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From: adam mercado <adam@influxx.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Posterize a ramp
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:15:08 -0700
To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

Thanks for all the tips on this guys. This simple technique - shape =20
layer with repeater turned out to be everything I needed. So simple =20
and efficient. I did not even have to use the expression, I was not =20
using audio, merely faking it. I just used a wiggle function with a =20
Math.floor() method. Worked beautifully. I always forget about that =20
darn repeater, must remember it, so useful.

And thanks to Chris for the posterizing time tip with audio. did not =20
need it this time round, but I've come up against that before and =20
wish I'd known that then.

cheers


Adam Mercado
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On May 4, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Rendernyc wrote:

> Shape layer. Use a repeater driven by the audio amplitude. Linear =20
> expression to set how many units. And for no partial blocks pipe =20
> the audio amplitude through a Math.floor for whole units
>
> On May 4, 2013, at 10:26 PM, "Robert W. Walker" =20
> <robertw@walkersound.com> wrote:
>
>> The matte grid won't do what he wants - I think - because he wants to
>> quantize the values so that each segment is either on or off, not
>> partially illuminated.  Sounds like something Dan Ebberts could =20
>> cook up,
>> but way beyond my ability to execute with expressions.
>>
>> Hopefully one of the master expressionists on the list can chime in.
>>
>> Robert W. Walker
>> Los Angeles
>>
>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: [AE] Posterize a ramp
>>> From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sat, May 04, 2013 8:36 pm
>>> To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
>>>
>>>
>>> If i understand you correctly, i think youre overthinking it. =20
>>> Just put a
>>> grid as a matte above each bar graph blocking out the discrete =20
>>> units.  I
>>> dont see why you couldnt do this with audio to keyframe data. Or =20
>>> trapcode
>>> soundkeys
>>>
>>> On Saturday, May 4, 2013, adam mercado wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to create a VU style meter with 6 discrete levels.
>>>> I looked at the Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform effects, but =20
>>>> neither of
>>>> those come close.
>>>> I searched Goole and found a few examples that use the Audio =20
>>>> Amplitude
>>>> assistant, but that just wiggles the matte which creates thin =20
>>>> slivers of
>>>> meter instead of discrete chunks.
>>>> Is there a way to posterise to absolute values the scale/volume or
>>>> whatever property would be needed to control the visibility of =20
>>>> the matted
>>>> layer?
>>>>
>>>> *Adam Mercado*
>>>> Influxx Media Production
>>>> Fullerton, CA
>>>>
>>>> Moving Images. For Business
>>>> *714=B0928=B09896*
>>>> http://www.influxx.com
>>>> http://www.twitter.com/influxx
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/influxx
>>>> http://influxx.tumblr.com/archive
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/influxx
>>>
>>> --=20
>>> Animator & Editor
>>> www.teddygage.com
>>> Brooklyn
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