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Wundes.com. To download this script: right-click and select "Save Link As" When Adobe came out with the new CS text engine, the text fields in documents saved in an older format were often broken into "sub" fields. This script is a rudimentary tool to help rejoin the broken text fields. It works best on individual lines of horizontal text. It collects text from any number of selected (non-grouped) textframes and aggrigates them into a single text frame. The order is based on relative x,y coordinates.

If a selected text anchors vertical coordinate is the same as the next one, text areas are assumed to be on the same line. If a selected text anchors vertical coordinate is different, the text areas are assumed to be sequential lines, This script WILL NOT make any attempt to maintain visual integrety of character placement. As of Version 2.0 an option is given to maintain the individual styling of each letter. Expression Speed and Frequency Control. Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are. —Jack Handey It seems simple enough. Imagine that you have created an expression for the Rotation property, based on the global variable time, which generates a nice smooth rotation.

You have added a variable named spd to let you set the rotation speed. This is how the expression looks, set up to rotate at 360 degrees (one revolution) per second: spd = 360; value + time*spd So far so good—it works as expected (see sidebar if you're wondering about the expression's use of value). Spd = effect("Slider Control")("Slider"); value + time*spd You keyframe the slider to go from zero to 360, hold at 360, then go back to zero. The bottom line is that in the world of expressions, controlling speed or frequency is not a simple task. Understanding the Problem The first step in learning how to solve the problem is to understand why the obvious solution doesn't work.

Yikes. 10 Free Smoke Stock Videos. We’ve rounded up 10 free smoke stock videos for your video editing and motion graphics projects! Whether you’re needing footage for compositing or simply building your library, these 10 smoke stock videos are sure to help with your future projects. To utilize these smoke clips in programs such as After Effects, Final Cut Pro X or Premiere Pro, simply place the smoke video above your composition and set the transfer (or blending) mode to screen. Messing around with other transfer modes can create some pretty cool effects as well. For example if you were to set your transfer mode to multiply only the areas in the smoke will appear. If you have any other questions regarding transfer and blending modes with Adobe products visit Adobe’s website. Also – See our previous post Free HD Stock Video: Smoke Effects Now onto the free smoke effects… To download this free smoke stock footage visit Ro Tierney’s Vimeo page and click the download box: Digital Meals Downloads Download link Download link.

VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals. VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals. CE ShapeExtruder  Posted on 26. Sep, 2007 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in After Effects Extrude any vector based layer to give it a real 3D look inside After Effects. No more duplicating layers, no more expensive 3D software. Click here to watch the video tutorial I did it!

Great thing about this CustomEffect is that the extruded layer still behaves and reacts like any other 3D layer so you keep total control over it’s appearance, animation and other things. Above all other features… it consists only of one layer. This tutorial turned out to be pretty long, because there are so many things to cover in it, and there are still some things that I didn’t mention in the tutorial itself, so make sure to download the project file and take a closer look on how things are build and put together.

I hope this will turn out useful for all of you. For installation instructions go to What CustomEffects are page. Download: Tutorial project file (After Effects CS3) Download: CE ShapeExtruder (After Effects CS3)