Create A Heart Monitor With Expressions
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
You may think you love After Effects… but how can you really tell until you’ve created a heart monitor that proves the passion is alive and well?! You can’t… I’m sorry, it’s the only way. Jorrit will show some handy expressions within Particular that should help you with any number of projects.
Requirements
- Trapcode Particular You can download a trial version here.
- Trapcode Soundkeys You can download a trial version here.
You will also need a selection of music. Plus Members have direct access to the music used in this tutorial. Want the AE Project Files and assets for this tutorial and all of the other tutorials on Aetuts+? Join Ae Plus for just $19/month. You can view the final effect preview video below.
Overview
- Core Training Value: Will help with your knowledge of expressions working within Particular. Will get you familiar with Soundkeys and what it can be used for.
- Difficulty: Intermediate
Tutorial
Download Tutorial .flv
File size 148MB
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Simple but really cool ..
thanks …
Nice one man! Always love to see expression tutorials!
What did you say at the end? Oh crap something xD
dope stuff man, dope stuff
kinda copy of this tut http://maxafter.com/heartrate.htm
no, that one is animated by keyframes and loops, this is using expressions and it is connected to the sound so this is at least 2 classes better then maxafter one.
no, maxafter uses keyframes for animating and Jorrit uses expressions and connect them to sound effect witch makes it very easy to edit.
So Jorrit > Maxafter
sorry for double post
Yah I agree with u
Pretty cool to see!
Nice
thx a lot
Hey, ayato has a simpler solution that doesn’t involve 3rd party plug-ins or expressions.
Actually, you can get an easier result with “Write on” plugin and a couple sine wave expressions.
the higher beaty thingy is called a snare
Nice tut, but I think the end result would of looked better with just a black background, and a kind of more electro feel to it.
nice and simple. very useful
paraphrasing
ECG tracings are totally wrong. lol but nice animation nonetheless.
Anyone know where I can get a tutorial for a Flash version of this? I’m trying to do a sort of timeline but what the line to be animated a bit like the heart rate monitor. Tried a few things so far but none working.
Any help gratefully received.
very creative concept of using sound keys ..
Muy Bueno gracias….
pero me quedo mucho mas trabajado el de http://maxafter.com/heartrate.htm
pero se agadece el aporte ..
Gracias mil….:D
I’m getting so sick of watching 30 second ads for 10 second previews…
the first expression doesn’t work for me. says there’s no property or method named “Y”.
It’s been over year since this tutorial got released so the chance someone will/can help me will be small.
Never the less..
I’ve got the same problem as Liam.
Anybody got a solution?!
This is a basic Expression problem. you probably forgot the ; Sign at the end of the Y variable.
variables are case-sensitive, you might have one in upper and the other in lowercase…
so the expression for particular’s Position XY at the start of the tutorial would be
t = time % 1;
X = linear(t,-25, width+25);
Y = effect(“Particular”)(“Position XY”)[1];
[X,Y]
It all goes well untill i want to add the Height slide, then it gives me an error.
I’ve made a screenrecording so you can see what happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUlAfLOWW6k
Problem solved
I forget the *