Hi folks,    Having a bit of trouble with the bone tool. I'm probably missing something simple.    I have some real footage of a ladybird, and I want to give it some cartoon arms. Each arm is made of 3 movie clips (upper, lower and hand) which I have connected with the bone tool.    I want to first keyframe throughout the video and make sure the arm joint follows / tracks the ladybird. So i create a keyframe, move the arm to the correct place, next keyframe, move the arm, etc...    Once the arm appears to move with the ladybird, I want to start animating the arm itself... the problem, now I have a keyframe on every frame of the bone rig, so I can't create any tweens of the actual flexing and kinetics of the arm.    Is there a way to do the tracking of the whole arm first in a way that I can still go back and animate the positions of the arm afterwards?   ... View more

Hey Folks, Having trouble wrapping my head around something. I'm trying to speed up a job by creating some templates/presets. I have an composition where text emerges from bottom of the screen (moves from a to b) and then after some time moves back off the screen. (you'll have seen this kind of thing in these Facebook 'info-videos' like NowThis make). What I am struggling with is wanting to make an expression that means the text flies in to position and off again depending on the length of the composition (inPoint, outPoint), with easing and with speed. This way, myself or any of my colleagues can duplicate the template composition (one comp for every text element we need), edit the text in each comp, and the arrange them sequentially along the timeline of the master comp, adjusting the inPoint and outPoint on the timeline to make sure each text element stays on the screen long enough to be read, but not too long that it is boring. I'm hoping to add a fancy line that expands and that the text emerges from (which is why the text is in a comp), but for now I will settle for just getting the text to come and and go off. I've looked on google, through linkedin AFX training courses and so on and cannot find quite what I am looking for, Help would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! ... View more

Hello community, I've made a video for my employer that is quite similar to this [facebook video link], plenty of which seems to be going around on Facebook these days. My colleagues are interested in producing many more of these and so I'm interested in speeding up my workflow. Currently, I have to manually type in all the text, and manually resize the animated boxes to fit the text, and then manually insert and animate background images, or video behind each box. I'm therefore curious about ways to speed this or parts of this up. In particular I've seen some examples of using excel to simply type in text, and locations for images etc and then the video is simply produced in an automated fashion. However, I have been unable to find the right resources to teach myself to do this (probably searching for the wrong things). Any advice/resources would be greatly appreciated. If there are other ways to speed up the workflow which might be easier than scripting, I'll take those too. Thanks in advance Gary ... View more