Discussion 15 Comments

1. greg says:

   January 13, 2010 at 7:19 am

   I think they didn’t have rolling shutter distortion back then…

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2. MINIMUS says:

   January 13, 2010 at 8:19 am

   intereseting technic… sound would add a little bit flavor..

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3. Nick says:

   January 13, 2010 at 9:59 am

   Laconic, useful, nice. Just the way tutorial should be, good job mate, thanks.

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4. Shifter says:

   January 13, 2010 at 10:07 am

   Nice man, ^^ Did a get job there

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5. SPCproductions says:

   January 13, 2010 at 10:43 am

   what about adding a strobe lighting effect…a bit of a flicker?

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   • Brock says:

     January 13, 2010 at 12:41 pm

     I would recommend adding a brightness effect and use a wiggle expression on the brightness level.

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6. Dumm says:

   January 13, 2010 at 5:35 pm

   i like old stuff. definitely i will try this technique. thanke you very much.

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7. Adam Farnsworth says:

   January 13, 2010 at 6:54 pm

   If you’d like the not hand animate the scratches line, but keep it randomly moving and jumping, create the solid, like the tutorial, but instead of keyframing the position: apply the “Separate XYZ Position” preset. Then Option/Alt click on the “X Position” stopwatch. Paste the following code in:

   holdTime = .5; // Time, in seconds, before the random seed chooses a new number

   seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime); // Doing the math to generate the hold time
   seedRandom(seed,true); // Generating, and holding, the random seed
   randNum=random(0,100); // Generating a random number

   wiggleRange = (thisComp.width/2)+50; // Setting the range of the wiggle to half the comp +50

   if(randNum>50) { // If/then statement that makes the solid jump if the random number goes above 50
   y=wiggle(.25,wiggleRange);
   } else {
   y=wiggle(.25,-wiggleRange);
   }

   It’s commented to tell you what it does.

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8. Ryan McAfee says:

   January 13, 2010 at 7:23 pm

   It’s amazing how many people ask for this effect. Good job! Quick and to the point.

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9. frankyframe says:

   January 13, 2010 at 8:31 pm

   it would be nice to add some flicker light and more detail screatches and dots in the footage. but s oke

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10. TonyDRKT says:

    January 14, 2010 at 3:54 am

    I especially like how you say AE toots LOL

    I chuckled at that.

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11. Klas says:

    January 14, 2010 at 8:09 am

    Thanks for the tut!!

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12. Graeme says:

    January 18, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Short, sweet, to the point.

    I hate sitting through tutorials with a lot of rambling. This was right up my alley.

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13. Loay Emad says:

    February 2, 2010 at 11:05 am

    Thanks for the Tutorial

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14. Austen says:

    April 30, 2010 at 1:28 am

    I had to laugh at your decription, “When I was your age, we didn’t have children” So true! Anyway, I was dying to try and make my own effect like this, and then I found your tutorial. Awesome job man

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