Drop In Your Logo With Some Bouncing Ropes – AE Premium

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OK Matthew graciously helped me and so I thought I would share this info incase someone else was having trouble getting images to work with this instead of text.

I have CS5 (FYI)

For me, every time I inserted (or tried) to insert an image i was getting an error message additionally when I applied the expression to the image I was also getting some wierd error messages.

So this is what I (maybe not you but ..I ) had to do to get it to work…

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I had to create a working example with a single letter of text following the tutorial.

In this case I called it ‘Working Text MAIN’ Comp

Now to get an image to work…..

1. Duplicate (Ctrl+D) the ‘Working Text MAIN’ by selecting it in the [Project] Panel.

2. Rename the duplicate to whatever…I just left mine ‘Working Text MAIN 2′

3. Double click ‘Working Text MAIN 2′ from the [Project] panel to open it into the [Editing/workspace] panel.

4. Select the text layer within ‘Working Text MAIN 2…and go Layer>Pre-Compose…call it what you need to..(move all attributes into the new comp)..I called main ‘IMAGE COMP 1′.

5. ‘IMAGE COMP 1′ will now show up nested into your ‘Working Text MAIN 2′ comp

6. double click the newly nested ‘IMAGE COMP 1′ to open it

7. You should now be in your ‘IMAGE COMP 1′ comp….drag your image from the [Project] panel down into the ‘IMAGE COMP 1′ above the text layer

8. select and highlight both the text layer and the image layer

9. press A

10. Select and highlight the image layer..then move the timeline marker over a few seconds and create a marker..Layer>Add Marker

11. With the image layer still selected and the anchor point (press a) effect showing.. Alt+click on the stop watch to bring up the expression box for Anchor Point.

{Copy and Paste the expression below}

freq=1.0;//oscillation per second
amplitude = -30;
decay = 1.0;
t = time – marker.key(1).time;
posCos = Math.abs(Math.cos(freq*t*2*Math.PI));
y = amplitude*posCos/Math.exp(decay*t);
anchorPoint – [0,y]

12. Scroll the timeline indicator to make sure the image bounces as it needs to.

13. now you need to reposition the actual ‘anchor point’ of the image….select and highlight the image layer…then select the Pan Behind Tool (Y)….reduce the view size to about 33% or 25% so you can move the anchor point far enough up….and then drag your anchor point up and above the location where you want the rope/string to attach to your image.

14. at this point you can delete the text layer from ‘IMAGE COMP 1′

15. go back to the [Project] panel and select the duplicate (‘Working Text MAIN 2) you created and delete it from the [Project] panel…

16 drag your ‘IMAGE COMP 1′ into you main comp that you want to rendered

Rinse and repeat.

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hope that helps others

I followed this to the T and couldn’t get that bouncy look

Hi,
i’ve got that problem too with the first expression. My AE 5.5 does not accept the expression in line 4:

t = time – marker.key(1).time;

AE says: this attribute has no Keyframe 1 (Translation from the german version)

Can anybody help with this?