love this vedio, u r great!
great video, definitely using this in the future :)
ethan.ua yeah :)
Hi!
I am really having a hard time understanding why nothing of this works on my project! I can increase the size and distance at their maximum and still nothing happens!
Any ideas?
I enjoyed the tutorial eventhough I knew how it was done already
Wondering if the same effect could be achieved with Trapcode Form. Any experience there?
That is so cool
Thank you so much :)!!!
outstanding!
Is there a way to anti-alias the Plexus generated lines?
Heyo... I'm sure you're busy, but i was wondering if there was a way to make a stroke [similar to that created by the Write On effect] that starts off thin, but grows thicker at the base as time goes on. I'm not hugely well versed in AE, so I'm probably overlooking something.
thank you man,,,,,,awesome....
Is the process the same if you want to parent a 3D layer onto a 2D track? Im trying to parent a 3D callout onto a 2D track onto my footage. Thanks for the awesome tuts
Pretty much. But you only need the one good point, and that point may not be exactly where you want it. I would duplicate a null that is close, parent the callout to it, then be prepared to manually push the new null around a little to get it right where I want it.
Hi! I've been trying this tutorial for several times and it doesn't work as supposed to! I even tried your project file and the plexus renderer doesn't render at all... So i'm thinking that there some settings that should be ajusted... Otherwise my plexus pluggin works perfectly!
If you have any idea I would appreciate it! Thx!
Where did you get the dinosaur head?
Instead of complicated expressions you can also use the (Name Your Own Price) plugin Connect Layers from aescripts: aescripts.com/connect-layers/
this
can i save this to a preset or something ?
T_T
There are many affter effects tuts, still i'm subscribed to your channel.!!
You are best..
Hi! great video! but I have a problem. I want to apply plexus on that 3D text using the path geometry, but It can't find it from the solid and I can't apply it to the text, cause it says, it needs to be 2D layer. how can I do that?
+David Stuller perhaps convert the text to a mask and make use of that on the solid layer? Plexus will make the text 3D so it doesn't have to be on a 3D layer. That would make a hyper cube or something right? Instead you would have to transform within the plexus plugin to put its results at the expected coordinates. Does that make sense?
Ou yeah! I thought of something like that, but I didn't know, I could turn text into a mask. thanks! It works perfectly now
not your typical boring tutorials out there
A bit off-topic, but something really strange happens when tracking and using
that to stabilize. When I play it back it's fine but when I render it, no stabilization is applied..
That is very strange. Are you rendering with the render queue or the media encoder? Also is everything up to date? It may actually be a bug.
Hi dude ! Thanks for that tutorial, but i've a problem : all my dots are on my anchor point and i don't know why .. Can u help me please ?
Which anchor point exactly?
@@evanabrams2735 of the black solid, all my dots are in the middle of the composition
Why do some null points move and wobble so much, is there a way to stabilize the nulls?
So to be clear, none of the nulls should be moving. Meaning that the null's position isn't changing. But the camera's perspective is moving. Nulls may appear to wobble only because the camera's motion is jerky or inaccurate to the scene. So you could try smoothing out the rotation and position of the camera, but that may not make it more accurate to the scene. The best thing to do is use a more detailed solving method and tell the 3d camera solve more about the camera and scene in the effect to bring the average error down.
Thanks Evan! Is there a way to motion track and camera track on the same layer? I want to individually motion track an element but also have a 3d camera for the scene. When i do this my nulls on the motion tracked object no longer stick. Thanks!
I'm not sure I understand the question. What specifically are you trying to achieve?
thanks a lot!
PLEASE HELP. Im having trouble parenting the end point of my beam to a Null. Im getting the message:
After Effects warning: Bad Argument: couldnt find layer named '1' Expression disabled.
The Null is named '1' (obviously) so I can't figure it out.
Interesting. Sometimes you may be looking at a source name instead of a layer name? Maybe that's it? Or the name is not actually 1? Or the expression is not communicating the name correctly?
Nice Dino )
Is it possible to do tracking on 3d rendered footage ?
it works on any footage. BUT if you have the 3d scene files I recommend extracting the camera data for 100% accurate match moves.
Do you know how do do liquid animation? I cant seem to find a good tutorial over it. Thanks
I do. I think we'll get to more of that in future tutorials. There are a couple on this channel already though.
best title :D
please help to download plexus?
thanks!
Thank you but why i dont have that expressions box?
Are you holding down alt and clicking the stopwatch on the property?
ECAbrams No, thank you, i will try that!
Thank you very much. Now it works! I forgot the alt key :)
When I select 2d source, it reveals a lot more track points. But when I right click on them it only gives the option to delete them. Is there a way to attach the plexus lines to these 2d track points ??
I'm not sure I understand. What is generating these track points? I start with a 2d source as well right? The footage layer is two dimensional but we use a 3d camera solve on it. How are you generating these 2d track points?
I used the 3d camera tracker, but in the options it has "show track points" and an option for 2d, when I change it to 2d it gives way more points to track but not sure if I can add lines to these ? sorry if im still not making it clear
When you click that option, it's just displaying the same points in a 2d way, rather than in perspective. Notice they all seem the same size or distance away from the camera? There aren't more of them, they are just more easily visible. But in order to interact with these points beyond deleting them, you need to be set the option to "show track points: 3d solved" that switches your interaction to have more options.
Can I send you a quick screenshot of both through a facebook message? It seems there are points in the back on one and then not at all on the other? even when I scrub through the clip with the 3d selected the points dont ever appear in the back.
Hi guy,
Does anyone know how to adjust the lines so they come on when you want i.e. following the start of this clip, each tooth was highlighted one and after another.
Thanks.
this is what I want to know as well, how has no one replied to you!??!? did you find out?
the plexus plugin does not seem to work for me.. I can't see the points :(
it will only show 1 single point
+Rye interesting. And is this point somehow unique and different from the others? Also is your point size large enough?
ECAbrams Yeah, it is large enough. The point shows up at the anker point of the solid, not the nulls.
Help me please! His point size to see them is 15 and mine to see them is 145 but my lines wont show then i drag the maximum disctance up. Please help this is critical
well, do you know how far your points actually are from each other? That might help you troubleshoot what's going on.
Sorry for wasting your time i found it, they acutaly there where, just they was so small so i found the line width and took it up! Btw did you order that dinosaur head anywhere, it look so cool, i want it too.
+EvanAbrams - Truly excellent tutorial (same for your others as well). Have some science-y communicator work coming up this will be perfect for! Also watched your flickering transitions in Premiere (and logo fly through) vids tonight. Please let this comment serve as my vote for more Premiere tutorials from you. If you can share ways to avoid bouncing to AE for common graphics and effects tasks in Premiere that could save tons o' time. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see what I can do. I suppose it will depend on what a "common" graphics task is. Any time a keyframe is involved it's usually going to be better to take it to Ae where keyframes are much more accessible. But any effect based thing can usually be handled by the premiere effects panel.
Thanks for the quick reply! I completely understand the vagueness of "common" in this context. Notwithstanding actual VFX work, I find that when I want titles that "feel" more upscale I always turn to AE. Of course I know about templates in AE that can be imported/used in Premiere, but perhaps if you had tricks or tips that could elevate native Premiere titles (motion, shapes, etc) such that one could avoid the AE journey that could be a great start. Of course if you've got some motion graphics voodoo to share, don't let me stop you. ;)