Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #50498
From: Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com>
Subject: Sat. Night Expression Question
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 20:56:28 -0400
To: 'After Effects Mail List' <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

I’ve got a comp with a camera flying forward while slowly rotating in Z through a 3D scene (title sequence). I want text layers to be offset from the camera in front. That’s easy:

 

thisComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position +  [0,0,250]

thisComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.zRotation – 90

 

But I want the text layers to be moving slightly off-speed with respect to the camera, camera slowly catches up and passes them, so a variable offset if you will. And nice if further offset could be tied to opacity (far away would fade in).

 

I could manually do this of course but wondered if there was some cool way to do it with expressions.

 

stephen van vuuren

336.202.4777

 

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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

 

 
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