Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #45136
From: Darby Edelen <dedelen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Expressions: sampleImage on another layer?
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:58:46 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

sampleImage() also kills Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously, so I almost always convert those expressions to keyframes once my animation is locked.

On Jul 30, 2012 4:06 PM, "Todd Kopriva" <kopriva@adobe.com> wrote:
From my experience, the real performance killer with sampleImage comes when you're sampling with a large radius.

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> From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On
> Behalf Of Chris Zwar
> Sent: 30July2012 15:55
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> Subject: Re: [AE] Expressions: sampleImage on another layer?
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> FWIW, I've used the sample image expression on over 1900 layers in a
> single comp.
> Details are here:
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> http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/motiongraphicsvizfx/story/an_a_t
> o_z_of_building_projections_-_part_2/
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> What surprised me is that it rendered pretty quickly - about 4 seconds
> a frame.
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> -Chris
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> On 31/07/2012, at 3:08 AM, Byron Nash wrote:
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>       Awesome, I did not know you could do that. Thanks for the tip
> Mylenium!
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>       On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:54 AM, mylenium@mylenium.de
> <mylenium@mylenium.de> wrote:
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>               It's the same like adressing any other remote property on
> another layer:
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>               layer_name_here.sampleImage()
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>               Byron Nash <byronnash@gmail.com> hat am 30. Juli 2012 um
> 17:51 geschrieben:
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>                       I am building a grid of layers with various controls
> on them. I'd like to drive some of the parameters with another layer's
> luminance and sampleImage. It's not practical to put that many
> sampleImage expressions on my effector layer since I have over 200
> layers. Is there a way to put the sampleImage on the grid layer that
> references the luminance layer for the sampleImage point?
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